fix(desktop): keep the HUD from demoting the app to accessory - #186
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setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces defaults to transforming the process type between regular and accessory when the panel joins all spaces. That flip drops the Dock indicator, makes the Dock icon unclickable, and drags the frontmost app out of its fullscreen space. Pass skipTransformProcessType so the HUD stays visible everywhere without restyling the process.
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Summary
Follow-up to #184. On macOS, showing the approval HUD while another app was in fullscreen kicked you out of fullscreen, and the Helios Dock icon lost its running indicator and became unclickable.
The cause is
setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces(true, …)inhud.ts. By default Electron reacts to that call by transforming the app's process type between regular and accessory (UIElement). An accessory app has no Dock indicator and an unresponsive Dock icon — and the activation change is what drags the frontmost app out of its fullscreen space.Passing
skipTransformProcessType: truekeeps the HUD visible on every space (including over fullscreen apps) without restyling the process.This is independent of, and pre-dates, the anchor-pin work in #184 — that PR only touched positioning; this touches the panel's space/activation behavior.
Test plan
npm run typecheck— cleannpm test— 297 pass, 0 fail