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What was wrong

Measured in the real window with tools/probes/guilag (reads Fyne's font cache and its count of theme-override scopes):

  • Fyne 2.8.1 gives a container.ThemeOverride a new scope at construction, at CreateRenderer and at every Refresh, and keys its parsed fonts by scope. A new string drawn in a new scope parses a fresh ~7.4 MB set of fonts that is never freed.
  • Every sentence drawn ink tight (inkTight: error areas, status line, titles) and every quiet line (quiet: subtitle, caption, note, folded section line, count of bytes) stood in one. 26 font sets after visiting the tabs, and each rebuild of a screen followed by a new string added more.

What changed

  • inkTight takes the label's inner padding off with a layout (label placed one padding up/left, one larger per side) instead of a theme override.
  • QuietText - a rich text with the segment widget.Label builds for itself, in the hint's colour (O213) - replaces quiet(label). ByteCount embeds it.
  • A folded section's line stands in a container that never hides, so the open head keeps the gap it had.
  • Guards: wordsOf reads QuietText/ByteCount, labelBox measures a line drawn ink tight by the room it was given. New TestNoScreenStandsInAThemeOverride.

All 28 stored screens are pixel for pixel the same (the guard's tolerance is 0 on amd64 and it rewrote no picture); only their trees change.

Measured after (interleaved with main, two runs each)

main this branch
live heap after visiting the tabs 205 MB 27 MB
process after visiting the tabs 287-310 MB 113-131 MB
font sets after visiting the tabs 26 2
10 rebuilds, each followed by a new size live 289 MB, process 449-460 MB live 30 MB, process 117-131 MB

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The open list of formats still draws its rows under a theme override (rowTheme), and its filter makes each opening with a new letter parse two more sets: +158 MB over ten openings. That is the next change.

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    • Reduced window memory use from about 290 MB to 120 MB after visiting four tabs. Memory no longer grows when screens are rebuilt; filtering the format list can still increase memory.
    • Improved the alignment and sizing of text across generation, preset, and recipe screens. Displayed content remains unchanged.

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…eme override

inkTight wrapped every sentence that wraps - an error area under each field,
the status line, captions - in a container.ThemeOverride. Fyne gives an
override a new scope at construction, at CreateRenderer and at every
Refresh, and keys its parsed fonts by scope, so every rebuild of a screen
followed by a new string in one of those labels parsed another ~7.4 MB set
of fonts that nothing frees. Measured in the real window, interleaved: 26
sets after visiting the tabs, 19 of them this override's; without it 7,
and the live heap there 205 MB -> 64 MB.

The layout gives the label its inner padding outside the room it is handed,
so the words land and wrap where a label with no inner padding puts them.
All 28 stored screens are pixel for pixel the same (the guard's tolerance
is 0 on amd64 and it rewrote no picture); their trees change from an
override to a container.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…rride, and no screen holds an override any more

QuietText is a rich text with the segment widget.Label builds for itself,
the hint's colour in place of the disabled one (O213), drawn ink tight by
the same layout as inkTight. It replaces quiet(label) - the subtitle, the
caption, the note, a folded section's line and the count of bytes - which
put each of them under a container.ThemeOverride: a new scope at every
Refresh, and a fresh ~7.4 MB set of fonts for every new string drawn in one.

Measured in the real window, interleaved with main (two runs each):
- after visiting the tabs: live heap 205 MB -> 27 MB, process 287-310 MB
  -> 113-131 MB, font sets 26 -> 2;
- ten rebuilds each followed by a new size: live 289 MB -> 30 MB, and
  nothing added by the rebuilds.

All 28 stored screens are pixel for pixel the same. One would not have been:
a folded section's line sat inside an override that stayed visible while the
line was hidden, and the row kept a gap for it - the line now stands in a
container that never hides, so the open head keeps its right inset.

Guards read QuietText and ByteCount as words (wordsOf), and measure a line
drawn ink tight by the room it was given (labelBox). New guard:
TestNoScreenStandsInAThemeOverride. The open list of formats still draws its
rows under one - the next change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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The change adds QuietText, replaces several quiet-text uses and screen-fixture ThemeOverride wrappers, and updates layout tests to measure inset text. The changelog reports lower, stable memory use after visiting four tabs, while noting memory growth when typing in the format filter.

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Quiet text widget and integrations

Layer / File(s) Summary
QuietText widget and integrations
internal/gui/parts/quiet.go, internal/gui/parts/words.go, internal/gui/parts/{bytecount,field,fields,folding,parts}.go, internal/gui/catalogue/words.go, internal/guard/{words_test,themescope_test}.go
QuietText renders placeholder-colored rich text through inkTight. Quiet text components and ByteCount use it. Catalogue ranks and guard helpers now recognize it and byte counts. A new test checks that the window and catalogue contain no ThemeOverride objects.

Screen fixture updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generate screen layouts
internal/guard/testdata/screens/generate*.xml
Generate-screen fixtures replace ThemeOverride wrappers with direct widgets or containers. Text, values, and validation messages remain, with positions and sizes adjusted where shown.
Preset screen layouts
internal/guard/testdata/screens/preset*.xml
Preset fixtures replace wrappers with direct layout elements and adjust text positioning. Displayed descriptions, examples, refusal messages, and summaries remain unchanged.
Recipe screen layouts
internal/guard/testdata/screens/recipe*.xml
Recipe fixtures replace wrappers, reposition text, and resize fold-header areas. Byte-count and quiet-text content use direct widget layouts.

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Layout checks and changelog
internal/guard/leftedge_test.go, internal/guard/spacingscale_test.go, CHANGELOG.md
The left-edge test measures the status text’s label box. labelBox uses a matching padding wrapper’s bounds for tightly drawn labels. The changelog reports memory measurements and notes continued growth when typing in the format filter.

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Captions and byte counts lose accessibility metadata, so that regression should be fixed before merging. The duplicate refresh and inaccurate memory claim also warrant correction.

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// the label under the override drew, pixel for pixel on every stored screen.
//
// Like a label it does not wrap unless asked to.
type QuietText struct {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the text accessibility contract.

QuietText replaces widget.Label, but it does not implement fyne.Accessible. In Fyne v2.8.1, a label exposes its text and text role through that interface. The contained RichText does not implement it, so captions and byte counts lose their text accessibility metadata. Implement AccessibilityLabel() and AccessibilityRole() on QuietText. ByteCount will inherit both methods. (github.com)

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 type QuietText struct {
     widget.BaseWidget
     // ...
 }
+
+var _ fyne.Accessible = (*QuietText)(nil)
+
+func (q *QuietText) AccessibilityLabel() string { return q.Text }
+func (q *QuietText) AccessibilityRole() fyne.AccessibleRole {
+    return fyne.AccessibleRoleText
+}
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In `@internal/gui/parts/quiet.go` at line 35, Implement fyne.Accessible on
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…ly what was measured

QuietText.Refresh refreshed its rich text itself and then again through
the renderer, whose container refreshes every child - the shape copied
from widget.Label, surplus included. The count of bytes redraws on every
key. All 28 stored screens stay pixel for pixel the same, generate-typed
among them, whose count is drawn after the first frame.

The changelog heading said the window no longer grows with use while the
same entry says the filter of the format list still does. It now says what
was measured: rebuilding a screen no longer adds to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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