Hand selected words off to the platform's native dictionary surface
when the user opts into the new "System Dictionary" entry under
Settings → Languages → Dictionaries. The setting is exclusive: enabling
it disables all other providers (and vice versa) so the in-app lookup
button either always opens the popup or always invokes the OS — no
mixed states.
Per platform:
- macOS: AppKit's -[NSView showDefinitionForAttributedString:atPoint:]
via a top-level Tauri command in src-tauri/src/macos/system_dictionary.rs.
Anchored at the selection's bottom-center (CSS pixels mapped into
NSView coords), so the inline Lookup HUD appears just below the
highlighted text without raising Dictionary.app to the foreground.
- iOS: UIReferenceLibraryViewController presented as a half-detent
pageSheet on iPhone (medium → large drag-to-expand) and as a
formSheet on iPad. Implemented in the native-bridge plugin.
- Android: ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT intent with EXTRA_PROCESS_TEXT_READONLY,
dispatched without createChooser so users get the standard system
disambiguation dialog with "Just once / Always" buttons. Reports
unavailable=true when no app handles the intent so the TS layer can
silently skip rather than open an empty chooser.
Web/Linux/Windows hide the row entirely. The provider is a sentinel —
the registry filters it out of the popup tab list (it has no in-popup
UI) and the annotator's handleDictionary checks isSystemDictionaryEnabled
to dispatch directly to the native bridge before opening the in-app
DictionaryPopup.
Add tauri-plugin-webview-upgrade as a git submodule under
apps/readest-app/src-tauri/plugins/. On Android devices whose system
WebView is locked to an old Chromium build (Huawei phones, Moaan / Onyx
/ Kobo e-ink readers, AOSP forks without Play Store, etc.), the reader
bundle renders as a blank screen. The plugin bootstraps before
Application.onCreate via androidx.startup and redirects the in-process
WebView loader to a recent com.google.android.webview when the user has
one sideloaded — opening the only window in which WebViewUpgrade can
swap the provider, before Tauri/Wry creates any WebView.
Thresholds (minUpgradeMajor / minSupportedMajor) come from
plugins.webview-upgrade in tauri.conf.json and are baked into Kotlin
constants at Gradle build time. Below the supported threshold with no
upgrade option, the plugin shows a localized AlertDialog (15 languages,
English fallback) prompting the user to install Android System WebView.
Plugin source: https://github.com/readest/tauri-plugin-webview-upgrade
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On macOS, closing the last window (Cmd+W or the red traffic light) was
quitting the app, which is unexpected — the native convention is that
Cmd+W closes the window while the app keeps running in the dock, and
only Cmd+Q quits.
Intercept the window CloseRequested event on macOS, prevent the close,
and hide the window instead so the app remains active. Handle the
Reopen event (fired when the user clicks the dock icon) to restore the
hidden window. Cmd+Q continues to go through applicationWillTerminate:
and exits the app normally.
Set up WebDriver-based testing for the Tauri app with two tiers:
- Vitest browser-mode tests (*.tauri.test.ts) running inside the Tauri WebView
for plugin IPC testing (libsql, smoke tests)
- WDIO E2E tests (*.e2e.ts) for UI-level interaction testing
Key changes:
- Add webdriver Cargo feature gating tauri-plugin-webdriver
- Add runtime capability for remote URLs (webdriver builds only)
- Add vitest.tauri.config.mts and wdio.conf.ts connecting to embedded
WebDriver server on port 4445
- Add shared tauri-invoke helper for IPC from Vitest iframe context
- Add testing documentation in docs/testing.md
* added current time to desktop bar
* added time prototype to footer, needs code cleanup and settings toggle
* fixed settings toggle, added translations and code cleanup
* added battery support and moved Statusbar to own Component
* #3306 added 24 hour clock support
* refactored code styling and getting rid of any type in battery hook
* Add battery info for Tauri Apps
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Co-authored-by: Huang Xin <chrox.huang@gmail.com>
* feat(windows): Add Windows Explorer thumbnail support for ebooks (closes#2534)
- Implement IThumbnailProvider COM handler for Windows Shell integration
- Support EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, KF8, FB2, CBZ, CBR formats
- Add cover extraction with Readest icon overlay
- Register thumbnail handler via NSIS installer hooks
- Only show thumbnails when Readest is the default app for the file type
* chore: clean up build script for thumbnail extension
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Co-authored-by: chrox <chrox.huang@gmail.com>
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