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Summary

  • add settingsUrl for loading a complete desktop settings JSON document before the first render
  • accept settingUrl as an alias matching the original proposal
  • keep URL-provided settings temporary so a shared embed never overwrites the visitor's local preferences
  • document CORS, normalization, precedence, and persistence behavior

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  • focused frontend tests for URL parsing, fetching, normalization, and error handling
  • real browser verification with a remote settings response in light and dark themes
  • confirmed toolbar labels and Help visibility follow the shared settings
  • confirmed existing local settings remain unchanged
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Implements #2014

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  • New Features

    • Desktop embeds can load presentation settings from a URL using settingsUrl or the settingUrl alias.
    • Valid settings are applied before the app loads without replacing saved local settings.
    • Remote language settings are supported, while URL locale and language parameters retain precedence.
    • Invalid, unavailable, or delayed remote settings automatically fall back to local configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Added embedding guidance covering supported parameters, validation, fallback behavior, language handling, and precedence.

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The desktop app loads settings from settingsUrl or settingUrl, normalizes them, applies them temporarily before rendering, and skips persistence. Tests and embedding documentation cover precedence, validation, fallback, language selection, and errors.

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Desktop settings embedding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Settings URL parsing and loading
apps/geolibre-desktop/src/lib/desktop-settings-url.ts, tests/desktop-settings-url.test.ts
The parser supports both query aliases. The fetch helper uses uncached same-origin requests, validates responses, rejects invalid payloads, and normalizes valid settings. Shared language resolution respects explicit URL language parameters. Tests cover parsing, normalization, validation, timeout, and language precedence.
Temporary settings application
apps/geolibre-desktop/src/hooks/useDesktopSettings.ts, tests/desktop-settings-url.test.ts
applyTemporaryDesktopSettings applies normalized settings and marks them as temporary. The persistence hook skips storage writes and subscriptions for temporary settings.
Startup integration and embedding documentation
apps/geolibre-desktop/src/main.tsx, docs/user-guide/embedding.md
Startup loads and applies shared settings before rendering, resolves the shared language, logs failures, and continues with local settings. The guide documents parameters, validation, timeout, fallback, precedence, and URL encoding.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6d2bb

The change enables shared desktop settings to be loaded from a URL, but publicly hosted complete settings may expose credential-bearing values unless authors filter them or clearly warn users. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on this security concern.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EmbedURL
  participant DesktopStartup
  participant SettingsEndpoint
  participant DesktopSettingsStore
  EmbedURL->>DesktopStartup: provide settingsUrl or settingUrl
  DesktopStartup->>SettingsEndpoint: fetch settings with no-cache and same-origin
  SettingsEndpoint-->>DesktopStartup: return JSON settings
  DesktopStartup->>DesktopSettingsStore: normalize and apply temporary settings
  DesktopStartup-->>EmbedURL: continue app initialization
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In `@apps/geolibre-desktop/src/main.tsx`:
- Around line 196-215: Update the startup sequence so i18nReady initializes from
the resolved shared settings, while preserving locale/lang query-parameter
priority over saved or remote language values. Add coverage using different
saved and remote languages to verify the remote setting is applied before the
first render. Ensure sharedSettingsReady cannot indefinitely block
ReactDOM.createRoot by adding an abort timeout to fetchDesktopSettings or
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Bugs

  • fetchDesktopSettings (apps/geolibre-desktop/src/lib/desktop-settings-url.ts) issues its fetch with no AbortSignal.timeout, unlike every other remote fetch in this codebase. Because sharedSettingsReady is included in the Promise.all that gates the app's very first render in main.tsx, a slow/unreachable/hanging settingsUrl blocks the whole app from ever painting, not just the settings feature. High confidence.
  • useDesktopSettingsPersistence (apps/geolibre-desktop/src/hooks/useDesktopSettings.ts:493-497) returns early on desktopSettingsAreTemporary before calling subscribe(...), not just before the initial save. Once a page loads with settingsUrl/settingUrl, no desktop settings change is ever persisted for the rest of the session — including deliberate, unrelated edits the user makes via the Settings dialog. Medium-high confidence.

