Say what the tool is, what an export wrote and how filters combine, and give the row menu the bar's words by donislawdev · Pull Request #19 · donislawdev/BetterWindowsServices

donislawdev · 2026-09-24T18:11:05Z

The last package of the UX audit: UX-GUI-015, 016, 017 and 018. Items 019 and 020 are observations and change no code.

What changes on screen

Machine overview (015)

One sentence under the title says what the tool does.
The footnote about the number that cannot be counted yet no longer talks about planned work.
The orphans card splits the missing files between its two numbers: the second one counts file:missing !start:auto, so "0 orphans" over "3 more ... not set to start automatically" no longer reads as a contradiction. start:auto covers delayed entries too, so the two numbers always add up to every missing file.
"Show the list" clears the search box. The Overview button brings the screen back over a list that may still hold the last number clicked, and the button used to open on that answer.

Export (016)

After a write, the second line of the foot of the window says "Wrote 334 entries to services.csv." in the subdued voice, and the sentence goes when the search changes. A finished action and a refused one share that line, so the foot stays at two lines.
The file name offered follows the tab: services.csv, drivers.csv, services-and-drivers.csv.

Filters (017)

The rules are one tooltip on the Filters button: two in one row show both, and rows narrow each other. The group labels no longer repeat the same tooltip. No counters on the chips.

Row menu (018)

The verbs use the action bar's words and keys: "Stop...", "Start...", "Restart...", "Force stop...", "Force restart...".
A sixth item, "Set startup type", holds the same four settings as the bar. One method fills both menus.
Every setting says what it means on hover, and a screen reader gets the same sentence as HelpText.
The site page on stopping a stuck service named the old menu item and now names the new one.

Checks

Package test classes: all green apart from the three tests known to fail in a session without administrator rights
Architecture guards 182/182, site guards 26/26, integration runs=anywhere 24/24
Mutation run on the 15 entries this package added or re-anchored: 15 caught
Live window: the overview at three sizes, keyboard focus after start and after "Show the list", and the row menu with its submenu read from the automation tree
The export sentence on a live window: the save dialog cannot be driven from a background session, so a test covers the same method the dialog calls

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New Features
- Row menus now include startup-type options with descriptions, alongside clearer service action labels.
- CSV exports use filenames that reflect the selected scope and show a completion message with the row count and filename.
- The overview now includes a brief explanation and clears the search when dismissed.
Improvements
- Missing-file counts distinguish entries not set to start automatically from orphans.
- Filter guidance now explains how filters combine, and export messages use singular or plural wording as appropriate.
Documentation
- Updated force-stop instructions to match the menu option label.

…nd give the row menu the bar's words - The machine overview says in one sentence what the tool does, its footnote no longer talks about planned work, and the orphans card splits the missing files between its two numbers. - "Show the list" clears the search box, so it always shows the whole list. - After an export the foot of the window says how many entries went into which file, and the file name offered follows the tab: services.csv, drivers.csv or services-and-drivers.csv. - The rules for the filters are one tooltip on the Filters button instead of the same tooltip on every group label. - The row menu uses the action bar's words and gains "Set startup type" with the same four settings, and every setting says what it means on hover. - The site page on stopping a stuck service names the menu item by its new name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The GUI changes add startup-setting actions to row menus, report export results in the status area, update overview counts and dismissal behavior, and revise filter guidance. The changelog and service-stop instructions reflect related wording changes.

Changes

GUI behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Startup-setting menus `src/Bws.Gui/ActionBar.xaml.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/RowMenu.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/StartSettingChoice.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/RowMenuGuards.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`, `site/pages/stop-a-service-that-will-not-stop/en.html`, `site/pages/stop-a-service-that-will-not-stop/pl.html`	Both menus use shared startup-setting choices. The row menu uses action-bar labels and adds a startup-type submenu. Tests cover its four settings and the resulting plan. The changelog and service-stop instructions update related wording.
Export completion feedback `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Exporting.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/MainWindow.Exporting.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Says.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/StatusRow.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Catalogue.Views.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ExportingGuards.cs`	Suggested export filenames vary by scope. Successful exports report the row count and filename; write failures are reported through the status model. Completion messages clear when the query changes or a refusal is reported.
Overview counts and dismissal `src/Bws.Gui/OverviewView.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/OverviewView.xaml.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Overview.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/OverviewGuards.cs`	The missing-file count excludes entries set to start automatically. The overview adds explanatory text, and dismissing it clears the query. Tests cover the count and dismissal behavior.
Filter guidance `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/FilterChips.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Chips.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/FilterChipTests.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/MainViewModelTests.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Filter groups no longer expose separate add-or-narrow hints. The Filters switch describes how filters combine, and tests check the single-field group rule.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MainWindow
  participant WriteShownTo
  participant Says
  participant StatusRow
  MainWindow->>WriteShownTo: Export displayed rows to destination
  WriteShownTo->>Says: Report completion with row count and filename
  Says->>StatusRow: Update completion message
  WriteShownTo->>Says: Report caught I/O or access failure
  Says->>StatusRow: Update refusal message

