Carries out the "GUI review — custom layouts and composition" roadmap item and
records the result in docs/GUI-LAYOUT-REVIEW.md. Composition only; no code was
changed. Every number was measured with a throwaway headless Fyne probe at text
size 14 and 20, not estimated.
Headline finding: the Settings tab sets a minimum content width of 1165.5 px for
a typical install — wider than the 1024x660 window run.go asks for — so Fyne
silently widens the window on open and the user cannot drag it narrower. It also
grows with the length of the config-file path (1501 px for a 75-character one).
Two independent causes: the seven settingsControlWidth wrappers, which measure
identically to bare controls at every reachable width and only inflate MinSize,
and the Config JSON path label, the one value label in the tab without
truncation. Fixing both takes the floor to 993.3.
Also found: compactVBoxLayout is a byte-for-byte re-implementation of stock
layout.NewCustomPaddedVBoxLayout (identical geometry at every spacing tested);
minJobsSidebarWidth (400) never binds because the toolbar row already needs 448;
the negative row spacings are theme.InnerPadding() written as a magic number;
the History column widths truncate their own content on a scaled UI; and the
History table re-sorts its whole event slice once per cell — 126 sorts of a
300-element copy for one redraw.
Fifteen findings in all, each with a disposition (single fix or roadmap) and a
suggested order. fixedHeightLayout, which the roadmap singled out, is kept: no
stock layout forces an exact height, and the alternative depends on the parent
staying a Border.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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