Security

  • applyTemporaryDesktopSettings accepts the full DesktopSettings shape from an attacker-choosable URL, including credential-shaped fields (shareToken, cesiumIonToken, aiProfiles[].fieldValues with a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint, auto-preselected via defaultAiProfileId). A crafted ?settingsUrl= link (not confined to an iframe) could redirect the AI Assistant's traffic to an attacker-controlled endpoint or attribute a victim's "Share" upload to the attacker's account. Medium confidence — exploitability depends on the victim using the affected feature (Assistant/Share), but the injection mechanism itself is definite.

Performance

  • None found beyond the redundant double normalizeDesktopSettings call in the fetch → apply path (harmless, idempotent).

Quality

  • docs/user-guide/embedding.md: the new "URL parameters ... take precedence" note conflates the layout= chrome preset and theme= light/dark toggle with the unrelated desktopSettings.layout/.theme fields, and omits the encodeURIComponent guidance given for other URL-valued params (data=, url=). Low confidence, minor.

CLAUDE.md

  • No violations found; the change doesn't touch any of the mirrored-constant or generated-catalog areas the guidelines call out.

giswqs added 2 commits August 20, 2026 08:21
- Apply the validated shared language before React mounts while preserving locale and lang URL priority.
- Bound the optional settings fetch so an unresponsive host cannot block startup indefinitely.
- Restrict URL settings to presentation fields so shared links cannot inject credentials, plugins, or local paths.
- Clarify nested URL encoding and the independent roles of embed parameters and desktop preferences.
- Document why shared-settings sessions remain entirely ephemeral.

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Warn users not to publish credentials in shared settings documents.

settingsUrl loads the complete DesktopSettings shape. That shape includes shareToken, cesiumIonToken, and credential-bearing aiProfiles in apps/geolibre-desktop/src/hooks/useDesktopSettings.ts, Lines [25] through [88]. A public settings document exposes these values to every viewer. Temporary application only prevents persistence.

Document that public settings documents must contain non-sensitive values. If public documents are untrusted, filter or reject credential fields before applying them.

Proposed documentation addition
 The settings document must be public or same-origin, return valid JSON, and
 allow cross-origin browser requests when hosted elsewhere.
+Do not publish `shareToken`, `cesiumIonToken`, or credential-bearing
+`aiProfiles` in a public settings document.

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In `@docs/user-guide/embedding.md` at line 35, Update the settingsUrl
documentation to warn that shared or public settings documents must contain only
non-sensitive values, since DesktopSettings may include shareToken,
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In `@apps/geolibre-desktop/src/main.tsx`:
- Around line 216-225: Update the startupLanguageReady initialization around
setActiveLanguage to catch remote catalog-loading failures, log the error, and
resolve successfully without changing the already initialized locale. Preserve
the existing language selection and settings handling for successful loads.

In `@tests/desktop-settings-url.test.ts`:
- Around line 38-44: Update the desktop settings timeout test around
fetchDesktopSettings so the fetch mock remains pending until init.signal aborts,
then verify the request rejects and the signal is aborted. Preserve the existing
cache, credentials, and signal assertions while testing actual timeout
cancellation rather than signal presence alone.

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In `@docs/user-guide/embedding.md`:
- Line 35: Update the settingsUrl documentation to warn that shared or public
settings documents must contain only non-sensitive values, since DesktopSettings
may include shareToken, cesiumIonToken, and credential-bearing aiProfiles
exposed to viewers. Clarify that temporary application does not prevent exposure
or persistence elsewhere, and instruct users to omit credential fields; do not
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Bugs

  • apps/geolibre-desktop/src/main.tsx (216–226): await setActiveLanguage(language) inside startupLanguageReady has no error handling. A failed dynamic import of the remote-specified locale's catalog (offline visitor, missing/stale chunk) rejects startupLanguageReady, which is awaited in the top-level Promise.all gating the first render — so the whole app fails to boot into a permanently blank page instead of falling back gracefully, unlike i18nReady's own catalog-load which explicitly catches this exact failure. Medium-high confidence; partially mitigated in prod web builds by the stale-chunk reload listener, but not in dev/test or the Tauri build.

