From 15b35e6ff30473f80a76cded2085be01adf21bdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheSevenPens <98374109+TheSevenPens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:34:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] feat: tidy Home's About column

Three changes to the right-hand column.

The app-icon watermark is gone. It was 200px of decoration at the foot
of a reference column, and it was also the tallest thing on the page --
with it removed, Home fits at the default window size again instead of
scrolling once a few tablets are remembered. That had been an open cost
of the 44px section headings; it turns out the logo was paying most of
it.

The version moves onto the ABOUT heading as "(v0.73.0 BETA)" instead of
taking a row of its own. It is something you look up when reporting a
problem, not something you read down the column, so it rides along with
the heading it belongs to.

The Help card becomes a manual page (docs/user/HELP.md), reached by a
"Get help" link at the top of RESOURCES. The guidance had outgrown a
paragraph: a page can also say what to include in a post, which is what
actually makes the first reply useful. The Discord link and the reason
it is the first stop rather than the OpenTabletDriver forums live there
now.

That retires the inline-link plumbing in the code-behind -- about fifty
lines that hit-tested the pointer against one run's character range in
the text layout, because Avalonia has no inline hyperlink and an
embedded button will not baseline-align in flowing text. An ordinary
link in a list needs none of it. HelpDiscordUrl goes with it.

Verified live: all four Resources links present with Get help first, the
version beside the heading, and Home no longer scrolling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs | 16 ++---
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml        | 56 +++++-------------
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml.cs     | 58 ++-----------------
 docs/user/HELP.md                             | 25 ++++++++
 docs/user/USERMANUAL.md                       |  5 ++
 5 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/user/HELP.md

diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs b/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs
index 4442570..eafb67b 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ public AboutViewModel(IDialogService? dialogs = null, Func<string?>? detectedTab
     /// <summary>The user manual, rendered on GitHub.</summary>
     public string UserManualUrl => $"{RepoUrl}/blob/master/docs/user/USERMANUAL.md";
 
-    /// <summary>The Drawing Tablet community Discord — where users should go for help (#568). Deliberately
-    /// not the OpenTabletDriver forums: an issue is only forwarded to OTD once it's confirmed to be an OTD
-    /// problem, so the first stop is the OTA help channel.</summary>
-    public string HelpDiscordUrl => "https://discord.gg/Rr2MXeM7Ny";
+    /// <summary>The manual's "Getting help" page — where to ask, and what to include when you do. Replaces
+    /// the Help card that used to sit on Home (#568): the guidance outgrew a paragraph, and a page can say
+    /// what to include in a post without turning the column into an essay. The Discord link lives there
+    /// now, along with the reason it is the first stop rather than the OpenTabletDriver forums.</summary>
+    public string HelpUrl => $"{RepoUrl}/blob/master/docs/user/HELP.md";
 
     /// <summary>App version, read from the assembly so it never drifts (the release workflow stamps
     /// the tag version at build). Moved here from the sidebar footer so version info lives on About.</summary>
@@ -48,9 +49,10 @@ public AboutViewModel(IDialogService? dialogs = null, Func<string?>? detectedTab
         Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
             .GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute>()?.InformationalVersion);
 
-    /// <summary>"Version v0.6.0 BETA"-style label for the About card — folds in the BETA tag that used
-    /// to sit in the title bar (#home-version).</summary>
-    public string AppVersionLabel => $"Version {AppVersion} BETA";
+    /// <summary>"(v0.6.0 BETA)"-style suffix, shown beside the ABOUT heading rather than on a line of its
+    /// own. The version is reference matter — worth having to hand when reporting a problem, not worth a
+    /// row in the column — so it rides along with the heading it belongs to.</summary>
+    public string AppVersionParenthetical => $"({AppVersion} BETA)";
 
     /// <summary>Opens a URL in the user's default browser.</summary>
     [RelayCommand]
diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
index 9f47359..1c89a5e 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
@@ -8,32 +8,17 @@
     <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
         <c:Section>
             <StackPanel>
-                <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="ABOUT" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
+                <!-- The version rides on the heading rather than taking a row of its own: it is something
+                     you look up when reporting a problem, not something you read down the column. -->
+                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="7" Margin="0,0,0,12">
+                    <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="ABOUT" />
+                    <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel" Text="{Binding AppVersionParenthetical}"
+                               VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                </StackPanel>
                 <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" LineHeight="22"
                            Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}">
                     OpenTablet Artist is an alternative, artist-friendly experience for OpenTabletDriver on Windows.
                 </TextBlock>
-                <!-- Version (moved here from the sidebar footer) -->
-                <TextBlock Text="{Binding AppVersionLabel}" Margin="0,12,0,0"
-                           Foreground="{DynamicResource TextMutedBrush}" />
-            </StackPanel>
-        </c:Section>
-
-        <!-- HELP card (#568): the obvious "where do I get help" entry point. Points to the Drawing Tablet
-             Discord's help forum — deliberately NOT the OpenTabletDriver forums, since most issues aren't
-             OTD-specific and should be triaged in the OTA channel first. -->
-        <c:Section Margin="0,12,0,0">
-            <StackPanel Spacing="10">
-                <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="HELP" Margin="0,0,0,2" />
-                <!-- "Drawing Tablet Discord" is a real (accent + underline) Run so it sits exactly on the
-                     text baseline; the code-behind hit-tests the pointer against that run's character range
-                     to make just that phrase a clickable link (opens the help forum). Avalonia has no inline
-                     hyperlink, and an InlineUIContainer button won't baseline-align in flowing text. -->
-                <TextBlock x:Name="HelpText" TextWrapping="Wrap" LineHeight="22"
-                           Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}"
-                           PointerMoved="OnHelpPointerMoved" PointerPressed="OnHelpPointerPressed">
-                    Post in the <Run FontWeight="SemiBold">#help-forum</Run> channel on the <Run x:Name="DiscordLink" FontWeight="SemiBold" Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}" TextDecorations="Underline">Drawing Tablet Discord</Run> and put <Run FontWeight="SemiBold">“OTA”</Run> in the title, so it reaches the right people.
-                </TextBlock>
             </StackPanel>
         </c:Section>
 
