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Split from #2965 (2 of 3). Stacked on the UI.7 PR: until that merges, this PR also shows its commit; review only the UI.6 commit. A panel group dragged onto a dock group's tabs joins it; onto its upper or lower half it makes a new group above or below; onto the icon column its panels become icons. Dock tabs close from their context menu. Agents: window.panel.dock {anchor, zone, before} and {icon: true}; column is refused with either.

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Headless egui tests in panel_docking_tests.rs and floating.rs cover the drops, the refusals and the result shape.

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  • New Features

    • Dock panels into tabs, top/bottom splits, dock groups, or the icon column.
    • Drag previews and highlighting reflect available docking targets.
    • Workspace layout changes persist across switches and restarts until reset.
    • Close docked tabs from their context menu.
    • Workspace operations preserve remembered layouts more reliably.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery and validation of saved workspace and docking preferences.
    • Invalid docking data is removed without discarding the associated workspace.
    • Improved handling of unsupported icon-column panels and invalid docking combinations.

gorkematlyn and others added 2 commits October 20, 2026 20:04
A workspace remembers the changes made in it: switching away keeps them
(UiState::workspace_changes, kept with the preferences), switching back
restores them, and Reset <name> returns to the saved layout. Saving a
workspace starts it with no changes; renaming keeps them, deleting drops
them, and deleting the current workspace shows Essentials as it was
left. Saved preferences recover a damaged remembered layout instead of
losing the whole file.

Split from storytold#2965 as a reviewer asked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A panel group dragged onto a dock group's tab strip joins it as tabs;
onto its upper or lower half it makes a new group above or below it (a
resizable top/bottom split); onto the icon column its panels become
icons, the tabbed group's panels too (library panels, which the column
can't show, stay in the dock). Before, a group dropped on the dock
always went back to its icon. A dock tab's context menu has Close Panel
in the legacy dock as well; the Window menu reopens it. Agents get the
same through window.panel.dock {anchor, zone, before} and
window.panel.dock {icon: true}; `column` is refused with either, and
those paths answer with the shared layout ({panel, floating, layout}).
The shared icon column's icons carry an accessible label.

Split from storytold#2965 as a reviewer asked; goes on top of UI.7.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Panel docking now supports tab, split, and icon-column destinations. Workspace layout changes are remembered across switches and restarts, with reset restoring the saved layout. Preference recovery sanitizes remembered workspace docking metadata.

Changes: Panel docking and workspace layouts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dock targets and drag-and-drop
crates/ui-egui/src/floating.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dock.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/panel_docking.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/state.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/panel_docking_tests.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs, docs/*
Dock drops can join a tab group, create a top or bottom split, or place eligible panels in the icon column. The icon rail includes eligible dock tabs, and closable tabs expose a context-menu action. Tests cover drop behavior, validation, and panel restoration.
Workspace layout persistence
crates/ui-egui/src/state.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/workspaces.rs, apps/vectorcraft/src/main.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs, docs/*
Workspace layout changes are saved per workspace and restored when switching back. Reset, save, delete, and rename operations update remembered layouts. Preference recovery removes invalid docking metadata while retaining remembered workspace data.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant PanelDocking
  participant Floating
  participant DockCommand as "window.panel.dock"
  participant SharedDock
  User->>PanelDocking: Drag a panel to a dock target
  PanelDocking->>Floating: Resolve tab, split, or icon-column destination
  Floating->>DockCommand: Submit docking operation
  DockCommand->>SharedDock: Apply layout change
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The PR is mergeable with a documentation follow-up: the parity tables still disagree about unused Preferences options.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 79d65

The inspected changes remain focused on panel placement and remembered layouts, with validation and recovery controls around state changes. No security-boundary bypass was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns malformed saved preferences and failure handling, rather than demonstrated access to additional data or privileges.

Retained concerns
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated effects are within the current application's layout state and existing preference file. The inspected new destinations do not establish additional filesystem authority, cross-user access, or a new service boundary; broader control-channel security was not exhaustively reassessed.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Caller-supplied docking actions are checked against registered panel identifiers and bounded split paths. Existing layouts must pass structural and identifier validation, and icon-column promotion is restricted to recognized rail panels rather than arbitrary supplied identifiers.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Recovery now removes unreadable nested docking metadata from remembered workspace objects. Wrong collection shapes or non-object entries still fail whole-preference decoding and can leave defaults to be saved later. Whole-preference fallback predates this PR for other malformed fields; the new collection extends that failure mode, without an established security-sensitive consequence.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider isolating malformed optional workspace collections during preference recovery and preserving the original file when complete decoding fails, so layout corruption cannot discard unrelated settings.
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- Around line 190-192: Update the workspace change retention logic in remember
so capacity is enforced before pushing the new capture: when workspace_changes
has 64 or more entries, remove the required excess entries from the front, then
push w and preserve it as the newest remembered layout.

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- Around line 352-353: Make the duplicated UI chrome rows use the same
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| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes, the canvas context menu and docking panels into any dock group by dragging (as tabs, a top/bottom split or icons) are done; remaining: SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window, context menus beyond the canvas, about 13 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |
| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes, the canvas context menu and docking panels into any dock group by dragging (as tabs, a top/bottom split or icons) are done; remaining: SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window, context menus beyond the canvas, about 14 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the two edited UI chrome rows agree on the unused Preferences count.

The PR edited both duplicated "UI chrome" rows with the same docking text, but the rows now give different counts. Line 352 says "about 13 Preferences options" and drops "Highlight Alternate Glyphs". Line 353 still says "about 14" and lists it. The area table at line 96 and docs/ui-parity.md line 238 both still say "~16". This change does not establish that any Preferences option started to work. If no option did, keep the previous count in both rows. If one option did, update every row to the same number and name the evidence.

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gorkematlyn and others added 2 commits October 20, 2026 22:28
remember() pushed the layout being left and then truncated the list to
64, so with 64 workspaces already remembered it dropped the entry it
had just pushed and the changes were lost. Drop the oldest entries
instead; a test fills the list and checks the last one left survives.

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