[ksaxena149]

Closes #2295.

What changes

The status bar painted its hint and messages with painter().text, so a path, a file that would not open or the reason an export stopped could be read but not selected, copied, found by a screen reader or read by an agent. It is now a selectable egui::Label in the same 20 px bar:

• Select and copy. Drag across the message and press Ctrl+C.
• Long messages end in "…" before the running job's "Exporting… 42%" and progress bar, instead of running underneath them. Hovering shows the full text.
• Clicks. The 8 s auto-clear stays. A click beside the text still dismisses the message, as before. A click on the text starts a selection instead. The cancel button keeps its own click.
• Agents read the whole message, even when it is shortened on screen, as the status.text element (ui.elements). I added a short note about it to docs/control-protocol.md.

Copying with the keyboard

The issue asks for text that can be copied, and the label alone was not enough. A selected egui label is copied only through the Copy event (Ctrl+C), but Ctrl+C on selected text also reached the app's own Copy shortcut (edit.copy) through clipboard_events_as_keys. With clips selected, it copied the clips and put their names on the clipboard. With no clips selected, it replaced the message being copied with "command edit.copy is not available right now: no clips selected".

Selected label text now keeps Copy and Cut, the same way a focused text field does, so the message can actually be copied. The check (LabelSelectionState::has_selection) runs before input_mut, so the plugin lock is never taken inside the input lock. It is not specific to the status bar: any selected label text keeps Ctrl+C.

Tests

crates/ui-egui/tests/status_bar_ui.rs (new; all four tests fail on main):

• a_status_message_can_be_selected_and_copied: with every clip selected, drag-select the message and press Ctrl+C. The clipboard gets the message, no clips are copied, and the message stays.
• the_hint_is_a_label_too
• a_click_beside_the_text_dismisses_the_message
• a_long_message_ends_before_the_job_progress: also checks that the job's cancel button still takes its own click.

lib.rs: a new unit test, selected_label_text_keeps_copy_and_cut.

chrome_ui.rs: body_extent measures the panels and now leaves out status.* the way it already left out header.*, since the status bar now registers an element. Both chrome tests also check that the status bar is there when shown and gone when hidden.

I also rendered the app offscreen with the text selected next to a running export and checked the result by eye: selection in the accent colour, the message shortened before "Exporting… 42%".

Gates

cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo xtask layers, cargo xtask assets and cargo xtask wasm all pass. cargo test --workspace passes except for dev_icon::tests::desktop_file_matches_the_packaged_fields, which fails on main without this change too (the packaged .desktop file gained MimeType; the dev entry did not). Open PRs #1958 and #1725 already address it.

Notes for review

• status bar: an error is drawn larger, in the danger colour, and stays longer #1629 (danger-coloured errors in the status bar) changes the same few lines. Whichever lands second needs a small rebase, and the two fit together: its error styling can wrap the same label.
• On macOS, Cmd+C goes through the native menu bar to edit.copy and never reaches the egui shortcut path. Ctrl+C on Windows and Linux is fixed here. I could not test macOS, so I left that path alone.
• The second commit adds my own entry to contributors/people.toml.

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📝 Walkthrough

The status bar now displays selectable, truncated text and supports copying selected labels. The change also updates status-bar tests and protocol documentation, and adds a contributor record for Kushagra Saxena.

Changes: Status bar text interaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Selectable status text and job layout crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs	The status message is rendered as a selectable, truncated label. Job progress is rendered before the message, and its text position is used for layout.
Clipboard shortcut handling crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs	Clipboard conversion checks whether a label is selected. Copy and Cut events remain available for selected text; Paste is still converted to a key event.
Status bar tests and protocol documentation crates/ui-egui/tests/status_bar_ui.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/chrome_ui.rs, docs/control-protocol.md	UI tests cover selecting and copying status text, dismissal, progress layout, and cancellation. Chrome tests check status element visibility. The protocol documentation describes status.text as the complete message or hint, even when visually shortened.

Contributor record

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add contributor entry contributors/people.toml	Adds the people.ksaxena149 record with the real name “Kushagra Saxena.”

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: echelon

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 97c6b

The status-bar behavior has no established blocking defect. Confirm that the named contributor supplied or authorized the credits entry before merging.

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 97c6b

Status messages become easier to copy and read programmatically, without adding a remote access route or editing privilege. Existing local-control access remains unchanged.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The added programmatic exposure is the running application's status message or hint. A process able to use the enabled control port can now retrieve it directly, but that same interface already permits engine and UI commands. The inspected change does not establish a new lower-privilege caller class or remote network exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing desktop channel binds to 127.0.0.1 and is explicitly enabled by a control-port setting. It has no authentication; loopback reachability is not caller identity. Existing controls reject non-request lines, bound request size and concurrent connections, and restrict bridge addresses to loopback. These controls and the unauthenticated local exposure predate this PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Automation queries use the previous completed registry snapshot, replaced at each frame, rather than an accumulating status history. Job cancellation retains job-specific identity and the existing cancellation atomic; the new long-message test checks that the intended job receives cancellation despite the changed layout.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The status-bar implementation, tests, chrome coverage, and control-protocol documentation support issue #2295. The added [people.ksaxena149] entry in contributors/people.toml only records contribu…	Remove the unrelated contributor entry from this pull request, or move it to a separate contributor or metadata change.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 57.69% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 26 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: status bar text can be selected and copied.
Linked Issues check		Issue #2295 is the active directly linked issue. The PR changes the status hint and transient message from painted text to a selectable egui::Label in the 20 px status bar. The implementation trunca…

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Explanation

Issue #2295 is the active directly linked issue. The PR changes the status hint and transient message from painted text to a selectable egui::Label in the 20 px status bar. The implementation truncates long text before job progress, preserves the 8-second auto-clear, and keeps clicks on the text from dismissing the message. The new status-bar tests cover selection, copying, hint rendering, dismissal beside the text, progress layout, and cancel-button behavior. The reported status.text element exposes the complete message for text tools and agents.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The status-bar implementation, tests, chrome coverage, and control-protocol documentation support issue #2295. The added [people.ksaxena149] entry in contributors/people.toml only records contributor identity. It has no connection to selectable status-bar text or its required behavior.

Resolution

Remove the unrelated contributor entry from this pull request, or move it to a separate contributor or metadata change.

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Explanation

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Resolution

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