- Update configuration to use by the backend, while app is running
- Trigger after user hits start button with their config.
The config gets written to khoj.yml file first, then the updated
config is loaded onto memory
- Decouple configuring backend from starting server.
Backend search and processors can be configured after the backend
server has started
- Set global state in main instead of in configure_server method.
This allows the app to start even if configure_server exits early in
the first run scenario, where no config available to configure server
- Now start server, even if no config, before GUI started in main
- This refactor of app startup flow will allow users to configure
backend using the configure screen after server start
- Only pass processor config arg required by configure_processor. Not
the unused full config object
- Type arguments passed to methods configure processors
- Import json for use by conversation processor to load logs
- Only allow adding files with appropriate file extension for each search type
- e.g .org for org-mode search, directory for image search
- Extract file paths added to config and enablement state of each search type
- This extracted state will be used to populate the khoj.yml config file
- Simplifies the configure screen layout and allows it to be of constant width
- It was buggy, the configure screen would dynamically expand but not
restore back to original size on disabling search type after enable
- Make config_file an optional arg. It defaults to default khoj config dir
- Return args.config as None if no config_file explicitly passed by user
- Parent can use args.config = None as signal to trigger first run experience
- Search is being reconfigured multiple times in /regenerate and
n/reload. More appropriate name is configure_ rather than initialize_
for it
- Standardize name of methods under configure.py
- Main.py was becoming too big to manage. It had both
controllers/routers and component configurations (search, processors)
in it
- Now that the native app GUI code is also getting added to the main
path, good time to split/modularize/clean main.py
- Put global state into a separate file to share across modules
- Run FastAPI server in a separate thread.
- This allows starting both the server and gui in parallel
- Create System Tray for Khoj
- Contains menu items that open search or config pages in browser
- Rearrange code to have only the code required to start Backend and
GUI in the run() method
- Move the backend setup code into a separate method
### Why
- Reduce time from intent to results by using reasonable defaults
- Make interactions smoother, more intuitive
- Users expect to start querying immediately. The prompt to enter search type creates unnecessary friction
### How
- By default, search using last searched content type
- Allow user to change search type, while querying, by using keyboard shortcuts
- For reference, display keyboard shortcuts to set search-type when user initiates (incremental) search
- More generally, this allows configuring the khoj search anytime
while in khoj minibuffer window
- Earlier could only configure search type at the start of the search
- What
- Default to last used search type, when no search type specified
- Allow user to change search type before they enter query (and
after they've called khoj), if they want
- Why
- Reduce time from intent to results by using reasonable defaults
- Make interactions smoother, more intuitive
