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Roadmap

Ideas for future versions. None of this is promised — what ships and what doesn't depends on whether it stays useful and in-scope. Open an issue if you'd vote for one of these or have something else to add.

Symbol Meaning
☐ planned
🚧 in progress
✅ done
❌ rejected
Effort Rough scale
S a few hours, mostly UI / config
M a few days, new endpoint or backend module
L weeks, new architecture / cross-platform work

User interface

  • ☐ [S] More themes — community palettes welcome via PR. Add an entry to themes.example.yml covering all REQUIRED_KEYS; the validator + test suite catch incomplete blocks.
  • ✅ [S] Auto-theme via prefers-color-scheme — follow the OS / browser appearance setting unless the user explicitly picked one. Lands as the 10th picker entry; bootstrap resolves it before CSS paints (no FOUC).
  • ☐ [S] Compact mode — denser layout for phone-sized portrait viewports.
  • ☐ [S] Custom keyboard shortcuts — 1–9 toggle the matching cell when the panel has focus on a desktop browser. Configurable.
  • ☐ [M] Drag-to-reorder grid cells — order is in apps.yml; a UI reorder writes back through a new /api/apps/order endpoint.
  • ☐ [S] Stats sparklines — last 60 seconds of CPU / RAM as a tiny inline chart on each stat pill.

App grid + launcher

  • ☐ [S] Icon resolution by theme name — instead of full paths in apps.yml, accept icon names that resolve against XDG_DATA_DIRS. Less brittle when distros move icon paths around.
  • ☐ [M] Per-app CPU / RAM in the long-press menu so you can spot the Electron app eating your battery without Plasma System Monitor.
  • ☐ [M] Quick-actions row — user-defined shortcut buttons at the top of the grid (bash -c "...", paste-text, sleep, …).
  • ☐ [S] Cell search / filter — Cmd+K palette over the grid, useful once the app list grows past 12.

System integration

  • ☐ [S] Workspace switcher — KWin virtual desktops as a tiny strip in the header.
  • ☐ [S] One-click screenshot of the current desktop, served as a transient image to the panel.
  • ☐ [M] System-tray dropdown — show all StatusNotifierItems in a panel, not just the Cachy cell.
  • ☐ [M] Clipboard history — read klipper's history into a dropdown, click to re-copy on the PC.

Automation

  • ☐ [L] Scenes / automations — "Movie mode" sets brightness 30%, DND on, audio profile to TV. Triggered manually or by time / event.
  • ☐ [L] Push notifications to your device when something happens on the PC (battery low, build finished, system update available).

Authentication & access

  • ☐ [M] Two-factor passkey for destructive actions (shutdown, server-kill, passkey-delete) — re-auth required, not just a session.
  • ☐ [L] Multi-host control — one panel UI, switchable between several PCs via a dropdown. Each PC runs its own clientctl + tunnel.

Performance & architecture

  • ✅ [L] Live updates via Server-Sent Events — battery, sysinfo, lock state pushed via /api/events instead of polled. Polling stays as a fallback when the stream isn't connected. Cuts request volume ~10×. (Used SSE rather than WebSockets — simpler, no new dep, EventSource has built-in reconnect, and we only need server→client push.)
  • ☐ [L] Plugin API — defined interface for third-party cells / dropdowns loaded from a plugins/ directory.

Platform support

  • ☐ [L] GNOME / Mutter support — port KWin window-state queries to gdbus call org.gnome.Shell.Eval. Deal-breaker for half the Linux desktop.
  • ☐ [L] Hyprland / Sway / i3 support via their respective IPC sockets.
  • ☐ [M] Voice control — Web Speech API in the browser for "Hey clientctl, open Firefox". Privacy-friendly because it stays in the browser.
  • ☐ [S] Native iOS Shortcuts — Siri integration via the Shortcuts app. Mostly docs + a curated list of API calls.

Developer experience & operations

  • ✅ [M] Service worker / installable PWA — manifest + SW cache the static shell, "Add to Home Screen" on iOS/Chrome installs the panel as a standalone app. /api/* is never cached; only the shell.
  • ☐ [M] i18n — externalize strings, ship German + English baseline.
  • ☐ [M] Backup / restore for state/ — encrypt → zip → download.
  • ☐ [M] Playwright browser tests for the parts the hermetic pytest suite can't reach (drag, slider behavior, modal dialogs).

Definitively out of scope

  • ❌ Cloud-hosted SaaS version — clientctl is intentionally local. No managed offering, no telemetry endpoint, no central account system.
  • ❌ Closed-source extensions / paid tier — MIT means MIT.
  • ❌ Mobile push without a tunnel — the architecture assumes the panel reaches your PC, not the other way around. Push would require the PC to talk to a third-party service we don't control.