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THE DRAWER USED TO ARRIVE WITH THE SELECTION. IsDrawerOpen read "a host is selected", so touching any card took 304 pixels off the grid — including every card arrowed past on the way to the one somebody wanted. Choosing among forty machines was charged the price of the pane for one of them. A pencil now appears on the card under the pointer and on the selected card, and that is what opens it; IsHostPaneOpen is the flag, and the grid's context menu gained Details… so the pane is reachable without a pointer, which a hover-only control is not. Once open it follows the selection rather than pinning the host it was opened on: a pane about one host beside a grid marking a different one is two answers to the same question. Losing the selection closes it and clears the flag, or a filter matching nothing would leave the pane armed to spring open again on the next card merely selected — which is the behaviour the pencil exists to remove. The pencil is drawn over the card rather than in a column of its own. A column would have cost the name 30 pixels of a 232-pixel tile, permanently, for a control that is only there while the pointer is; the dot and the pencil stack in the two corners of that edge instead. IsVisible and not opacity, because a button at zero opacity still takes the click and the card underneath does not. A HEADER, A BODY THAT SCROLLS, AND A FOOTER, which is the one structural change in the pane. The header names what the drawer is about and carries the two things true of every panel; the footer carries the one thing each panel is for — CONNECT, or SAVE, or the question about deleting. Only the middle scrolls, so the button somebody came here to press can no longer be below the fold, which CONNECT could be on a host with fifteen tags. That also widens what the layout harness certifies: it skips anything inside a ScrollViewer, and the control each panel exists to offer is now outside one. THE SAME THREE CARDS TWICE. Address, General, Connection — first as rows stating what the host is, then as boxes for changing it. The detail pane's rows are buttons that open the editor: the design draws every fact as a filled box, and rather than draw an input that refuses the pointer, pressing one leads to the same card with a real box in it. Nothing here saves as you type, and that is not timidity — saving validates the key-or-credential exclusion and writes one encrypted payload, so a box committing per keystroke would be a save per character and a half-typed hostname on the wire. Every value the pane prints is the resolved one, and says "inherited" beside it where a group supplied it. The number is the same either way and the edit is not: clearing a group's default moves every host that never overrode it. A HOST CARD IS TWO LINES AND NO CHIPS. The subtitle is now "ssh, root, pci, eu-west-1" — the transport, the resolved account, then every tag — replacing both the user@host:port line and the wrapped row of tag chips under it. The address went to the card's tooltip rather than nowhere: a card is read while scanning forty machines, where the name and the kind of machine are what is being looked for, and an address is what you read once you have found it. "ssh" is a constant today and is printed anyway, which is the one thing here that argues with this codebase's own rule about constants dressed as readings. It is the first item of a list whose other items vary, and a list beginning with the account on one card and a tag on the next has no shape to scan. The remark on HostRowViewModel.Summary says so rather than leaving it to be discovered. WHAT THE DESIGN DRAWS AND THIS PANE HAS NOT GOT: Share this host, Add Telnet, "SSH ID, Certificate, FIDO2", the backspace-key mapping row, the vault picker's chevron and Show more. Sharing is per vault and not per item, every session here is an SSH channel, there are no identity or certificate item types, nothing carries a terminal setting to the renderer, and an item cannot be moved between vaults at all. Six controls with nothing behind them, listed in docs/design-import-gaps.md with what ships instead, and none drawn disabled. The credentials row is marked with ◆ rather than the ⚿ the nav rail uses for the keychain. U+26BF is outside both faces this application substitutes for the design's fonts, so it lands on whatever the platform's fallback has; every other glyph in the pane is from Geometric Shapes, which both carry.