Make the way off the overview a blue button, set the entry's name apart in the plan, and trim the row and Help menus by donislawdev · Pull Request #20 · donislawdev/BetterWindowsServices

donislawdev · 2026-09-24T22:12:14Z

Four changes to the window, all visible without reading code.

What changes on screen

The machine overview. "Show the list" is a blue button in the primary action style, so the way to the list is the easiest thing to find on a first run. The overview card's look moved into Themes/Overview.xaml as OverviewCard, which keeps OverviewView.xaml under the markup ceiling.
The plan panel. The entry's name is semibold in the title ("What stopping Print Spooler would do") and in every step ("1. stop Spooler (asked for)"). The rest of the title is now plain weight, and the size stays 14. In a step the name is 14 against the line's 13, because semibold has a floor of 14 (TypeScaleGuards checks the new NameInSentence style).
The row menu. "Copy display name" and "Copy description" are gone. "Copy everything" still carries both.
Help. The menu offers only the query language page. The shortcut items, the project's website and the version item are gone, and so is the code only they used (Release.cs in the window, SelectEverything, the project page hand-over, the label filling on RowMenuEntry).

How the name is set apart

NamedSentence (Before, Name, After). The sentence is still built from its language key with a private-use character where the name goes, then cut at that mark. So a translation decides where the name stands. The name itself, which comes from somebody else's input, is never searched for the mark. With no mark, or with more than one, the sentence comes back whole with nothing set apart.

The view draws three Runs. A TextBlock built from runs reports an empty Text, and its automation peer takes its name from Text. So the title and each step bind AutomationProperties.Name to the whole sentence. Tests read the drawn text through WpfHost.Drawn.

Checks

Touched GUI test classes: 203/204. The one red test is PluralGuards.What_the_window_admits_has_a_singular_for_one_entry, which fails only without administrator rights.
Architecture: 182/182. Integration runs=anywhere: 24/24.
Mutation entries: 752, 0 stale. 17 of 17 caught on this change's entries and its neighbours.
The window was photographed at three sizes. The live row-menu probe could not take the foreground and did not measure.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Plan headings and steps now emphasize service names in bold, making key details easier to scan.
- Overview dismiss buttons now use the primary-action color.
Changes
- The Help menu now links only to the query-language page; shortcut actions, the project website, and version information are no longer listed.
- Row menus no longer offer separate copy actions for display names and descriptions. “Copy everything” still includes both.

…rt in the plan, and trim the row and Help menus - "Show the list" on the machine overview wears the primary action style, so the first screen has one clear way to the list. - The plan panel draws the entry's name in semibold in its title and in every step. The sentence is still put together by the language file and cut where the name stands. The title and the steps keep their full text as their automation name, because a TextBlock built from runs reports an empty Text. - The row menu no longer offers "Copy display name" and "Copy description". Both values are still in "Copy everything". - The Help menu offers only the query language page. The shortcut items, the project's website and the version item are gone, with the code only they used. - The overview card's look moved into the Overview theme as a named style. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The GUI Help menu now contains only the query-language page, and row menus retain name-copy and copy-everything actions. Plan headings and steps separate service names for emphasized rendering and accessibility text. Overview tiles and the dismiss button use shared styles.

Changes

Help menu

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reduce Help menu entries `src/Bws.Gui/ExternalLinks.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/HelpMenu.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/MainWindow.Help.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Release.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/HelpMenuGuards.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	The Help menu now contains only the query-language page. The project-page link, shortcut actions, and version item were removed. The English Help hint and tests reflect the remaining entry.

Row-menu copy actions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Consolidate row-menu copy actions `src/Bws.Gui/RowMenu.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Copying.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/CopyingAndPanelGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/RowMenuGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/SelectionGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/WindowGuards.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	The row menu retains copy-name and copy-everything actions. Separate display-name and description actions were removed. Copy-everything still includes both values.

Plan name rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Represent headings and steps as named sentences `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/NamedSentence.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Planned.Title.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Planned.cs`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Catalogue.Specimens.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanNameGuards.cs`	`NamedSentence` stores text before, within, and after the name. Plan headings and lines use this representation. Tests cover slot splitting and sentence text.
Render and verify emphasized names `src/Bws.Gui/PlanView.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/PlanLines.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Text.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Catalogue.Samples.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanNameGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/WpfHost.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ActionBarGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanReportGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanViewGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PluralGuards.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Plan views render sentence parts as separate runs and style the name distinctly. The complete text is exposed as the automation name. Tests check the rendered text, automation name, and run weights.

