tai/research/tui-framework-design/send-rs-tui-status-bar.md

send-rs src/tui/status_bar.rs — per-focus hints and transient overrides

Metadata

Field	Value
Institute	Molodetz Institute — Research & Retrieval Division
Subject	tui-framework-design
Document type	Source Dossier
Tier	1
Source title	send-rs src/tui/status_bar.rs — status bar content (WhatsApp+Telegram ratatui client)
Source URL	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedromarquetti/send-rs/master/src/tui/status_bar.rs
Source publisher / author	pedromarquetti (send-rs / Sender project)
Source type	repository
Source date (published)	Unknown — not stated
Date researched	2026-10-11
Researched by	tai (agent), model: Muse Spark, on behalf of retoor
Research method	direct page fetch
Confidence	Medium
Status	Active

Summary

A one-line status bar showing [chat] plus key hints for the current focus, with transient status messages (rate-limit countdowns, window blur, backend status, disconnects) temporarily overriding the hints. Content policy and override behavior are the whole finding.

Key findings

• Normal content is [chat] followed by per-focus key hints that change with the focus enum.
• A transient status_hint (rate-limit countdown, window-blur notice, backend status, disconnect notice) overrides the hints while present, then the hints return.

Pros / strengths

• The override pattern keeps one status line serving two jobs (teaching keys + reporting state) without layout churn.
• Per-focus hints make modal/focused UIs self-documenting.

Cons / limitations / caveats

• Override timing and queueing (what happens when two transient states overlap) were not part of the inspected evidence.

Relevance to tai

• Contributes the per-focus-hints plus transient-override content policy for tai's 1-line status bar in the messaging-layout conclusion.

Changelog

Date	Change
2026-10-11	Initial dossier created from 2026-10-11 research-pass evidence (body opened via web_fetch by researching agent).