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Every control in a right-hand pane sat in its own bordered box, so a pane read as a stack of five identical containers. The borders carried no information: they said "control" for things that were already obviously controls, and said nothing about which of them belonged together.

What changes

Structure now comes from a heading that owns what follows it, whitespace between groups, and one rule where a group actually ends. What keeps a fill is what you can press: pills, buttons, thumbnails.

  • Sliders lose the box and put the label above a full-width track. The readout goes from mint to muted, because out of a box it sits on the same ground as the mint track directly under it, and the two were competing over the same fact.
  • Rows (Blur BG, Format) lose the box and keep their label/control pairing.
  • Section headings become headings rather than captions, with more air above than below, so the gap is what ties a heading to its controls.
  • .paneDivider is the one border left in the flow. Five boxes in a column never said which of them belonged together; a rule at the end of a group does.

The change is made on the shared primitives (SliderCell, Toggle, .paneRow, .sectionLabel), so it reaches the captions pane and the V4 floating inspector at the same time. Doing only the Composition pane would have left the right rail disagreeing with itself tab by tab.

The wallpaper picker comes back inline

It went into a popover for a good reason: 18 swatches plus the tabs and the upload button ran past 300px and pushed padding, roundness and shadow off a laptop screen, so a user who opened the one appearance tab saw wallpapers and nothing else (#84).

That is a real failure and not one to repeat. The section is capped at min(320px, 40vh) and the grid scrolls inside that budget, so it spends a fixed share of the pane however many wallpapers ship, and everything under it stays reachable. Measured in the running app: 320px of budget against 411px of content, scrolling inside.

Its tabs, grid and upload button are unchanged. What changed is that they are on the pane rather than over it.

What this does not do

The aspect-ratio menu stays a menu. Exposing it as chips was tried before and failed on its own terms: the labels read 683:384 and 64:27, and ten of them do not fit. Short labels get pills, long ones get a menu.

Checks

tsc, biome check and npx vite build clean. Test suite at the same 58 failures / 2794 passing as main on this machine, which are the pre-existing environmental jsdom failures. One i18n test updated: it clicked a trigger to open the picker, and there is no trigger now.

The facet rail moves to the left

It floated to the right of the panel with a 10px gap, so the control that picks a facet sat on the far side of the thing it picked and the two read as unrelated cards. The rail now leads: left of the panel, flush against it, the pair sharing one edge and one height.

A DOM reorder rather than row-reverse, so the visual order and the tab order agree — you meet the chooser, then what it chose. Both go full height while the panel is open; closed, the rail is a floating pill of its own height again, because stretching an empty rail the height of the stage would be a tall column of nothing over the video.

Scroll chaining

The bounded grid first shipped with overscroll-behavior: contain, which was the reflex and was wrong: the grid fills most of the pane, so the wheel lands on it almost wherever the pointer is, and containing the scroll meant the pane never moved once the grid hit its end — everything below the background section was unreachable. Chaining is back on, verified in the running app.

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  • New Features

    • Background and wallpaper selection is now displayed inline within the video effects panel, with built-in scrolling and a full-width upload option.
    • Open inspectors now use a connected layout that combines the facet rail and inspector panel.
  • Style

    • Updated editor section spacing, labels, dividers, sliders, and color treatments for a cleaner, more structured interface.
    • Inspector panels now adapt their layout based on open and closed states for a smoother experience.

Every control in a pane sat in its own bordered box, so a pane read as a stack of
five identical containers and the borders carried no information: they said
"control" for things that were already obviously controls, and said nothing about
which of them belonged together.

The structure now comes from a heading that owns what follows it, whitespace
between groups, and one rule where a group actually ends. What keeps a fill is
what you can press. Sliders lose their box and put the label above a full-width
track; their readout goes from mint to muted, because out of a box it sat on the
same ground as the mint track directly under it and the two competed over the
same fact. The change is made on the shared primitives, so it reaches the
captions pane and the V4 floating inspector at the same time rather than leaving
the right rail disagreeing with itself tab by tab.

