docs: name the workspace line, the popup deadline and the bell

The body table gains the workspace (last line, `~` for home, following a
rebind), the desktop section says which popups expire and why, and "Go to
terminal" is described as what it does: withdraw, ring, leave the prompt
waiting — no window is raised, because no desktop allows it.
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@@ -16,12 +16,14 @@ label; the body carries, in this order:
| the reason line | only with `include_reason = true`: it can name a command, argv or URL, and a notification outlives the prompt (and may be mirrored to a lock screen) |
| the object | a confirmation or a batch: the program's name (`program: rm`), the file's (`target: todo.md`), the tools of a batch, `kind: directory` for an access request, the skill directory — never an argument, a URL or a piece of code |
| `no answer in 30s = deny` | a prompt that takes a default answer on timeout (command denylist, directory access, skill write) |
| the workspace | always: the directory the chat runs in, with the home directory shown as `~` (`~/Projects/plyngent`), so several waiting chats are told apart — it follows a session resumed in another workspace |
The lines are filled in that order until the body is full and each one is
capped, so a long reason drops out before the deadline does — the deadline is
the one line a human must not miss, because not answering *is* an answer there.
A desktop popup wraps and keeps the lines apart; the terminal channel carries
the same body on a single line.
capped, so a long reason drops out before the deadline and the workspace do.
The deadline is the one line a human must not miss, because not answering *is*
an answer there; the workspace comes last and is kept for the same reason. A
desktop popup wraps and keeps the lines apart; the terminal channel carries the
same body on a single line.
## Configuration
@@ -58,9 +60,12 @@ a prompt answered inside the grace period is never announced at all.
Each prompt says which answers it accepts (`prompt_wait(..., choices=…)`), and
those are the buttons; one that names none gets Allow once / Deny / Go to
terminal. "Go to terminal" is always the last button: it withdraws the
notification and leaves the prompt waiting — and so does a click on the
notification's body, which is the platform's own default action, so a
notification with no room for buttons still has that way back.
notification, rings the terminal's bell and leaves the prompt waiting — and so
does a click on the notification's body, which is the platform's own default
action, so a notification with no room for buttons still has that way back.
Nothing can raise another application's window portably (Wayland has no such
call), so the bell is what says *which* window holds the waiting prompt; the
notification is gone after that, and the prompt is announced no second time.
An answer read from the notification is treated exactly like a typed one —
`allow` is the `y` the prompt accepts, `deny` is `n` — and it never records a
@@ -105,11 +110,14 @@ The notification stays on screen: it is sent with no expiry (`timeout = 0`, the
freedesktop value for "until dismissed"), so the server does not slide it into
the tray a few seconds later. That is the point of it — the turn is blocked
until the prompt is answered, and a collapsed notification is one the human
would find only on coming back anyway. Urgency stays at the library default: on
KDE Plasma, `critical` keeps the notification up just the same but paints the
popup as urgent, and on every platform it asks the Focus mode to let it through
— which a prompt has no business doing. Once the prompt is answered, the
notification is dismissed.
would find only on coming back anyway. A prompt that gives up on its own is the
exception: the popup is sent with its deadline as its timeout (30 seconds for a
prompt that denies after 30s), so the notification disappears when the answer
window closes instead of announcing a prompt that is already gone. Urgency stays
at the library default: on KDE Plasma, `critical` keeps the notification up just
the same but paints the popup as urgent, and on every platform it asks the Focus
mode to let it through — which a prompt has no business doing. Once the prompt
is answered, the notification is dismissed.
## Terminal channel