Security

  • None found. The remote settings document is passed through the same allowlisting normalizeDesktopSettings/normalizeSharedDesktopSettings used for localStorage, so credentials, plugin manifest URLs, and startup paths are stripped regardless of what the URL supplies (verified against the accompanying tests). Fetch uses credentials: "same-origin", so cross-origin settings hosts never receive cookies. The arbitrary-URL fetch is consistent with the app's existing accepted risk model for url=/data= embed parameters.

Performance

  • None found.

Quality

  • apps/geolibre-desktop/src/main.tsx (197–200): the "Fetch both chunks in parallel..." comment now sits above the new shared-settings-URL block rather than the Promise.all([import("./App"), ...]) it actually describes, which reads as misleading after the insertion. Low confidence / minor.
  • apps/geolibre-desktop/src/hooks/useDesktopSettings.ts (486–497): the new desktopSettingsAreTemporary persistence-skip guard — the mechanism enforcing the PR's core "shared embed never overwrites local preferences" guarantee — has no test coverage; the added test file only covers URL parsing/fetching/normalization. Medium confidence this is worth closing before merge.

CLAUDE.md

  • No violations found: new user-facing doc text was added rather than UI strings requiring t(), the Tauri CSP already allows arbitrary https: fetches (no new host-allowlist entry needed), and the test lives under tests/*.test.ts per convention.

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- Fall back to the initialized locale when a shared language catalog cannot load.
- Verify timeout cancellation and temporary-settings persistence behavior.
- Keep the parallel chunk-loading comment beside the code it describes.
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Bugs

  • None found. The precedence logic (?locale/?lang over shared language, shared settings never overwriting local persistence) is consistent with the existing getInitialLanguage/useLanguage behavior, and the field-stripping in normalizeSharedDesktopSettings correctly blocks shareToken, cesiumIonToken, aiProfiles, pluginManifestUrls, and startup (verified against the test suite and normalizeDesktopSettings). The desktopSettingsAreTemporary module flag is set before App ever mounts (the render is gated on startupLanguageReady), so there's no race with useDesktopSettingsPersistence's effect. An admin-managed uiProfile.locked deployment also re-asserts itself after mount via useUiProfileBootstrap, so a shared-settings link can't durably bypass it. Confidence: high (no bugs found after tracing the full startup sequence).

Security

  • None beyond the one quality/scope note below. The credentials: "same-origin" fetch option correctly avoids leaking cookies cross-origin, and CORS is required for cross-origin hosts as documented. No injection, XSS, or secret-leak paths were found in the new code.

Performance

  • apps/geolibre-desktop/src/main.tsx (lines 197–230): when settingsUrl/settingUrl is present, the entire first render (not just language/theme) is gated on the remote settings fetch, with a default 10s timeout — a slow or unreachable settings host leaves the whole app blank for up to 10 seconds. This is documented behavior and may be an intentional trade-off, but worth confirming. Confidence: medium.

Quality

  • apps/geolibre-desktop/src/lib/desktop-settings-url.ts (lines 50–61): the "limited to presentation" comment undersells that uiProfile is forwarded whole, including locked and the hidden-menu/plugin/data-source lists — these can restrict app functionality for the visitor's session, not just cosmetics. Low-medium confidence; impact is mitigated by the setting being ephemeral and already a soft client-side trust boundary.
  • Minor/no inline comment: applyTemporaryDesktopSettings re-runs normalizeDesktopSettings on a value (fetchDesktopSettings's return) that has already been normalized via normalizeSharedDesktopSettings. Idempotent and harmless, just a redundant pass — not worth a fix on its own.

CLAUDE.md

  • No violations found. New user-facing behavior is documented in docs/user-guide/embedding.md, no plugin/tile-host CSP changes were needed (the Tauri CSP's connect-src already allows arbitrary https:), and the new frontend tests exercise a leaf module (desktop-settings-url.ts) rather than pulling in the wider plugin registry, consistent with the coverage-ratchet guidance.

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