meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/harness/sticky_header_probe.py, branch 0.16

test(hub): the Firefox probe stops opening the developer's own profile

2026-09-19T16:55:53Z

`test_sticky_header.py[firefox]` failed with twelve setup errors whenever a Firefox was open, and the note in CLAUDE.md said to close it and trust the Chrome half meanwhile. The cause was not snap's single instance: the harness pointed HOME at a throwaway directory, snapd sets its own HOME inside the sandbox, and that directory came back empty on every run — so Firefox opened the real profile, which the open browser locks. `--profile` needs a path the sandbox can see: the snap has a private /tmp, and its home interface grants no hidden directory. Both refusals print "Firefox is already running", which it also prints when nothing is. 24 passed in 15s with a Firefox open throughout, against 12 errors in 60s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

fix(hub): the members table stops hanging off the side of a phone

2026-09-19T16:32:47Z

`.admin-table` column heads are `white-space: nowrap`, which meets a translated string: "Username" is one word, "Nom d'utilisateur" is three, uppercased with letter-spacing on top. The heads alone overflowed a 360px window by 11px, and on Android an overflowing document takes every sticky element with it. 11px was only what could be measured: the probe served no members, so the table measured its headers and nothing else. With one realistic username in it the same page overflowed by 248px, at 420px-wide windows too. The cells get `word-break: break-word`, as `.file-name` already had. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

fix(hub): a reconnect re-reads the index, not just the handshake

2026-09-19T15:13:17Z

_reconnectLoop re-did the handshake and nothing else, so a page kept whatever it last saw until someone reloaded it. That is invisible until the node restarts: it rebuilds its index from index_cache.db, which holds no enrichment, and Music is the one app whose enrichment is persisted nowhere — for the length of the re-read pass it serves tracks with no artist, and the album grid drew nothing. onReconnected was one slot the video player took on open and cleared on close; it is a listener set now, and carries the fresh ack. docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md §15.3 records the two defects found alongside and not fixed here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

feat(hub): Videos and Music list their cards a page at a time

2026-09-15T15:01:06Z

Previous/next arrows in the pinned toolbar, on group pages and in Search. Page size is an account preference (Settings → Defaults), 50 by default, 10 to 200 in steps of 10. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

refactor(mnp)!: one answer to "may this member write", and it is the root

2026-09-10T15:23:40Z

The group-wide `member_upload` switch is gone: the message, the signed operation, the field on the handshake ack, the `upload` alias on every root in the index payload, and the client's fallback path to it. Whether a member may write has been a property of each root for a while, and that is the model that survives: a single flag over the group cannot express "this library is published read-only and that folder is a drop box", which is the ordinary arrangement. What was left of the switch was a handler that logged a deprecation and acted on nothing, and a client that read `ack.member_upload` whenever the roots carried no `writable` — a second source for one question, with whichever the code consulted first deciding it. `roots.describe()` drops `upload` for the same reason: it was `writable` under an older name, and two names for one boolean is one too many. The paperclip now says "nowhere to write" rather than picking a root, in a group that has none writable. That is the honest answer; the fallback picked whatever came first and failed at send time. Node suite 1215 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AsoWC3GmhNdwVFomW3QjH3

feat(hub): pin the app controls while a library scrolls

2026-09-10T08:29:12Z

Files, Videos, Music and Photos are read by scrolling, and everything that steers that reading left with the first screenful. Three bands now pin under the navigation bar, in a group and on the Search page alike: the tab bar (the search field, on Search), the application's own toolbar, and the file table's column heads. The group's name and description still scroll — they say nothing a reader needs while walking a directory, and the height they would cost is height the list does not get. A band's offset is the heights of the bands above it, and those are not constants: the toolbar wraps to three rows on a phone, grows a field while a folder is being named, and loses its filter on Search. So each band measures itself and publishes `--chrome-h` / `--toolbar-h` (static/sticky.js) and the stylesheet does the arithmetic in calc(), rather than a number written down twice — the fault CLAUDE.md already records against this layout twice over. A band publishes height *plus its own bottom margin*, and paints that margin as a ring of page colour, so the pinned layout is pixel-identical to the flow layout and nothing shifts at the moment a band pins. Three overflow faults came out of it, all of the same class and all of them what "the header does not stay" actually meant on Android — a document wider than the screen leaves everything pinned attached to a viewport the reader can no longer see, the navigation bar included: - a directory's name cell was a bare , so an unbreakable folder name (`Rage_Against_The_Machine_Discography_1992-2000_FLAC`) set the column's minimum: a 527px table in a 390px window - Search's group column did the same at 442px with an underscored group name. It also goes entirely below 768px, where there is no room for it and the breadcrumb already names the group - the shared-directories table has four columns of controls with a combined minimum near 440px, none of it compressible. On a phone the row stops being a row: the name and its eject/remove pair on one line, the two switches — each carrying the column head's own string as a label — on the next - and, found by measuring at 360px, the tab bar itself was 19px too wide `.file-table` moves to separated borders: a collapsed border belongs to the table rather than to the cell, so the column heads lost their rule the moment they pinned. Measured, not read. tests/harness/sticky_header_probe.py drives the shipped GroupPage and SearchPage against a stub node, walks to each application, scrolls to the end and reports every rectangle — 11 views x 4 widths x 2 engines. Its fixture says what real data says: the first version used `note-007.txt` and `un groupe`, which fit any screen, and found none of the above. A fixture narrower than real data tests the fixture. Also: `test_desktop_shell` no longer looks for the CSP after the first `-->`, which made it fail on correct markup as soon as a comment was added above it, and `search-page.js` joins test_hook_ordering's file list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Tx16FhyD2BUdpooGb5jcyN