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Prompt for unsaved documents on window close and application/menu quit. Defer discarding documents until all approvals are current, retaining every tab when a later decision cancels quitting. Refs #544. Cancelable macOS Dock Quit remains separate. Co-authored-by: aiongg <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: skylar taylor-barrick <[email protected]>
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UI and interaction parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-10 · Change: minor (stage re-normalized to pre-alpha by the core-workflow gate; earlier today: major, first version) · Target: Adobe InDesign 2026 (21.6, Medium Dark, macOS)
Tools, handles, snapping, nudging, modifiers, shortcuts, panels, menus, context menus and feel,
against InDesign 2026. The look was measured from the running app
(plan/indesign/11-observed-ui.md, local); behaviour from plan/indesign/02-ui-ux.md,
05-tools.md, 06-panels.md, 07-dialogs.md and 09-shortcuts.md, and from user reports.
Overall numbers: target-app-parity.md.
Dimension score: ~45% ready (estimated), 120–180 h. The chrome looks like InDesign; the basics of editing fail for too many users on Windows and Linux.
Measured
| What | Value | How |
|---|---|---|
| InDesign 21.6 menu items matched (in scope) | 331 / 482 (69%) | script over the running app's menu dump; see target-app-parity.md |
| Menu bar | 9 menus, 49 submenus, 340 items | MENUS in crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs |
| Commands | 446 engine (188 in menus) + 99 UI | crates/engine/src/cmd/*, UI_COMMANDS |
| Theme colours | measured hex values of Medium Dark, 4 brightness themes + High Contrast | theme::Tokens vs 11-observed-ui.md §1 |
Checklist
✓ like InDesign · ~ present, differs or unreliable · ✗ missing.
| Area | InDesign 2026 | DesignCraft | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome: app bar, Control panel, Tools panel, dock, doc tabs, status bar | Medium Dark, measured sizes | measured look | ✓ | 11-observed-ui.md |
| Properties panel and Contextual Task Bar | per selection | ✓, task bar movable (#143) | ✓ | |
| Selection tool: click, marquee, move, Alt-duplicate, resize handles, rotate from corners | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Direct Selection, Pen family, Pencil, Scissors | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | moving reference point "0" fails (#337) |
| Live corners (yellow handle) | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | not working for some users (#186) |
| Content grabber, frame fitting by double-click | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Smart guides, snapping to guides/grid/baseline | ✓ | ✓ (2,049-line snap.rs) |
~ | vertical smart spacing between two rectangles (#188) |
| Nudging with arrows, Shift ×10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gridify while drawing, Gap tool, Live Distribute | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Type tool: caret, selection, double/triple click, drag-and-drop text | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | formatting at a caret discarded (#289); text editing complaints (#23, #174) |
| Threading: click out port, load text cursor, click frame | ✓ | ✗ ports drawn only; no thread/unthread command; Primary Text Frame and autoflow on Place | ✗ | alpha blocker (#352, #194, #165, #140) |
| Copy / cut / paste objects and text, Paste Into / in Place | ✓ | ✓ on macOS | ~ | failing on Windows/Linux (#351, #348, #312, #185, #164, #201, #212) |
| Context menus (canvas, panels, rulers) | ✓ everywhere | 9 context-menu sites, ruler units by right-click | ~ | not opening for several users (#238, #187, #160) |
| IME text input on the canvas | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | #322 |
| Font menu: search, preview, favourites, type-ahead | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | search field focus on macOS (#335, #86) |
| Keyboard shortcuts: InDesign defaults, editor, sets | ✓ | ✓ editor; defaults from 09-shortcuts.md | ✓ | |
| Quick Apply | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Numeric fields: units, arithmetic, scrubbing | ✓ | 21 pt spinner fields with arithmetic | ✓ | |
| Colour fields: hex, picker from any swatch field | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | hex entry and picker issues (#323, #190) |
| Panels: Pages, Layers, Swatches, Color, Stroke, Character, Paragraph, Styles, Links, Effects, Text Wrap, Align, Pathfinder, Table, Index, TOC, Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, Articles, Tags, Notes, Track Changes, Object States, Buttons and Forms, Preflight, Data Merge, Library, Scripts, Glyphs, Info | ✓ | all present | ~ | Tabs panel missing (#326); Navigator, Trap Presets, Animation, Timing missing; pull-down panels can't scroll on Linux (#267) |
| Dialogs: New Document, Document Setup, Preferences (all pages), Paragraph/Character/Object/Table/Cell Style Options, Export PDF, Print, Package, Find/Change | ✓ | present | ~ | generated command dialogs fill the long tail; depth varies |
| Workspaces | Essentials, Advanced, Book, Digital Publishing, Interactive for PDF, Printing and Proofing, Typography, Touch | ✓ named workspaces + custom | ~ | tab bar overlaps menus in Book/Advanced (#182) |
| Story Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | style-name column, depth ruler missing |
| Undo granularity (a drag = one step) | ✓ | ✓ (Begin/Preview/Commit) | ✓ | |
| Closing with unsaved changes asks | ✓ | ✓ File › Close and window/menu quit (#146, #545) | ✓ | macOS Dock Quit still bypasses the prompt (#544) |
| UI scaling, System appearance | ✓ | scaling ✓ (#281); follows macOS light/dark ✗ (#237) | ~ | |
| Window controls, full screen | ✓ | ~ | ~ | misaligned on macOS (#333) |
Counted 2026-10-10: 27 rows, 11 ✓, 14 ~, 2 ✗ → 67% presence, scoring ✓ = 1, ~ = 0.5. Ready for real work is lower, ~45%, because threading is missing and three of the ~ rows (copy/paste, context menus, typing at a caret) are things a layout artist does every minute, and their failures stop work.
Remaining effort
| Work | Opus 5.5 h |
|---|---|
| Copy/paste, context menus, threading clicks, caret formatting on every platform, with control-channel regression tests | 30–50 |
| Canvas IME (port from VectorCraft) | 10–20 |
| Missing menu items (~150) and panels (Tabs, Navigator, Trap Presets) | 40–70 |
| Handle/tool feel fixes (#186, #188, #337), font search focus | 10–20 |
| Dialog depth pass against 07-dialogs.md | 30–40 |
| Total | 120–180 (overlaps gaps 1, 8, 16) |
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Threading row corrected to ✗ after checking the code (no out-port interaction, no thread command) |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: measured menu coverage, 27-row interaction checklist from the code and issues |