Atlaso local appliance console design QA¶

Source visual truth:

C:\Users\m_dan\AppData\Local\Temp\codex-clipboard-4ced0d62-dba3-4e12-a9a4-c9403fe13e4e.png for the appliance screen iteration.
C:\Users\m_dan\AppData\Local\Temp\codex-clipboard-febfd43f-cf36-4f55-bf87-5dd27404c4bc.png for the compact framed editor direction.

Implementation screenshots:

C:\Users\m_dan\AppData\Local\Temp\atlaso-console-final8.png
C:\Users\m_dan\AppData\Local\Temp\atlaso-console-management-form-final2.png

Viewport: VMware Workstation virtual console, 640 x 480 pixels, 80 x 30 terminal cells.

State: healthy dual-stack-capable management console with DHCP IPv4, Automatic RA/SLAAC IPv6, and enabled Firewall; management editor focused on the IPv4 mode field.

Full-view comparison evidence: C:\Users\m_dan\AppData\Local\Temp\atlaso-console-comparison-final.png. The final screen deliberately incorporates the requested changes instead of literally retaining the earlier screenshot: pale-blue header, product version beside the title, separate system rows, no ONLINE label, repaired Photon release line, spacing before management URLs, normalized network rows, separated Firewall status, and F3/F4 footer actions.

Focused comparison evidence: C:\Users\m_dan\AppData\Local\Temp\atlaso-console-form-comparison-final.png. The crop compares the supplied nmtui direction with the final management form at readable scale. The implementation preserves the framed terminal hierarchy, blue section labels, highlighted editable controls, paired Apply/Cancel actions, and keyboard guidance while removing unrelated profile, device, route, search-domain, and checkbox controls.

Findings¶

No actionable P0, P1, or P2 visual differences remain.

Fonts and typography: the Photon virtual-console bitmap font is consistent across the screen and editor. Title, section, label, value, and action hierarchy is legible without wrapping at 80 columns.
Spacing and layout rhythm: the header and body have explicit separation; Interface, address families, DNS, and Firewall occupy stable rows. The editor has balanced section spacing and remains inside the 72 x 22 minimum.
Colors and visual tokens: pale blue, slate/gray, Atlaso blue, green, amber, and red map consistently to the Linux console's eight-color capability. The focused control is dark blue, other editable controls are pale blue, and disabled fields remain neutral.
Image quality and asset fidelity: no raster imagery, logos, icons, or decorative assets belong to this terminal UI. The captured terminal text and borders are sharp at native resolution.
Copy and content: labels match the approved appliance scope. IPv6 remains Disabled, Automatic RA/SLAAC, or Static; DHCPv6 is intentionally not implied.

Comparison history¶

Earlier P1: embedded metadata from /etc/photon-release created a black strip and PHOTKernel text. Fix: normalize the release value to its first display line. Post-fix evidence: atlaso-console-final8.png shows a clean Photon and Kernel separation.
Earlier P1: systemd progress output and late service activity could overwrite tty1 until the normal refresh. Fix: keep systemd status in the journal, force full restoration after external processes, and use bounded non-blanking redraws at 1, 3, and 8 seconds. Post-fix evidence: the immediate post-deploy atlaso-console-final8.png capture is clean.
Earlier P2: the first framed form made the active mode less visually obvious than an inactive mode, and DHCP could retain observed lease values in its submit tuple. Fix: dark-blue active control, pale-blue inactive editable controls, neutral disabled fields, and mode-aware clearing on submit. Post-fix evidence: atlaso-console-management-form-final2.png.

Primary interactions tested¶

Left/Right, Home/End, insertion, Backspace, and Delete within text values.
Tab, Shift+Tab, Up/Down navigation and mode-dependent field skipping.
DHCP/Automatic submit normalization.
F3 top terminal handoff and curses restoration path.
Authenticated/audited F4 Bash handoff and restoration path.
Five-second default refresh plus bounded 1-through-300-second environment configuration.
No browser console applies to this curses surface; Python compilation, focused tests, VMware service readiness, and native tty captures were checked instead.

Implementation checklist¶

Main-screen hierarchy and palette match the approved direction.
Management form matches the compact framed editor direction.
Keyboard editing and navigation are covered by tests.
Service-output corruption and post-process restoration are covered.
VMware tty1 renders cleanly; tty2 ownership remains unchanged by the implementation.

Follow-up polish¶

No P3 polish item is required for handoff.

final result: passed

Managed LDAP web follow-up¶

Reference and implementation evidence:

test-results/design-qa/vcf-helper-generator-live.png shows the generator modal before overflow correction.
test-results/design-qa/vcf-helper-generator-no-scroll.png shows the same appliance and modal state after correction.
test-results/design-qa/ldap-directory-live.png shows organization actions, directory tabs, and the settings rail.
test-results/design-qa/task-errors-live.png shows the deployed redacted task failure summary.

