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Continues the build order past the Add-URL/File-Info/Progress dialog flow.
- OptionsDialog: General/Save To/Connection/Downloads/Proxy/Sounds tabs, every
control bound to a real settings.* key (contracts/schema/types/Settings.
schema.json). The spec's File Types and Site Logins tabs have no settings.*
backing (categories go through category.upsert, credentials through the
Secret Service) so they don't exist here — a tab either binds to a real key
or isn't shipped. diffChanged() sends only what actually changed, matching
settings.set's "changed[] names exactly what took effect" contract.
- SchedulerDialog: per-queue schedule (schedule.get/set) plus maxConcurrent/
onComplete (queue.upsert), Start Now/Stop. Queue.schema.json already carries
the schedule so queue.list alone seeds the window.
- SpeedLimiterDialog: the live global limiter (limiter.get/set) — a different
thing from Options' downloads.speedLimit* default. buildParams() enforces
the schema's "0 with enabled true must not be offered".
- BatchDialog: clipboard-blob and {start..end}-wildcard tabs sharing one
category/queue/start-mode footer into download.addBatch.
- GrabberWizard: 4-step QWizard (project label -> start URL/depth/filters ->
file-type filter -> review), grabber.start feeding a poll+event.grabber.
progress-driven review page, Finish = grabber.harvest for the checked files.
- TrayIcon: active-count tooltip, Show/Add URL/Pause All/Resume All/Speed
Limiter submenu/Quit. Quit only closes the GUI — there is no RPC to stop
veloxd itself, filed as a new gap in daemon-requests-m1.md. MainWindow now
also hides to tray instead of closing when general.minimizeToTray is set.
Every dialog's non-widget logic (diffChanged, buildSchedule, buildParams,
parseUrlBlob/expandWildcard/buildAddBatchParams, buildFileTypes/
buildStartParams/buildHarvestParams) is a static pure function with its own
test, same shape as FileInfoDialog::buildSpec from the previous round.
Verified end-to-end against a running mockd under ASan+UBSan: all five
surfaces render real data (settings.get values, queue.list's two seeded
queues, limiter.get, a live grabber.start/status crawl returning 3 files) with
no sanitizer reports. gui-check (non-ASan) and dev (ASan+UBSan) presets both
build the whole repo clean; all gui-labeled ctest targets pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSCdCWFXBTSBBK3MzWtJiC
Velox Download Manager (VDM)
An IDM-class download manager for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: multi-segment accelerated HTTP(S) downloading, resume, categories and automatic file distribution, queues and scheduler, speed limiter, a Firefox extension that captures downloads automatically, and clipboard link capture.
Name is a placeholder. Binaries are
veloxd,velox-gui,velox,velox-nmhost. Rename before first release if you want something else — do it in M0, never later.
Status
Phase M0 — scaffolding. No implementation code exists yet. This repository currently contains the architecture, the wire contract, the roadmap, and one brief per build lane so that several agents can work in parallel without colliding.
Start here:
| Document | What it answers |
|---|---|
| docs/01-architecture.md | Process model, why four binaries, framework choices and why |
| docs/02-roadmap.md | Milestones M0–M7, what runs in parallel, exit gates |
| docs/03-gui-spec.md | IDM-parity UI: every window, dialog, column, menu |
| docs/04-engine-design.md | Segmentation, resume, buffers, rate limiting, disk I/O |
| docs/05-extension-spec.md | Firefox capture, transports, pairing, media grabber |
| docs/06-risks-and-spikes.md | Snap Firefox, Wayland clipboard, and the other landmines |
| docs/07-packaging.md | .deb/PPA, Flatpak, AMO signing, install layout |
| contracts/README.md | The interface. Both sides build against this |
| CLAUDE.md | Rules of engagement for agents working in this repo |
Per-lane briefs live in docs/agents/ — one per agent, each with an owned directory list, a definition of done, and the files it must never touch. To dispatch the agents, use docs/agents/PROMPTS.md — six copy-paste prompts plus the worktree commands and the wave order.
Architecture in one picture
┌────────────────────┐ native messaging (stdio JSON) ┌──────────────┐
│ Firefox extension │◄───────────── or ──────────────►│ velox-nmhost │
│ (MV3, TS) │ loopback WS 127.0.0.1 + token └──────┬───────┘
└────────────────────┘ │
│
┌────────────────────┐ ▼
│ velox-gui (Qt 6) │◄──── JSON-RPC 2.0 over Unix socket ──► ┌─────────────┐
└────────────────────┘ $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/velox/velox.sock │ veloxd │
│ (daemon) │
┌────────────────────┐ │ │
│ velox (CLI) │◄───────────────────────────────────────┤ libveloxcore│
└────────────────────┘ └──────┬──────┘
│
SQLite + sparse files
The daemon owns all state and all sockets. The GUI is a view — closing it does not stop a download. The extension never touches the disk; it hands URL + headers + cookies to the daemon and gets a task id back.
Repository layout
vdm/
├── contracts/ ⭐ Wire contract: JSON Schema, fixtures, codegen. Frozen per version.
├── core/ C++23 libveloxcore — engine. No UI, no RPC, no SQL.
├── daemon/ C++23 veloxd — RPC server, scheduler, queues, SQLite store.
├── gui/ C++23 velox-gui — Qt 6 Widgets, IDM-parity UI.
├── cli/ C++23 velox — scriptable client.
├── nmhost/ C++23 velox-nmhost — Firefox native-messaging bridge (thin pipe).
├── extension/ TS Firefox MV3 WebExtension.
├── tools/
│ ├── mockd/ TS mock daemon — lets GUI + extension work before veloxd exists.
│ ├── testserver/ Deliberately hostile HTTP server (no Range, flaky, redirects, auth).
│ ├── bench/ Throughput and CPU benchmarks.
│ └── fuzz/ libFuzzer targets for parsers.
├── tests/
│ ├── conformance/ Protocol suite. Every lane must pass it. Gate for merging.
│ ├── integration/ veloxd + testserver.
│ └── e2e/ Playwright: real Firefox + real daemon + real file on disk.
├── packaging/ debian/, flatpak/, appimage/, native-host manifests.
└── docs/ Everything above, plus adr/ and agents/.
Toolchain bootstrap
Surveyed on this machine 2026-09-09 — most of it is already installed:
| Present | Version |
|---|---|
| git · cmake · ninja · g++ · gdb | 2.53.0 · 4.2.3 · — · 15.2.0 (C++23 ready) |
| qt6-base-dev · qt6-tools-dev · qt6-tools-dev-tools | ✓ |
| libcurl4-openssl-dev · libsqlite3-dev · nlohmann-json3-dev · libssl-dev | ✓ |
| libavformat-dev · libavcodec-dev · ffmpeg | ✓ |
| clang-format · clang-tidy · python3 · pkg-config | ✓ |
| python3-jsonschema · python3-referencing (conformance static runner) | ✓ |
Only these four are missing:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y \
qt6-svg-dev \ # GUI: SVG icon rendering
libsecret-1-dev \ # DAEMON: Secret Service for site logins
nodejs npm \ # EXT + PROTO: extension build, mockd, conformance runner
clang # optional: libFuzzer targets in M7
Node in the 26.04 archive may lag; if the extension toolchain needs 22+, use nvm.
Verify with cmake --preset dev && cmake --build --preset dev once lane CORE lands its
first target. Note CMake 4.2.3 is installed — newer than the 3.28 floor in
CMakeLists.txt, and it hard-errors on cmake_minimum_required below 3.5, so no
dependency may ship a pre-3.5 CMake file.