Overview styling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Apply shared overview styles `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Overview.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/OverviewView.xaml`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ButtonGuards.cs`	Overview tiles use the shared `OverviewCard` style. The dismiss button uses `PrimaryAction`, and a test checks its template background.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PlanView
  participant Planned
  participant PlanLineTemplate
  participant TextBlock
  PlanView->>Planned: Read Heading sentence parts
  Planned-->>PlanView: Return Before, Name, and After
  PlanLineTemplate->>Planned: Bind Sentence parts
  Planned-->>PlanLineTemplate: Provide Before, Name, and After
  PlanLineTemplate->>TextBlock: Render runs and bind Text as automation name

Suggested labels: ui, enhancement

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5a2f2

The menu documentation needs updating, and two tests should better protect the changed behavior. These bounded issues do not establish a current user-facing failure.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 13 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Scope, Duplication And Docs	⚠️ Warning	The PR changes the public `Planned.Heading` property from `string` to `NamedSentence` in `src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Planned.Title.cs`. This is a backward-incompatible public contract change. The PR descr…	Keep `public string Heading` for compatibility and expose a separate `NamedSentence` property for the WPF runs, or add an explicit `Breaking changes` section with migration guidance for consumers of `Planned.Heading`.

✅ Passed checks (13 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the user-visible changes to the overview button, plan entry names, row menu, and Help menu. It is specific and within the 140-character limit.
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 changed behavior has test coverage. `ButtonGuards` covers the primary overview button. `PlanNameGuards` covers `NamedSentence`, rendered title and step text, semibold names, and automation names; …
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff adds no `CLAUDE.md`, `CLAUDE.local.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `.claude/`, or `.env` files. Added-line searches found no credentials, tokens, API keys, private URLs, emails, IPs, local abs…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The PR changes WPF UI, but the new styling uses shared resources and styles. `OverviewView.xaml` applies `PrimaryAction` and `OverviewCard`; `OverviewCard` maps its border, corner, margin, and padding…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem was introduced. The plan `ItemsControl` remains the same non-virtualized control in the base and head; the PR changes only its item template from one `TextBlock` binding t…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	The pull request does not introduce a desktop-robustness violation. The changed code only updates UI styles, plan text formatting, and menu contents. It removes the project-page browser action and ret…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	No unsafe file parsing was introduced. The PR changes only static JSON text, XAML styles/bindings, and in-memory sentence handling. The changed JSON is valid, and all changed XAML files are well forme…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The pull request does not add or change code that modifies network rules, proxies, firewalls, system time, process hooks or injection, Windows services, the registry, or drivers. The production change…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The changed user-facing text is clear. “Show the list” has a descriptive tooltip, and the Help button tooltip explains the query-language page and browser behavior without repeating “Help.” The remain…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak was introduced. The PR adds only immutable `NamedSentence` values, bounded `PlanLine` projections, WPF `Run` bindings, and static styles. These objects are owned by the existing view/…

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Explanation

The PR changes the public Planned.Heading property from string to NamedSentence in src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Planned.Title.cs. This is a backward-incompatible public contract change. The PR description has no Breaking changes section and gives no migration or compatibility fallback. The other feature scope is described, and CHANGELOG.md documents the user-facing UI changes.

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🟡 Minor · Include inline runs in the contrast guard. · PlanViewGuards.cs:356

tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanViewGuards.cs:356
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include inline runs in the contrast guard.

TextBlock.Text is empty for the run-built plan heading and steps. The read >= 5 assertion can still pass because other text blocks are collected. A contrast regression in the heading or any step can therefore pass this guard.

Collect the rendered inline text, then assert that the collected set includes the heading and at least one plan step. Keep the contrast check against the effective TextBlock.Foreground.
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In `@tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanViewGuards.cs` at line 356, Update the contrast guard
around `words` to collect rendered text from each `TextBlock`, including its
inline runs, rather than relying only on `TextBlock.Text`. Assert the collected
text includes the plan heading and at least one plan step, while keeping
contrast checks against the effective `TextBlock.Foreground`.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/Bws.Gui/RowMenu.cs`:
- Around line 120-123: Update the README row-menu description to list only “Copy
name” and “Copy everything,” and clarify that “Copy everything” includes the
display name and description. Use the Copying.Name entry in RowMenu as the
reference for the current menu behavior.

In `@tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/CopyingAndPanelGuards.cs`:
- Around line 63-64: Update the “Copy everything” assertion in the menu test
around Copying.Everything to independently verify that the copied text contains
both the fixture display name, “Print Spooler,” and its description, rather than
relying only on the value from Copying.Everything.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanViewGuards.cs`:
- Line 356: Update the contrast guard around `words` to collect rendered text
from each `TextBlock`, including its inline runs, rather than relying only on
`TextBlock.Text`. Assert the collected text includes the plan heading and at
least one plan step, while keeping contrast checks against the effective
`TextBlock.Foreground`.

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CHANGELOG.md
src/Bws.Gui/ExternalLinks.cs
src/Bws.Gui/HelpMenu.cs
src/Bws.Gui/MainWindow.Help.cs
src/Bws.Gui/OverviewView.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/PlanView.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/Release.cs
src/Bws.Gui/Resources/gui.en.json
src/Bws.Gui/RowMenu.cs
src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Overview.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/Themes/PlanLines.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Text.xaml
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Catalogue.Samples.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Catalogue.Specimens.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Copying.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/NamedSentence.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Planned.Title.cs
src/Bws.Gui/ViewModels/Planned.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ActionBarGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ButtonGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/CopyingAndPanelGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/HelpMenuGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanNameGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanReportGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanViewGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PluralGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/RowMenuGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/SelectionGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/WindowGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/WpfHost.cs

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