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Summary

  • Give each browser window a single mode frame that follows the active stack, pane, or workspace in Pane, Resize, Vim, Tab, and Session modes.
  • Show configured shortcuts grouped by category in an omnibox-styled legend, with Vim sequence filtering, keycap feedback, optional animation, and a narrow-pane fallback.
  • Add workspace.styling.mode_legend (always, delay, off; default delay), delay and animation settings. Show the mode toast only until the legend appears or when it is disabled.
  • Remove the old border ownership paths and document the new behavior.

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  • GTK/Wayland visual positioning, transitions, and click-through still need interactive checking on a running browser.

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  • New Features
    • Added an on-screen shortcut legend for active modes, with configurable display timing, animations, and linger behavior.
    • Added a dedicated Vim mode color setting for its frame, toast, and legend.
    • Mode frames follow the active pane or workspace area and highlight matching shortcuts as actions occur.
  • Documentation
    • Updated configuration and keybinding references with the styling options and mode indicator behavior.

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The change adds configurable mode-legend settings and a dedicated Vim mode color. It replaces the prior mode-border handling with a per-window mode frame that displays mode borders and shortcut legends, and updates the frame as modes, panes, tabs, and workspace content change.

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Mode Frame and Legend

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mode styling configuration and theme contract
internal/domain/entity/*, internal/infrastructure/config/*, internal/application/usecase/resolve_theme.go, internal/application/usecase/resolve_theme_test.go, docs/config/index.md, docs/reference/*
Adds Vim mode color and mode-legend configuration fields. Sets defaults, documents schema values, and validates legend mode and delay. Maps Vim mode color through theme resolution.
Mode frame and Vim theme styling
internal/ui/theme/*
Adds a dedicated Vim mode color token, generated mode-legend CSS, and shared mode-frame border selectors.
Mode frame and shortcut legend
internal/ui/mode_frame.go, internal/ui/mode_frame_legend.go, internal/ui/mode_frame_test.go
Adds mode-target borders and grouped shortcut legends. Legend behavior includes delayed or immediate display, optional lingering, pending Vim sequence filtering, and action flashes.
Per-window mode frame integration
internal/ui/app.go, internal/ui/app_mode_frame.go, internal/ui/browser_window.go, internal/ui/component/pane_view.go, internal/ui/component/workspace_view.go, internal/ui/focus/borders.go, internal/ui/*_test.go, internal/ui/component/*_test.go
Connects mode changes, actions, pulses, pane focus, workspace rebuilds, and tab switches to each window’s mode frame. Removes the former border manager and pane-local Vim styling and pulse methods.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant App
  participant ModeFrame
  participant TargetWidget
  App->>ModeFrame: updateModeFrame with mode, styling, and actions
  ModeFrame->>TargetWidget: set mode border target
  ModeFrame->>ModeFrame: build and show shortcut legend
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b9e7e

Focusing another pane in Resize mode can cause resize commands to affect the previously active pane. This is a bounded but concrete behavior regression to resolve before merging.

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In `@docs/config/index.md`:
- Line 485: Update the Vim Mode note to name workspace.styling.vim_mode_color
instead of workspace.styling.pane_mode_color for the Vim frame color; keep the
transition-duration and mode legend/toast references unchanged.

In `@internal/ui/mode_frame_legend.go`:
- Around line 162-166: Update the keycap lookup in the legend flash method to
try the action’s original underscore spelling before its hyphen-normalized
spelling. Preserve the existing early return when neither key exists, so
underscore-spelled aliases such as split_right flash their configured keycaps.

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  • docs/config/index.md
  • docs/reference/configuration.md
  • docs/reference/keybindings.md
  • internal/application/usecase/resolve_theme.go
  • internal/application/usecase/resolve_theme_test.go
  • internal/domain/entity/config_types.go
  • internal/domain/entity/theme.go
  • internal/domain/entity/theme_test.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/defaults.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/defaults_test.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/loader.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/loader_test.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/schema_provider.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/schema_provider_test.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/validation.go
  • internal/infrastructure/config/validation_test.go
  • internal/ui/app.go
  • internal/ui/app_mode_frame.go
  • internal/ui/app_vim_mode_test.go
  • internal/ui/browser_window.go
  • internal/ui/browser_window_test.go
  • internal/ui/component/pane_view.go
  • internal/ui/component/pane_view_test.go
  • internal/ui/component/workspace_view.go
  • internal/ui/focus/borders.go
  • internal/ui/mode_frame.go
  • internal/ui/mode_frame_legend.go
  • internal/ui/mode_frame_test.go
  • internal/ui/theme/css.go
  • internal/ui/theme/css_test.go
  • internal/ui/theme/manager_test.go
  • internal/ui/theme/mode_legend_css.go
  • internal/ui/theme/palette.go
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🟡 Minor · Restore the active pane update for Resize mode. · app.go:4397-4406

internal/ui/app.go:4397-4406
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the active pane update for Resize mode.

When a pane WebView gains focus, PaneView.GrabFocus only delegates to the WebView, and WorkspaceView.FocusPane does not update ActivePaneID. The changed callback can therefore retarget the mode frame with the previous pane. Resize actions then call WorkspaceCoordinator.Resize, which reads that stale active pane.

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 	wsView.SetOnPaneFocused(func(paneID entity.PaneID) {
-		if bw := a.browserWindowForTab(tab.ID); bw != nil && bw.modeFrame != nil && bw.keyboardHandler != nil {
-			a.retargetModeFrame(bw, bw.keyboardHandler.Mode())
+		if bw := a.browserWindowForTab(tab.ID); bw != nil && bw.keyboardHandler != nil {
+			mode := bw.keyboardHandler.Mode()
+			if mode == input.ModeResize {
+				if ws := a.activeWorkspaceForBrowserWindow(bw); ws != nil {
+					ws.ActivePaneID = paneID
+				}
+			}
+			if bw.modeFrame != nil {
+				a.retargetModeFrame(bw, mode)
+			}
 		}
 	})
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In `@internal/ui/app.go` around lines 4397 - 4406, Update the SetOnPaneFocused
callback to set the active workspace’s ActivePaneID to paneID when the keyboard
handler is in input.ModeResize, so resize actions target the focused pane. Keep
retargetModeFrame conditional on modeFrame being non-nil, and preserve its use
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In `@internal/ui/app.go`:
- Around line 4397-4406: Update the SetOnPaneFocused callback to set the active
workspace’s ActivePaneID to paneID when the keyboard handler is in
input.ModeResize, so resize actions target the focused pane. Keep
retargetModeFrame conditional on modeFrame being non-nil, and preserve its use
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