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Deletes the orphaned v3 left-rail surface: LeftRail, LeftPanel, its MediaPane / MediaList branch, and SourceTranscriptModal. 1437 deletions, 40 insertions.

The v4 refactor (03972b0e) moved the Chat/Media choice out of a left rail and into the top bar's Media/Edit/Rec switch. It stopped rendering LeftRail and pinned the only LeftPanel mount to the literal active="chat" — but left the media half of the branch in the tree. Since then:

  • LeftRail has had zero call sites (its only occurrence in the repo was its own definition).
  • MediaPane, MediaList and SourceTranscriptModal sat behind active === "chat" ? <ChatStripPanel/> : <MediaPane/>, where active could never be anything but "chat".

This is not free dead weight — it has already cost two bug-fix cycles. 493c7917 ("show the detected language where it can actually be seen") and 05eb06b4 ("wire the language list into the picker that's actually live") both landed language-picker work on SourceTranscriptModal before anyone noticed no user could open it. Unreachable code that still looks live attracts fixes that never reach a user.

ChatStripPanel — the only branch that ever ran — is now exported and mounted directly by NewEditorShell, so the LeftPanel wrapper goes too.

Also removed, because nothing else referenced them

  • toAxcutTranscriptDsl (src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcribe.ts) + its exclusive escapeDslString helper and test block. Its own doc comment names the deleted modal as its only consumer ("for display in the Source Transcript modal"); after this change its sole remaining caller was its own test.
  • 18 i18n keys across all 13 locales — the whole editor.leftPanel (5) and editor.leftRail (3) blocks, the whole common.playback block (4), and 6 dead editor.mediaStage.* keys. Verified each against the live tree first; mediaStage.transcribing, generationFailedHint and friends are still used by MediaStage.tsx / TranscriptionStatus.tsx and are untouched.
  • Orphaned CSS in NewEditorShell.module.css: the .rail block, .panelHead rules, and the media-card rules (.mediaList, .mediaCard, .thumb*, .mediaMeta, .importBtn). Kept .panel / .panelBody / .panelHeader, which ChatStripPanel still uses.

Docs — note the reversal

transcription-and-captions.md previously recorded a deliberate decision to keep the unreachable copy ("Both are kept correct rather than deleting the unreachable one, since nothing marks it dead code and a future rewire could reach it"). This PR reverses that call, so that paragraph is rewritten rather than left contradicting the tree.

Per the repo's convention for retired surfaces, LeftRail / MediaPane / SourceTranscriptModal are added to the LEGACY list in scripts/check-docs.mjs (which now forbids mentioning them outside decisions.md), and the removal is recorded in the "Surfaces that were removed" table. LeftPanel is deliberately not in that list — LeftPanel.tsx the file still exists and hosts ChatStripPanel.

Related issue

No linked issue — dead code found while investigating a report about a non-functional button in the timeline toolbar. That report turned out to be a mix-up (the timeline's "Add Full Camera" is correctly disabled, not broken), but tracing it surfaced this genuinely unreachable surface. No open issue or PR depends on it, and ROADMAP.md has no planned work here.

Type of change

  • Refactor / maintenance

Release impact

  • No release note needed

Nothing user-visible changes: every deleted surface was already unreachable at runtime.

Desktop impact

  • Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

Not applicable — no rendered surface changes. The deleted components could not be reached in the running app.

Testing

  • npm run test167 files / 1977 tests pass, 5 skipped. (The run reported 14 worker-startup timeouts from local CPU contention; the affected files pass when run directly, and every file touched here was re-run individually and passes.)
  • npx tsc --noEmit and npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit — both clean.
  • npm run lint — clean (13 pre-existing warnings, none new).
  • npm run i18n:check — all 12 locales still match en.
  • npm run docs:check — OK (31 files), including the new LEGACY entries.
  • Loaded the real module graph through Vite to confirm the import chain resolves: LeftPanel.tsx now exports exactly ChatStripPanel, and NewEditorShell imports it with no console errors.

LeftPanel.providerRefresh.test.tsx is kept and retargeted, not deleted: its describe is already "ChatStripPanel, against the lifted provider dialog" and it pins the #420 regression — <LeftPanel active="chat" /> was only ever its mount vehicle, now <ChatStripPanel />.

Follow-up (not in this PR)

styles.leftPanel, styles.handleLeft, styles.rightRail and styles.sepH in NewEditorShell.module.css are referenced by zero TSX — pre-existing orphans from the same v4 refactor, left alone here to keep this diff scoped to what it actually orphans.

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  • Updates
    • Simplified the editor layout with a focused chat sidebar and streamlined navigation.
    • Removed legacy media-pane and transcript preview controls from the editing experience.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved provider settings refresh behavior in the chat experience.
  • Localization
    • Removed outdated playback, navigation, and transcript-status translations across supported languages.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture and editor guidance to reflect the streamlined editing experience and current caption settings.

