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Review follow-ups to #422, which lifted the AI provider dialog out of LeftPanel's chat strip and mounted it above the mode switch. Eleven findings; four are real bugs, three of which are older than that PR and were only made easier to reach by it.

Editor shortcuts were live underneath every ModalShell dialog. The window-level keydown handler in NewEditorShell only skips input / textarea / contentEditable targets, and a modal's own controls are buttons. AppMenu's run() closes with close(false) — no focus restore, which is right for a pointer user — and ModalShell never took focus, so opening AI settings from the menu left document.activeElement on document.body. With a region selected, Delete destroyed it behind the backdrop; Ctrl+O stacked OpenProjectModal on top, two aria-modal="true" dialogs both emitting the hardcoded id="modal-title"; ? stacked the shortcuts dialog the same way. The handler now bails while a dialog owns the screen — reachable at all only because #422 lifted the open state out of the components that owned it — and ModalShell moves focus into the dialog as it opens, which is also what gets it announced to a screen reader. No ModalShell dialog uses autoFocus, so nothing is being fought for focus.

Escape in the connect form left the dialog instead of stepping back to the grid. ProviderSettings and ModalShell both listened on document and both fired for one keypress; close() won and cleared apiKey, so a half-typed key was discarded and the mode === "form" branch was dead. ModalShell grows a closeOnEscape opt-out for a dialog that handles the key itself.

Disconnecting a provider went on showing it CONNECTED. snapshot is not optional on AiEditionLlmDisconnectResult, and both the real service and the browser shim always return one, so result.snapshot ?? (await refreshSnapshot()) always took the left branch — and refreshSnapshot is the only thing that calls setSnapshot. The success toast fired over a form still showing the CONNECTED pill, with the grid behind it still highlighting the provider as active, until the dialog was closed and reopened.

ProviderSettingsContext becomes EditorDialogsContext, holding a section rather than a boolean per dialog, and split into a section context and an actions context whose value never changes identity. Two things fall out of that split. NewEditorShell — timeline, preview, transport — only ever opens a dialog, and subscribing it to the open flag re-rendered the whole editor twice per interaction; it now takes the actions alone, and the keydown guard above reads isDialogOpen(), which answers from a ref. And it is the shape the settings unification described in #420 needs anyway: the next section is a member of the union, not a third context and a third provider wrapped around App.tsx's editor branch.

The panel's re-read on close loses its ref. "Not open" already covers the mount and every close in one effect, so the mount effect and the falling-edge effect collapse into one.

Also in here: the dead onActiveProviderChanged prop is dropped and ProviderSettings unexported (ProviderSettingsDialog is its only caller), and two comments the new menu row falsified are corrected — AppMenu's claim that every label is an existing common.actions / shortcuts key that electron/main.ts also builds the native menu from (editor.providerSettings.title is in neither namespace, and shortcuts.title was never in the native menu either), and llm-providers.md's list of the panel's doors, which named four of five and omitted the quick-pick popover's "full settings" row.

Related issue

Refs #422, refs #420. No behaviour from either is reverted; the AI settings row, its one mount and its two doors all stay as merged.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

Release impact

  • Patch
  • Minor
  • Major / breaking change
  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging
  • Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

No screenshot: this is a keyboard, focus and re-render change, none of which a still frame shows. The behaviours are pinned by the tests below and by the manual checklist rows #422 added.

Testing

  • npm run test2012 passed, 5 skipped, 170 files, no failures.
  • npx tsc --noEmit, npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit, npm run lint (0 errors, 13 warnings — the same 13 as main), npm run i18n:check (13 locales), npm run docs:check.
  • New: src/components/ai-edition/LeftPanel.providerRefresh.test.tsx mounts ChatStripPanel under the real provider and pins the re-read that feat(editor): reach the AI provider settings from the app menu #422 moved by hand and shipped unverified — one snapshot read on mount, none when the dialog opens, a second when it closes.
  • OpenProjectModal and NewProjectModal tests re-run specifically for the shared ModalShell change; ProviderSettings.test.tsx and EditorTopBar.test.tsx re-run for the context rename.

Not verified: the four bugs above are argued from the code and pinned by tests, not reproduced by hand in a packaged build — this branch was verified with npm ci in a review worktree, not by driving the real app. The shortcut-under-modal and focus-on-open changes touch every ModalShell dialog in the editor, so they are the ones worth a manual pass: technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md already covers the app-menu rows the dialog hangs off.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • Improved AI provider settings behavior across editor entry points.
    • Refreshes provider information when settings are closed.
    • Pauses keyboard shortcuts while dialogs or shortcut configuration are open.
    • Dialogs now focus automatically when opened and restore focus when closed.
    • Refined Escape-key handling for dialogs.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified AI settings access points and shared editor dialog behavior.

Review follow-ups to #422, which lifted the AI provider dialog out of the chat
panel and mounted it above the mode switch. Four of these are real bugs, three of
them older than that PR and only made easier to reach by it.

ModalShell dialogs never took focus, and the editor's window-level keydown handler
only skips input/textarea/contentEditable targets. The app menu closes without
restoring focus — right for a pointer user — so opening AI settings from it left
`document.activeElement` on the body and every editor shortcut live underneath the
backdrop: Delete destroyed the selected region, Ctrl+O stacked a second aria-modal
dialog emitting a duplicate `id="modal-title"`, `?` stacked the shortcuts dialog.
The handler now bails while a dialog owns the screen, and ModalShell moves focus
into the dialog as it opens, which is also what announces it to a screen reader.