@@ -42,6 +27,15 @@
         <c:Section Margin="0,12,0,0">
             <StackPanel Spacing="10">
                 <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="RESOURCES" Margin="0,0,0,2" />
+                <!-- First in the list: the Help card that used to sit above became a manual page, and
+                     this is the entry point to it. -->
+                <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding HelpUrl}"
+                        Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
+                        HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding HelpUrl}">
+                    <TextBlock Text="Get help"
+                               Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
+                               TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                </Button>
                 <!-- Opens OTD's supported-tablets catalog in the in-app dialog (#155), not a browser —
                      replaces the former standalone Home "Supported tablets" card. -->
                 <Button Command="{Binding OpenSupportedTabletsCommand}"
@@ -74,23 +68,5 @@
                 </Button>
             </StackPanel>
         </c:Section>
-
-        <!-- App icon at the bottom of the About column: the B&W mark (appicon-bw.svg geometry) drawn as a
-             theme-tinted vector, so it reads as dark-on-light and light-on-dark across skins. Each figure
-             keeps EvenOdd so the screen/frame negative space renders. -->
-        <Viewbox Width="200" Height="200" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,20,0,0">
-            <Canvas Width="1134" Height="1134">
-                <Path Fill="{DynamicResource TextPrimaryBrush}">
-                    <Path.Data>
-                        <PathGeometry FillRule="EvenOdd" Figures="M67.881,706.093l0,60.509l194.771,35.294l-111.81,86.208l-150.843,-37.711l0,-566.929l1133.858,-283.465l0,1133.858l-804.023,-201.006l137.598,-93.849l509.477,92.32l0,-756.884l-909.028,184.71l-0,80.115c274.349,-143.909 556.831,-142.046 824.857,-48.594l-175.399,47.545c0,0 -80.391,-8.367 -196.931,13.995c-171.271,32.865 -338.359,144.288 -452.527,253.882Z" />
-                    </Path.Data>
-                </Path>
-                <Path Fill="{DynamicResource TextPrimaryBrush}">
-                    <Path.Data>
-                        <PathGeometry FillRule="EvenOdd" Figures="M91.748,1053.609l-24.289,17.329c-13.494,9.628 -32.276,6.475 -41.915,-7.035c-9.639,-13.511 -6.509,-32.296 6.985,-41.923l25.193,-17.974l-7.503,-10.939l624.5,-482.003l52.705,-54.925l185.569,-50.125l14.524,20.246l-104.321,163.385l-63.123,27l-660.639,448.171l-7.687,-11.206Z" />
-                    </Path.Data>
-                </Path>
-            </Canvas>
-        </Viewbox>
     </StackPanel>
 </UserControl>
diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml.cs b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml.cs
index 1d4b35a..c9980f6 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml.cs
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml.cs
@@ -1,60 +1,12 @@
-using Avalonia;
 using Avalonia.Controls;
-using Avalonia.Controls.Documents;
-using Avalonia.Input;
-using OpenTabletArtist.ViewModels;
 
 namespace OpenTabletArtist.Views;
 
