Fold thirty-one settings pages into fifteen categories with tabs

The sidebar was a flat scan of thirty-one rows; now it reads like a
settings app. Multi-subject categories (Input, Network & Sharing,
Applications, Users & Accounts, Privacy & Security, System) carry an
Appearance-style tab strip above the page, drawn by the shell so the
leaf pages themselves are untouched. The taxonomy lives in one new
file, services/SettingsRoutes.qml; the sidebar, the strip, route
validation, search breadcrumbs, and both generators derive from it.

ShellState.settingsPage still holds leaf ids, so every deep link, IPC
call, and search result keeps working — and now lands on the exact
tab. Dictation moves out of Sound onto its own page under Input, with
a handoff back to Sound for the microphone. The strip scrolls when
System's nine tabs outgrow a tiled window. All 161 contracts pass.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
This commit is contained in:
Gabriel Brown
2026-08-23 20:21:31 -04:00
parent 50077a0c31
commit 5490fd285d
35 changed files with 816 additions and 288 deletions
@@ -95,11 +95,39 @@ Rectangle {
color: Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, 0.06)
}
// The tab strip for the current category, rendered above the page so the
// leaf pages themselves stay untouched by the grouping. A category with a
// single subject earns no strip.
readonly property var categoryTabs: SettingsRoutes.tabsFor(ShellState.settingsPage)
Item {
id: categoryStrip
readonly property bool shown: root.categoryTabs.length > 1
anchors.left: sidebar.right
anchors.right: parent.right
anchors.top: titlebar.bottom
anchors.leftMargin: 34
anchors.rightMargin: 34
height: shown ? 48 : 0
visible: shown
SettingsTabs {
anchors.left: parent.left
anchors.right: parent.right
anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
tabs: root.categoryTabs.map(tab => ({ value: tab.page, label: tab.label }))
current: ShellState.settingsPage
onSelected: value => ShellState.openSettings(value)
}
}
Loader {
id: pageLoader
anchors.left: sidebar.right
anchors.right: parent.right
anchors.top: titlebar.bottom
anchors.top: categoryStrip.bottom
anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
sourceComponent: {
switch (ShellState.settingsPage) {
@@ -114,6 +142,7 @@ Rectangle {
case "screen-intelligence": return screenIntelligencePage;
case "shortcuts": return shortcutsPage;
case "mouse": return mousePage;
case "dictation": return dictationPage;
case "privacy": return privacyPage;
case "region": return regionPage;
case "accounts": return onlineAccountsPage;
@@ -192,6 +221,7 @@ Rectangle {
Component { id: screenIntelligencePage; ScreenIntelligencePage {} }
Component { id: shortcutsPage; ShortcutsPage {} }
Component { id: mousePage; MousePage {} }
Component { id: dictationPage; DictationPage {} }
Component { id: privacyPage; PrivacyPage {} }
Component { id: regionPage; RegionPage {} }
Component { id: onlineAccountsPage; OnlineAccountsPage {} }