Daniel (2026-07-27): the S18 beta channel title band gets no distinct
visual accent; L3 restyles it in the standard B pastel palette and the
beta-vs-stable distinction stays purely textual. Closes the one open fork
from the L3 readiness review.
Both VST draw shells still draw flat off a local pre-L1 palette — L3
restyle confirmed live, not a born-in-kit no-op. Name the concrete gate
files, add the palette-reconcile point, enumerate the landed editor set.
computeSlotRectsForDrop adds cols slots past maxSlot; classifyCardDrag and
drawCardDropTarget use it instead of the render rects. doReorderDrop already
accepts any non-negative slot. New tests cover beyond-extent resolves,
empty-bank trailing row, gap pixels still miss, empty-cell within-extent works.
Render the grid in sparse SlotMap order with empty-slot cells; remap every
cell↔sample consumer (selection, nav, audition, drag) to occupied-ordinal
space. Drop dispatches reorder/replace/move/copy via card_drag; per-slot
highlight + stock cursor cues. One drop = one Ctrl-Z.
Button faces now show only the short label (keybinding moved to hover tooltip as
"name — binding"). Cancel RT joins the overflow menu alongside Capture RT. Re-capture
sits between the capture and placement clusters. Toolbar heights 40->28.
Top-bar rare-capture variants move to a right-anchored More popup; short faces gain
hover-delay full-name tooltips (prefix stripped); bottom bar becomes four opposite-mode
Item/Track tag buttons + Show Both (Toggle/Activates dropped); wider cluster gaps. New
pure overflow_menu/mode_enable/tooltip modules, CTest-covered. Same actions, same contract.
Top-toolbar overflow menu for rare capture variants; short button faces + full-name tooltips (drop ReaSampler: prefix); Item/Track x Arrange/Design tag buttons enabled only for the opposite of active mode; remove redundant Toggle; semantic-grouping spacing. Item-level tagging confirmed existing — layout wiring, not feature work. Ungated; sequences after L4; L3 gate intact.
Top toolbar = capture+placement, bottom toolbar = Design-View verbs, footer = narrow Arrange|Design toggle + count + Tail button + set-apart Prune. New pure footer_bar module; Tail is now a real kit button.
Finish roleColor/roleColorState for the three-accent enum, re-map every
Accent consumer (primary leads live; Pool/Banks titles categorical
secondary/tertiary), make spectralColor a lime->teal->purple three-stop
sweep, and re-lock the WCAG-floor tests on the grey ladder.
Plain press on an unselected grid cell now commits the single-cell
selection immediately and arms the drag, so moving past the threshold
begins a drag without a prior selecting click. Already-selected and
ctrl/shift paths are unchanged.
Capture+placement move to a top toolbar; Design View tag/switch verbs to the bottom toolbar; footer gains a narrow Arrange|Design toggle + a Tail button (was a click-zone), with warn Prune set apart at the right. Ungated/extension-side; sequences after the palette revision. Layout only.
Replace the single electric-cyan accent with a pastel lime/teal/purple three-accent system; shift neutral surfaces + text from near-black to REAPER's mid-grey theme family. Font upgrade declined (no bundling). L3 conformed to the new look; gate intact.
New pure action_bar module (clusters, keybinding sub-labels, overflow, hit-test) supersedes the flat M11 strip; bank_panel chrome/buttons/tabs/grid now draw through the L1 kit by role with hover. Expose draw_kit::toLice in header to fix drawThumbnail forward-refs. CTest 27/27.
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