+// (The inline-link plumbing that used to live here went with the Help card. Avalonia has no inline
+// hyperlink, so making one phrase of a paragraph clickable meant hit-testing the pointer against that
+// run's character range in the text layout — about fifty lines of it, for one sentence. The help text is
+// a manual page now, reached by an ordinary link in RESOURCES, so none of it is needed.)
 public partial class AboutView : UserControl
 {
-    // "Drawing Tablet Discord" is a plain (accent + underline) Run so it aligns exactly to the text
-    // baseline. Avalonia has no inline hyperlink, and an embedded InlineUIContainer button won't
-    // baseline-align in flowing text — so we make just that run clickable by hit-testing the pointer
-    // against its character range in the paragraph.
-    private static readonly Cursor HandCursor = new(StandardCursorType.Hand);
-    private (int start, int length)? _linkRange;
-
-    public AboutView()
-    {
-        InitializeComponent();
-    }
-
-    // Character range of the DiscordLink run within the paragraph. TextLayout indexes the same inline
-    // texts we sum here, so the offsets line up. Cached after the first lookup (the inlines are static).
-    private (int start, int length) LinkRange()
-    {
-        if (_linkRange is { } cached) return cached;
-        int start = 0;
-        if (HelpText.Inlines is { } inlines)
-        {
-            foreach (var inline in inlines)
-            {
-                if (inline == DiscordLink)
-                    return (_linkRange = (start, (DiscordLink.Text ?? string.Empty).Length)).Value;
-                if (inline is Run run) start += run.Text?.Length ?? 0;
-            }
-        }
-        return (_linkRange = (0, 0)).Value;
-    }
-
-    private bool IsOverLink(Point p)
-    {
-        var (start, length) = LinkRange();
-        if (length == 0) return false;
-        var hit = HelpText.TextLayout.HitTestPoint(p);
-        if (!hit.IsInside) return false;
-        int pos = hit.CharacterHit.FirstCharacterIndex;
-        return pos >= start && pos < start + length;
-    }
-
-    private void OnHelpPointerMoved(object? sender, PointerEventArgs e)
-        => HelpText.Cursor = IsOverLink(e.GetPosition(HelpText)) ? HandCursor : Cursor.Default;
-
-    private void OnHelpPointerPressed(object? sender, PointerPressedEventArgs e)
-    {
-        if (!e.GetCurrentPoint(HelpText).Properties.IsLeftButtonPressed) return;
-        if (IsOverLink(e.GetPosition(HelpText)) && DataContext is AboutViewModel vm)
-            vm.OpenUrlCommand.Execute(vm.HelpDiscordUrl);
-    }
+    public AboutView() => InitializeComponent();
 }
diff --git a/docs/user/HELP.md b/docs/user/HELP.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1e0ed7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/user/HELP.md
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Getting help
+
+*(Part of the [User Manual](USERMANUAL.md).)*
+
+## Try Troubleshooting first
+
+Most of what people run into is already covered in **[Troubleshooting](TROUBLESHOOTING.md)** — the daemon not connecting, a tablet not being detected, pressure not working in an art app, settings that won't stick.
+
+## Where to ask
+
+Post in the **#help-forum** channel on the [Drawing Tablet Discord](https://discord.gg/Rr2MXeM7Ny), and put **"OTA"** in the title so it reaches the right people.
+
+That's deliberately *not* the OpenTabletDriver forums. Most issues aren't OTD-specific, and starting in the OTA channel gets them to people who know this app — anything that turns out to be a driver problem can be passed on from there.
+
+If you've found a bug or want to request a feature, [open an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/TheSevenPens/OpenTabletArtist/issues) instead.
+
+## What to include
+
+A post with these answered usually gets sorted in one reply:
+
+- **Your OTA version** — on the **Home** page, in parentheses next to *ABOUT*.
+- **Your tablet** — the model as it appears in the tablet switcher, and whether OTA shows it as connected.
+- **What you expected, and what happened instead.** If it's about how the pen feels, say which app you were drawing in.
+- **Whether the daemon is connected** — Home tells you, and **Advanced → Daemon** has the details.
+- **A screenshot**, if anything looks wrong on screen.
diff --git a/docs/user/USERMANUAL.md b/docs/user/USERMANUAL.md
index cb68178..88715c5 100644
--- a/docs/user/USERMANUAL.md
+++ b/docs/user/USERMANUAL.md
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Every paired or connected tablet also appears on **Home** under *Your tablets*.
 - **[Settings page](SETTINGS.md)** — Presets · Hotkeys · Appearance · System (Startup/Shortcut/Driver Cleanup) · Developer.
 - **[Advanced page](ADVANCED.md)** — Daemon · Console · Drivers · Configs · Diagnostics · Plugins.
 - **[Plugins](PLUGINS.md)** — what ships with OTA, what the Pen Dynamics plugin does, and whether you need any others.
+- **[Getting help](HELP.md)** — where to ask when something isn't working, and what to include.
 
 
 ## System tray & background mode
@@ -71,3 +72,7 @@ The OTD daemon is a separate process and keeps running after our app's window cl
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 **See [Troubleshooting](TROUBLESHOOTING.md).**
+
+## Getting help
+
+If Troubleshooting doesn't cover it, **see [Getting help](HELP.md)** — where to ask, and what to include so the first reply is a useful one.

From 68a43bf9f38dfb5af52e3db6602c9dae86fd4c9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheSevenPens <98374109+TheSevenPens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:41:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] =?UTF-8?q?feat:=20swap=20Home's=20columns=20=E2=80=94?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20attention=20right,=20about=20+=20tablets=20left?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Right column is now everything wanting attention and nothing else; left
is About/Resources leading into YOUR TABLETS.

The daemon-problem card moved right along with the health list. It was
not named in the request, but it is an alert about something needing
attention, and leaving it behind would have stranded it between
RESOURCES and YOUR TABLETS -- the one place on the page it makes no
sense. Both children of the right column hide themselves when nothing
is wrong, so on a healthy machine that column is empty by design: the
blank right half IS the "all good" signal.

Retuned the one seam this created. "your tablets" carried a 30px top
margin to clear the needs-attention block that used to sit above it;
following RESOURCES it only needs enough to read as a new section, so
30 -> 18, and the About block's trailing 4 goes. Without that the last
tablet row fell below the fold.

Verified live: all four tablet rows visible, the alert in the right
column, About leading the left.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml | 176 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)

diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
index 8113986..c0f66b0 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
@@ -10,10 +10,100 @@
     <!-- Two-column Home (#combine): the home content on the left, the folded-in About content on the
          right. Left-aligned block, capped so the two columns stay a comfortable reading width. -->
     <Grid ColumnDefinitions="*,32,*" MaxWidth="1360" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
-        <!-- LEFT — health · tablets. -->
+        <!-- LEFT — about · tablets. About/Resources lead as a short preamble, above the tablets
+             they introduce; everything wanting attention lives in the right column. -->
         <StackPanel Grid.Column="0">
             <!-- (The embedded OTD version + OTD UX launcher moved to the Advanced → OTD page.) -->
 
