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The cockpit needed a stronger visual hierarchy and a quicker path from opening the app to measuring. This redesign centers the current speed, separates connection response from throughput, and makes the next action explicit.

Landed after #23 and #24 for v0.9.0. This PR contains the redesign and release version bump.

Changes

  • Replace the cockpit's orbital dial with a segmented precision sweep, short spring-driven cursor, measured peak marker, and larger central reading. The number follows the latest sample immediately to one decimal; only geometry is smoothed.
  • Give Live a single primary throughput reading, separate idle/loaded latency metrics, distinct download/upload accents, and a phase-labeled sample trace. Hide the old upload trace during completion so it cannot be mistaken for final download evidence.
  • Reorganize Home around the current test profile, compact navigation, and a prominent latest result. Space starts with the displayed session settings; Enter still opens configuration offline.
  • Lead Results with download/upload, keep latency secondary, and show the current settings for the next test separately from historical metadata. Space repeats with current settings without growing the navigation stack.
  • Preserve busy/modal/search/repeat/small-terminal guards, cancellation, exports, history, native/monochrome colors, and reduced motion. Add presentation strings across all eight catalogs. No new dependencies or measurement/schema changes.

Actual renderer captures

These are actual Ratatui buffers using synthetic offline fixtures and the explicitly selected Graphite palette. Capture cadence is 20 fps, not a terminal-performance claim.

Redesigned live dial, upload transition, and result reveal

View Before After
Home Home before Home after
Live Live before Live after
Results Results before Results after

Compact 80×24 comparison and reproduction commands

Validation

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check — passed.
  • cargo clippy --locked --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — passed.
  • cargo test --locked --all-features — 314 tests passed.
  • cargo build --locked --bin speedtest — passed.
  • Real Unix cockpit PTY smoke — passed, including Home/Results quick start, cancellation, unchanged completed export/history, offline navigation, resize guards, and terminal restoration.
  • Eight-language localization PTY smoke — passed.
  • Visually reviewed matching before/after captures, compact layouts, Italian and light/native palette samples, and the actual motion sequence.
  • Independent review found and verified fixes for a selection-dependent Home hint and long historical metadata overlapping current settings. Regression coverage includes those cases, exact-vs-smoothed readings, missing samples, completion trace ownership, repeated-test navigation, and localized compact numeric units.

Local validation used loopback only and no privileged DNS changes. Captures do not establish WAN accuracy, performance on every terminal, or Windows console restoration. GitHub CI supplies cross-platform build/test evidence.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Redesigned the measurement cockpit with a segmented precision dial, exact live readings, connection-response metrics, and phase-labeled sample history.
    • Press Space on Home or Results to start a test using current settings. Results distinguish historical test details from current settings.
    • Updated Home, live, and Results layouts with responsive metric displays and clearer status and empty-state guidance.
    • Added translated interface text for updated controls and measurement displays in supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved completion and reduced-motion displays. Cancelling a quick-start test preserves completed history and exports.
  • Documentation
    • Updated usage guidance and the design gallery with revised screens, keyboard controls, and reduced-motion behavior.

Review follow-up

  • Require unmodified Space for quick start; regression cases reject Control, Alt, Shift, Super, Hyper, and Meta.
  • Correct the German elapsed label while retaining its placeholder.
  • Defer the Complete heading until the actual result arrives, and preserve download target/peak in reduced motion. An event-order regression covers upload faster than download in both motion modes; independent review confirmed legacy completion and persistence authority are unchanged.
  • Final format, Clippy, all 314 Rust tests, and build pass. Cockpit and eight-language PTY checks pass after the completion fix. Re-rendering the final captures produces byte-identical gallery assets.

Cross-platform verification

At d1b20ac, PR CI, branch CI, and all four release builds pass for Linux, Windows, Intel macOS, and Apple Silicon macOS. Release publication is skipped for pull requests.

CodeRabbit's follow-up check passes, with both findings addressed and no unresolved review threads. The stack has now landed in dependency order.

Requested visual follow-up

Removed the top-right “● MEASURING” badge in 011b261. The terminal smoke checks now synchronize on the live phase's “Latest sample” text. This changes presentation only; the phase rail and cancellation controls remain available. Linux formatting, Clippy, Rust tests, build, and real terminal smoke checks pass for this follow-up. Windows and Apple Silicon macOS checks also passed; the Intel macOS job was cancelled. New documentation commits trigger fresh CI.

Refreshed previews

  • Replaced current README screenshots and both walkthrough GIFs, plus the redesigned Live captures at 120×38 and 80×24 and its animation. Historical before images are preserved; Home and Results design captures reproduce byte-for-byte.
  • All previews come from actual Ratatui buffers at e1e175e, including the badge removal. The capture workflow passed.
  • Verified PNG decoding, source revision, GIF loop/duration (5 s design animation, 7 s live walkthrough, 8.05 s screenshot tour), and published blob hashes. Updated README gallery.

