fix(desktop): localize the native file and save dialog titles - #5179
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The open and save panels carried English titles in every locale, so a zh user picking a reference folder or saving a conversation read the one English string on an otherwise translated screen. `All Files` was the worst of them: the panel lists it beside the OS's own localized entries. Format names (`Markdown`, `Skill Markdown`, `PNG and JPEG`) stay in English — they identify a file format rather than a product concept. Deletes runtime-host-boot-copy.ts, whose only importer was its own test. Generated-by: Claude Code
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Twelve upstream commits. Two reach the new renderer's contracts: apache#5225 unifies connection-scoped model configuration (`relayModelProfiles` becomes `modelOverrides`, `ModelOverride` is a superset of the old relay profile, catalog entries carry image support and limits before a user override and lose `describedByMetadata`; protocol epoch 147 → 149) and apache#4901 keeps Side Conversation follow-ups visible (one queue projection for every chat surface, and the settlement reader can wait for a Turn's terminal record through the Host's Turn index). Also in: apache#5192's scroll geometry (the authority now publishes ranges only while native input is idle, with `commitIfIdle` / `subscribeToIdle` and a `settled` reader phase), apache#5229's terminal recovery on the main side (`shellRuns.recover` / `subscribeCloseChanges`; `write` / `stop` return nothing), typed OAuth failure reasons (apache#4887), main-process copy catalogs (apache#5178), localized native dialog titles (apache#5179), per-command CLI help (apache#5181), the renderer architecture ratchet hardening (apache#4584) and CI trims (apache#5187, apache#5241). Resolution per the sync policy: conflicts under the old renderer's trees, packages/ui's deleted components, stories, e2e specs and the main tests that import them stay deleted, and upstream's new files there are dropped (`application/contracts/*`, `features/connection-settings/provider-*`, the `use-app-shell-session-ui-state.ts` git placed under `lib/ported`, the `scroll-geometry` and `side-chat-followups` e2e specs, the connections IPC test additions that import the old settings services). The renderer architecture checker and ledger keep ours (apache#4584 hardens a base comparison our variant does not use). `workbar-layout.ts` / `workbar-tabs.ts` keep ours: git's rename pairing had merged apache#5229's `restore-terminals` / `close-terminal` actions into them, which nothing here dispatches yet. `runtime-host-quit-copy.ts` keeps our copy, which leads with `activeTitle` on purpose, so the catalog type drops `activeMessage`. Astryx stays out: upstream's scroll authority is taken and its `ChatLayoutScrollButton` removed again. Re-implemented for the new contracts: - `lib/ported/session-message-settlement.ts` is upstream's, reaching the preload through `bridge/` (`openTranscript`, `listTurns`) rather than `window.maka`; the range-store main test that drives it is upstream's with `lib/ported` paths. - `lib/ported/message-queue-projection.ts` joins from upstream; the event handlers' `queue_update` derives both the queue entries and the transient messages from it (follow-ups now filtered to `queued` like steering). - `bridge/shell-runs.ts` returns nothing from `write` / `stop`. - Settings › Models renames relay profiles to model overrides and drops the "not described by metadata" token and its copy. - `packages/ui` `transcript-scroll-authority.tsx` is upstream's minus the Astryx button; `use-chat-scroll.ts` and `transcript-viewport-navigation.ts` merged cleanly, so the session view gets the idle-gated range publication through the store's existing `viewportNavigation`. `TransientUserMessageProjection` gains `pendingSteering?` so the projection's flag is a declared field. Settings › Models still writes the whole override table; the per-model `modelOverride` path is recorded in the release checklist as a follow-up. The compatible-change declaration is unchanged this round. Gates: build:test + build:renderer, typecheck, biome lint and format, locale hygiene, ASF headers, renderer architecture ledger (rewritten with `--write`), e2e budget, third-party notices, knip (three more unused files, all upstream's new `scripts/perf/*`), desktop dist tests (1619), renderer state (282), Electron smoke (44 checks, no renderer errors), core-dialogue smoke, streaming-switch smoke. `packages/runtime` `model-adapter-onerror` fails on this machine before and after, as in the eleventh sync. Committed with `--no-verify`: the staged Biome step flags upstream's new `patches/@XTerm+xterm+6.0.0.patch` (escape sequences Biome's stdin mode cannot round-trip — the known false positive); the file is byte-identical to upstream and the other hook steps (ASF headers, protocol epoch, whitespace) were run by hand and pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
The native open and save panels carried English titles in every locale. A zh user picking a reference folder, adding attachments, importing a Skill or a pet, or saving a conversation read the one English string on an otherwise translated screen.
All Fileswas the worst of the set: the file-type dropdown lists it directly beside the OS's own localized entries, so the panel reads half-translated.Seven strings move into
native-file-dialog-copy.ts, a typedUiCatalogbeside the existingproject-picker-copy.ts. Two call sites (markdown-save-ipc-main.ts,pet-pack-import.ts) andruntime-host-skills-ipc-main.tsgain aresolveLocaledependency, the formcreatePermissionOverlayMainalready uses; the lower-levelmarkdown-save-main.tsstill takes a plain string, so nothing below the IPC boundary starts depending on a catalog.Format names stay in English on purpose:
Markdown,Skill MarkdownandPNG and JPEGidentify a file format, not a product concept, and translating them would add noise rather than clarity.This also deletes
runtime-host-boot-copy.ts— 90 lines of trilingual catalog whose only importer was its own test. The live copy for that surface isnative-diagnostic-dialog-copy.ts.Refs #2672
Verification
The five failures are
browser-message-box, red on the unmodified base (7 tests, 5 fail), unrelated to this diff.The new test asserts every key differs from its English value and carries Han text in both Chinese locales, so a forgotten translation fails rather than silently shipping English.
Review focus
dialog.titleis honoured on Windows and Linux; macOS does not render it on the native panel. The change is still correct there —All Filesappears in the file-type dropdown on all three platforms — but a macOS screenshot would not show the titles.main.ts'sshowErrorBox('Maka Dev', …)is deliberately untouched: it is the catch-path fallback for a development-only single-instance dialog whose main path already resolves the system locale throughDEV_SINGLETON_COPY.AI use
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Tool(s) and scope: Claude Code — located the untranslated sites, wrote the catalog and the locale plumbing, the test, and this description. The zh-CN/zh-TW wording and the decision to leave format names in English were the contributor's. The commit carries a
Generated-by: Claude Codetrailer.Checklist
Does this PR entail a change in behavior?
All Filesfilter label now follow the Desktop locale