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The keyboard had an Escape key. The rename box could not reach it.
Renaming a folder on a touch-only tablet brought up a keyboard with no way to cancel. Our own keyboard has an Escape key and a digit row — and a condition, written for a good reason, that had outlived the reason by about a year.
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It only just fits, which is why it broke
A folder dialog whose icons appeared large and then shrank. Five changes had accumulated on it, and the one that caused the jump was not the one that looked suspicious — it was the one that crossed a threshold nobody knew was there, five pixels away.
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Seven characters of an app name, and the cell was never the problem
The app grid ellipsized every name after about seven characters. Widening the cells cannot work, because the cells are square by construction and height is the scarce axis — so surplus width can only ever become gap. The fix was to stop letting the grid decide how big its canvas is.
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Three buttons in the panel were one function, and the one I used most was fifteen items deep
The top bar had three e-ink controls crowded into the box GNOME reserves for the clock, while both ends sat half empty. Rebuilding them meant not borrowing anyone's buttons — both actions turned out to be public interfaces we could call ourselves.