ui-sidebar shell landed on master (#643: geometry-only shell, the
browsing region moved to the sidebar.workspaces slot); this branch's
sidebar.settings foot seat re-applies on top — the hardcoded foot row
becomes the seat, the seat rides the railIn crossfade, and the shell
spec's renderSlot stub key-splits region vs settings.
The shell is now a pure composition face: no dictionaries, no locale
dependency, and three new chrome content seats (settings.trigger /
settings.header / settings.close) whose slot content also carries the
accessible names (trigger text, dialog aria-labelledby, visually hidden
close label). ui-settings-general returns as the owner of copy that
belongs to no single feature: chrome content, the General section with
its item slot, and the settings dictionaries. Slot types split homes —
trigger/header/close/section live in the shell contract; the
settings.general.item entry moves to the locale package (the common
dependency of every item registrant), with ui-theme consuming it
through a re-export seam; the verbatim duplicate merges are gone and
the dependency graph is a clean DAG.
deferRegistration() stays the shipped form; the note pins the follow-up
direction (bridge declarations into slot:<name> services, migrate
registrants to nested ctx.inject, delete the helper) and the boundaries
a separate PR must settle.
The five settings-surface registrants carried near-identical
spec-check/ledger-judge/subscribe scaffolding (three jscpd clones);
ui-slots now owns deferRegistration() — ledger-judged presence, refresh
for registrant-localized labels, one-call disposal — and every
registrant shrinks to its registration body.
The ui-layout apply bench provides a real LocaleService before the
theme plugin boots (ui-theme now injects slots/locale to register its
Appearance row); drop locale's unused clsx dependency.
Locale and ui-theme apply coverage on a real Context + SlotCore:
dictionary assembly, declaration-aware registration both ways,
inject-time getter re-sync, service write-back through the event flow,
HMR collapse recovery, and teardown reclamation. Four settings-surface
packages sit at full per-file coverage.
Generated docs follow the ui-models rename and the removed
ui-settings-general package; the English note side picks up the
feature-owner self-registration doctrine.
Settings collaboration direction (recorded in the note): the shell only
provides composition faces — feature plugins register themselves. The
General section moves into the ui-settings shell (order 0, skeleton
rows) and declares the settings.general.item list slot; locale registers
the Language row and ui-theme the Appearance row (each with its own
store mirror, dictionaries, and ledger-judged deferral); the
ui-settings-general package is gone. ui-settings-models becomes
ui-models — a feature package that contributes its Settings section
rather than a settings-owned satellite. The item-slot SlotMap entry is
authored in the ui-settings contract and repeated verbatim in
locale/ui-theme (reference-cycle avoidance; declaration merging keeps
the copies identical).
The hero composer renders the frontend Session Intent's retained prompt
from the sessions list snapshot, but updateIntent only reached that
snapshot through the intent watch's microtask-deferred markDirty. React
therefore rolled the controlled textarea back during the change tick,
which corrupted IME composition (Pinyin "nihao" committed fragments
like "nnini hni hani hao你好") and jumped the caret on plain typing.
SessionManager.updateIntent now calls notifyNow after
updatePendingPrompt, per the Notifier channel rule for direct echoes of
user gestures. The workspace-flow snapshot helper asserts the same-tick
echo instead of waiting for it, and a runtime unit test pins the
contract at the manager seam.
