Merge PR #81: make the update checker visible — persistent banner + Help menu item (#78, #79)

bcc.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Run:  python mcp_manager.py
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import contextlib
 import sys
 import time
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -141,6 +142,10 @@ QScrollBar::handle:vertical {{ background: {p.border}; border-radius: 5px; min-h
 QScrollBar::add-line, QScrollBar::sub-line {{ height: 0; }}
 QLabel#statusbar {{ color: {p.muted}; padding: 4px 2px; }}
 QLabel#warnBanner {{ color: {p.on_accent}; background: {p.warn}; border-radius: 8px; padding: 8px 10px; font-weight: 600; }}
+QFrame#noticeBanner {{ background: {p.panel_2}; border: 1px solid {p.accent}; border-radius: 8px; }}
+QLabel#noticeText {{ color: {p.text}; }}
+QPushButton#noticeClose {{ background: transparent; border: none; color: {p.muted}; font-size: 14px; padding: 2px; }}
+QPushButton#noticeClose:hover {{ color: {p.text}; }}
 QLabel#section {{ color: {p.muted}; font-weight: 600; font-size: 12px; padding: 2px 2px; }}
 QLabel#sectionDisabled {{ color: {p.muted}; font-weight: 600; font-size: 12px; padding: 2px 2px; }}
 QLabel#placeholder {{ color: {p.muted}; padding: 12px; background: {p.panel_2}; border: 1px dashed {p.border}; border-radius: 8px; }}
@@ -1528,6 +1533,54 @@ class AboutDialog(QDialog):
         QDesktopServices.openUrl(QUrl(self._release_url or core.RELEASES_URL))
 
 
+class NoticeBanner(QFrame):
+    """A persistent, dismissible notice with an optional action button.
+
+    The status bar is the wrong home for anything the user needs to act on --
+    21 call sites rewrite it, so a message posted there is gone by the next
+    click. That wiped the MSIX warning (#35) and then the update notice (#78).
+    This is the shared mechanism so it doesn't happen a third time.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, parent=None):
+        super().__init__(parent)
+        self.setObjectName("noticeBanner")
+        row = QHBoxLayout(self)
+        row.setContentsMargins(10, 8, 8, 8)
+        row.setSpacing(8)
+        self._label = QLabel("")
+        self._label.setObjectName("noticeText")
+        self._label.setWordWrap(True)
+        row.addWidget(self._label, 1)
+        self._action_btn = QPushButton("")
+        self._action_btn.setCursor(Qt.CursorShape.PointingHandCursor)
+        self._action_btn.hide()
+        row.addWidget(self._action_btn)
+        self._close_btn = QPushButton("\u2715")
+        self._close_btn.setObjectName("noticeClose")
+        self._close_btn.setCursor(Qt.CursorShape.PointingHandCursor)
+        self._close_btn.setFixedWidth(26)
+        self._close_btn.setToolTip("Dismiss")
+        self._close_btn.clicked.connect(self.hide)
+        row.addWidget(self._close_btn)
+        self.hide()
+
+    def show_notice(self, text: str, action_label: str = "", on_action=None):
+        self._label.setText(text)
+        self._label.setToolTip(text)
+        # Reconnect cleanly: a banner reused for a second notice would
+        # otherwise fire the previous notice's action too.
+        with contextlib.suppress(RuntimeError, TypeError):
+            self._action_btn.clicked.disconnect()
+        if action_label and on_action is not None:
+            self._action_btn.setText(action_label)
+            self._action_btn.clicked.connect(lambda _=False: on_action())
+            self._action_btn.show()
+        else:
+            self._action_btn.hide()
+        self.show()
+
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
 # Restart worker: core.restart_claude_desktop() blocks up to ~5 s on macOS
 # waiting for the old instance to exit, so it must run off the UI thread.
@@ -1585,6 +1638,11 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         self.warn_banner.hide()
         root.addWidget(self.warn_banner)
 
