Owner feedback 1: "give me the hover info to right click over the tile
button to adjust it". The only hint was the native title, which the
browser shows late, small and unstyled.
The Tiles button now has its own hover card, under it in the count
menu's panel style:
- "Tiles · N" with the remembered count (live: a pick in the menu
changes it while the card is up), "Click: open the grid" ("close the
grid" while it is open), "Right-click: choose 2, 4 or 6 tiles", and
when the count does not fit the window what opens instead ("This
window fits 4 tiles: a click opens 4"; open, what fits). Shown from
the keyboard it adds "Shift+F10: the same menu from the keyboard".
- Shows 300 ms after a pointer that hovers rests on the button, or after
a keyboard focus (:focus-visible); never for a touch pointer or a
device that cannot hover (plus a CSS @media (hover: none) backstop),
never on a hidden button, never while the count menu is open. A short
fade on opacity and transform, none under reduced motion; it takes no
pointer.
- Hides on pointer leave, blur, Escape, a scroll and a resize, and on a
press, a click or a right-click on the button (capture phase, so it is
gone before the menu or the grid opens, and it stays gone while the
pointer rests there). openTileCountMenu hides it too, and the focus
the menu's Escape puts back on the button brings no card back.
- It replaces the button's native title (two tooltips never stack); the
aria-label stays and aria-describedby points at the card, which always
exists and is kept current, its keyboard line included while hidden, so
screen readers hear the same text without a hover. Text is diffed
against the last English, as the rest of the grid chrome, so the zh-CN
translator is not fought on every refresh.
- zh-CN for every line (平铺 · N, 单击, 右键单击, Shift+F10, the fits
note); no other header button changes (its styles are .tile-hint only).
Tests: tile-grid-hint.test.ts (install and aria wiring, the delay, each
show and hide path, content per state and count, the menu rule, the
translator, the CSS); the count menu and i18n tests read the accessible
name instead of the removed title, and the i18n harvest covers the card
(F10 joins the key names that stay Latin). The vm harness gains
removeAttribute.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found live: closing the grid with a click starts the single view's
selection, which focuses its terminal when its replay lands, a few
hundred milliseconds later. A right-click on Tiles in between opened the
count menu with the keyboard in it, and the late focus then moved the
keyboard into the terminal while the menu stayed open (3 of 3 tries), so
the arrows, Enter or Escape meant for the menu went to the session's
PTY instead (an Escape arrived there as an ESC byte).
The menu now closes when the keyboard leaves it for another element, as
any menu does. A focus going nowhere (a click on a button in Safari,
which does not focus it) does not count, so a click on a count still
picks it. Live afterwards: the menu either closes as the terminal takes
the keyboard, or keeps it when the replay landed first; never open with
the keyboard elsewhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner answer: "paced connect: in". Measured on the checkpoint build: of
the 140 ms between the click on Tiles and its first frame, about 100 ms
was the six xterms being built inside the click, so nothing moved on
screen for that long and the entrance could not start.
openTileGrid now mounts every tile and lays the grid out as before, then
_connectTilesPaced builds one terminal per animation frame, the focused
tile's first, then reading order. The click paints its empty tiles in
about 20 ms and the entrance plays while the terminals are built. The
time until every tile has painted does not change: the load queue serves
one capture at a time, so only the focused tile's connect is on its path,
one frame later. Each tile still connects once, into its final cell (one
fit, one PTY resize).
- openTileGrid returns before the terminals exist, so a selection that
focuses a tile whose terminal is not built yet hands the keyboard over
in _connectTile (focusOnConnect), never when focus: false was asked,
and to the newly focused tile when focus moved meanwhile.
- _connectTile connects a tile once (entry.connected; a remount after
Attach resets it), so a re-form or a remount before a tile's turn is
never connected twice.
- A grid closed or opened again meanwhile stops the old run (a run
token), and asks for no further frames.
Tests: tile-grid-paced-connect.test.ts (the order, the final cells, the
keyboard, close and reopen, removed and remounted tiles); the tests that
read connect or the terminal's focus right after openTileGrid now run
the queued frames first (flushFrames in the vm harness), every
assertion kept.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner decision 10 ("give me then the option to choose only HOW many
tiles, 2,4,6 default is 6 so the menu is easier"; asked where it lives:
"Click opens 6"). The click still opens the grid at once; right-click,
Shift+F10 or the Menu key on the button opens a small menu of three
counts, each drawn as the grid's own layout (2x1, 2x2, 3x2), the
remembered one checked. It replaces the session picker, which is gone
(method, markup hook, CSS, zh-CN entries).
- A pick is remembered per device in codeman:tile-count (default 6;
codeman:tile-grid stays ids only) and opens that many tiles. The click
and Ctrl+Shift+G then open with it, at most what the window fits.
- Which sessions: the rule the click already had (the grid this tab
last had, else an open split's two, else tab order, the active one
included and focused), trimmed from the end (the focused one kept) or
filled from tab order to the count. A remembered grid comes back with
its tiles first, in their cells, holes filled first, then tab order
(owner answer, superseding decision 8's "exactly the stored set"). A
page-load restore still brings back exactly what was stored.
- With the grid open a pick re-forms it: a count change is a shape
change under the cell model's rule (reformTileCells), the focused tile
always kept, every joining tile mounted and laid out before any of
them connects, so each fits once and sends one PTY resize.
- Ctrl/Cmd+click on a tab with the grid closed opens the count in total,
that session among them and focused (owner answer: N, not N+1).
- A count the window cannot fit is greyed out with the reason; a
remembered one stays checked, the keyboard starts on the largest that
fits. Arrows, Home/End, Enter or Space; Escape closes the menu alone
(the global handler gives it the key first, like the tab-group menu)
and puts the keyboard back on the Tiles button; Tab and a click
elsewhere close it.
- zh-CN for every new string (N 个窗格, 窗格数量, the titles, the Help
modal row); the i18n test harvests the menu now, with a session named
"6 tiles" as the user-text trap.
Tests: tile-grid-picker.test.ts becomes tile-grid-count-menu.test.ts
(the button checks kept, every picker check carried over to the menu,
plus keyboard, remembered count, re-form, Ctrl/Cmd+click and the batch
connect); the open-set, cap, restore, shortcuts, split-coexistence and
i18n expectations follow the count; the Help modal test escapes its
label (the new one has parentheses). The vm harness tracks
document.activeElement and makes SVG elements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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