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Four fixes from field reports, nothing new. The largest: after a restart, the menu bar could sit wherever macOS had dropped the items, and re-applying the profile in Settings refused to run at all (#991). The always-hidden divider's window had dropped out of the item list while parked offscreen, so every layout apply that needed it either skipped itself or quit partway through. Thaw now recovers that divider from its own window record instead of searching the list. The rest: item previews work again in the layout editor on mixed Retina and non-Retina setups (#990), a drag into an empty collapsed section completes instead of deadlocking (#988), and overlay panels follow space switches on multi-display systems (#794).
Upgrade from 2.0.0
- Update in place through Sparkle.
- No settings, schema, or
defaultschanges in this release. Profiles and saved layouts carry over untouched.
Main fixes
- Profile applies survive a missing always-hidden divider (#991). After a restart the divider rests parked offscreen, and on macOS 26 that parked window intermittently drops out of the item list Thaw enumerates. Lookup then returned nil for the divider while downstream steps still treated the pair as fully resolved: applies skipped wholesale ("always-hidden divider unresolved while its section is enabled") or abandoned after the hidden-boundary moves had already run ("control items degraded before moving AH_ctrl" in the attached log, four milliseconds after a clean tag resolution). The reporter's bar never matched the saved profile, and manual re-applies failed the same way. The control-item pair now recovers the divider from its own window record, the authoritative channel the hidden divider has had since #754, and refuses to adopt a lookalike window from a duplicate Thaw instance. A divider the window server no longer knows is still refused, now under an accurate message instead of "control items degraded".
- Layout editor previews render on mixed-scale display setups (#990). Composite captures compared pixel width against bounds times the display scale and rejected any mismatch, but on a 1.0x external beside a Retina display the capture backend picks its own scale: the log recorded 70 rejections, an empty image cache, and gray placeholders for every item. Both composite paths now derive the scale from the capture itself, the same check single-item captures have used since #851, and degenerate zero-width windows are filtered from the bounds union so one orphaned window cannot reject a whole batch.
- A drag into an empty collapsed section completes instead of refusing forever (#988). The #923 guard refuses an editor drag whose destination divider is parked offscreen and suggests opening the section first; with every item in always-hidden there was nothing to open and nowhere to drop, which is exactly the reporter's bar. Thaw now reveals the empty destination, retargets the drag onto the freshly revealed divider, and re-conceals the section once the item settles. If the divider does not return within two seconds the old refusal stands. A drag cancelled mid-reveal, or one the move watchdog gives up on, restores the section's previous state instead of leaving it showing. Disabled sections never reveal.
- Overlay panels stay on the space you are looking at (#794). A panel kept whatever space was current when it was last shown; with "displays have separate spaces" enabled, every ctrl-arrow switch revealed a vanilla menu bar on both displays, and the tint, shape, and background appeared only on the space that was current at launch. Panels now check per display whether they sit on that display's current space and re-home only when actually stranded. Because the check compares each panel against its own display, the fullscreen drift that forced the old flag's removal cannot return. A re-check shortly after each switch re-shows a panel that a raced space read leaves behind, so the old 60-second housekeeping timer stays a backstop rather than the recovery path.