+        # Update availability gets its own persistent banner rather than a
+        # status-line write, which the next UI action overwrites (#78).
+        self.update_banner = NoticeBanner(self)
+        root.addWidget(self.update_banner)
+
         # User-draggable divider between the server list and the editor.
         split = QSplitter(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
         split.setChildrenCollapsible(False)
@@ -1637,10 +1695,59 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             theme_menu.addAction(act)
 
         help_menu = self.menuBar().addMenu("&Help")
+
+        # "Check for updates" used to exist only as a button inside the About
+        # dialog, which is not somewhere anyone looks for it (#79).
+        update_action = QAction("Check for updates…", self)
+        # Explicit role: macOS relocates actions it recognises by text, and
+        # some Qt versions treat "update" as application-menu material. Pin it
+        # so the item stays where the menu says it is on every platform.
+        update_action.setMenuRole(QAction.MenuRole.ApplicationSpecificRole)
+        update_action.triggered.connect(self.check_for_updates)
+        help_menu.addAction(update_action)
+        help_menu.addSeparator()
+
         about_action = QAction("About Better Claude Config…", self)
+        # Qt auto-assigns AboutRole to actions whose text starts with "About",
+        # which moves this into the application menu on macOS. That is the
+        # right home there -- state it explicitly rather than inheriting it by
+        # accident, since the behaviour is invisible from this call site.
+        about_action.setMenuRole(QAction.MenuRole.AboutRole)
         about_action.triggered.connect(self._show_about)
         help_menu.addAction(about_action)
 
+    def _show_update_notice(self, notice: dict):
+        """Surface an available update where it survives the next click."""
+        url = notice["url"]
+        self.update_banner.show_notice(
+            notice["text"],
+            action_label="Open releases page",
+            on_action=lambda: QDesktopServices.openUrl(QUrl(url)),
+        )
+
+    def check_for_updates(self):
+        """Menu-driven check. Unlike the startup check this is never throttled
+        and always reports back -- the user asked, so silence would read as a
+        broken button."""
+        self.status.setText("Checking for updates…")
+        self._menu_update_worker = UpdateCheckWorker()
+        self._menu_update_worker.done.connect(self._on_menu_update_checked)
+        self._menu_update_worker.start()
+
+    def _on_menu_update_checked(self, release: dict | None):
+        self._menu_update_worker = None
+        if release is None:
+            self.status.setText("Couldn't check for updates (offline?).")
+            return
+        QSettings("BCC", "BetterClaudeConfig").setValue("update/lastCheck", time.time())
+        notice = core.update_notice(core.__version__, release)
+        if notice:
+            self._show_update_notice(notice)
+            self.status.setText(f"Update available: {notice['version']}")
+        else:
+            self.update_banner.hide()
+            self.status.setText(f"You're up to date ({core.__version__}).")
+
     def _set_theme(self, setting: str):
         """Persist the theme choice and repaint the running window."""
         QSettings("BCC", "BetterClaudeConfig").setValue("ui/theme", setting)
@@ -1681,10 +1788,9 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         if release is None:
             return  # offline/failed check: don't advance lastCheck, allow retry
         QSettings("BCC", "BetterClaudeConfig").setValue("update/lastCheck", time.time())
-        if core.is_newer_version(core.__version__, release["version"]):
+        notice = core.update_notice(core.__version__, release)
-            self.status.setText(
+        if notice:
-                f"Update available: {release['version']}  ·  Help ▸ About to view it."
+            self._show_update_notice(notice)
-            )
 
     # --- layout persistence ---------------------------------------------- #
     def _restore_layout(self):

bcc_core.py

@@ -170,6 +170,39 @@ def fetch_latest_release(timeout: float = 4.0) -> dict | None:
     return {"version": tag, "url": payload.get("html_url") or RELEASES_URL}
 
