KiwiDesk 0.9.6

What's Changed

The settings window is the headline: it was rebuilt from the ground
up, and the first-launch tour with it.

• feat: Settings, redesigned end to end. There is no sidebar
  any more — Settings opens on a grid of cards, each one answering
  what it holds rather than naming it, and every area now renders
  from one census so a row cannot exist in the window without
  existing in search. Areas that earn it open a two-column detail
  view where the preview watches your draft as you edit it, and
  unsaved changes live in a floating save pill that says how many
  and shows you which.
• feat: Search that finds settings, not pages. Type a word and
  you get the setting itself, with the place it lives and its
  current value; the mode a setting needs is shown rather than
  hidden, and choosing a Power User setting from Simple mode
  switches the mode for you instead of refusing.
• feat: The shortcuts panel draws your keyboard. ⌃⌥K shows the
  physical layout with every bound chord marked on the keys it
  takes, so a conflict is something you see rather than something
  you read.
• feat: The window is yours to size. Settings tiles like any
  other window, is bindable to a shortcut of your own, and narrows
  in a ruled order — the preview goes first, then the row layout,
  then the header chrome. Controls never go.
• feat: Dark mode, properly. Every surface, border and ink now
  comes from one theme, so dark is a designed appearance rather
  than an inverted light one. The accent marks controls you can
  act on and never text that merely names a value.
• feat: A first launch that shows its work. The tour was
  rebuilt to match the redesign: a progress row that counts only
  the screens your machine will actually see, the starter setup
  chosen from your real displays and explained in the words it
  used to choose it, and a closing card that hands you the menu
  bar rather than describing it.
• feat: Boot says what it is doing. On a busy Mac the first
  seconds after launch used to be silent and unresponsive — the
  menu-bar item answered nothing and then every window on the desk
  rearranged at once. The scan now hands the machine back while it
  works: the menu opens throughout, the mark is dimmed until
  KiwiDesk is ready, and the quick menu counts the apps it has
  been through. One slow app can no longer keep the whole desk
  waiting.
• feat: Home cards show your desk. Profile and layout cards
  draw a real preview in your own palette, from the same data the
  engine uses, so what you see on the card is what you would get.
• fix: Colour, contrast and colour vision. Palette highlights,
  border colours and the segmented controls were re-derived so
  they hold their separation for protanopia and deuteranopia, and
  a colour now renders in exactly one place instead of three.
• fix: Keyboard and VoiceOver. Right-click menus are offered
  as accessibility actions from the same list, controls announce
  their value as well as their name, and every shape change now
  states where focus lands. Turning on macOS keyboard navigation
  is still required for non-text controls — that is a system
  setting no app may set for you, and the guide says so.
• fix: Scrolling, borders and bars. Every anchor is drawn in
  one frame, every border shares one width and corner, and the
  App Bar and Space Bar stop taking glyphs from windows that are
  not really there.
• perf: Startup. A slow-answering app is now bounded and
  finished off after boot instead of holding everything up, and
  the startup sweep no longer blocks the menu a second after it
  freed itself.
• refactor: One word per concept, in ten languages. macOS has
  Desktops and KiwiDesk has Spaces — the two are now named apart
  everywhere, including in every translation. A translation round
  went over the whole corpus twice: once to draft, once to audit.
• docs: README, guide and site. The track layout is
  documented, the keyboard path has its own section, and the
  badges and links point where they claim to.

Full Changelog: v0.9.5...v0.9.6