Bug: prevent multiple file picker dialogs on double-click #5640

Lymah123 · 2025-11-08T12:22:05Z

Summary

Add fileDialogOpen guard flag to select-file-or-directory IPC handler to prevent
race condition where rapid double-clicks would spawn multiple overlapping
file picker dialogs. Uses try-finally to ensure flag is always reset.

Also add .cargo/ to .gitignore to exclude local cargo config.

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This pull request includes improvements to file dialog handling in the desktop application, adds a new community content submission, and updates the .gitignore file.

Prevents multiple simultaneous file dialogs using a flag with try-finally cleanup
Adds a community blog post submission about managing goose configurations
Ignores the .cargo/ directory in version control

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File	Description
ui/desktop/src/main.ts	Adds protection against multiple simultaneous file dialogs with proper cleanup using try-finally pattern
documentation/src/pages/community/data/community-content.json	Adds a community blog post entry about managing goose configurations
.gitignore	Adds .cargo/ directory to ignored paths

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Copilot · 2025-11-08T12:23:51Z

documentation/src/pages/community/data/community-content.json

+      "title": "Managing goose Configurations Across Multiple Projects",
+      "author": {
+        "name": "Halimah",
+        "handle": "lymah123"
+      },
+      "type": "blog",
+      "url": "https://dev.to/lymah/managing-goose-configurations-across-multiple-projects-58i3",
+      "thumbnail": "https://i.imgur.com/VvM8sMR.png",
+      "submittedDate": "2025-10-30",
+      "tags": ["hacktoberfest"],


This entry appears to be a duplicate of the existing entry at lines 273-286. Both entries have the same title, author, URL, thumbnail, and submitted date. This duplicate should be removed to avoid redundant content in the community submissions list.

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"title": "Managing goose Configurations Across Multiple Projects",

"author": {

"name": "Halimah",

"handle": "lymah123"

},

"type": "blog",

"url": "https://dev.to/lymah/managing-goose-configurations-across-multiple-projects-58i3",

"thumbnail": "https://i.imgur.com/VvM8sMR.png",

"submittedDate": "2025-10-30",

"tags": ["hacktoberfest"],

"title": "Managing Goose Configurations Across Multiple Projects: A Practical Guide",

"author": {

"name": "Viet Bui",

"handle": "vietbui1999ru"

},

"type": "blog",

"url": "https://dev.to/vietbui1999ru/managing-goose-configurations-across-multiple-projects-a-practical-guide-48ei",

"thumbnail": "https://imgur.com/a/ubyYbVJ",

"submittedDate": "2025-10-31",

"tags": [

"hacktoberfest"

],

Lymah123 · 2025-11-08T12:24:15Z

Hi @DOsinga! I will be waiting for your review.

DOsinga

Thanks for jumping on this. I think we need to solve this at the caller level though

if we add functonality to the selectFileOrDirectory calls (there's two, but we only really care about the one in ChatInput.tsx) we can just dissable the button while the modal is open.

that would be a better experience since with the current proposed fix, if we have two goose windows and you select files from both, as soon as the first one closes, the second one would allow you to open an extra window, but also, disabling a button is better than just doing nothing because that other window is already open

Lymah123 · 2025-11-11T13:41:50Z

Hi!
Just to confirm: would you prefer we handle this by disabling the select button in ChatInput.tsx while the dialog is open, instead of managing it in the Electron main process? Want to make sure I'm taking the right approach, thanks! @DOsinga

DOsinga · 2025-11-11T13:59:12Z

Hi! Just to confirm: would you prefer we handle this by disabling the select button in ChatInput.tsx while the dialog is open, instead of managing it in the Electron main process? Want to make sure I'm taking the right approach, thanks! @DOsinga

yes, I think that would work better - thanks

Lymah123 · 2025-11-11T14:10:06Z

Hi! Just to confirm: would you prefer we handle this by disabling the select button in ChatInput.tsx while the dialog is open, instead of managing it in the Electron main process? Want to make sure I'm taking the right approach, thanks! @DOsinga

yes, I think that would work better - thanks

Alright. I will work on the requested changes. Thanks

alexhancock · 2025-11-12T16:07:49Z

documentation/src/pages/community/data/community-content.json

        "hacktoberfest"
      ],
      "hacktoberfest": true
+    },


These changes don't seem relevant to the intended scope of the PR. Are they left in unintentionally?

I will remove those files once I am done making the requested changes. They were from my past PRs.

Abhijay007 · 2025-11-14T16:05:45Z

documentation/src/pages/community/data/community-content.json

This file shouldn't be deleted; just your changes need to be reverted

Fixed. Thanks

Abhijay007

commented above

blackgirlbytes · 2025-11-14T18:58:22Z

ui/desktop/src/components/ChatInput.tsx

  const [displayValue, setDisplayValue] = useState(initialValue); // For immediate visual feedback
  const [isFocused, setIsFocused] = useState(false);
  const [pastedImages, setPastedImages] = useState<PastedImage[]>([]);
+  const [isFileDialogOpen, setIsFileDialogOpen] = useState(false); // NEW: Track file dialog state


just removing extra comments that we may not need

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const [isFileDialogOpen, setIsFileDialogOpen] = useState(false); // NEW: Track file dialog state

const [isFileDialogOpen, setIsFileDialogOpen] = useState(false);

blackgirlbytes · 2025-11-14T18:58:52Z

ui/desktop/src/components/ChatInput.tsx

        <DirSwitcher className="mr-0" />
        <div className="w-px h-4 bg-border-default mx-2" />

+        {/* Attach button now disables when dialog is open */}


i think we may not need this comment either

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{/* Attach button now disables when dialog is open */}

Abhijay007 · 2025-11-14T19:06:17Z

.gitignore


 # Goose self-test artifacts
 gooseselftest/
+.cargo/


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	const [isFileDialogOpen, setIsFileDialogOpen] = useState(false); // NEW: Track file dialog state
	const [isFileDialogOpen, setIsFileDialogOpen] = useState(false);

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