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Type of Change

  • ✨ New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • 🛠️ Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • ❌ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • 🧹 Code refactor
  • ✅ Build configuration change
  • 📝 Documentation
  • 🗑️ Chore

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- Add Arabic translations for "aboutIconTooltip" and "closeButtonText" in app_ar.arb
- Add English translations for "aboutIconTooltip" and "closeButtonText" in app_en.arb
- Include descriptions for new translations to provide context for translators
- Add app name at the top of the navigation rail
- Implement UserNavigationRailFooter at the bottom of the navigation rail
- Remove PopupMenuButton from app bar for user actions
- Update imports to reflect changes
- Remove bottom PreferredSize widget
- Add AboutIcon to actions
- Simplify TabBar layout
- Use padding from AppPadding medium instead of large
- Adjust indentation and line breaks for better readability
- Remove unnecessary imports and code
- Replace description in AppBar with AboutIcon for better UI/UX
- Optimize TabBar placement and actions in AppBar
- Remove settings page description from AppBar
- Add AboutIcon widget to AppBar actions
- Import AboutIcon from shared widgets
- Create a new AboutIcon widget that displays information in a dialog
- The widget takes dialogTitle and dialogDescription as parameters
- It shows an info icon which, when pressed, displays an AlertDialog
- The dialog includes a close button for dismissal
- Create a new widget for displaying user-specific actions in the navigation rail footer
- Include settings and sign-out options
- Implement localization support for labels
- Add routing for settings page and logout functionality
- Add export for about_icon.dart
- Add export for user_navigation_rail_footer.dart
- Update export path for searchable_selection_input.dart
- Remove app bar and move dashboard title to navigation rail
- Add UserNavigationRailFooter and align to bottom
- Implement adaptive scaffolding for various screen sizes
- Adjust layout for both extended and unextended navigation rail states
- Replace AppBar actions with a Row containing the title and AboutIcon
- Add SizedBox for spacing between title and icon
- This change allows for a more compact and centered app bar layout
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- Add AboutIcon to ContentManagementPage and SettingsPage app bars
- Move user navigation rail footer content outside of Container widget
- Adjust spacing and layout for app bar titles and icons
- Remove custom font style for page title
- Increase spacing between title and icon
- Change SizedBox width from AppSpacing.xs to AppSpacing.sm
- Adjust spacing from AppSpacing.xs to AppSpacing.sm for better visual separation
- Add theme color for icon to match surface variant
- Set icon size to 20 for better visibility
- These changes improve the icon's appearance and consistency with the app's design guidelines
- Replace UserNavigationRailFooter with custom settings and sign-out tiles
- Add expanded row for app name in extended state
- Implement consistent styling for nav rail items
- Add Bloc listener for app logout functionality
- Update imports to include necessary packages and routes
- Deleted the entire UserNavigationRailFooter widget class
- Removed all related imports and code
- Modify the condition for extending the navigator
- Include small screen sizes in addition to medium-large sizes
- Removed unused export statement for 'user_navigation_rail_footer.dart'
- This change simplifies the codebase by eliminating unused imports
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Hello @fulleni, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request primarily focuses on enhancing the application's user interface and overall code quality through strategic refactoring. The core AppShell has been redesigned to streamline navigation and access to user actions, moving away from a traditional AppBar to a more integrated navigation rail approach. A new reusable AboutIcon widget has been implemented and deployed across various pages to provide on-demand contextual information, improving user understanding and experience. Additionally, the PR includes general code cleanup, removing obsolete comments and applying consistent formatting to improve maintainability.

Highlights

  • AppShell Refactoring: The main application shell (AppShell) has been significantly refactored. The AppBar has been removed, and its functionalities, such as settings and sign-out options, are now integrated directly into the AdaptiveScaffold's navigation rail, providing a more cohesive user experience.
  • New AboutIcon Widget: A new AboutIcon widget has been introduced. This widget provides a standardized way to display an information icon that, when tapped, presents a dialog with a title and a descriptive message about the current page or section. This enhances user guidance and context.
  • UI Consistency and Information Display: The AboutIcon has been integrated into the AppBar of several key pages, including 'App Configuration', 'Content Management', and 'Settings', to offer consistent access to page-specific descriptions. This improves the discoverability of information for users.
  • Code Cleanup and Formatting: Numerous files across the codebase have undergone minor code cleanup, including the removal of outdated comments, reformatting of method calls for improved readability, and standardization of parameter declarations in widgets like SearchableSelectionInput.
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Code Review

This pull request primarily refactors the AppBar across several pages, introducing a new reusable AboutIcon widget to display page descriptions in a dialog. This is a nice improvement for UI consistency and cleanliness. The PR also includes a significant amount of code cleanup by removing unnecessary comments and improving formatting.

I've found a potential bug in the AppShell's responsive logic for the navigation rail and suggested a fix. I also pointed out an opportunity to reduce code duplication in the same file for better maintainability. Overall, this is a good refactoring with minor issues to address.

- Change column spacing from AppSpacing.md to AppSpacing.sm in the DataTable widget
- Add visualDensity and iconSize to Edit button for better appearance
- Wrap PopupMenuButton in SizedBox to adjust width and prevent layout overflow
- Reduce iconSize of overflow button for consistency with Edit button
- Change padding from all sides to only top
- Update applied for headlines_page.dart, sources_page.dart, and topics_page.dart
- Adjust padding value from AppSpacing.lg to AppSpacing.sm
- Change SizedBox width from AppSpacing.sm to AppSpacing.xs in multiple files:
  - app_configuration_page.dart
  - content_management_page.dart
  - settings_page.dart
@fulleni fulleni merged commit 55faf37 into main Sep 25, 2025
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@fulleni fulleni deleted the refactor/app-shell branch September 25, 2025 21:16
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