26 → 52px, 14 → 28px for the sparkle. The audit page draws 26 ("26×26 · không
chữ, không chevron"); doubled at the user's request. Still half the area of the
84×64 button it replaced: 2704 vs 5376px².
Four checks pinned the old number. Three now read the size the design actually
claims rather than a literal — square, at least 24px to hit, and smaller than
what it replaced — and check_design_parity records the deviation in its item
label instead of scoring 52px against a 26px expectation.
The fourth attempt was worse than the literal: I had check_layout_geometry
import _DOT and compare against it, which makes it unfailable — change the
constant and the expectation moves too. check_probes_bite caught that, reporting
that doubling _DOT again left the checker green. It now bounds the range
(24..64, square), which the mutation does break.
24/24 checkers pass; check_multi_screen took the teardown segfault once in three
standalone runs.
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Its two entries were "Thu nhỏ", which the − button immediately to its left
already does, and "Ẩn vào cạnh phải". A drop-list whose real content is one
action, half of it duplicating its neighbour, is chrome — removed at the user's
request.
Nothing became unreachable: collapsing is the − button and the dot itself,
hiding is a right-click on the dot (already there, and named in its tooltip) or
now on the open panel's header too.
This is a deliberate deviation from the audit page, which asks for "'Ẩn trợ lý'
dời vào menu ⋯". check_design_parity records it as that rather than quietly
scoring it done — the item is relabelled and its detail says where the action
went. check_help_dock stopped reading the menu's contents and now exercises the
routes: − collapses, the dot carries a context menu, hide reaches the edge.
24/24 checkers pass.
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Settings sat 7px further in than the Dashboard/Giám sát rows above it — its
QSS gave it a 6px side margin where those rows start at the rail edge. At the
collapsed 54px width that put its icon near the middle of the rail, which is
what "thu gọn menu lại ra giữa" was describing. Icon and label now start on
the same x as the rows, open and collapsed, in both themes.
The help panel's transcript is rendered HTML, so switching language re-labelled
the chrome but left the greeting — and the "AI Assistant" speaker label — in
whatever language the panel was built in. retranslate() now rewrites the
greeting (matched by identity, so a real reply is never touched) and re-renders.
The sparkle is #FDBE59, sampled from the audit page's own render. Its CSS says
.spark{color:#0F9B8A}, but the glyph is the ✨ emoji and a colour emoji ignores
CSS colour, so the page has always drawn a gold star.
Behind all three: MainWindow does not style itself — run() calls
app.setStyleSheet — so 12 of 13 checkers were measuring a window with no
padding, margins or borders. Every QSS-driven layout bug was invisible to them,
and an unstyled window reported an icon drift that does not exist. Added
_apply_theme() and wired it through.
Two checker repairs that followed:
· check_no_hscroll flagged the 9pt dialogs on sizeHintForColumn(0), which
returns 182px at 9pt, 11pt and 14pt alike. Nothing was clipped. It now
compares the painted text against the width actually on screen, and fails
on a squeezed list (24 combos) where the old test passed.
· the checkers print Vietnamese and died mid-report on a cp932 console.
New: check_rail_align (icons hold one line, both themes, both states) and
check_help_i18n (transcript follows the language). Both verified to fail
without their fix.
15/15 checkers pass. check_nav and check_design_parity segfault in Qt teardown
roughly one run in three — pre-existing, after the verdict prints, and it
happens with or without the theme change.
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Implements the redesign from docs/ui-audit.html. Rearrangement only — no
feature was removed; every control that moved kept its handler, and the
gates that used to hide things now grey them out instead.
Navigation
* The rail is one flat list: the five Workspace sub-views sit at the top
level instead of behind an accordion, with Dashboard/Monitoring pinned
at the foot and Settings below them.
* Cowork and GraphRAG stay listed and greyed while no project is
selected, rather than vanishing and resizing the menu under the user.
* Monitoring keeps its eight sub-views in its own tab strip (unhidden)
instead of doubling the rail's length.
* _goto now moves the highlight itself, fixing a long-standing bug where
programmatic navigation left the rail pointing at the previous screen.
* Rail header gained the project picker and "New chat"; RECENTS lists the
active project's threads. Both are second views of existing state — the
Cowork toolbar button and the full History panel are untouched.
* Provider / language / theme moved from the top bar to an account row at
the foot of the rail (same widgets, same signals).
Screens
* Co4E: the flow tab strip is gone (per the design); Flow Status became a
toolbar toggle with its own way back, and the three icon-only tabs became
four labelled, foldable sections in one column. One flow open at a time
is the one capability this costs; background runs are unaffected.
* Dashboard: header split into two rows; cost promoted to a hero card.
* Monitoring Overview: one scrolling column of titled sections; the model
price table got its own full-width section instead of sharing a row with
the CPU meters.
* Settings and Task editor gained a section index down the left.
* Help dock: 84x64 launcher + chevron became one 26px dot that expands to
a labelled pill on hover; "hide to the edge" moved into the panel's menu.
Layout
* The window's minimum width dropped from 1453px to 768px. The main cause
was a QTabWidget taking its minimum from the widest page even when that
page is hidden, so Co4E was forcing Project and Cowork wide.
* Secondary panes fold themselves on a narrow window and restore when it
grows, never overriding a fold the user made.
* The long dialogs no longer scroll sideways at any font size.
Verification: tools/check_*.py build a real MainWindow offscreen against a
copy of ~/.cowork_local with the schedulers no-oped. check_design_parity.py
reads its checklist straight from the audit page's own proposals.
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