+
+            <!-- The folded-in About content (what-is · resources · version), rendered from the
+                 AboutViewModel via the typed-nav DataTemplate so the markup isn't duplicated. -->
+            <ContentControl Content="{Binding About}" />
+
+            <!-- YOUR TABLETS: the former standalone Tablets page, merged into Home (#317). The cards are
+                 navigable (Settings) and mirror the sidebar's per-tablet children with detection timing
+                 + specs. -->
+            <TextBlock Text="your tablets" Classes="Display" Margin="0,18,0,12" />
+            <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding TabletsOverview.Tablets}"
+                          IsVisible="{Binding TabletsOverview.HasTablets}">
+                <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
+                    <DataTemplate>
+                        <!-- Double-click the card to open the tablet's settings (#tablet-card-mapping): the
+                             per-card "edit" button was removed in favour of this, so the card is one clear
+                             target. The Forget button still handles its own click. -->
+                        <c:Entity Icon="{StaticResource IconMonitor}"
+                                  DoubleTapped="OnTabletCardDoubleTapped"
+                                  ToolTip.Tip="Double-click to open this tablet's settings">
+                            <Grid ColumnDefinitions="*,Auto" ColumnSpacing="12">
+                                <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" MinWidth="0" VerticalAlignment="Center">
+                                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="8">
+                                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" FontWeight="SemiBold" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                                        <!-- Detection status as the same link / link-off icon the tablet
+                                             dropdown uses (#593: both neutral — the link vs link-off icon,
+                                             not colour, shows state); the old "Detected"/"Not detected" word
+                                             is now the icon's tooltip. -->
+                                        <Panel Width="16" Height="16" VerticalAlignment="Center"
+                                               ToolTip.Tip="{Binding StatusText}">
+                                            <PathIcon Data="{StaticResource IconLink}" Width="16" Height="16"
+                                                      Foreground="{DynamicResource NeutralBrush}"
+                                                      IsVisible="{Binding IsDetected}" />
+                                            <PathIcon Data="{StaticResource IconLinkOff}" Width="16" Height="16"
+                                                      Foreground="{DynamicResource NeutralBrush}"
+                                                      IsVisible="{Binding !IsDetected}" />
+                                        </Panel>
+                                    </StackPanel>
+                                    <!-- Where the active area is mapped (#tablet-card-mapping): the mapped
+                                         display when it's a clean single-monitor mapping, or a "needs attention"
+                                         line when it isn't. State reads from the wording, not colour (#no-orange-text):
+                                         the attention line is a touch more prominent (primary vs secondary text). -->
+                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding MappingText}" Margin="0,2,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap"
+                                               IsVisible="{Binding MappingIsNormal}"
+                                               Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}" />
+                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding MappingText}" Margin="0,2,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap"
+                                               IsVisible="{Binding MappingNeedsAttention}"
+                                               Foreground="{DynamicResource TextPrimaryBrush}" />
+                                    <!-- The quiet end of the ramp (TextBlock.Detail): a timestamp is
+                                         context, not something you read the card for. -->
+                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding LastSeenDetail}" Margin="0,2,0,0" Classes="Detail"
+                                               IsVisible="{Binding HasLastSeenDetail}"
+                                               TextWrapping="Wrap" />
+                                </StackPanel>
+                                <StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="8"
+                                            VerticalAlignment="Center">
+                                    <!-- Forget (remove saved settings). Managing connections lives here on Home.
+                                         Offered for every tablet (#575): removes a remembered one, or resets a
+                                         connected one to defaults — the confirm dialog says which. -->
+                                    <!-- A c:IconButton rather than a hand-rolled GhostButton wrapping a
+                                         PathIcon: same thing, but it picks up the shared borderless icon
+                                         treatment (#row-actions) instead of drifting from it. -->
+                                    <c:IconButton Icon="{StaticResource IconTrashCanOutline}"
+                                                  Command="{Binding ForgetCommand}"
+                                                  ToolTip.Tip="Forget this tablet"
+                                                  AutomationProperties.Name="Forget this tablet" />
+                                </StackPanel>
+                            </Grid>
+                        </c:Entity>
+                    </DataTemplate>
+                </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
+            </ItemsControl>
+
+            <!-- No tablets at all → a quiet inline empty state (boxless, left-aligned to the section
+                 rhythm — the full Zune hero lives on the TABLET page). -->
+            <StackPanel Spacing="4" Margin="0,0,0,6" IsVisible="{Binding !TabletsOverview.HasTablets}">
+                <TextBlock Text="No tablets connected or remembered"
+                           FontSize="15" Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
+                <TextBlock Text="Connect a tablet and it'll appear here."
+                           Foreground="{DynamicResource TextMutedBrush}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
+            </StackPanel>
+
+            <!-- (The run-at-startup toggle moved to its own Advanced → Startup page.) -->
+
+        </StackPanel>
+
+        <!-- RIGHT — everything wanting attention, and nothing else. Both children hide themselves
+             when nothing is wrong, so on a healthy machine this column is empty by design: the
+             blank right half IS the "all good" signal. -->
+        <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" VerticalAlignment="Top">
             <!-- Needs attention (#317): the health-check catalog, worst severity first. Hidden entirely
