Owner's first review of the combo rework (2026-08-09): remove the face padding, make the
field taller and narrower at about a 4:5 width:height ratio, and center the symbol glyph in
its face. All three land in ComboFieldMetrics, so ColorComboControl and SymbolComboControl
stay the identical shape they were built to share.
- ComboFieldMetrics grows a width figure (height * widthToHeightRatio, 0.8), replacing
NSView.noIntrinsicMetric — every combo now carries its own taller, narrower intrinsic size
instead of stretching to whatever a caller's frame proposed.
- facePaddingH/facePaddingV/glyphPadding are gone; a face fills its zone edge to edge.
glyphPointSize is now whichever of the face's own width/height is smaller, with nothing
subtracted for padding that no longer exists.
- SymbolComboControl.drawFace centers the glyph on both axes — it only ever centered
vertically before, despite its own doc comment claiming otherwise.
- ComboFieldControl.drawTrigger bounds its chevron square by the smaller of the trigger
strip's own width/height, not height alone, since the strip is no longer close to square
once the field is much taller than it is wide.
- CardSidebarSections drops the sidebar's old '* 0.55' fixed-width frame on both combo rows;
each control now sizes itself, and both anchors (card sidebar, board popover) compose the
narrower field with no other changes needed.
- ComboFieldMetricsTests updated for the new figures, plus a ratio-holds-at-every-size test
and a rewritten glyph-fit test matching the no-padding rule.
Verification: xcodebuild build succeeded; xcodebuild test -only-testing:KanbanTests — 3220
tests in 559 suites, 3 failures, all PointerLatencyTests (documented locked-screen
environmental mode, confirmed unrelated by isolated rerun). Pixel verification unexercised —
same locked-screen constraint the first pass hit.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
The colour combo was a wide two-zone field with a second door onto the Colors
panel; the symbol picker was a small square button with one. Both now subclass
one `ComboFieldControl`, so they are the same width, height, radius and trigger
by construction: click the face for the standalone picker, click the chevron for
the quick list. The symbol face opens a new floating browser over the OS's own
category, ordering and keyword plists out of CoreGlyphs.bundle — searchable,
categorised, trademark-restricted glyphs withheld.
The palette grows twelve to sixteen per table, filling the hue ring's four
widest gaps with lime, jade, indigo and magenta at each table's own saturation
and brightness. That gives the Style… popover's background grid a third row and
the tint grid its third row of four, and both grids gain an Other… row onto the
system colour picker — which the card sidebar's combo has had all along and the
primary styling surface never did. An arbitrary hex already round-tripped; it is
asserted now, including that an unquoted one is a YAML comment and no value.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
The swatch's padding goes asymmetric and user-tuned — a wider berth at the
sides than above and below, out of the swatch rather than the control's
size — so the colour reads as a bar in the field instead of wall-to-wall.
The field's fill moves to controlColor, the push-button neutral grey, whose
ring stayed legible where controlBackgroundColor's near-black dark-mode
reading drowned it; and the trigger square keeps its own two-point inset,
decoupled from the swatch's padding so the indicator stays a legible
square through any padding tweak the swatch takes.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Four rulings close Redesign Contradiction 3452893f (2026-08-06): the in-app
escape hatch is ratified in full, reversing 2026-07-29's palette-only rule —
the combo's Other… opens the system Colors panel, a pick landing on a palette
color stores the name, anything else the hex. Free-picked colors change no
contrast story: they land on the same runtime ink computation hand-written hex
always got (10 amended to say so; no warning surface is owed). Anchor
ownership: the card sidebar's background story is the combo alone — the well
grid's background half stays with the other anchors (StyleEditorView gains
showsBackground beside showsSymbols; the popover's symbol half already went to
its inline SymbolPicker). Quick-style recents stay palette-vocabulary — a
panel pick never enters them.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
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