D-Bus dictation state signal #21

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2026-11-05T17:00:37Z

xavierk commented

2026-11-05 17:00:37 +00:00

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Spec: Voculinux — Void Linux (glibc) Wayland/niri port of Vocalinux

What to build

The renamed D-Bus interface stops being write-only. Alongside the existing toggle, start, and stop methods it exposes dictation state — idle, listening, processing — as a signal and a readable property, so status bars, widgets, and user scripts can reflect what dictation is doing without scraping the tray. Command-line triggers keep working exactly as before under the new names.

Acceptance criteria

Subscribing to the renamed interface shows a state emission for each transition through a full dictation cycle (idle to listening to processing to idle).
Reading the state property at any moment returns the current state, including immediately after application start (idle).
Starting dictation twice or stopping while idle does not emit duplicate or impossible transitions.
Existing toggle, start, and stop triggers (D-Bus and command line) behave unchanged.
Behaviour tests cover the transition sequence and the no-duplicate guarantee.

Blocked by

Rename user-visible identity to voculinux with one-time legacy import

## Parent [Spec: Voculinux — Void Linux (glibc) Wayland/niri port of Vocalinux](https://git.bongbetic.com/xavierk/voculinux/issues/16) ## What to build The renamed D-Bus interface stops being write-only. Alongside the existing toggle, start, and stop methods it exposes dictation state — idle, listening, processing — as a signal and a readable property, so status bars, widgets, and user scripts can reflect what dictation is doing without scraping the tray. Command-line triggers keep working exactly as before under the new names. ## Acceptance criteria - [ ] Subscribing to the renamed interface shows a state emission for each transition through a full dictation cycle (idle to listening to processing to idle). - [ ] Reading the state property at any moment returns the current state, including immediately after application start (idle). - [ ] Starting dictation twice or stopping while idle does not emit duplicate or impossible transitions. - [ ] Existing toggle, start, and stop triggers (D-Bus and command line) behave unchanged. - [ ] Behaviour tests cover the transition sequence and the no-duplicate guarantee. ## Blocked by - [Rename user-visible identity to voculinux with one-time legacy import](https://git.bongbetic.com/xavierk/voculinux/issues/18)

xavierk added the ready-for-agent label 2026-11-05 17:00:37 +00:00

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2026-11-05 17:00:53 +00:00

Hardware acceptance run on Void, niri, Dank Material Shell, RTX 2050 #32

xavierk commented

2026-11-06 04:15:49 +00:00

Merged in integration/spec16 1dd3986383 pushed to fork/integration/spec16 (https://github.com/soubarnak/vocalinux/tree/integration/spec16), review PASS, gates flake8 E9,F63,F7,F82 + black --check + isort --check + mypy src/ clean, pytest 37 passed, npm jest 11 suites/92 tests + lint 0 errors + tsc clean + build OK

Merged in integration/spec16 1dd398638312a3b6e27793d856662e60df73f252 pushed to fork/integration/spec16 (https://github.com/soubarnak/vocalinux/tree/integration/spec16), review PASS, gates flake8 E9,F63,F7,F82 + black --check + isort --check + mypy src/ clean, pytest 37 passed, npm jest 11 suites/92 tests + lint 0 errors + tsc clean + build OK

xavierk closed this issue

2026-11-06 04:15:49 +00:00

xavierk referenced this issue from a commit

2026-11-06 11:06:39 +00:00

Custom Icons Implementation and Package Restructuring (#21)

xavierk referenced this issue from a commit

2026-11-06 11:06:41 +00:00

feat(dbus): expose dictation state signal and property

xavierk referenced this issue from a commit

2026-11-06 11:06:41 +00:00

Merge feature/21 into integration/spec16 (ticket #21: D-Bus state signal)

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