The wallpaper picker comes back inline. It went into a popover because 18
swatches plus tabs and the upload button ran past 300px and pushed padding,
roundness and shadow off a laptop screen (getopenscreen#84), which is a real failure and not
one to repeat: the section is now capped at min(320px, 40vh) and the grid scrolls
inside that budget, so it spends a fixed share of the pane however many
wallpapers ship. Its tabs, grid and upload button are unchanged. What changed is
that they are on the pane rather than over it.

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The background picker now renders inline in BackgroundSection. Pane styling uses section spacing, dividers, bounded scrolling, full-width upload controls, and updated slider presentation. The v4 inspector exposes its open state for joined layout styling. The launch HUD adds a visible focus ring.

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Inline background layout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inline picker rendering
src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.i18n.test.tsx
BackgroundSection removes the popover trigger and renders WallpaperPicker with the hidden file input inline. Section dividers are added. The French test checks the picker on initial render.
Pane visual layout
src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.module.css
Pane rows and sliders lose card styling. Section labels, dividers, spacing, picker scrolling, upload width, and value colors are updated.

V4 inspector layout

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Inspector state and DOM order
src/components/ai-edition/v4/FloatingInspector.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/FloatingInspector.test.tsx
FloatingInspector adds data-open, places the facet rail before the inspector, and preserves conditional inspector content rendering. Tests cover open state for the panel, selection, and audio track.
Open inspector styling
src/components/ai-edition/v4/EditorShellV4.module.css
The open inspector uses a stretched, gapless layout with joined borders. The inspector keeps its max-height clamp in both states.

Launch HUD focus styling

Layer / File(s) Summary
HUD focus ring
src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.module.css
Focusable elements inside .hudAnchor receive a semi-transparent emerald :focus-visible outline with a two-pixel offset.

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`overscroll-behavior: contain` on the bounded grid was the reflex and it was
wrong. The grid fills most of the pane, so the wheel lands on it almost wherever
the pointer is, and containing the scroll meant that once the grid reached its
end the pane never moved: measured at grid scrollTop 91 of 91 with the pane still
at 0 of 445. Everything under the background section -- frame, format, shadow,
roundness, padding, motion -- was unreachable by wheel, which read as the pane
simply not having changed.

Chaining restored, so the leftover delta goes up to the pane. Verified in the
running app: the pane reaches its end and the four sliders come into view.

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Closing while I finish the layout work — the rail moves to the left of the panel and the card goes full height. I'll reopen once it's done.

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The rail floated to the RIGHT of the panel with a 10px gap, so the control that
picks a facet sat on the far side of the thing it picked, and the two read as
unrelated cards.

It now leads: rail on the left, flush against the panel, the pair sharing one
edge and one height. A DOM reorder rather than `row-reverse`, so the visual order
and the tab order agree -- you meet the chooser, then what it chose.

Both go full height when the panel is open. Closed, the rail is a floating pill
of its own height again: stretching an empty rail the height of the stage would
be a tall column of nothing over the video, which is why the joined state is
behind an attribute and not a blanket rule.

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Add assertions for the data-open contract.

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NICOLASGON and others added 3 commits September 15, 2026 11:26
From CodeRabbit on getopenscreen#671. `data-open` is not decoration: it is what joins the rail
to the panel and gives the pair one height, and its absence is what lets the rail
go back to a pill of its own size rather than stretching an empty column the
height of the stage. Nothing asserted it, so either half of that switch could
have been lost silently.

All three ways of turning it on are covered -- the panel being open, a selection,
a selected audio track -- plus the off case. The selection path renders the real
`SelectionPane`, which is local to the component, so the editor-settings hook is
stubbed to the one field it reads; the region list is left empty on purpose, since
the attribute answers to `selection !== null` and not to what the pane makes of it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
No control in the HUD styled its focus, so every one of them fell through
to the platform default ring. macOS paints that ring in the user's system
accent colour, so a user who set the accent to orange got a thick orange
band around a bar drawn entirely in mint and slate — heavier than any other
line in a 34px bar, and in a hue the HUD never uses.