Suggested labels: bug, enhancement, ui

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a1c13

The GUI changes appear mergeable with bounded follow-up: correct the filter-template comment and strengthen the startup-setting and export tests so they catch incorrect values.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 12 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
System Changes Are Reversible	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds a new row-menu path to the Windows-service configuration action: `RowMenu.cs` calls `window.Preview(ActionKind.SetStartType, setting)`. The plan then reaches the existing service-control w…	Add a durable recovery journal before each service-state write. Save the original startup type and delayed-start flag for each selected service, and scope the journal to the selected entries. On interrupt, window close, and handled failure,…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	⚠️ Warning	The PR removes the public `FilterGroup.AddsUp` and `FilterGroup.Hint` properties in `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/FilterChips.cs`. The base revision exposes both properties, while the head revision removes …	Restore `FilterGroup.AddsUp` and `FilterGroup.Hint` as compatibility members, preferably marked obsolete and excluded from the new UI bindings. Preserve their previous behavior and localization keys, or add a documented migration and a `Bre…

✅ Passed checks (12 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title describes the main user-facing changes: tool overview text, export feedback, filter guidance, and row-menu wording. It is specific, plain-language, and within the approximate 140-character l…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	The PR adds or updates tests for its changed runtime behavior. `ExportingGuards` covers export completion text, row counts, filenames, singular/plural wording, status clearing, and mutual completion/r…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The PR diff adds no CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env paths. Added-line scans found no credentials, tokens, API keys, private URLs, emails, IPs, hardcoded local absolute paths, or debug output/b…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	PASS: The changed WPF UI uses shared resources and styles. `overviewWhat` uses `WidthOverview`, `MarginAboveStatus`, and `BodyText`; `doneLine` is based on `SubduedText`. No added literal colors, font…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem was introduced. Export still performs the same synchronous write already present in the base revision; the PR does not add blocking work or repeat the export enumeration. …
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	No explicit desktop-robustness failure is introduced. The export path still writes through `AtomicFile.Write`, and the diff adds no working-directory asset load, non-atomic settings write, number/date…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	No unsafe file parsing change is introduced. The PR keeps the existing `Exporting.AsCsv` pipeline, including `Inert` before CSV quoting, and the formula-safety code is unchanged from the base revision…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	No listed user-facing text defect was introduced. The new startup-setting items receive explanatory tooltips, and the Filters control has a non-repeating tooltip that explains both combination rules. …
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak is introduced. `StartSettingChoice.Offer` adds handlers only to menu items owned by the action bar, row menu, and help menu; each menu is built once per window. The handlers invoke fi…

Full details: System Changes Are Reversible

Explanation

The PR adds a new row-menu path to the Windows-service configuration action: RowMenu.cs calls window.Preview(ActionKind.SetStartType, setting). The plan then reaches the existing service-control writer through PlanRunner.Configure. The original startup setting is captured in PlanStep.From, but NetEffect only produces a visible “To put this back” instruction; it does not restore state. A startup-type plan has no restore step, and PlanRunner explicitly leaves changes in place on abandonment. The GUI has no crash or next-start recovery journal. Therefore the new service-state action is not reversible on stop, crash, or next start.

Resolution

Add a durable recovery journal before each service-state write. Save the original startup type and delayed-start flag for each selected service, and scope the journal to the selected entries. On interrupt, window close, and handled failure, run the pending restorations before allowing the process to exit. On the next start, detect incomplete journals and provide a visible “Restore” or “Restore all” action before normal use. Keep the existing visible plan and interrupt controls, and add tests for startup-type restoration after interruption, close, crash/restart recovery, and multi-entry scope. If this recovery design is not required, remove the new SetStartType row-menu action.

Full details: Scope, Duplication And Docs

Explanation

The PR removes the public FilterGroup.AddsUp and FilterGroup.Hint properties in src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/FilterChips.cs. The base revision exposes both properties, while the head revision removes them. The PR description has no Breaking changes section or compatibility plan. The other feature changes match the title and description, use a shared StartSettingChoice.Offer helper, and update CHANGELOG.md and site documentation.

Resolution

Restore FilterGroup.AddsUp and FilterGroup.Hint as compatibility members, preferably marked obsolete and excluded from the new UI bindings. Preserve their previous behavior and localization keys, or add a documented migration and a Breaking changes section to the PR description before removing them.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Chips.xaml`:
- Around line 232-233: Update the stale template comment near the group-label
tooltip in the Chips theme to reflect that the guidance appears once on the
Filters switch, not on each group label. Keep the change limited to correcting
the comment.

In `@tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ExportingGuards.cs`:
- Around line 278-282: Update the `WriteShownTo` test to export at least two
displayed rows and assert the literal row count in `model.Says.Done`, so it
fails if the method always reports one. Preserve a separate one-row case to
verify singular wording.
- Around line 327-329: Update the filename assertions in the test using names so
each export scope, including Drivers and Everything, is checked against its own
expected filename; retain the existing uniqueness and .csv checks.

In `@tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/RowMenuGuards.cs`:
- Line 328: Update the assertion in the row-menu test to verify that the
resulting plan’s SetStartType action requests StartSetting.Disabled, not just
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CHANGELOG.md
site/pages/stop-a-service-that-will-not-stop/en.html
site/pages/stop-a-service-that-will-not-stop/pl.html
src/Bws.Gui/ActionBar.xaml.cs
src/Bws.Gui/MainWindow.Exporting.cs
src/Bws.Gui/OverviewView.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/OverviewView.xaml.cs
src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json
src/Bws.Gui/RowMenu.cs
src/Bws.Gui/StartSettingChoice.cs
src/Bws.Gui/StatusRow.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Chips.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Catalogue.Views.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Exporting.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/FilterChips.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Overview.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Says.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ExportingGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/FilterChipTests.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/MainViewModelTests.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/OverviewGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/RowMenuGuards.cs

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