Findings:

The test-directory workflow has its own VCF Helper tile and opens independently from Managed LDAP VCF configuration.
The generator modal has no horizontal scrollbar and preserves the existing compact Atlaso modal pattern.
Organization actions align to the right of the organization header, with additional space between the VCF bind DN row and Users/Groups tabs.
The one-time bind credential dialog contains copy, download, and close actions. Its bind DN wraps, its password control stays within the dialog, and help text is anchored to the field-label bounds.
Failed task details show the redacted component reason immediately and an expanded log-style error section above the complete redacted result payload.
VCF Helper actions are grouped by subject: platform deployment, naming, trust, and depot workflows under SDDC Manager / VCF Installer, with directory configuration and synthetic identities under LDAP.
Generated LDAP credentials use one CSV representation for the Prism-highlighted preview, clipboard copy, and .csv download; the compact copy/download icons remain overlaid inside the preview.
Disabled SDDC Manager and Offline Depot tiles expose their availability reason on tile hover/focus; persistent warning rows no longer interrupt the subject layout.
Managed LDAP preserves organization, Users/Groups mode, and per-organization grid offsets across reloads using browser-local page state.

Managed LDAP web follow-up final result: passed

Managed script revision comparison follow-up¶

Reference and implementation evidence:

Source reference: C:\Users\m_dan\AppData\Local\Temp\codex-clipboard-743a6bab-f5ec-4abe-84ff-997b9b1a779a.png.
Live implementation: test-results/design-qa/automation-revision-diff-light-final.png.
Combined comparison input: test-results/design-qa/automation-revision-diff-comparison.png.
Browser viewport: 2446 x 1562 pixels. Reference: 2048 x 436 pixels. The comparison normalizes both surfaces to 2446 pixels wide and crops the implementation to the active modal.
State: Automation > Managed Scripts, fdd revision comparison open with r1 as the base and r2 as the comparison.

Findings:

No actionable P0, P1, or P2 visual differences remain.
Typography: the viewer uses the Atlaso sans hierarchy for controls and metadata, with a compact monospace source surface and interpreter-specific Prism highlighting.
Spacing and layout: the modal uses nearly the full workspace width, keeps paired source rows and line numbers aligned, and stays content-sized for short revisions while allowing bounded scrolling for long revisions.
Colors and tokens: the shell uses the standard light Atlaso surface, border, blue header, and muted metadata tokens. Removed and added rows use soft red and green fills with stronger edge markers.
Copy and content: operators can choose any base and comparison revision. Each option and heading includes the immutable revision number, creation date, interpreter, and enabled state.
Image and asset quality: this workflow contains no decorative raster assets. Native browser text, borders, controls, and Prism tokens remain sharp at the captured viewport.

Comparison history:

P1: the first implementation used a narrow generic modal with large unused vertical space. Fix: rebuild it as one shared, near-full-width aligned diff surface with compact content height.
P1: the reference-derived dark shell conflicted with the established Atlaso application style. Fix: retain the diff structure but move the modal shell, toolbar, revision headers, and unchanged rows to the product's light surface system.
P2: the original comparison was fixed to the latest two revisions and omitted creation dates. Fix: add dated base/comparison selectors populated from all immutable revisions and refresh the Prism diff in place.
P2: switching to the initial hash-selected tab could request a Tabulator redraw before table initialization. Fix: gate tab redraws on the tableBuilt event; the final reload and modal-open interaction produced no browser warnings or errors.

Primary interactions tested:

Revision cell opens the comparison viewer.
Base and comparison selectors expose every revision with date and state and update the selected comparison without mutating history.
Close control remains keyboard- and pointer-accessible.
Diff rows preserve aligned line numbers, additions, removals, empty counterparts, and collapsed unchanged runs.
Live reload and modal open completed without browser console warnings or errors.

Managed script revision comparison final result: passed

final result: passed

ESX Storage wizard design QA¶

Result¶

Passed on the VMware test appliance at https://192.168.167.219/esx-storage using the annotated 1968 x 1562 browser captures as the source reference.

Visual comparison¶

Preserved the ESX Storage page shell, compact Tabulator grids, resource tabs, right-side Service Settings and Validation rail, typography, spacing, and status treatments from the reference.
Replaced each expanded inline add form with the established Atlaso grid add-row affordance and modal wizard pattern.
Verified the volume wizard at the storage-selection step and the NFS datastore wizard at identity and review steps at the same desktop viewport.
The modal layout, step rail, field density, help controls, action placement, overlay, borders, and radii match the existing Atlaso wizard system without clipping or overlap.

Interaction verification¶

+ Add storage volume here opens the three-step volume wizard.
Required volume identity and eligible-storage selection prevent invalid advancement.
+ Add NFS datastore here opens the four-step datastore wizard.
A dual-stack interface defaults both IPv4 and IPv6 on with equal treatment.
The client step independently requires IPv4 and IPv6 VMkernel clients when both families are enabled.
The review step shows the datastore, backing path, NFS version, interface, both address families, and both allowlists before any desired-state submission.
Cancel closes either wizard without creating a volume or datastore.
No browser console warnings or errors were recorded during the verified flow.