v1.2.0

[1.2.0] - 2025-09-07

🎨 Major UI Overhaul & Notification System

✨ New Features

Notification System

• Notification Center: Non-modal, slide-in notification panel
  • Positioned on left side near bell button for easy access
  • Cookie import success/failure notifications
  • Download completion and error notifications
  • Update availability alerts
  • Unread badge counter on bell icon
  • Clear all functionality
  • Smooth slide-in/out animations from left edge

Developer Tools

• Enhanced Debug Console: Professional bottom-sliding panel

  • Proper log ordering (newest at bottom, auto-scroll)
  • Advanced filtering: All, Error, Warn, Info, yt-dlp, ffmpeg
  • Horizontal scrolling for long log lines
  • Search functionality
  • Export logs with expanded window (650px height)
  • Copy all and clear functionality

• Status Bar: Always-visible bottom status bar

  • Settings button (opens Preferences)
  • Notifications bell with unread counter
  • Version number (clickable for About/Updates)
  • Dev Tools toggle (Alt+Cmd+I)
  • Real-time status messages

Cookie & Authentication

• Cookie Extraction Notifications: Real-time feedback
  • Success: "Safari cookies successfully imported! (X cookies)"
  • Failure: Browser-specific error messages
  • Warnings for partial extractions
  • Verbose logging in debug console, user-friendly in notifications

Audio Processing

• Audio Extraction Settings: Enhanced configuration
  • Separate folder setting for extracted audio files
  • Configurable in Preferences > Post-Processing
  • Auto-creates directory if needed
  • Maintains original video location if not configured

Update Management

• Fetcha Update Check: In Preferences > Updates
  • Shows current Fetcha version
  • Download button when update available
  • Alongside yt-dlp and ffmpeg version checks

🔧 Improvements

UI/UX

• Dynamic Version Management: Centralized in AppConstants

  • Version numbers update automatically across all views
  • Single source of truth for app version
  • Used in About, Preferences, and Status Bar

• Cleaner Interface: Removed duplicate controls

  • Removed gear button from main URL bar
  • Settings only accessible via Status Bar
  • Streamlined top toolbar

• Better Panel Management:

  • Non-modal notification panel (can interact with app while open)
  • Fixed About window singleton pattern
  • Proper window management for all panels

🐛 Bug Fixes

Critical Fixes

• Fixed App Closing Bug: NotificationsPanel X button no longer closes entire app
• Fixed Log Order: Console logs now properly show newest at bottom
• Fixed Text Cutoff: Export logs window expanded to prevent text clipping
• Fixed Notification Toggle: Bell button properly toggles panel open/closed
• Fixed Auto-Add: Clipboard monitoring restored and working

UI Fixes

• Fixed thumbnail persistence in download history
• Fixed window toggling for Settings and About
• Fixed history panel sorting and display
• Fixed missing file indicators (container, resolution, audio)
• Fixed context menu in history panel
• Fixed interface spacing issues
• Fixed About page opening multiple windows

📋 Technical Changes

• Implemented binding-based notification panel state management
• Changed logs from insert(at: 0) to append for proper ordering
• Improved StatusBar with visual feedback for active states
• Enhanced cookie extraction parsing in YTDLPService
• Added extractedAudioPath to AppPreferences
• Implemented proper window sizing for export views

🔄 Reverted Changes

• Main interface reverted to v1.1.1 design per user request
• Kept new improvements (dev console, status bar) while maintaining original layout