Isle 1.3.0

How to update: run the install command again, then log out and back in. Your tasks, events, clipboard, shelf and settings stay.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zickrian/isle/main/get.sh | bash

Installed from the .deb or .rpm? Install this release's package the same way, then log out and back in.

Changed

• Alerts go sooner: a notification after 4 seconds, as GNOME's own banner does, and a passing one such as
  "Screenshot captured" after 2.5. Once the pointer leaves an alert it goes 1.5 seconds later, its button
  included, rather than starting its time over. An answer from the assistant stays at most 8 seconds.
• Under the pointer, an alert that the pointer doesn't open (one with a button, such as "Show in Files")
  and an answer from the assistant show a small × on their icon to put them away, as macOS's
  notifications do. It closes them while the keys are with another app, where Esc can't reach the island.
• Do Not Disturb shows as a moon before the time (or a call's or recording's length), whatever the island
  holds beside it. Before, music, a timer or the unread dot hid the moon. The Notifications page says what
  still gets through while it is on.
• An answer from the assistant cut short in its alert says "Click to read more".
• The music bars move about 60 times a second on any display. On a 144 Hz one, music playing costs GNOME
  Shell a third less; everything else moves at the display's own rate.
• Settings → About shows whether Isle is up to date ("You're up to date · Checked today"), or which newer
  version is out, with How to update and Copy command. The switch for checking moved there from Alerts.

Fixed

• A file on the shelf no longer widens its tile to take up the rest of the row (seen after dropping a
  file in). Every tile keeps its own width, as in the island.
• Resting the pointer on an answer from the assistant holds it to read, with its ×. Before, the island
  opened on its pages (often Music) and the answer was gone.
• With the assistant at work in the background, resting the pointer on the island shows its progress, and
  the island goes back to the background when the pointer leaves. Before, it stayed open and kept the
  keyboard from the app. A click still keeps it open, and Esc puts it back.
• After typing in the island (to the assistant, a to-do), alerts and answers go on time again. If the
  pointer left the island while it had the keyboard, Isle went on thinking the pointer was there, and
  alerts waited for it to leave.
• The Caps Lock arrow comes in smoothly with its alert, rising as it fades in. Before, the badge showed
  empty for a moment, and the arrow then blinked out and back as it settled.
• On GNOME 46, a long answer from the assistant in the background shows again. Cutting it to three lines
  failed there, so the answer never showed and later alerts waited behind it.
• An alert that fails to show no longer holds up the alerts behind it, and if Isle's volume or brightness
  alert fails, GNOME's own shows instead.
• After a fullscreen window, alerts go on time again. As with typing, a pointer on the island when it hid
  was still counted as there.
• Closing the island just as you finish speaking no longer loses the request. It carries on in the
  background, its actions run and its answer comes as an alert. Before, the assistant waited unseen.
• The assistant says "Getting ready…" until the microphone really records, rather than "Listening…" while
  the AI or the speech model is still starting: words said then were lost.
• Asked to switch the power mode, the assistant uses Isle's own switch, and only where power-profiles-daemon
  is missing offers a command that works (sudo tee, as sudo does not reach a > redirect).
• Asking while the assistant is still answering says so, rather than showing "Listening…" until the last
  request ends. A microphone that sends nothing says so after 4 seconds, rather than listening forever.
• Turning the assistant off while it works in the background stops the request. Before, clicking the
  island did nothing until it ended, up to 10 minutes with a command waiting for Run.
• Updating without a user service manager (no systemctl --user) now runs the new isled within seconds.
  Before, the old one went on running until the next restart.
• If part of Isle fails to start, it takes away what it had set up, so GNOME's volume pop-up and the
  assistant's shortcut keep working. Turning Isle off also stops watching notifications it showed.