                  when everything is healthy, so Home stays quiet when there's nothing to do. Each card's
                  Fix button runs the relevant action in place or jumps to where the setting lives. -->
@@ -131,90 +221,6 @@
                     </Grid>
                 </Panel>
             </c:Alert>
-
-            <!-- YOUR TABLETS: the former standalone Tablets page, merged into Home (#317). The cards are
-                 navigable (Settings) and mirror the sidebar's per-tablet children with detection timing
-                 + specs. -->
-            <TextBlock Text="your tablets" Classes="Display" Margin="0,30,0,14" />
-            <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding TabletsOverview.Tablets}"
-                          IsVisible="{Binding TabletsOverview.HasTablets}">
-                <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
-                    <DataTemplate>
-                        <!-- Double-click the card to open the tablet's settings (#tablet-card-mapping): the
-                             per-card "edit" button was removed in favour of this, so the card is one clear
-                             target. The Forget button still handles its own click. -->
-                        <c:Entity Icon="{StaticResource IconMonitor}"
-                                  DoubleTapped="OnTabletCardDoubleTapped"
-                                  ToolTip.Tip="Double-click to open this tablet's settings">
-                            <Grid ColumnDefinitions="*,Auto" ColumnSpacing="12">
-                                <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" MinWidth="0" VerticalAlignment="Center">
-                                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="8">
-                                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" FontWeight="SemiBold" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-                                        <!-- Detection status as the same link / link-off icon the tablet
-                                             dropdown uses (#593: both neutral — the link vs link-off icon,
-                                             not colour, shows state); the old "Detected"/"Not detected" word
-                                             is now the icon's tooltip. -->
-                                        <Panel Width="16" Height="16" VerticalAlignment="Center"
-                                               ToolTip.Tip="{Binding StatusText}">
-                                            <PathIcon Data="{StaticResource IconLink}" Width="16" Height="16"
-                                                      Foreground="{DynamicResource NeutralBrush}"
-                                                      IsVisible="{Binding IsDetected}" />
-                                            <PathIcon Data="{StaticResource IconLinkOff}" Width="16" Height="16"
-                                                      Foreground="{DynamicResource NeutralBrush}"
-                                                      IsVisible="{Binding !IsDetected}" />
-                                        </Panel>
-                                    </StackPanel>
-                                    <!-- Where the active area is mapped (#tablet-card-mapping): the mapped
-                                         display when it's a clean single-monitor mapping, or a "needs attention"
-                                         line when it isn't. State reads from the wording, not colour (#no-orange-text):
-                                         the attention line is a touch more prominent (primary vs secondary text). -->
-                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding MappingText}" Margin="0,2,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap"
-                                               IsVisible="{Binding MappingIsNormal}"
-                                               Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}" />
-                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding MappingText}" Margin="0,2,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap"
-                                               IsVisible="{Binding MappingNeedsAttention}"
-                                               Foreground="{DynamicResource TextPrimaryBrush}" />
-                                    <!-- The quiet end of the ramp (TextBlock.Detail): a timestamp is
-                                         context, not something you read the card for. -->
-                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding LastSeenDetail}" Margin="0,2,0,0" Classes="Detail"
-                                               IsVisible="{Binding HasLastSeenDetail}"
-                                               TextWrapping="Wrap" />
-                                </StackPanel>
-                                <StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="8"
-                                            VerticalAlignment="Center">
-                                    <!-- Forget (remove saved settings). Managing connections lives here on Home.
-                                         Offered for every tablet (#575): removes a remembered one, or resets a
-                                         connected one to defaults — the confirm dialog says which. -->
-                                    <!-- A c:IconButton rather than a hand-rolled GhostButton wrapping a
-                                         PathIcon: same thing, but it picks up the shared borderless icon
-                                         treatment (#row-actions) instead of drifting from it. -->
-                                    <c:IconButton Icon="{StaticResource IconTrashCanOutline}"
-                                                  Command="{Binding ForgetCommand}"
-                                                  ToolTip.Tip="Forget this tablet"
-                                                  AutomationProperties.Name="Forget this tablet" />
-                                </StackPanel>
-                            </Grid>
-                        </c:Entity>
-                    </DataTemplate>
-                </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
-            </ItemsControl>
-
-            <!-- No tablets at all → a quiet inline empty state (boxless, left-aligned to the section
-                 rhythm — the full Zune hero lives on the TABLET page). -->
-            <StackPanel Spacing="4" Margin="0,0,0,6" IsVisible="{Binding !TabletsOverview.HasTablets}">
-                <TextBlock Text="No tablets connected or remembered"
-                           FontSize="15" Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
-                <TextBlock Text="Connect a tablet and it'll appear here."
-                           Foreground="{DynamicResource TextMutedBrush}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
-            </StackPanel>
-
-            <!-- (The run-at-startup toggle moved to its own Advanced → Startup page.) -->
-
         </StackPanel>
-
-        <!-- RIGHT — the folded-in About content (what-is · help · resources · version). Rendered from
-             the AboutViewModel via the typed-nav DataTemplate, so the markup isn't duplicated. The
-             supported-tablets link now lives in that card's RESOURCES list. -->
-        <ContentControl Grid.Column="2" Content="{Binding About}" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
     </Grid>
 </UserControl>

