Show a translucent, click-through bubble the moment recording starts (by
hotkey or wakeword): a pulsing microphone, a live waveform of the mic
level, and the recognised text (word-by-word when streaming, otherwise a
brief final-result confirmation). The tail points at the text caret via
AT-SPI accessibility, falling back to the mouse pointer, then a screen
corner. Also gives hands-free wakeword sessions visible feedback, whose
notifications are suppressed by design. X11 only.
- overlay.py: GTK override-redirect HUD (mic + waveform + bubble), drawn
with Cairo; thread-safe, marshalled onto the GTK loop.
- caret.py: best-effort anchor (AT-SPI caret -> pointer -> window/corner).
- daemon: optional level_cb/text_cb hooks; reuses the VAD level meter for
non-streaming, a dedicated meter for streaming. Stays UI-agnostic.
- gtkui: instantiate the overlay, drive show/update/hide from status.
- General settings: "Visual overlay" toggle; config overlay_enabled /
overlay_anchor (default on, "caret").
- Docs: CHANGELOG 1.5.0, version bump, README + MANUAL.
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- README.md: full rewrite with architecture, quickstart, config examples,
privacy model, and contributing section (deduced from source)
- recorder.py: close leaked fd from mkstemp (SEC-2)
- gtkui.py: guard next() with default to prevent StopIteration (CQ-4)
- dependabot.yml: add pip ecosystem for linux/ deps (SEC-5)
New GTK settings with a dropdown+editor pattern across four tabs:
- Presets: select/add/delete prompt presets; edit name, keywords, hotkey, mode,
per-preset model/temperature, and a clearly-bordered prompt textfield.
- Engines: STT and LLM engine managers with green/red online-offline status
dots, add/edit/delete, active selector, and an STT record-and-benchmark Test.
- Input: input scheme + keys + quality-gate settings.
- General: microphone picker with a live sounddevice level meter, output,
language, notifications, launch-on-login toggle, and local-Whisper settings.
Adds audio.py (mic enumeration via pactl + LevelMeter) and autostart.py
(~/.config/autostart entry). Recorder + daemon honour the selected mic.
Requirements gain sounddevice + tomli-w.
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New inputmode.py: Ctrl+Win start, Ctrl stop+paste, Alt stop+paste+Enter, Esc
cancel; toggle and push-to-talk variants. Low-level pynput Listener with arming
so stop/send/cancel only fire while recording and only after the start chord is
released — a stray Ctrl tap while idle does nothing (unit-tested).
Daemon split into start/finish/cancel_dictation (+ send_enter -> press Enter),
with start_input/stop_input dispatching between "modifiers" and "hotkeys" modes.
New [input] config section; paste.press_enter for auto-send. Default mode is
"modifiers"; voice-keyword routing still applies to what you say.
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- stt.py: local + remote (OpenAI-compatible) transcription, TCP reachability
status, benchmark. Tested live against faster-whisper-server :8010.
- llm.py: LLM engine presets (url/model/key/temperature) + chat + status.
Tested live against local Qwen :19001 and llama-swap :28080.
- config: [stt]/[[stt_engine]] and [llm]/[[llm_engine]] presets with active
selectors; defaults synthesized from legacy [whisper]/[rewrite].
- daemon: transcribe via active STT engine, rewrite via active LLM engine;
load local Whisper only when the active STT engine is local.
- Rename package entry __main__.py -> blitztext.py (thin __main__ shim keeps
`python -m blitztext` working). Remove rewrite.py (folded into llm.py).
- App icon extracted from the macOS AppIcon.icns; installed at several hicolor
sizes by the .deb and used as the window icon. Drop placeholder SVG.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the tkinter panel with a GTK3 control panel (gtkui.py) + settings
dialog (gtksettings.py): rounded CSD window, gradient background, circular icon
avatars, hotkey pills, hover states, Ubuntu font. Runs on the GTK main loop,
unified with the AppIndicator tray (no tkinter event-loop pump). Status updates
marshalled via GLib.idle_add. Removes the old tkinter gui.py.
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