 
+def update_notice(
+    current: str, release: dict | None, url_fallback: str = RELEASES_URL
+) -> dict | None:
+    """Decide whether to tell the user about a release, and what to say.
+
+    Returns {"version", "text", "url"} when `release` is newer than `current`,
+    or None when it isn't, when the check failed, or when the payload is
+    malformed. Kept here rather than in the GUI so the wording and the
+    should-we-notify decision are testable -- bcc.py can't be imported by the
+    test suite, which has no PySide6.
+
+    The text deliberately names no menu path. The old status-line notice read
+    "Help > About to view it", which is wrong on macOS: Qt relocates the About
+    action into the application menu (#79). A notice that carries its own
+    action can't drift out of sync with the platform.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(release, dict):
+        return None
+    version = release.get("version")
+    if not version or not isinstance(version, str):
+        return None
+    if not is_newer_version(current, version):
+        return None
+    # Tags carry a "v" prefix and __version__ doesn't; render both the same way
+    # so the notice doesn't read "Version v1.3.0 ... you're running 1.2.0".
+    shown = version.lstrip("vV")
+    return {
+        "version": version,
+        "text": f"Version {shown} is available. You're running {current.lstrip('vV')}.",
+        "url": release.get("url") or url_fallback,
+    }
+
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
 # Data model
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #

tests/test_core.py

@@ -2626,3 +2626,57 @@ def test_every_palette_slot_is_consumed():
         if f.name == "name":
             continue
         assert f"p.{f.name}" in src, f"palette slot {f.name!r} is never consumed"
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# #78/#79 -- update notice: when to show it, and what it says
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+def test_update_notice_when_a_newer_release_exists():
+    n = c.update_notice("1.2.0", {"version": "v1.3.0", "url": "https://example.test/rel"})
+    assert n is not None
+    assert n["version"] == "v1.3.0"
+    assert n["url"] == "https://example.test/rel"
+    assert "1.3.0" in n["text"] and "1.2.0" in n["text"]
+
+
+def test_update_notice_is_silent_when_current():
+    assert c.update_notice("1.3.0", {"version": "v1.3.0"}) is None
+    assert c.update_notice("1.4.0", {"version": "v1.3.0"}) is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("bad", [None, {}, {"version": ""}, {"version": None}, {"version": 3}, []])
+def test_update_notice_is_silent_on_a_failed_or_malformed_check(bad):
+    """fetch_latest_release returns None on any failure; a half-formed payload
+    must not produce a notice pointing at nothing."""
+    assert c.update_notice("1.0.0", bad) is None
+
+
+def test_update_notice_falls_back_to_the_releases_page_without_a_url():
+    n = c.update_notice("1.0.0", {"version": "v2.0.0"})
+    assert n["url"] == c.RELEASES_URL
+
+
+def test_update_notice_names_no_menu_path():
+    """The old status-line text said 'Help > About to view it', which is wrong
+    on macOS -- Qt moves the About action into the application menu (#79). The
+    notice carries its own action, so it must not describe a menu path."""
+    n = c.update_notice("1.0.0", {"version": "v2.0.0"})
+    lowered = n["text"].lower()
+    for phrase in ("help", "about", "menu", "▸", ">"):
+        assert phrase not in lowered, f"notice text should not reference {phrase!r}"
+
+
+def test_update_notice_handles_the_v_prefix_consistently():
+    assert c.update_notice("1.2.0", {"version": "1.3.0"}) is not None
+    assert c.update_notice("v1.2.0", {"version": "v1.3.0"}) is not None
+    assert c.update_notice("1.3.0", {"version": "v1.3.0"}) is None
+
+
+def test_update_notice_renders_both_versions_the_same_way():
+    """Tags carry a 'v' prefix, __version__ doesn't -- don't show both forms
+    in one sentence."""
+    n = c.update_notice("1.2.0", {"version": "v1.3.0"})
+    assert "v1.3.0" not in n["text"]
+    assert "1.3.0" in n["text"] and "1.2.0" in n["text"]
+    # the machine-readable field keeps the real tag
+    assert n["version"] == "v1.3.0"