docs: record the page-header actions rule, and complete plan 018
The `page-header` paragraph already stated "the header asks for a sort, it does not perform one"; actions now follow the same division and it belongs beside it — the header decides what fits, the host decides what happens. Plan 018 moves to completed/ because #69 was the last thing it owed: its size matrix promised "no action is ever unreachable at any supported size" and the residual 114/162px clip was that promise outstanding. Its recap also corrects a claim the plan made — the queue and the actions were not the only two things competing for the header's width, since every child of that flex row was flex-shrink: 0 and the actions come last.
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**Issue:** #24 (`Area/Shell-Nav`, `Priority/High`, `Reviewed/Confirmed`)
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**Unblocks:** #55 (queue as a screen) — a real Gitea dependency
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**Relates:** #69 (page-header overflow), #12 (mini-player), #51 (small-screen umbrella)
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**Status:** in flight
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**Status:** complete — #24 shipped as PR #132, and the matrix's last
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unkept promise closed with #69.
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#73 puts this first in Phase 2 and hangs the rest of the phase off it,
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so the decision has to be written down and arguable before any CSS
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@@ -269,6 +270,38 @@ leaving the navigation live means the scrim reads as "this is over the
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content" (which is what #24 asked for) without pretending the rest of
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the app is unavailable.
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## What #69 did with the promise, and one thing this plan got wrong
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#69 landed on its own branch as decision 3 said it would, and the
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matrix's *no action is ever unreachable at any supported size* is now
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kept rather than promised. Measured on Playlists, actions clipped:
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| viewport | before #24 | after #24 | after #69 |
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| 900×600, queue open | all three | one (114/162px) | none |
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| 900×600, queue closed | one | one | none |
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| 800×600, queue closed | one (158/162px) | one | none |
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| 390×780 | all three | all three | none |
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| 320×600 | all three | all three | none |
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The shape was the one decision 3 predicted — an actions API first, an
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overflow rule second — and all three hosts that slot actions migrated.
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**What this document got wrong is smaller and worth keeping.** Decision
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1 says the header's minimum is a *comfort* floor and that only the
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queue and the actions compete for the header's width. They are not the
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only two: every child of that flex row was `flex-shrink: 0`, so
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whatever came last lost, and the actions come last. At 320px the sort
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control alone is 172px of the header — so with every action already
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collapsed into the menu, the *menu button* was 76px off the right edge.
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The promise was still broken with nothing left to collapse.
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That is why #69 also had to decide what gives way: the title (which the
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navigation also states) and, below 600px, the word "Sort:" (which the
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direction arrow implies). Neither is an action, which is the rule the
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matrix actually encodes — **an action is a capability and everything
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else on that row is a label.**
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## Verification, and what each tier cannot see
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- `make ui-test` — the queue panel's mode logic is component-tier
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@@ -1980,6 +1980,79 @@ that corrects itself a moment later is worse than saying nothing. And
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the field, the direction and their persistence, so the control cannot
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disagree with the list.
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**And an action is data, on that same rule: the header decides what
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fits, the host decides what happens.** Playlists slotted three buttons
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totalling 390px into a header that gets 700px at 900×600, so "New Smart
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Playlist" rendered **114 of its 162px** with the queue closed — and on a
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phone none of them could be reached at all, which is what #69 reported.
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A host passes `PageAction[]` (`{id, label, icon, onSelect, priority,
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drop?}`) and `page-header` renders each one as a button or as an item in
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one "More actions" menu.
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**It could not have been a rule added in one place**, and that is a fact
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about the API rather than an effort estimate: actions used to arrive
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through `<slot name="actions">` as arbitrary light-DOM markup, and a
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component cannot move another component's light-DOM children into a
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dropdown and keep their behaviour — there is nothing generic in markup
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to render as a menu item. The slot survives for markup a data list
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cannot express, at the stated cost that **a slotted action does not
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collapse** and must therefore fit at 800×600.
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Six things about it are load-bearing:
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- **The fit is measured, never breakpointed.** A ResizeObserver drives
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it, and each pass starts from *all visible* and hides the
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lowest-priority action until it fits — so the collapsed set is a pure
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function of the current width rather than of how the window got
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there. A rule that only ever added to the set would never give a
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button back, and one that adjusted by a step would need a hysteresis
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band to stop it oscillating on the pixel where a button exactly fits.
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- **"Fits" means nothing is clipped, which is not the same as the
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header not overflowing.** The title can ellipsis, and the moment it
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can it absorbs the pressure: `scrollWidth` reports a header that fits
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perfectly while the heading reads "Playlis…". That is this bug moved
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from the button to the title, invisible to the same measurement that
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missed it the first time — so the heading's own truncation counts as
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not fitting, and an action is collapsed before the title gives way.
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Below that, at 320px, the title *is* what yields: the navigation also
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says which page you are on, and an action has nowhere else to be said.
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- **The measurement flips `hidden` on the rendered nodes rather than
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re-rendering between steps.** Reading `scrollWidth` forces layout,
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which is the point; awaiting a Lit update between steps instead lets
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the intermediate all-visible state paint, so the fix would flash the
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overflow it exists to prevent.
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- **Priority is what a *capability* costs, not what a button is worth.**
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New Playlist is highest because it is the **drop target** and a closed
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menu cannot be one; that is also why `PageAction.drop` carries the
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host's own `dragover`/`dragleave`/`drop` handlers rather than the
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header owning a notion of dropping, and why the affordance is simply
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absent from the overflow rather than approximated there.
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- **`aria-controls` names a panel that is always in the DOM** —
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`config-section`'s rule, and `wa-popup` hides it when inactive — and
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the keyboard model is `MenuKeyboard`, shared with every other menu in
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the app so this is not a second one.
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- **It is checked per button, because `layout-overflow.spec.ts` cannot
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see this.** That spec asserts the *shell* needs no sideways
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scrolling and passed on the broken build; clipping *inside* a
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component is invisible to it, which is exactly why the defect
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survived a spec named for it.
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`e2e/specs/header-action-overflow.spec.ts` measures each button
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against its header at 900×600, 800×600, 390×780 and 320×600, and
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asserts buttons **plus** menu account for every declared action —
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without that half it would pass vacuously on a build that renders no
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actions at all.
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One thing it deliberately does **not** grow is a phone mode for the
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actions. `PHONE_COLUMN_IDS` is the precedent for "what is drawn and
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what can be sorted are different questions", but it exists because the
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track list's columns cannot be derived from a width; these can, and a
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second declaration of what a phone shows is a second thing to keep in
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step. What the header *does* state at phone width is one word: below
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600px the sort control's "Sort:" label is visually hidden — 172px of a
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320px header for a label the adjacent direction arrow implies — and it
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stays in the accessibility tree, because it is the select's accessible
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name and hiding it outright is `config-field`'s bug one component over.
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**The header search box is view-scoped, and now says so.** It sits in
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the app header and reads as global; typing `tide` on Playlists answered
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"No playlists match your search" with three *Tideline* tracks in the
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