It is not only a keyboard cost. `:focus-visible` matches on a programmatic
focus() and when the overlay window takes focus back, both measured here,
and this window loses and regains focus constantly. The ring reappeared on
a button the user had clicked with the mouse minutes earlier.

One rule on `.hudAnchor` covers the bar, the popovers and the notices, so a
control added later inherits it rather than falling through again. It sits
ahead of the specific rules in the file, so the language menu items and the
about actions — which deliberately answer focus with a background rather
than a ring — still win on source order.

Measured in the running HUD: a mouse click still draws nothing
(`:focus-visible` false, `outline: none`); Tab and focus() now draw
`solid 1px rgba(16, 185, 129, 0.75)` at 2px offset instead of the UA's
`auto 1px`; a language menu item still resolves to `outline: none`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rner

A toast could only be waited out. That is fine for a confirmation and wrong for
an error: the 3s timer retires a long description before it has been read, and a
run of failures stacks over the editor with nothing to clear it.

Sonner ships a close button, so the work is where it puts one. Its default is the
START side — top-LEFT in a left-to-right UI — and half outside the box, hanging
off the corner like a badge. Nothing else here closes there: every dialog, pane
and inspector puts its cross inside the top end corner, and a dismiss control
that moves with the surface is one the eye has to hunt for.

Three things had to move together, which is why this is a stylesheet block rather
than one prop:

- the side, through sonner's own custom properties;
- the overhang, by dropping its `translate(35%, -35%)`;
- `top`, which sonner hardcodes to 0 instead of exposing as a variable, so it
  takes a rule on the element.

Flipped per direction rather than hard-coded to `right`. `ar` ships today and the
app does not set `dir` yet — this must not be the thing that breaks when it does.
The leading `html` in each selector is load-bearing too: sonner injects its
stylesheet at runtime, after ours, so an override of equal specificity would lose
on source order.

Inside the box, sonner's bordered opaque chip stops making sense — it reads as a
second surface floating on the toast — so the button is a plain icon that only
gains weight on hover, and the toast reserves `padding-inline-end` so a long
title cannot run under it.

The label comes from our own strings: sonner's default is an untranslated
"Close toast", and the rest of the app speaks 13 languages.

The tests pin what jsdom can actually see — the button exists, and it carries the
localized label — plus the three custom properties the placement rests on, in
sonner's stylesheet and ours. That last one is the real guard: on an upgrade that
renames them the override silently stops applying, the cross goes back to the top
left, and every other test stays green.

Also drops an unused `fireEvent` import in RightPanes.i18n.test.tsx that was
failing this branch's "Typecheck (tests)" job.

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…e it

Seating the rail against the panel moved it in front of the panel in a wrap
anchored by its right edge, so opening the 300px panel pushed the rail 300px
left. The active facet was no longer under the pointer that had just clicked
it: a second click to close the panel landed inside the panel instead, and
selecting or deselecting a timeline region made the whole rail jump.

The rail now keeps one spot on screen, at the stage's end edge, and the panel
opens towards the start. The joined look stays as it was, mirrored: same
height, one shared border, the rail's radius dropped on the seam side and the
panel's on its own. Dropping the rail's border on its start side rather than
its end is also what keeps its buttons at the same pixel open and closed.

The DOM order does not change. The wrap lays out with `row-reverse`, so the
rail still comes first for a keyboard or a screen reader: press a facet and the
next Tab is in the controls it opened, instead of behind the rest of the rail.
The visual order now runs the other way, but the rail is a vertical toolbar
pinned to the edge, not a line read across, and chooser-then-content is the
order tabbing needs.

Anchor, flex direction, borders and radii are logical properties, so the pair
mirrors to the stage's left once the app sets dir="rtl" for ar. Checked in a
browser (Vite + Playwright, 1440x900): the first facet button stays at the
same coordinates open and closed, in LTR and with dir="rtl" forced on <html>.

