feat(design): UI design pass plan#32
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… motion, themes Adds 'docs/zeus-design.md', the design plan for making Zeus's chrome something you notice. Covers: - title bar / activity bar / command palette redesigns - per-OS native typography stack (SF Mono / Cascadia Code / JetBrains Mono) - motion that earns its place (focus change, palette open, save) - four hand-tuned themes shipped enabled (Light/Dark/HC/Dim) - status bar grouped into git / AI / editor clusters - density modes Design only. Implementation is incremental; each section becomes its own commit + design review when work starts.
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This pull request introduces a comprehensive design specification for the Zeus editor, covering UI components like the title bar, activity bar, and status bar, alongside guidelines for typography, motion, and themes. The review feedback suggests refining the Linux monospace font stack to prioritize native system fonts, adding a configuration option to toggle the real-time cost indicator in the status bar for a better user experience, and clarifying the hierarchy of the proposed density modes.
- Linux primary monospace: JetBrains Mono -> Ubuntu Mono. JetBrains Mono isn't system-native on Linux; move it to the bundled fallback slot. Keeps the 'per-OS native' framing honest. - Status bar: explicit pointer to zeus.ai.hud.enabled so the cost segment can be hidden — clarifies the design isn't a forced always-on ticker. - Density modes: spell out the comfortable > cozy > compact ordering (mirrors Material / Gmail convention) instead of listing them unordered. Removes ambiguity for implementation.
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This pull request introduces a comprehensive design specification for the Zeus editor UI, outlining enhancements to the title bar, activity bar, command palette, typography, motion, themes, and status bar. Review feedback highlighted an inconsistency in the typography section regarding the Inter font's role, requested clarification for an unexplained icon in the status bar diagram, and noted that the screenshots required by the acceptance criteria are currently missing.
…creenshot scope Address Gemini sweep: - Inter on Linux: previously listed as both 'primary' and 'fallback'. Reword so the primary is the system UI font and Inter is the bundled fallback (same model as JetBrains Mono for monospace). - Status bar diagram: the unlabeled [ ⓘ ] is actually the vscode Problems indicator. Spell it out and explain why we pull it next to the AI HUD (editor diagnostics adjacent to AI diagnostics). - Acceptance criteria: 'before/after screenshot per section' was literally impossible in this design-only PR. Re-scope it to 'when its implementation PR lands'.
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This pull request introduces a comprehensive design document for the Zeus editor, detailing plans for UI components, typography, motion, and status bar layouts. Feedback includes addressing a broken link to a missing documentation file, improving font fallback consistency across platforms, adjusting animation durations for better visual smoothness, and simplifying redundant font stack definitions.
…tte open, defer HUD link
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Goal
The design plan for making Zeus's chrome something a user notices when they first open the editor. VS Code's UI is functional but visually anonymous; Zed has reset what 'modern editor design' feels like in 2026.
Design: `docs/zeus-design.md`
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What this PR ships
`docs/zeus-design.md` only. Implementation is incremental; each section becomes its own commit + design review when work starts.