From 7f49a26e79606de442ad94847a63f9579b80df76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheSevenPens <98374109+TheSevenPens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:44:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] fix: align Home's two columns at the top

The columns started at the same y but did not look like it: a 44px
display heading carries far more leading above its glyphs than a 10px
eyebrow, so "needs attention" sat about 14px below ABOUT even though
their boxes were level. Equal boxes, unequal text.

The offset goes on the LEFT column. The right one is already flush
against the page menu and has nowhere to move up to -- pulling it up
would need a negative margin overlapping the nav row's box, which the
content ScrollViewer could clip.

Paid for most of it out of the seam rather than the page height:
"your tablets" drops from 18 to 10 above, so the net cost is 6px and all
four tablet rows stay above the fold.

Measured rather than guessed: 14px was read off a zoom of both column
tops, and re-measured after to confirm the cap-heights now line up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
index c0f66b0..a09efcd 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
@@ -18,12 +18,17 @@
 
             <!-- The folded-in About content (what-is · resources · version), rendered from the
                  AboutViewModel via the typed-nav DataTemplate so the markup isn't duplicated. -->
-            <ContentControl Content="{Binding About}" />
+            <!-- 14px down so the ABOUT eyebrow's cap-height lines up with "needs attention" opposite.
+                 The two columns start at the same y, but a 44px display heading carries far more leading
+                 above its glyphs than a 10px eyebrow does, so equal boxes read as unequal text. The
+                 offset goes on the LEFT because the right column is already flush against the page menu
+                 and has nowhere to move up to. -->
+            <ContentControl Content="{Binding About}" Margin="0,14,0,0" />
 
             <!-- YOUR TABLETS: the former standalone Tablets page, merged into Home (#317). The cards are
                  navigable (Settings) and mirror the sidebar's per-tablet children with detection timing
                  + specs. -->
-            <TextBlock Text="your tablets" Classes="Display" Margin="0,18,0,12" />
+            <TextBlock Text="your tablets" Classes="Display" Margin="0,10,0,12" />
             <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding TabletsOverview.Tablets}"
                           IsVisible="{Binding TabletsOverview.HasTablets}">
                 <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>

From c0b8591a12150a36ec8e118a79d49818c9a6411f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheSevenPens <98374109+TheSevenPens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:47:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] feat: drop the RESOURCES heading, keep the links

The links are accent-coloured and underlined, which already marks them
as a group and as links -- a RESOURCES label above them was naming
something the reader can see. The gap above does the separating now,
widened 12 -> 16 to carry the break the heading used to.

Side effect worth having: the ~18px that recovers puts Home back under
the fold. The scrollbar is gone and all four tablet rows fit with room
to spare, which the column swap had cost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
index 1c89a5e..1d004ca 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
@@ -22,11 +22,12 @@
             </StackPanel>
         </c:Section>
 
-        <!-- Merged RESOURCES card: source code, releases, and the user manual as one list of links.
-             Each opens in the default browser; the full URL is on hover. -->
-        <c:Section Margin="0,12,0,0">
+        <!-- Source code, releases, help and the user manual as one list of links. Each opens in the default
+             browser; the full URL is on hover. No heading: they are accent-coloured and underlined, which
+             already marks them as a group and as links — a RESOURCES label above them was naming something
+             the reader can see. The gap above does the separating instead. -->
+        <c:Section Margin="0,16,0,0">
             <StackPanel Spacing="10">
-                <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="RESOURCES" Margin="0,0,0,2" />
                 <!-- First in the list: the Help card that used to sit above became a manual page, and
                      this is the entry point to it. -->
                 <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding HelpUrl}"

From 48bf828a57221c6c333e5d324c5e372ed807b15b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheSevenPens <98374109+TheSevenPens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:51:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] feat: fold the version into the About paragraph
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

It closes the paragraph as an ordinary sentence -- "…on Windows. Version
v0.73.0 BETA." -- instead of hanging off the ABOUT heading. The heading
goes back to plain text and loses the StackPanel that was only there to
sit two TextBlocks side by side.

Split into Runs so the prose stays in the view and only the number comes
from the model. The separating space lives at the END of the first Run's
text, with the two tags flush against each other: whitespace BETWEEN Run
elements is preserved too, so the obvious layout -- one Run per line
plus an explicit <Run Text=" " /> -- renders three spaces, not one. It
looked wrong on screen before it looked wrong in the markup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs |  8 ++++----
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml        | 20 +++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs b/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs
index eafb67b..f697e83 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/ViewModels/AboutViewModel.cs
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ public AboutViewModel(IDialogService? dialogs = null, Func<string?>? detectedTab
         Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
             .GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute>()?.InformationalVersion);
 
-    /// <summary>"(v0.6.0 BETA)"-style suffix, shown beside the ABOUT heading rather than on a line of its
-    /// own. The version is reference matter — worth having to hand when reporting a problem, not worth a
-    /// row in the column — so it rides along with the heading it belongs to.</summary>
-    public string AppVersionParenthetical => $"({AppVersion} BETA)";
+    /// <summary>"Version v0.6.0 BETA." — a closing sentence for the About paragraph rather than a line or
+    /// a heading suffix of its own. The version is reference matter: worth having to hand when reporting a
+    /// problem, not worth its own row in the column.</summary>
+    public string AppVersionSentence => $"Version {AppVersion} BETA.";
 
     /// <summary>Opens a URL in the user's default browser.</summary>
     [RelayCommand]
diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
index 1d004ca..941c4fc 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
@@ -8,17 +8,17 @@
     <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
         <c:Section>
             <StackPanel>
-                <!-- The version rides on the heading rather than taking a row of its own: it is something
-                     you look up when reporting a problem, not something you read down the column. -->
-                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="7" Margin="0,0,0,12">
-                    <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="ABOUT" />
-                    <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel" Text="{Binding AppVersionParenthetical}"
-                               VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-                </StackPanel>
+                <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="ABOUT" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
+                <!-- The version closes the paragraph as an ordinary sentence rather than taking a row or a
+                     heading suffix of its own. Split into Runs so the prose stays in the view and only the
+                     version number comes from the model. The separating space lives at the END of the first
+                     Run's text, and the two tags sit flush against each other: whitespace BETWEEN Run
+                     elements is preserved as well, so laying them out on separate lines adds a second space
+                     on top of any explicit one. -->
                 <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" LineHeight="22"
-                           Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}">
-                    OpenTablet Artist is an alternative, artist-friendly experience for OpenTabletDriver on Windows.
-                </TextBlock>
+                           Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}"><Run
+                    Text="OpenTablet Artist is an alternative, artist-friendly experience for OpenTabletDriver on Windows. " /><Run
+                    Text="{Binding AppVersionSentence}" /></TextBlock>
             </StackPanel>
         </c:Section>
 