The tests pin the re-click-to-close path, the rail-before-panel DOM order, and
the CSS contract behind the placement, which jsdom cannot lay out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ll with the pane

The picker came inline with a `min(320px, 40vh)` cap and its own scroll, which
suited the image grid and cut the gradient tab in half. Tabs, preset grid and
the 240px-wide editor with its square wheel are about 600px tall (592px measured
at 1440x900), and the popover this replaced had already learned that a 460px cap
on that tab reads as "the gradient panel is gone": the content is there, below
an inner fold, behind a scroll nobody sees.

Inline in a pane that scrolls, the cap no longer buys anything. The picker now
takes the height its tab needs and the pane is the only scroller, so what sits
under the background section is one continuous scroll away and there is no inner
scroll to exhaust first. The image grid does not need a cap of its own either,
and the webcam's custom-background picker was already uncapped inline.

Checked in the running app: on the gradient tab the wrapper has no max-height
and no overflow, and wheeling over the pane reaches the motion blur slider at
its end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cross was meant to rest at slate-400 and brighten to slate-100 on hover,
through `group-[.toast]:` utilities in the Toaster's `classNames`. Neither ever
applied: sonner's dark theme sets the button's colour with
`[data-sonner-toaster][data-sonner-theme=dark] [data-sonner-toast] [data-close-button]`,
(0,4,0), and a Tailwind group utility is (0,3,0). The button showed sonner's
`--normal-text` instead, and the comment above the utilities said the colours
lived in index.css, which they did not.

They now do: the `html`-prefixed override that already places the button and
already outranks sonner at (0,4,1) sets the colour, at rest and on hover, from
the same slate scale as the toast's text through `theme()`. The utilities and
their comment are gone, and the comment on `closeButton` says where the colour
comes from and why it cannot come from `classNames`.

Only the dark theme needs covering: the Toaster is always `theme="dark"` on a
fixed near-black surface.

Checked in a browser against sonner's injected stylesheet: rgb(148 163 184) at
rest, rgb(241 245 249) on hover. The tests pin where the colours live, since
jsdom does not cascade.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The override clears sonner's chip border with `border-color: transparent`, but
only at rest. Sonner's dark hover rule,
`[data-sonner-toaster][data-sonner-theme=dark] [data-sonner-toast] [data-close-button]:hover`,
is (0,5,0), which beats the base override's (0,4,1), and it sets
`border-color: var(--normal-border-hover)`. So the ring the override exists to
remove came back under the pointer, around a cross that has no border at rest.

The hover rule already outranks sonner at (0,5,1) and reset only the
background; it now resets the border too.

Checked in a browser against sonner's injected stylesheet: the hovered border
was rgb(64 64 64) before, transparent after. A contract test pins the reset in
both rules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…icker is inline

`.bgTrigger`, `.bgTriggerChip` and `.bgPopover` styled the collapsed trigger and
the floating panel the wallpaper picker used to live in. Bringing the picker
inline removed the markup that used them, and nothing in `src` references them
any more, so they are dead weight whose comments describe a UI that no longer
exists. The one thing worth keeping from the popover's rationale, why the
gradient tab must not be height-capped, already lives on `.bgInline`.

Also restores the doc comment above `useMemoCustomWallpapers`, taken from main,
which went out with `backgroundSwatchStyle` just above it although it belongs to
the hook.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sections layout gave `.sliderCell .val` a muted colour but kept it in
`--font-mono`, while getopenscreen#667 moves the app's numeric readouts off the mono face to
the UI one with `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums`. Two PRs landing with the
same kind of number in two different faces is exactly the inconsistency getopenscreen#667 is
there to remove.

The monospace face was doing one job here, keeping the value from twitching as
its digits change under a drag, and tabular figures do that job in the UI face.
The property comes after the `font` shorthand, which resets it.

Checked in the running app: the readouts compute to Geist, 11px, tabular-nums.

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