Escape in the provider connect form left the dialog entirely, discarding a
half-typed API key, instead of stepping back to the grid: ProviderSettings and
ModalShell both listened on document and both fired, so the `mode === "form"`
branch was dead. ModalShell grows a `closeOnEscape` opt-out for a dialog that
handles the key itself.

Disconnecting a provider went on showing it as CONNECTED until the dialog was
closed and reopened. `snapshot` is not optional on the disconnect result, so the
`?? refreshSnapshot()` fallback never ran — and refreshSnapshot is the only thing
that calls setSnapshot.

ProviderSettingsContext becomes EditorDialogsContext, holding a `section` rather
than a boolean per dialog, split into a section context and an actions context
whose value never changes identity. That is what stops NewEditorShell — timeline,
preview, transport — re-rendering twice per dialog interaction just to hold an
opener, and it is the shape the settings unification #420 describes needs anyway:
the next section is a member of the union, not a third context and a third
provider around App.tsx's editor branch.

The panel's re-read on close loses its ref: "not open" already covers the mount
and every close in one effect. It is also now tested, which it was not — the PR
said as much — along with the fact that opening the dialog must not refresh.

Also drops the dead `onActiveProviderChanged` prop and unexports ProviderSettings
(ProviderSettingsDialog is its only caller), and corrects two comments the new
menu row falsified: AppMenu's claim that every label is a common.actions or
shortcuts key, and llm-providers.md's list of the panel's doors, which was missing
the quick-pick popover's "full settings" row.
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The editor replaces provider-specific dialog state with EditorDialogsContext. Provider settings, keyboard shortcuts, modal Escape handling, focus behavior, tests, and architecture documentation now use the shared dialog state.

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Editor dialog state migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared dialog state and application wiring
src/contexts/EditorDialogsContext.tsx, src/contexts/ProviderSettingsContext.tsx, src/App.tsx, technical-documentation/architecture/llm-providers.md
The application provides shared editor dialog state with a "providers" section. The previous provider settings context is removed. Architecture documentation reflects the new context and entry points.
Dialog consumers and provider settings flow
src/components/ai-edition/LeftPanel.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/ProviderSettings.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/*ProviderSettings*.test.tsx
Editor components open and observe the "providers" dialog through shared actions. Provider settings save and disconnect flows update local state. Tests cover dialog wiring and LLM snapshot refresh timing.
Modal focus and keyboard interaction
src/components/ai-edition/Modals.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/ProviderSettings.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/EditorTopBar.tsx
ModalShell supports delegated Escape handling and focuses its container on open. Editor shortcuts are disabled while dialogs or shortcut configuration are open. Menu documentation clarifies existing translation-key usage.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EditorTopBar
  participant EditorDialogsContext
  participant ProviderSettingsDialog
  participant ModalShell
  EditorTopBar->>EditorDialogsContext: openDialog("providers")
  EditorDialogsContext->>ProviderSettingsDialog: provide active section
  ProviderSettingsDialog->>ModalShell: render dialog and focus container
  ProviderSettingsDialog->>EditorDialogsContext: closeDialog()
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src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx (1)

861-866: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add keyboard suppression coverage.

Add a same-package NewEditorShell test that dispatches Delete, Ctrl+O, and ? while isDialogOpen() is true. Assert that no editor action runs.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx` around lines 861 - 866, Add
same-package coverage for NewEditorShell’s keyboard handler, setting
isDialogOpen() true and dispatching Delete, Ctrl+O, and ?. Assert each event is
suppressed and no editor action is invoked, while preserving existing behavior
when no dialog is open.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/Modals.tsx`:
- Around line 105-107: Update the ModalShell focus useEffect to capture the
currently focused element before moving focus to dialogRef, then restore that
element during cleanup when it remains connected; preserve the existing
open-triggered dialog focus behavior.

In `@src/contexts/EditorDialogsContext.tsx`:
- Line 56: Move the sectionRef.current assignment out of the render path and
into both openDialog and closeDialog, immediately alongside their setSection
calls. Ensure the ref is updated only when the dialog state is committed through
these handlers, preventing discarded renders from exposing uncommitted state to
NewEditorShell’s keyboard handler.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx`:
- Around line 861-866: Add same-package coverage for NewEditorShell’s keyboard
handler, setting isDialogOpen() true and dispatching Delete, Ctrl+O, and ?.
Assert each event is suppressed and no editor action is invoked, while
preserving existing behavior when no dialog is open.
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Comment thread src/components/ai-edition/Modals.tsx
Comment thread src/contexts/EditorDialogsContext.tsx Outdated
… in its openers

Three review findings on the branch.

ModalShell took focus on open but never gave it back, which is the mirror of the
bug it was added for: the focused node is the one being unmounted, so closing
dropped the keyboard user on document.body. It now captures whatever had focus
and restores it on cleanup if that element is still connected. Opening from the
app menu captures document.body — the menu unmounts its own row before the dialog
mounts — so that case restores nothing, which is what it did before; opening from
the AI panel's gear now hands focus back to the gear.

EditorDialogsContext wrote sectionRef during render. A discarded render would
have left the ref claiming a dialog that never committed, and NewEditorShell's
keyboard handler reads that ref to decide whether to suppress a shortcut. The two
openers write it beside their setSection instead, which also answers a keystroke
landing between the click and the commit.

The keyboard suppression itself is now covered. NewEditorShell mounts in jsdom
with a preload stub, and the test asserts both directions for `?` and Ctrl+O:
routed while nothing is open, suppressed while a dialog is, routed again once it
closes. Both suppression cases were confirmed to fail with the guard removed —
the first draft of the Ctrl+O case passed either way, because that handler awaits
the unsaved-changes prompt before opening the picker and a synchronous assertion
ran too early to see it.
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