From 1e46b2c7c7f4fe1c03d10e2371eb85e5ddad2029 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheSevenPens <98374109+TheSevenPens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:55:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] feat: lay the About section out in two columns
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Blurb on the left, links on the right, both under the one ABOUT heading
and both top-aligned so they start on the same line.

The links column is Auto, not half the width. Sized to its longest label
("Releases (downloads & release notes)") it never wraps, and the prose
takes whatever is left — a 50/50 split would wrap the links, which reads
far worse than a narrower paragraph does.

Collapsed the two Sections into one while moving things: the second
existed only to hold the links below the first, and side by side there
is nothing left for it to do.

Side effect: the About block is now three lines tall instead of eight,
so the left column shortens and Home keeps its headroom.

Caveat worth a look at some point: at the 800px minimum window width the
left Home column is around 380px, so the prose gets roughly 120 once the
links take their Auto width. It still works, but it is narrow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml | 118 +++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
index 941c4fc..1e3e6be 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
@@ -3,71 +3,75 @@
              xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
              xmlns:c="using:OpenTabletArtist.Controls">
 
-    <!-- DataContext is the AboutViewModel (typed-nav DataTemplate, #15). Folded into Home's right column
-         (#combine), so it stretches to fill whatever column hosts it. -->
-    <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
-        <c:Section>
-            <StackPanel>
-                <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="ABOUT" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
+    <!-- DataContext is the AboutViewModel (typed-nav DataTemplate, #15). Folded into Home's left column,
+         above YOUR TABLETS, so it stretches to fill whatever column hosts it. -->
+    <c:Section>
+        <StackPanel>
+            <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="ABOUT" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
+
+            <!-- Two columns under the heading: the blurb on the left, the links on the right. The links
+                 column is Auto so it takes exactly the width of its longest label ("Releases (downloads &
+                 release notes)") and the prose gets whatever is left — splitting 50/50 would wrap the
+                 links, which reads far worse than a narrower paragraph. Both top-aligned so they start on
+                 the same line. -->
+            <Grid ColumnDefinitions="*,28,Auto">
                 <!-- The version closes the paragraph as an ordinary sentence rather than taking a row or a
                      heading suffix of its own. Split into Runs so the prose stays in the view and only the
                      version number comes from the model. The separating space lives at the END of the first
                      Run's text, and the two tags sit flush against each other: whitespace BETWEEN Run
                      elements is preserved as well, so laying them out on separate lines adds a second space
                      on top of any explicit one. -->
-                <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" LineHeight="22"
+                <TextBlock Grid.Column="0" TextWrapping="Wrap" LineHeight="22" VerticalAlignment="Top"
                            Foreground="{DynamicResource TextSecondaryBrush}"><Run
                     Text="OpenTablet Artist is an alternative, artist-friendly experience for OpenTabletDriver on Windows. " /><Run
                     Text="{Binding AppVersionSentence}" /></TextBlock>
-            </StackPanel>
-        </c:Section>
 
-        <!-- Source code, releases, help and the user manual as one list of links. Each opens in the default
-             browser; the full URL is on hover. No heading: they are accent-coloured and underlined, which
-             already marks them as a group and as links — a RESOURCES label above them was naming something
-             the reader can see. The gap above does the separating instead. -->
-        <c:Section Margin="0,16,0,0">
-            <StackPanel Spacing="10">
-                <!-- First in the list: the Help card that used to sit above became a manual page, and
-                     this is the entry point to it. -->
-                <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding HelpUrl}"
-                        Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
-                        HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding HelpUrl}">
-                    <TextBlock Text="Get help"
-                               Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
-                               TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-                </Button>
-                <!-- Opens OTD's supported-tablets catalog in the in-app dialog (#155), not a browser —
-                     replaces the former standalone Home "Supported tablets" card. -->
-                <Button Command="{Binding OpenSupportedTabletsCommand}"
-                        Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
-                        HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="Show the tablets OpenTabletDriver supports">
-                    <TextBlock Text="Supported tablets"
-                               Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
-                               TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-                </Button>
-                <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding RepoUrl}"
-                        Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
-                        HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding RepoUrl}">
-                    <TextBlock Text="Source code on GitHub"
-                               Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
-                               TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-                </Button>
-                <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding ReleasesUrl}"
-                        Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
-                        HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding ReleasesUrl}">
-                    <TextBlock Text="Releases (downloads &amp; release notes)"
-                               Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
-                               TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-                </Button>
-                <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding UserManualUrl}"
-                        Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
-                        HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding UserManualUrl}">
-                    <TextBlock Text="User manual"
-                               Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
-                               TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-                </Button>
-            </StackPanel>
-        </c:Section>
-    </StackPanel>
+                <!-- Source code, releases, help and the user manual as one list of links. Each opens in the
+                     default browser; the full URL is on hover. No heading: they are accent-coloured and
+                     underlined, which already marks them as a group and as links — a RESOURCES label above
+                     them was naming something the reader can see. -->
+                <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Spacing="10" VerticalAlignment="Top">
+                    <!-- First in the list: the Help card that used to sit above became a manual page, and
+                         this is the entry point to it. -->
+                    <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding HelpUrl}"
+                            Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
+                            HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding HelpUrl}">
+                        <TextBlock Text="Get help"
+                                   Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
+                                   TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                    </Button>
+                    <!-- Opens OTD's supported-tablets catalog in the in-app dialog (#155), not a browser —
+                         replaces the former standalone Home "Supported tablets" card. -->
+                    <Button Command="{Binding OpenSupportedTabletsCommand}"
+                            Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
+                            HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="Show the tablets OpenTabletDriver supports">
+                        <TextBlock Text="Supported tablets"
+                                   Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
+                                   TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                    </Button>
+                    <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding RepoUrl}"
+                            Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
+                            HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding RepoUrl}">
+                        <TextBlock Text="Source code on GitHub"
+                                   Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
+                                   TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                    </Button>
+                    <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding ReleasesUrl}"
+                            Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
+                            HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding ReleasesUrl}">
+                        <TextBlock Text="Releases (downloads &amp; release notes)"
+                                   Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
+                                   TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                    </Button>
+                    <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding UserManualUrl}"
+                            Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
+                            HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding UserManualUrl}">
+                        <TextBlock Text="User manual"
+                                   Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
+                                   TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
+                    </Button>
+                </StackPanel>
+            </Grid>
+        </StackPanel>
+    </c:Section>
 </UserControl>

