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This PR now also carries #540 (News tab and the player Guide in Help), which was stacked on it. Both land as one squash commit after one CI round. Part 1 is the original #537; part 2 is #540.

Part 1: Help page and design system

What changed

The launcher gets one Help page and one design system.

• Help replaces Known Issues and Feedback. It lists the open issues in ArenaNet's official client with what players can do now (⌘Q → Reload Guild Wars), explains how to tell a Mac issue from a client issue, and has a feedback form. Main sends the form to Basin and the page confirms only after Basin accepted it.
• Funding bar removed. src/shared/funding.json and the remote fetch are gone. Support is a quiet Ko-fi pill in the title bar on every page.
• Design system. style.css names every colour, radius, and type size once in :root; components use only those tokens and one button vocabulary (.primary, .secondary, .quiet, .small, .icon-button, .chip). Documented in DESIGN.md.
• Polish. No eyebrow labels. Nav labels stay visible at narrow widths. The title bar shows the gwonmac icon and name instead of the Reforged logo. News rows carry a source mark (Guild Wars helmet, gwonmac icon, event calendar).
• Dailies are real. src/shared/daily-activities.ts computes Zaishen, Shining Blade, Vanguard, and Nicholas Sandford rotations offline from Guild Wars Wiki anchors, with a 7-day table and a reset countdown. The placeholder contentAvailability flag is deleted.
• Ended events leave the news. The hero showed a finished event as "Upcoming event".
• Settings sidebar fix. An unscoped nav {} rule from the title bar laid out the Settings groups side by side.

Why

Pages used different title sizes, five button styles, ~76 distinct colours, and square and round corners side by side. Feedback, known issues, and funding were three surfaces for one job.

Invariant

• tests/policy/source-ui-system.test.ts: launcher shell colours come only from :root tokens, and every custom property it reads is defined. Both proven to fail on a probe.
• tests/unit/launcher-news.test.ts: an event disappears once endsAt has passed (fails without the fix).
• tests/unit/daily-activities.test.ts: rotations match the Wiki for today and 2026-11-23; moving one anchor by a day fails 4 of 5 tests.
• tests/unit/launcher-feedback.test.ts and HelpView.test.ts: a report is confirmed only after it was sent, and the text survives a failed send.

Delivery

Target main. Ships with the next Beta. Installed apps that still fetch funding.json fall back to their bundled figures when the file is gone, so they keep working; they just stop updating the amount.

Verification

• pnpm run check passed (unit, policy, tools 283, launcher 90).
• Browser preview of the launcher renderer at 1280×800, 1100×720, 800×600 (window minimum), and 420 px, with the production, update, failed, and offline fixtures; Settings, the article modal, and the Help form.
• Basin test submission returned HTTP 200.
• Not checked in a packaged app or with a live game session.

Part 2: News tab and Guide (from #540)

What changed

• News tab. Every story opens as a full page in the launcher. The news modal is deleted. Home shows the five newest stories with an "All news" link.

• Guild Wars Wiki updates load the page source of the five newest Feedback:Game updates/ pages in one request and convert it to Markdown. Before, the API returned full text for only one page per request, so most wiki stories had no body.

• What's new. The release post whose launcherId matches the installed version is bundled. It opens once in News after an update, but not on a new install.

• Help is for players who already have the app. The sidebar has two groups:

  • Get help: Known issues, Troubleshooting, Report a problem.
  • Features: Accounts and launcher, Hub and Switch Character, Travel and maps, Chat and trade, Inventory, Timers and readouts, Build templates, Appearance, Performance, Game files and updates.

  The pages are the website's Markdown, bundled at build time, so they match this version and work offline. The install and comparison pages stay on the website.

• Guide links open a Settings control (settings:<section>/<control>, checked against the settings catalogue), another Guide page, or one of a short list of allowed websites through the new externalOpenUrl IPC.

• Media placeholders. ::media-placeholder{type="image|video"} blocks mark the screenshots and videos still to make. They render as dashed boxes in the launcher and on the website.

• Reading styles for Guide pages and articles: lines stop at about 75 characters, emphasis is semibold, link underlines are quieter, and key chips are smaller. Troubleshooting now uses one symptom heading per problem, and each fix starts with the action.

• 2026.11.0 release notes (draft: true, so hidden on the website and skipped by the news generator until release). They list what changes for Stable users: ⌘R opens the Hub, Xunlai moved to ⌘S, one Settings page, and templates moved to the Build Library.

Why

Many players will move from Stable 2026.8.12 to the new launcher. They need to read what changed and how each feature works inside the app. A modal was the wrong place for long text, and the old Help pointed at an install guide they no longer need.

This change deletes NewsArticle.vue and the hand-written known-issues list in HelpView.vue. The website's 7.known-issues.md is now the only source for that list. News and the Guide share one Markdown subset parser (src/shared/launcher-markdown.ts).

Invariant

• No address in news or the Guide is trusted. Every link goes through a resolver and becomes an opaque action ID: a main-process news-link-* ID, or guide:, settings: or url: with the origin allowlist re-checked in main by parseLauncherGuideUrl.
• guide.test.ts fails if any Guide page is missing, or if any of its links or images does not resolve.

Delivery

Folded in from #540. Recommend shipping with 2026.11.0 (Beta, then Stable). Before Stable, remove draft: true from 13.gwonmac-2026-11-0.md.

5.templates.md and the release notes describe Template files in the Build Library. That feature is in #541, which should land in the same release.

Verification

• pnpm run check passed. After the last change, which only touched reading styles and Troubleshooting copy, the launcher vitest suite (93) and tests/policy/source-ui-system.test.ts passed again.
• Regression tests that fail without their fix:
  • The wiki body is parsed from page source.
  • A feed copy of the release notes opens its own links, not Guide links. This bug was found while testing this branch.
• Browser check of the launcher preview at 1280×800 and 800×600:
  • the Help groups and feature pages, placeholders, and a Settings link;
  • the News list and reader, and a wiki article with "Open on Guild Wars Wiki".
• The eight feature pages were checked against the code. All 83 settings: links resolve, and claims found only in older docs were dropped.
• Not checked: the website rendering of MediaPlaceholder and ProseA. No live game QA.

Fold check

• Main (with docs(news): backfill Stable release notes in one changelog format #538's release-notes backfill) merged in without conflicts. check:links, the launcher vitest suite (93, including guide.test.ts) and typecheck passed on the merged tree.

• I kept this pull request focused.

• I ran the relevant checks.

• I did not add game binaries, credentials, diagnostics, or private traffic.

• I updated documentation when behavior or an invariant changed.

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