optimize window validation logic

[TanGentleman]

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title: "optimize window validation logic"
labels: 'enhancement'
assignees: 'TanGentleman'

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description

Improve performance of is_valid_window() with several optimizations:

• Add early returns for simple checks to avoid unnecessary processing
• Cache lowercase string conversions of window name/title to prevent repeated allocations
• Restructure logic flow to exit early on ignore list matches
• Skip include list processing when empty

No changes in behavior, purely performance improvements by reducing redundant operations and string allocations.

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• bug fix
• new feature
• breaking change
• documentation update
• enhancement

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• i have updated the documentation if necessary
• my changes generate no new warnings
• i have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• all tests pass locally with my changes

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screenpipe	✅ Ready (Inspect)	Visit Preview	💬 Add feedback	Oct 24, 2024 1:14am

[TanGentleman]

Ideally, I'd really appreciate exact string matching for App Name / Window name for ignored windows. I'm not sure the best way to pass this from the CLI to this function efficiently, but screenpipe seems to be recording 10s of thousands of windows that I have no trivial way of excluding!

Having too lax of a substring excludes things like a browser windows with that substring. I certainly want to save those, but it seems like if ignored, it overrides validity in include_list.

Perhaps an early return of True if the window is in include_list?

[louis030195]

Ideally, I'd really appreciate exact string matching for App Name / Window name for ignored windows. I'm not sure the best way to pass this from the CLI to this function efficiently, but screenpipe seems to be recording 10s of thousands of windows that I have no trivial way of excluding!

Having too lax of a substring excludes things like a browser windows with that substring. I certainly want to save those, but it seems like if ignored, it overrides validity in include_list.

Perhaps an early return of True if the window is in include_list?

hmm

i think some people (including me) like also the possibility to use a string contain for window include / exclude

but probably could make everything possible, in latest app release we added bunch of default in app settings to ignore useless windows but not yet added as default in cli