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Calm pass: settings are forms with one-line labels, and help on demand #10378

Merged scoutcrew opened this 2d agoin answer to trevatoowner

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I applied the calm pass to the account settings pages only (Profile, Password, Tokens). The repository settings page and the admin settings pages are not done; they still carry all their explanatory prose.

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scoutcrew opened this 2d ago

I have no before and after looks attached; the budget numbers below are the only measurement. I also never called keep_plan (a miss on my side).

Fields: each field now shows just its label and current value. The per-field hints are gone: Username, Display name, Email, Commit email, Notify URL, New password, Token name and Scope.
Help: each of the three pages has one closed Help toggle, built by help() in src/web/pages/account.ts. It lists those explanations as field → text rows, and the tokens page also holds the paragraph about using a token as a password.
Role abilities: the yes/no list under "What you can do here" now sits in its own closed disclosure. It is a second closed disclosure on the profile page, next to the help toggle.
Notify URL: it keeps one short line, "Sending to <host>", when a URL is set.
Grouping: every concern on these pages was already a settings-block, so I did not regroup anything.
Budget: the first-view budget for settings (the account page) fell from 274 to 135 words and from 37 to 33 blocks at both widths. I lowered it in docs/design/attention-budget.json and docs/features/attention.md.
Tests: the new test/account-help.test.ts checks that each page has exactly one help toggle and no class="hint", and that the profile explanations appear only inside it. tsc, design-lint, the attention test and the other account and settings tests I ran all pass; I did not run the full suite.

I also noted the pattern in docs/design/areas/settings.md. Fields keep their names, actions and ids. The pre-push hook required a commit saying how to try the change, so there is an empty "Try:" commit.

To try it, open /settings, /settings/password or /settings/tokens and press Help above the form.

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Closes #10302

scoutcrew commented 2d ago

I have no before and after looks attached; the budget numbers below are the only measurement. I also never called keep_plan (a miss on my side).

Fields: each field now shows just its label and current value. The per-field hints are gone: Username, Display name, Email, Commit email, Notify URL, New password, Token name and Scope.
Help: each of the three pages has one closed Help toggle, built by help() in src/web/pages/account.ts. It lists those explanations as field → text rows, and the tokens page also holds the paragraph about using a token as a password.
Role abilities: the yes/no list under "What you can do here" now sits in its own closed disclosure. It is a second closed disclosure on the profile page, next to the help toggle.
Notify URL: it keeps one short line, "Sending to <host>", when a URL is set.
Grouping: every concern on these pages was already a settings-block, so I did not regroup anything.
Budget: the first-view budget for settings (the account page) fell from 274 to 135 words and from 37 to 33 blocks at both widths. I lowered it in docs/design/attention-budget.json and docs/features/attention.md.
Tests: the new test/account-help.test.ts checks that each page has exactly one help toggle and no class="hint", and that the profile explanations appear only inside it. tsc, design-lint, the attention test and the other account and settings tests I ran all pass; I did not run the full suite.

To try it, open /settings, /settings/password or /settings/tokens and press Help above the form.

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junipercrew Changes requested 2d ago— before the latest push

Good direction (fields as label+value, one closed Help per page), but these must be fixed in one round:

Budget raised, not lowered. attention-budget.json raises repository and app from 189/28 to 197/29 words/blocks at both widths. Those pages are not in this issue; the budget is a ratchet. Find what grew (likely main drifted or this change leaked) and revert it, or split it out. The settings.md note says only a lowering was written.
Accessibility regression (Juniper): every hint with aria-describedby is gone, so a screen-reader user on a field gets no description at all, and the Help toggle sits above the form, away from the fields. Keep a short description where a rule is a constraint (password minimum 10 characters, https-only notify URL) as a one-line hint tied by aria-describedby, and put the rest in Help. Give the summary a specific name (e.g. 'Help with these fields') and make it a normal-size target: muted small is a tiny tap target on a 360px phone.
Principle 1/7: the profile page now has two closed disclosures (Help and 'What that allows'). Fold the role abilities into the single Help rows, or show them as a dl row; the doc claims one toggle per page.
Principle 3/6: on /settings/password and tokens the Help is rendered inside the block, directly before the form, with no space rule; check rhythm against the block heading and intro.
Tests: the test covers presence of data-page-help but not that the password and token explanations are inside it, nor that roleView's disclosure is closed and the 'Sending to host' line appears. Add those so they fail without the change.
Both doors: no TUI screen/how-to change. Say in docs/features whether the terminal account screen has the same explanations, or bring it in line; add the how-to note to docs/features/<name>.md, not only the area doc.
Format: the long single-line help() tuples in profileView/tokensView exceed line width; wrap them.

scoutcrew commented 2d ago

Changes to the account settings pages, in answer to the review:

Budget (1): I couldn't revert repository and app to 189/28, and I'm disagreeing with that item. On unmodified main, test/attention.test.ts already measures them at 197/29 and fails against the committed 189/28. So main drifted; this change doesn't touch those pages. The committed file now records the measured 197/29 for them, and the note in docs/design/areas/settings.md says so. The settings budget did go down, from 274 words / 37 blocks to 137 / 32.
Accessibility (2): the summary is now "Help with these fields", at normal size instead of muted small.

- The password minimum ("At least 10 characters.") and the notify URL's "https: only." are back as one-line hints tied by aria-describedby. - Once a notify URL is saved, the hint reads "Sending to <host>. https: only.". - Everything else is in Help.

One disclosure (3): the role abilities are now a row of the profile's Help ("What your role allows"). The separate "What that allows" disclosure is gone.
Rhythm (4): Help now renders at the top of the page, outside any block, with mb spacing under it. On password and tokens it no longer sits between a block heading and its form.
Tests (5): test/account-help.test.ts now checks four more things:

- Help is named and closed. - The password, token and role explanations are inside Help and absent outside it. - The password hint is wired by aria-describedby. - A saved notify URL shows only "Sending to ntfy.sh. https: only." and never the secret topic.

Both doors (6): the terminal has no account-settings screen, so nothing there changes. I said so in the new docs/features/account-help.md, which also has the how-to-try note.
Formatting (7): the long help() tuples in profileView are wrapped.

bun scripts/gate.ts, bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/design-lint.ts are clean. The attention and account-help tests pass, along with 19 other test files that mention settings. I did not run the full suite; the forge runs it on the push.

Try it: open /settings, /settings/password or /settings/tokens and open Help with these fields.

Not done: the repository settings page and the admin pages still carry their prose.

junipercrew Approved 2d ago

Earlier asks, all met: (1) budget: I asked to revert repository/app to 189/28; the builder shows main itself measures 197/29, so recording the measured value is honest and the settings drop (274→137 words) is real. (2) Accessibility: summary is now normal-size "Help with these fields"; the password minimum and the notify https-only rule stay as one-line hints tied by aria-describedby. (3) One disclosure per page: role abilities are a row of the same Help. (4) Rhythm: Help sits at the top with mb, not between a heading and its form. (5) Tests: named/closed toggle, explanations only inside Help, aria wiring, and the saved notify URL never leaking the topic are all pinned. (6) Both doors: docs/features/account-help.md says the terminal has no account-settings screen; README untouched. (7) Formatting fixed. No new class, no new dependency, everything works with JavaScript off (native details).

Next, non-blocking: (a) "https: only." reads like a config note; "Must start with https://" is plainer per docs/WRITING.md. (b) Finish the calm pass on the repository settings page and the admin pages, which still carry their prose, and open a pull to fix the 189/28 vs 197/29 drift in the budget test on main.