Authorized release

The user requested “merge and create a release”. Cargo.toml and the root lockfile package are bumped together to 0.9.0 in e0f3e63. The stack will land with merge commits, preserving author history, after the guarded readiness checks; the existing workflow then publishes all four platform archives and checksums.

Landing result

Merged with a merge commit at 0a140eec6ee24cacfc5bb0acb1be9698d72b7b28, preserving author history. The authorized head was e0f3e63807108bd83617427ef572aacd0149e5dc. Guarded readiness and landing evidence confirms green checks and no unresolved review threads before each merge. Authorization: the user's explicit “merge and create a release” request. Main's resulting tree matches the tested v0.9.0 source. Release publication runs in workflow 38150989084.

The Intel macOS PR check hit one loopback LAN header timeout. The same head passed all four branch checks, and one unchanged retry passed all PR checks. No assertions or application behavior were altered for the retry.

Published release

v0.9.0 is published at main commit 0a140eec6ee24cacfc5bb0acb1be9698d72b7b28. All four release builds and publication passed. The release includes four archives, their SHA-256 files, and Homebrew/WinGet metadata. Tag revision and asset completeness were verified; the downloaded Linux archive checksum matches the published asset digest, and its --version/--help checks pass.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The cockpit gains a segmented precision dial, revised Home, Live, and Results screens, and a Space shortcut to start tests from Home or Results using current settings. The pull request also adds regression checks, localized text, and gallery capture and rendering tools.

Changes

Cockpit interface and quick start

Layer / File(s) Summary
Precision dial and completion state
src/tui/speedometer.rs, src/tui/speedometer/gauge.rs, src/tui/cockpit/state.rs, src/tui/app.rs, src/tui/cockpit/tests.rs
The animated gauge uses a segmented dial and displays the exact target sample. Completion handling preserves the active phase state until the completion event supplies the result.
Home, Live, and Results screens
src/tui/cockpit/view.rs, src/tui/cockpit/tests.rs, docs/network-cockpit.md
The screens display current settings, recent results, phase-specific live readings, and responsive metric layouts. Tests cover sample visibility and historical versus current settings.
Quick-start behavior and checks
src/tui/cockpit/state.rs, src/tui/cockpit/quick_start_tests.rs, src/tui/cockpit/mod.rs, .github/scripts/cockpit_smoke.py
An unmodified Space press starts a test from Home or Results using current options. Tests cover key and screen guards, repeat runs, cancellation, and unchanged saved history and exports.
Keyboard guidance and translations
docs/usage.md, src/i18n/locales/*.json
The guides describe the Home and Results Space action and updated live-display behavior. Locale files add labels and instructions for settings, samples, phases, and test controls.
Gallery rendering and capture workflow
docs/images/design/*, docs/images/readme/*, .github/workflows/cockpit-visuals.yml, README.md, docs/network-cockpit.md
Gallery scripts render images and GIFs from captured screen buffers. Documentation describes the fixtures and commands, and a workflow creates and uploads gallery artifacts.
Package version
Cargo.toml
The package version changes from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor Operator
  participant Cockpit
  participant TestEngine
  Operator->>Cockpit: Press unmodified Space on Home or Results
  Cockpit->>TestEngine: Start test with current session options
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Merge Risk | ⚪ Minimal · up to e0f3e

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e0f3e

The cockpit redesign and quick-start flow are mergeable after normal checks; no actionable merge-blocking risk is identified.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0f3e

The inspected changes reuse the existing measurement and saving controls without introducing a remote entrypoint or elevated permissions. No introduced security concern was established. Risk remains low rather than minimal because some changed surfaces have incomplete security coverage.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected gallery entrypoint operates with the invoking process’s filesystem authority. Input directories and output location are caller-selected, while output filenames and executable imports are fixed by repository code. No remote source-to-execution path was identified within this entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The capture workflow retains contents: read permissions and disables persisted checkout credentials. Adding gallery execution does not grant repository-write authority through these controls.
  • observed — Quick-start remains behind activity, modal, search, terminal-size, key-event, and modifier guards. It uses current session options and the existing start effect rather than introducing a separate measurement-authority path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The inspected shared lifecycle preserves failure containment: cancellation drops owned work and ignores stale callbacks, save failure retains the measured result, and repeated Results quick-start does not grow the navigation stack. The new callers do not create a separate persistence path.

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Space starts a test from Home or Results,
The live screen shows the changing pulse.
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Please review the redesign at 39106a4, stacked on #24. Focus on exact sample/phase ownership, compact localized layouts, and Home/Results quick-start navigation and cancellation. Local Rust (313 tests), Clippy, format, cockpit PTY, and eight-language localization checks pass. The PR includes actual renderer before/after captures.

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Both findings are fixed at d1b20ac. This commit also fixes a completion-event presentation edge case: PhaseChanged(Complete) waits for the actual result before replacing upload with final download, and reduced motion preserves the current target/peak. The new event-order regression covers upload faster than download in both motion modes. Full local verification passes; gallery assets remain byte-identical after recapture.

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