Fix duplicated posts in Bluesky threads and bogus list position in DMs

Thread buffers rebuilt themselves from scratch on every refresh with no
deduplication and no guard against overlapping runs, and the list control was
mutated from the update timer's background thread. Threads opened from the same
account also shared a single session.db entry, because the buffer name was
derived from the author instead of the post.

- Name conversation buffers after the post URI, and navigate to an already open
  thread instead of opening a second buffer for it.
- Deduplicate thread items by URI, and refuse a refresh while one is in flight.
- Move the clear-and-fill step onto the GUI thread via wx.CallAfter.
- Stop start_buffers() from starting a buffer that create_buffer() already
  started, since needs_init was never cleared.

The direct messages list never focused an item after being rebuilt, so its
position was announced as "0 of 1", which cannot exist. The conversation list
now focuses an item whenever it cannot restore the previous selection, and the
buffer navigation announcements no longer report a position while nothing is
focused.

Verified against the live Bluesky API that app.bsky.feed.getPostThread itself
returns no repeated posts, so the duplication was entirely on our side.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jesús Pavón Abián
2026-09-22 16:29:04 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 77291d7c3d
commit 0e5a75048a
4 changed files with 116 additions and 29 deletions
+32 -20
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@@ -448,6 +448,9 @@ class Controller(object):
except ValueError:
commonMessageDialogs.unauthorized()
return
# This buffer has already retrieved its items, so start_buffers()
# must not start it a second time.
buffer.needs_init = False
self.buffers.append(buffer)
if parent_tab == None:
log.debug("Appending buffer {}...".format(buffer,))
@@ -1090,6 +1093,31 @@ class Controller(object):
# except:
# pass
def announce_buffer_position(self, buffer, with_account=False):
""" Speaks the current buffer name plus the position within its list.
If the list holds items but none of them is focused yet, this focuses one
before speaking. Otherwise get_selected() returns -1 and we would announce
a position of "0 of n", which does not exist."""
try:
count = buffer.buffer.list.get_count()
if count == 0:
raise ValueError("Empty buffer")
selected = buffer.buffer.list.get_selected()
if selected < 0:
reverse = False
if getattr(buffer, "session", None) != None:
reverse = buffer.session.settings["general"].get("reverse_timelines", False)
selected = 0 if reverse else count-1
buffer.buffer.list.select_item(selected)
if with_account == True:
msg = _(u"%s. %s, %s of %s") % (buffer.account, self.view.get_buffer_text(), selected+1, count)
else:
msg = _(u"%s, %s of %s") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(), selected+1, count)
except:
msg = _(u"%s. Empty") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(),)
output.speak(msg, True)
def left(self, *args, **kwargs):
buff = self.view.get_current_buffer_pos()
buffer = self.get_current_buffer()
@@ -1103,11 +1131,7 @@ class Controller(object):
while self.get_current_buffer().invisible == False: self.skip_buffer(False)
buffer = self.get_current_buffer()
if self.showing == True: buffer.buffer.set_focus_in_list()
try:
msg = _(u"%s, %s of %s") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(), buffer.buffer.list.get_selected()+1, buffer.buffer.list.get_count())
except:
msg = _(u"%s. Empty") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(),)
output.speak(msg, True)
self.announce_buffer_position(buffer)
def right(self, *args, **kwargs):
buff = self.view.get_current_buffer_pos()
@@ -1122,11 +1146,7 @@ class Controller(object):
while self.get_current_buffer().invisible == False: self.skip_buffer(True)
buffer = self.get_current_buffer()
if self.showing == True: buffer.buffer.set_focus_in_list()
try:
msg = _(u"%s, %s of %s") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(), buffer.buffer.list.get_selected()+1, buffer.buffer.list.get_count())
except:
msg = _(u"%s. Empty") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(),)
output.speak(msg, True)
self.announce_buffer_position(buffer)
def next_account(self, *args, **kwargs):
if not self.accounts:
@@ -1153,11 +1173,7 @@ class Controller(object):
self.view.change_buffer(buff)
buffer = self.get_current_buffer()
if self.showing == True: buffer.buffer.set_focus_in_list()
try:
msg = _(u"%s. %s, %s of %s") % (buffer.account, self.view.get_buffer_text(), buffer.buffer.list.get_selected()+1, buffer.buffer.list.get_count())
except:
msg = _(u"%s. Empty") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(),)
output.speak(msg, True)
self.announce_buffer_position(buffer, with_account=True)
def previous_account(self, *args, **kwargs):
if not self.accounts:
@@ -1184,11 +1200,7 @@ class Controller(object):
self.view.change_buffer(buff)
buffer = self.get_current_buffer()
if self.showing == True: buffer.buffer.set_focus_in_list()
try:
msg = _(u"%s. %s, %s of %s") % (buffer.account, self.view.get_buffer_text(), buffer.buffer.list.get_selected()+1, buffer.buffer.list.get_count())
except:
msg = _(u"%s. Empty") % (self.view.get_buffer_text(),)
output.speak(msg, True)
self.announce_buffer_position(buffer, with_account=True)
def go_home(self):
buffer = self.get_current_buffer()