fix(web): update release notes stay open for interaction

[RakshithBhat03]

Nightly update release notes were rendered in a tooltip, so the panel disappeared when users tried to move into it and long changelogs could not be read or scrolled reliably.

The update pill now uses an interactive popover for nightly release notes. It stays open across pointer movement, limits its height to the available space, and scrolls its contents. Mouse users keep the pill's one-click download or install behavior. Non-nightly updates and states without release notes keep the existing tooltip.

Touch and pen users open the release notes first, then use the explicit Download update or Restart and install button inside the popover. This gives them an action that does not depend on hover. Keyboard focus opens the notes while remaining on the pill, the popover has an accessible title, and Escape closes it without immediately reopening after users tab into the popover. While downloading or running an action, the update trigger remains focusable in both the popover and tooltip paths but exposes aria-disabled and non-actionable styling.

Verification

• vp test run apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.test.tsx apps/web/src/components/desktopUpdate.logic.test.ts apps/web/src/components/desktopUpdate.toast.test.tsx apps/web/src/state/desktopUpdate.test.ts (45 tests passed)
• vp lint --report-unused-disable-directives apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.test.tsx
• vp fmt --check apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.test.tsx
• git diff --check
• vp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheck still reports the two existing conditionalUI type errors in src/components/clerk/electronPasskeys.test.ts
• Integrated local browser pass against isolated state with temporary update fixtures and a stubbed desktop bridge: verified nightly available, downloaded, and downloading states; stable downloading and no-notes tooltip fallbacks; mouse, keyboard, touch, and pen interactions; accessible labeling, focus retention, Escape restoration, and aria-disabled; popover scrolling at a 900 × 500 viewport; and both Cancel and Confirm restart/install paths.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The sidebar update pill now uses a popover for nightly release notes. Mouse input starts updates. Touch and pen input opens release notes. The change adds explicit release actions, state handling, and interaction tests.

Changes

Sidebar update release notes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release notes actions apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx	The release-notes content displays status-specific titles, versions, and download, install, or retry buttons.
Pointer-aware popover interaction apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx	The trigger distinguishes mouse from touch and pen input. The popover manages focus, pointer cancellation, Escape handling, scrolling, disabled states, and nightly-release detection.
Interaction test coverage apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.test.tsx	Tests cover pointer behavior, downloading accessibility, styling, desktop bridge actions, and pending-action disabling.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a3033

During downloads or pending actions without release notes, the update control is unavailable to keyboard users because it cannot receive focus or expose its status. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to preserve keyboard access.

Suggested reviewers: stienswout, t3dotgg

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SidebarUpdatePill
  participant ReleaseNotesPopover
  participant DesktopUpdateBridge
  User->>SidebarUpdatePill: Activate with pointer type
  SidebarUpdatePill->>ReleaseNotesPopover: Open for touch or pen
  SidebarUpdatePill->>DesktopUpdateBridge: Start update for mouse
  ReleaseNotesPopover->>DesktopUpdateBridge: Download, install, or retry update

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: keeping update release notes open for user interaction.
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[macroscopeapp]

One finding on the tooltip → popover migration: the cloned trigger drops its disabled semantics, so the pill renders and announces as enabled in states where the action is still a no-op.

Since this change alters primitive composition and interaction behavior (pointer-type routing, focus-driven open, escape re-open suppression, disabled handling), a focused test for SidebarUpdatePill in line with the other apps/web/src/components/**/*.test.tsx component tests would be worth adding — at minimum: mouse click runs the action, non-mouse click only opens the popup, and the trigger stays non-actionable while downloading/pending.

^{Posted via Macroscope — UI Consistency}

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx`:
- Line 448: Remove the native disabled prop from the shared trigger in
SidebarUpdatePill, while preserving aria-disabled and the handleAction guard so
the non-popover tooltip trigger remains keyboard-focusable without allowing the
action.

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[macroscopeapp]

One finding on the new release-notes popover: opening it from the trigger's onFocus lets Base UI's focus manager pull focus into the popup, which changes keyboard behavior compared to the tooltip it replaces.

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[RakshithBhat03]

Superseded by #7880, which starts from a clean branch and keeps the sidebar update pill's existing one-click download and restart/install behavior. The hover popover now contains only the status text and changelog. Closing this draft in favor of the replacement.