v4's arrangement, which is the one that reads as an editor: a zone head
holds what acts on THAT zone, so the app grows a bar of its own for what
acts on the app.
* The menu bar. Brand, View and Settings, and whether ComfyUI is still on
the other end. Only menus with something real in them exist -- an empty
File menu is a promise the app does not keep.
* The prompt is written in the CONSTRUCTOR, a window. v4 called this the
Composer; that name is taken here by the element kit, and two things
called Composer in one repo is one thing nobody can search for. It is
the longest thing a person writes and the least often read, and a
permanent third of the centre column is the room the timeline needs.
The host is built at startup and outlives every opening, so a window
that opens twice does not throw away what was typed.
* The timeline replaces it, and Generate moves into its head with what
the run is doing at the far end of the same head. No bar across the
bottom: one that spans the window belongs to no region.
Four faults found on the way, three of them mine and one much older:
* THE OVERLAY ROOT WAS A STACKING CONTEXT. It documents at length that it
must never be one -- and then set `position: fixed`, which makes one on
its own. So the whole z ladder was measured inside that single element:
an open menu at z 500 painted UNDER a button at z 1. Every overlay in
the app was one positive z-index away from being buried, and the only
reason nobody had seen it is that almost nothing claims a z-index. The
root is static and zero-sized now; every layer in it is fixed already.
* Generate's hover ran `filter: brightness()`, which lightens the LABEL
along with the fill under it -- the one thing that had to stay readable
lost contrast in both themes. Only the fill moves now, and which way it
moves depends on the theme: dark's accent carries near-black text so it
goes lighter, light's carries white so it goes darker. Measured: no
gradient stop under 4.1:1, hovered or at rest.
* A fixed-height head could not shrink below the width of everything in
it, and a head now holds a title, three controls and a status. That
min-content became the centre column's, so a 768px window laid out
878px wide and scrolled sideways. It wraps now, as v4's does.
* A CSS patch of mine silently did nothing because its anchor text had
moved and I had left the assertion off that one replacement. Every
patch asserts now.
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