The v4 refactor (03972b0) moved the Chat/Media choice out of a left rail
and into the top bar's Media/Edit/Rec switch, then pinned the sole
LeftPanel mount to the literal active="chat" — but left the media half in
the tree. LeftRail has had zero call sites since, and MediaPane, MediaList
and SourceTranscriptModal have been unreachable behind a branch that
cannot run.

Unreachable code that still looks live attracts fixes: 493c791 and
05eb06b both landed language-picker work on SourceTranscriptModal before
anyone noticed no user could open it. That is the cost this removes.

ChatStripPanel — the only branch that ever ran — is now exported and
mounted directly, so LeftPanel goes with the rest.

Also removed because nothing else referenced them: toAxcutTranscriptDsl
(its doc comment names the deleted modal as its only consumer), 18 i18n
keys across 13 locales, and the orphaned CSS rules in
NewEditorShell.module.css.

Per the repo's convention for retired surfaces, the three names are added
to check-docs' LEGACY list and the removal is recorded in decisions.md.
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Walkthrough

The editor removes legacy media, transcript, and left-rail components. It mounts ChatStripPanel directly, removes obsolete serialization and localization entries, and updates tests, lint rules, comments, and architecture documentation.

Changes

Legacy editor surface removal

Layer / File(s) Summary
Chat shell simplification
src/components/ai-edition/LeftPanel.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/LeftPanel.providerRefresh.test.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.module.css
ChatStripPanel is exported and mounted directly. The media panel, left rail, related styles, and active="chat" wiring are removed.
Transcript surface removal
src/components/ai-edition/Modals.tsx, src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcribe.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcribe.test.ts, src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*
SourceTranscriptModal and toAxcutTranscriptDsl are removed. Obsolete transcript, playback, left-panel, and left-rail localization entries are deleted.
Legacy reference cleanup
scripts/check-docs.mjs, src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/format.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/format.test.ts, technical-documentation/architecture/*, src/lib/ai-edition/schema/index.ts
The documentation linter blocks removed component names. Timeline comments, schema comments, and architecture documentation describe the current ChatStripPanel and MediaStage structure.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 44377

The PR removes unreachable editor surfaces without changing live product behavior; only a minor documentation reference needs correction, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: vitaligusatinsky

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 10 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.) Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: removal of the orphaned v3 left rail and media pane.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the required sections and provides detailed scope, impact, rationale, and testing information.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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In `@technical-documentation/architecture/editor-shell.md`:
- Line 61: Update the NewEditorShell.tsx line reference in the ChatStripPanel
architecture documentation from 1133–1151 to 1191–1195, leaving the surrounding
behavior description unchanged.

Apply the same fix in `@src/components/ai-edition/LeftPanel.tsx` at line 445.

Apply the same fix in `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.tsx` around lines
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Comment thread technical-documentation/architecture/editor-shell.md Outdated
The table pointed at NewEditorShell.tsx :1133-1151; the conditional mount
is at :1191-1195. Caught in review on #479.
…uage table

The comment still described the deleted modal as a second consumer of
TRANSCRIPT_LANGUAGE_CODES, and repeated the 'kept rather than deleted'
rationale this PR reverses.
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Traité la review.

Le finding est valide, appliquéeditor-shell.md:61 pointait sur NewEditorShell.tsx :1133-1151, le mount conditionnel est bien à :1191-1195 (vérifié, et re-vérifié après le merge de main qui aurait pu décaler les lignes). Corrigé en b503a68.

Les deux emplacements secondaires suggérés ("apply the same fix") ne s'appliquent pas — vérifiés tous les deux :

  • LeftPanel.tsx:445 est la déclaration export function ChatStripPanel() {, sans référence de ligne.
  • MediaStage.tsx:326-330 est le commentaire déjà réécrit dans cette PR, sans référence de ligne non plus.

Trouvé en plus, hors review : un commentaire périmé dans src/lib/ai-edition/schema/index.ts décrivait encore SourceTranscriptModal comme second consommateur de TRANSCRIPT_LANGUAGE_CODES et répétait la justification « gardé plutôt que supprimé » que cette PR renverse. Corrigé en 43366f1.

Un sweep complet sur src/, electron/, workbench/, website/, technical-documentation/ et .harness/ ne laisse plus aucune référence aux symboles supprimés, hors les mentions volontaires dans decisions.md et la liste LEGACY.

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522-522: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the source reference.

Use lines 412 and 470 for getCaptionSettings and patchCaptionSettings. Replace the settings.ts:387 target with a valid line-anchor URL.

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In `@technical-documentation/architecture/transcription-and-captions.md` at line
522, Update the source reference in the documentation to point to valid line
anchors for getCaptionSettings and patchCaptionSettings at lines 412 and 470,
replacing the outdated settings.ts:387 target while preserving the existing
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