dock: the shell keeps its own items, sidecars contribute theirs

ALL_DOCK_ITEMS was a hardcoded list of everything, so a fresh machine offered Photos, Jellyfin,
Transmission and the rest — each leading to a screen reporting itself unavailable — and adding a sidecar
meant editing the shell. Neither survives sidecars shipping from their own repositories.

Split in two. CORE_DOCK_ITEMS is the baseline that exists on every install: chat, files, terminal, the
app's own screens, and Gitea, which is in the light profile because it fronts a remote instance.
Everything else is derived from installed sidecars' UI manifests, delivered with /capabilities.

Sent with the capability answer rather than fetched separately so the dock has ONE source. Two requests
means two moments, and a dock rendered between them shows a tile for something uninstalled or nothing
for something installed. Filtered by capability server-side too: a member is not handed the manifest of
a feature they cannot use, because "hidden in the client" is the kind of privacy that lasts until
someone opens the network tab.

Verified live. The owner — who bypasses every permission check — does not bypass this: /photos is absent
from routes and present in deniedRoutes because Photos is not installed. Flipping a row's `enabled`
makes its tile leave and return with no process touched.

Two things fell out. A manifest can declare extraTiles, because CalDAV is one sidecar presenting as
Calendar AND Contacts, and collapsing them to keep the model tidy would make the app worse. And
DEFAULT_DOCK_PATHS no longer pins /music: useDock drops a path with nothing behind it, so the default
dock came up a tile short on any machine where Music was never installed — a default that references an
optional feature is how an app looks subtly wrong on a fresh install for no stated reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-08-10 18:32:16 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 209e916343
commit 82e9fdacc2
7 changed files with 160 additions and 36 deletions
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { ErrorBoundary } from '@/components/ErrorBoundary';
import { ScreenErrorFallback } from './ScreenErrorFallback';
import { Background } from './Background';
import { Header } from './Header';
import { Dock, ALL_DOCK_ITEMS, DEFAULT_DOCK_PATHS } from './Dock';
import { Dock, CORE_DOCK_ITEMS, dockItemsFromPlugins, DEFAULT_DOCK_PATHS } from './Dock';
import { useIsTouch } from './useIsTouch';
import { usePageTitleSync } from '@/state/usePageTitle';
@@ -14,12 +14,17 @@ type DashboardLayoutProps = {
children?: React.ReactNode;
};
export function DashboardLayout({ children }: DashboardLayoutProps) {
const { canVisit } = useCapabilities();
const { canVisit, plugins } = useCapabilities();
// Filtered BEFORE useDock, so a member's saved dock order cannot resurrect an icon their role no longer
// reaches, and so the pinned-item defaults fall back to something they can actually open. Cosmetic
// either way — every one of these routes is refused server-side too — but an app that offers a door it
// will then slam is worse than one that never showed it.
const permitted = useMemo(() => ALL_DOCK_ITEMS.filter((item) => canVisit(item.to)), [canVisit]);
// The shell's own items plus whatever the installed sidecars contribute. `plugins` already excludes
// anything uninstalled or disabled, so an absent feature has no tile at all rather than a dead one.
const permitted = useMemo(
() => [...CORE_DOCK_ITEMS, ...dockItemsFromPlugins(plugins)].filter((item) => canVisit(item.to)),
[canVisit, plugins],
);
const { items: visibleItems } = useDock(permitted, DEFAULT_DOCK_PATHS);
const isTouch = useIsTouch();
const { pathname } = useLocation();
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
import { NavLink } from 'react-router';
import type { LucideIcon } from 'lucide-react';
import { resolveIcon } from 'officerdev';
import type { PluginManifest } from 'hooks/useCapabilities';
export type DockItem = {
label: string;
@@ -149,21 +151,21 @@ import {
GitBranch,
} from 'lucide-react';