From 546a2e8c7415a8023e3fe257da107450270b2598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheSevenPens <98374109+TheSevenPens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:58:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] feat: "about" joins the display layer; shorten the
 Releases link
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The About heading takes the same treatment as "your tablets" below it
and "needs attention" opposite — 44px lower-case display. Home has no
tab menu, so its section headings ARE that layer, and this was the last
one still dressed as an eyebrow.

That retires the 14px nudge from 7f49a26. It existed because the left
column opened with a 10px eyebrow while the right opened with a 44px
heading: equal boxes, unequal text. With both on the display layer they
carry identical leading and align on their own, so the offset is gone
rather than left in place doing nothing.

"Releases (downloads & release notes)" -> "Releases". The parenthetical
was explaining a link whose destination is obvious from its name, and it
was also what set the links column's Auto width. The longest label is
now "Source code on GitHub", so the column narrows and the prose beside
it widens — the blurb drops from three lines to two, and the 800px
minimum-width caveat from 1e46b2c eases with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml     | 10 ++++++----
 OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml | 11 +++++------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
index 1e3e6be..0f9aead 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/AboutView.axaml
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@
          above YOUR TABLETS, so it stretches to fill whatever column hosts it. -->
     <c:Section>
         <StackPanel>
-            <TextBlock Classes="SectionLabel largetitle" Text="ABOUT" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
+            <!-- Same treatment as "your tablets" below it: the display layer, lower-case. Home has no
+                 tab menu, so its section headings ARE that layer. -->
+            <TextBlock Text="about" Classes="Display" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
 
             <!-- Two columns under the heading: the blurb on the left, the links on the right. The links
-                 column is Auto so it takes exactly the width of its longest label ("Releases (downloads &
-                 release notes)") and the prose gets whatever is left — splitting 50/50 would wrap the
+                 column is Auto so it takes exactly the width of its longest label ("Source code on
+                 GitHub") and the prose gets whatever is left — splitting 50/50 would wrap the
                  links, which reads far worse than a narrower paragraph. Both top-aligned so they start on
                  the same line. -->
             <Grid ColumnDefinitions="*,28,Auto">
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@
                     <Button Command="{Binding OpenUrlCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding ReleasesUrl}"
                             Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Padding="0" Cursor="Hand"
                             HorizontalAlignment="Left" ToolTip.Tip="{Binding ReleasesUrl}">
-                        <TextBlock Text="Releases (downloads &amp; release notes)"
+                        <TextBlock Text="Releases"
                                    Foreground="{DynamicResource AccentBrush}"
                                    TextDecorations="Underline" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
                     </Button>
diff --git a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
index a09efcd..1753a8d 100644
--- a/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
+++ b/OpenTabletArtist/Views/DashboardView.axaml
@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@
 
             <!-- The folded-in About content (what-is · resources · version), rendered from the
                  AboutViewModel via the typed-nav DataTemplate so the markup isn't duplicated. -->
-            <!-- 14px down so the ABOUT eyebrow's cap-height lines up with "needs attention" opposite.
-                 The two columns start at the same y, but a 44px display heading carries far more leading
-                 above its glyphs than a 10px eyebrow does, so equal boxes read as unequal text. The
-                 offset goes on the LEFT because the right column is already flush against the page menu
-                 and has nowhere to move up to. -->
-            <ContentControl Content="{Binding About}" Margin="0,14,0,0" />
+            <!-- No nudge needed to line the columns up: "about" and "needs attention" are both the
+                 display layer now, so they carry identical leading and align on their own. (This used to
+                 need 14px, back when the left column opened with a 10px eyebrow against a 44px heading
+                 opposite — equal boxes, unequal text.) -->
+            <ContentControl Content="{Binding About}" />
 
             <!-- YOUR TABLETS: the former standalone Tablets page, merged into Home (#317). The cards are
                  navigable (Settings) and mirror the sidebar's per-tablet children with detection timing