yoi/.yoi/tickets/closed/20260606-060548-workspace-panel-layout-display-tuning/thread.md

Created

Created by LocalTicketBackend create.

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Plan

Created after closing the first-pass workspace orchestration panel implementation.

The first pass deliberately prioritized end-to-end behavior over visual/layout polish. This ticket owns the next tuning pass: row labels, key hints, detail pane content, composer target visibility, concise diagnostics, and optional phase/dependency/timeline display, while preserving existing TUI conventions and the thin ViewModel/action-dispatch boundaries.

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Decision

User layout direction:

Rows should be column-aligned instead of leading with long identifiers/titles.

• Ticket/action rows: move the long Ticket title to the end. Put short, alignable fields first, such as priority/action/status/phase/id-or-slug, then the title.
• Pod rows: move variable-length Pod id/name to the end. Put short, alignable fields first, such as status/action/role-or-kind, then the Pod id/name.
• Ticket and Pod rows do not need to share exactly the same schema, but each row family should keep stable aligned columns so status/action can be visually scanned.

This should be handled in the layout/display tuning ticket, not by changing backend/action semantics.

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Plan

Preflight result: implementation-ready as a focused layout/display pass.

Implementation should rework panel row rendering into aligned columns with short comparable fields first and long variable text last:

• Ticket/action rows: move Ticket title to the end; align priority/action/status/phase/id-or-slug first.
• Pod rows: move Pod id/name to the end; align status/action/kind first.

This should not change Ticket backend semantics, action dispatch, Orchestrator lifecycle, Intake handoff, no-Ticket behavior, or the thin ViewModel boundary.

Detailed delegation intent is recorded in artifacts/delegation-intent.md.

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Review: approve

External reviewer approved the implementation with no requested changes.

Review summary:

• Ticket/action rows use stable fixed-width columns first and place the variable Ticket title last.
• Pod rows use stable fixed-width columns first and place the variable Pod name/id last.
• Long titles/names truncate after stable columns and do not shift status/action alignment.
• Color/style semantics are preserved closely.
• Changes are scoped to rendering/helpers/tests; no Ticket action dispatch, Intake launch, Orchestrator lifecycle, Pod open/direct-send, composer target, authority, or I/O semantics changed.
• No --multi route was reintroduced.
• Tests cover row rendering, alignment, and truncation.

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Closed

Implemented workspace panel aligned row layout.

Final Ticket/action row schema:

<marker><priority> <action> <status> <phase> <slug-or-id> <title>

Column behavior:

• marker: width 2;
• priority: width 11;
• action: width 7;
• status: width 24;
• phase: width 12;
• slug-or-id: width 32;
• title: flexible remaining width.

Fixed columns are padded/truncated before the title. The long Ticket title is last and truncates with … when needed.

Final Pod row schema:

<marker><status> <action> <kind> <pod-name>

Column behavior:

• marker: width 2;
• status: width 18;
• action: width 8;
• kind: width 3, currently pod;
• pod name: flexible remaining width.

Fixed Pod columns are padded/truncated before the Pod name. Long Pod names no longer shift status/action alignment.

Tests added/updated:

• panel_ticket_rows_use_aligned_columns_before_title
• panel_ticket_title_truncates_after_stable_columns
• panel_pod_rows_use_aligned_columns_before_pod_name
• panel_pod_name_truncates_after_status_action_and_kind
• adjusted action-before-pod ordering test to locate Ticket rows by slug because title is no longer the leading field.

Validation after merge:

• cargo test -p tui panel_
• cargo test -p tui workspace_panel
• cargo test -p tui multi_pod
• cargo test -p yoi panel
• cargo check --workspace --all-targets
• cargo fmt --check
• git diff --check HEAD~1..HEAD
• cargo build -p yoi
• target/debug/yoi ticket doctor
• nix build .#yoi --no-link --print-out-paths

External review approved with no requested changes.

Remaining UX/display tuning:

• Broader detail-pane/timeline/copy tuning remains optional follow-up; this ticket intentionally stayed focused on aligned row columns.

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