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Floating search launcher
The desktop opens as a centered search bar rather than a conventional document window. The empty launcher requests 720 × 110 logical pixels. Typing or opening settings, filters, local-model details or folder controls expands it to 1080 × 700. Native sizing stays inside the current monitor's work area, including its scale factor and taskbar. A small display receives a smaller window.
The window is frameless, above ordinary windows, and omitted from the taskbar. Its header can be dragged; the dedicated hide button, Escape and the existing tray/global shortcut retain the resident workflow. The rounded shell uses the configured native glass/frosted material where supported and the existing opaque/high-contrast fallback otherwise. No CSS blur is presented as native desktop transparency. Brief content transitions respect reduced motion and do not defer search requests.
Installed applications have a separate list above file matches and a simple launch preview. Arrow keys move across applications and files while preserving typing focus; Enter launches the selected application or opens the selected file. Application identities are opaque backend identifiers, not pretend file paths or invented passages. Filters keep application suggestions out of scoped file searches. Application requests are local lexical lookups and do not wait for semantic inference.
Input immediately invalidates the previous application selection. A launch requires the current query and the settled request revision, so a late response or an immediate Enter after editing cannot launch an older suggestion. File search timing remains separately measured; the result summary includes visible application counts, and application-only matches suppress the empty-file state.
Automatic local-drive indexing is enabled by default. Its settings checkbox can disable future automatic work while retaining searchable indexed content; additional folder controls live inside settings. Existing active work is not claimed to be instantly cancelled by the checkbox. Model progress and retry remain available through local-search setup details.
Validation recorded so far
- Frontend TypeScript/Vite build passed on desktop version 0.1.8.
- All 62 existing frontend tests passed; Prettier checks passed.
- Final Windows desktop checks passed 56 tests (one optional actual-catalog check ignored); strict all-target Clippy passed. Linux passed 56 desktop tests.
- The background opacity control spans 40–100%, previews while dragging, and applies directly to both glass materials. Local 60% reading tints protect input, labels and controls; result and preview panes remain opaque.
- Twelve CPU browser composition checks passed across both themes, both glass materials and 40/90/100% opacity. This verifies actual built CSS alpha, independently of native compositor validation.
These checks alone do not establish native pixels, dragging, tray interaction, rounded compositor corners or application launching. Actual final-build UI capture and keyboard interaction belong in the native validation report.