test(node): look for Node in the menu under the avatar

Node and Create group left the sidebar for the user menu. A source-reading
test still looked for the old `showNode=` expression and failed everywhere;
the installed application's end-to-end test waited for "Create group" in the
sidebar and would have timed out. Both now check the menu, and the packaging
guide says where the two entries are.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

3 files changed, 23 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/docs/PACKAGING-GUIDE.md b/docs/PACKAGING-GUIDE.md
index 9f5d6cf..5fbf7a7 100644
--- a/docs/PACKAGING-GUIDE.md
+++ b/docs/PACKAGING-GUIDE.md
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ alongside it). Nothing to install separately.
 
 Open MeshBay, choose the hub and sign in. **That is all**: the app sets the node
 up for the account you signed in with, starts it the way you chose at install,
-and links it to your account. **Node** and **Create group** appear in the
-sidebar; nothing has to be typed in a terminal and no key has to be copied.
+and links it to your account. **Node** and **Create group** appear in the menu
+under your avatar; nothing has to be typed in a terminal and no key has to be
+copied.
 
 Two cases where the app does not do it on its own, because it would undo
 something:
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_e2e_windows_app.py b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_e2e_windows_app.py
index da1d251..e457452 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_e2e_windows_app.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_e2e_windows_app.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ starts and stops the real node. Everything it asserts was broken at least once
 on a real install while every other test passed:
 
 - a fresh account signs in and, with nothing else done, has a node set up,
-  started, linked and listed in the sidebar (it used to take `meshbay-node
-  init` in a terminal and a key pasted on the profile page);
+  started, linked and offered in the menu under the avatar (it used to take
+  `meshbay-node init` in a terminal and a key pasted on the profile page);
 - Stop leaves no meshbay-node.exe behind and only then says "Stopped";
 - Start and Restart answer with a running node, a new one for Restart.
 
@@ -150,8 +150,18 @@ class Page:
     def text(self) -> str:
         return self.eval("document.body.innerText")
 
-    def sidebar(self) -> str:
-        return self.eval("(document.querySelector('aside') || {}).innerText || ''")
+    def user_menu(self) -> str:
+        """What the menu under the avatar offers: opened, read, closed again.
+        Its entries are only in the page while it is open."""
+        return self.eval("""(async () => {
+          const trigger = document.querySelector('.user-menu-trigger');
+          if (!trigger) return '';
+          if (trigger.getAttribute('aria-expanded') !== 'true') trigger.click();
+          await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 200));
+          const text = (document.querySelector('.user-menu-dropdown') || {}).innerText || '';
+          if (trigger.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true') trigger.click();
+          return text;
+        })()""")
 
     def click(self, label: str, timeout: float = 30) -> None:
         """Click a button or link by its label once it is there and enabled."""
@@ -286,8 +296,9 @@ def test_a_fresh_account_gets_its_node_set_up_and_can_stop_it(app, hub):
     time.sleep(0.5)   # the form's state follows the input events a render later
     page.eval(f"({SUBMIT}, 1)")
 
-    # Nothing else done: the node is set up, running, linked, and in the sidebar.
-    _wait("the Node section in the sidebar", lambda: "Create group" in page.sidebar(), 120)
+    # Nothing else done: the node is set up, running, linked, and in the menu.
+    _wait("Node and Create group in the menu under the avatar",
+          lambda: (m := page.user_menu()) and "Node" in m and "Create group" in m, 120)
     status = _wait("a running node", lambda: (s := _node_status()) and
                    s.get("status") == "running" and s, 120)
     toml = (NODE_HOME / "node.toml").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_windows_node_lifecycle.py b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_windows_node_lifecycle.py
index b85b6ea..6ca301b 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_windows_node_lifecycle.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_windows_node_lifecycle.py
@@ -330,8 +330,9 @@ def test_signing_in_sets_up_this_machines_node():
 def test_the_node_section_shows_for_a_node_not_yet_linked():
     """It waited for the hub to hold a node key, which nothing gave it."""
     app = _js(STATIC / "app.js")
-    assert "showNode=${hasNodeKey || localNode}" in app
-    assert "platform.capabilities.nodeAdmin && (hasNodeKey || localNode)" in app
+    shown = "platform.capabilities.nodeAdmin && (hasNodeKey || localNode)"
+    assert "showNode=${" + shown + "}" in app, "the link, in the user menu"
+    assert "route === '/node' && " + shown in app, "and the page it leads to"
     effect = app.split("const signedInAs = user ? user.username : null;", 1)[1]
     effect = effect.split("}, [signedInAs]);", 1)[0]
     assert "platform.node.ensure(" in effect and "platform.node.installed()" in effect