export const ALL_DOCK_ITEMS: DockItem[] = [
/**
* The dock items that belong to the SHELL — present on every install, with no sidecar behind them.
*
* Everything else is contributed by an installed sidecar's UI manifest and arrives from
* `/capabilities` at runtime (see `dockItemsFromPlugins`). The split is the point: a feature that can be
* installed and uninstalled must not be hardcoded here, or the dock would list things this server does
* not have and the shell would need editing every time a sidecar is added.
*
* These are the baseline — chat, files, the terminal and the app's own screens — plus Gitea, which is in
* the light profile because it fronts a remote instance and installs nothing locally.
*/
export const CORE_DOCK_ITEMS: DockItem[] = [
{ label: 'Home', to: '/', icon: Home, color: '#f59e0b' },
{ label: 'Files', to: '/files', icon: FolderOpen, color: '#fbbf24' },
{ label: 'Email', to: '/email', icon: Mail, color: '#ef4444' },
{ label: 'Calendar', to: '/calendar', icon: CalendarDays, color: '#3b82f6' },
{ label: 'Contacts', to: '/contacts', icon: Contact, color: '#0ea5e9' },
{ label: 'Chat', to: '/chat', icon: MessageCircle, color: '#60a5fa' },
{ label: 'Music', to: '/music', icon: Music, color: '#22c55e' },
{ label: 'Photos', to: '/photos', icon: Images, color: '#10b981' },
{ label: 'Video', to: '/jellyfin', icon: Clapperboard, color: '#a855f7' },
{ label: 'Soulseek', to: '/soulseek', image: '/slskd.png', color: '#ffffff' },
{ label: 'Headscale', to: '/headscale', icon: Network, color: '#818cf8' },
{ label: 'Transmission', to: '/transmission', icon: ArrowDownUp, color: '#e11d48' },
{ label: 'Wallet', to: '/wallet', icon: Bitcoin, color: '#f7931a' },
{ label: 'Invoices', to: '/invoices', icon: Receipt, color: '#0891b2' },
{ label: 'Gitea', to: '/gitea', icon: GitBranch, color: '#609926' },
{ label: 'Editor', to: '/code-editor', icon: Code, color: '#a78bfa' },
{ label: 'Plans', to: '/plans', icon: FileText, color: '#f472b6' },
@@ -171,10 +173,40 @@ export const ALL_DOCK_ITEMS: DockItem[] = [
{ label: 'Logs', to: '/task-logs', icon: ScrollText, color: '#94a3b8' },
{ label: 'Terminal', to: '/terminal', icon: Monitor, color: '#f97316' },
{ label: 'Browser', to: '/browser', icon: Globe, color: '#06b6d4' },
{ label: 'Desktop', to: '/desktop', icon: MonitorSmartphone, color: '#ec4899' },
{ label: 'Monitor', to: '/system-monitor', icon: Activity, color: '#0ea5e9' },
{ label: 'Activity', to: '/activity', icon: Radio, color: '#f59e0b' },
{ label: 'Dashboards', to: '/dashboards', icon: LayoutGrid, color: '#8b5cf6' },
];
export const DEFAULT_DOCK_PATHS = ['/', '/files', '/music', '/dashboards', '/chat'];
/**
* Turn the manifests of installed sidecars into dock tiles.
*
* `resolveIcon` maps a NAME to a glyph, which is why manifests carry names rather than imports — they
* have to survive being JSON from a marketplace. An unknown name resolves to a neutral box rather than
* throwing: a plugin naming an icon this build does not have should look plain, not break the dock.
*/
export function dockItemsFromPlugins(plugins: PluginManifest[]): DockItem[] {
return plugins.flatMap((plugin) => {
const tile = (t: { name: string; icon?: string; image?: string; color: string; route: string }): DockItem => ({
label: t.name,
to: t.route,
color: t.color,
...(t.image ? { image: t.image } : { icon: resolveIcon(t.icon ?? 'Box') }),
});
return [
tile({ name: plugin.name, icon: plugin.icon, image: plugin.image, color: plugin.color, route: plugin.rootRoute }),
...(plugin.extraTiles ?? []).map(tile),
];
});
}
/**
* What is pinned before anyone has chosen. Deliberately drawn only from CORE_DOCK_ITEMS.
*
* This used to pin `/music`, which is now an installable sidecar. `useDock` drops a path with no item
* behind it, so nothing breaks — the default dock just quietly comes up one tile short on a machine
* where Music was never installed. Defaults that reference optional features are how an app ends up
* looking subtly wrong on a fresh install for no stated reason.
*/
export const DEFAULT_DOCK_PATHS = ['/', '/files', '/terminal', '/dashboards', '/chat'];