Preferences: audit which options act (G12)

Every Preferences dialog option is read by shipped code, by its field or
its key, except five, each waiting on a subsystem of its own: Open
Documents As Tabs (documents in floating windows, G7), Units > East Asian
Type, Hyphenation > Default Language, Scratch Disks, and the legacy vector
clipboard. Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices
options, still listed as stored-only, act. Docs only.

docs/gaps.md

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 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-29 · **Change:** minor (G12: Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act; no entry closed, estimate unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act; estimate unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -392,11 +392,17 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 - **Done (2026-10-21, #394):** General › Constrain Angle turns the arrow keys' axes (guides stay on the page's), holds Shift drags of the Selection, Direct Selection, Free Transform, Slice Selection, Reshape and Measure tools and the Pen's handles to the turned axes, and new rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, grids, point and area type, Shift-drawn polygons and stars and the shape size dialogs are drawn along it with their bounding box turned; 0° and whole turns are exactly as before, quarter turns exact (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>). Arcs, spirals, flares and the Pen's new paths are not turned yet. Estimate unchanged. **2026-10-24:** General › Corner Radius is the Rounded Rectangle tool's radius: the tool takes the preference when chosen and when it changes while the tool is active (or lent a selection tool for a drag), and the radius ↑/↓ set while drawing one, or a Tool Options value, becomes the preference, clamped to its 0–1296 pt range (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/drawing-simple-lines-shapes.html>). Estimate unchanged.
 - **Done (2026-10-17):** Background Export shows its progress in a dialog with Cancel and Continue in Background (#2564), on the shared cancel token (#2546); a cancelled export writes no file. Save As, Export for Screens and Export Selection don't show it yet. Estimate unchanged.
 - **Done:** quick Image Trace presets trace at once and leave the panel as it was; the Image Trace button (Control bar, Properties) opens the controls with Threshold and Advanced (Paths, Corners, Noise), as the public documentation describes (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace-results-optimization.html>). Other context-specific Properties gaps remain.
-
-- **Missing:** ~14 Preferences options stored but not acted on (#394: Open
-- **Done:** quick Image Trace presets reveal Threshold and Advanced controls (Paths, Corners, Noise); Properties can reopen them. Other context-specific Properties gaps remain.
-- **Missing:** ~15 Preferences options stored but not acted on (#394: Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Open
-  Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…), Properties panel per
+- **Audited (2026-10-30, #394):** every Preferences dialog option but the five below is read by shipped code, by
+  its field or its key; Highlight Alternate Glyphs (the canvas's render options), Real-time Drawing and Editing
+  (tool previews wait for the commit), Show Tool Tips, Anti-aliased Artwork, Use Precise Cursors and Devices ›
+  Enable Touch Workspace and Touch Gestures included.
+- **Missing:** 5 Preferences options stored but not acted on (#394), each waiting on a subsystem of its own:
+  User Interface › Open Documents As Tabs (off would open documents in floating windows; one window per
+  document is G7), Units › East Asian Type (nothing is measured in it yet, and the Q and Ha units aren't in the
+  unit lists), Hyphenation › Default Language (hyphenation is English-only, with no per-language dictionaries),
+  Plug-ins & Scratch Disks › Primary and Secondary (documents are kept in memory; nothing pages to disk), and
+  Clipboard Handling › Legacy vector clipboard with its Preserve Paths / Preserve Appearance and Overprints choice
+  (Illustrator's own clipboard flavour, which has no public specification). Also Properties panel per
   context, context menus beyond the canvas, Layers panel row menus and Collect for Export, SVG Interactivity.
 - **Impact:** settings that silently do nothing erode trust.
 - **Estimate:** 13–20 h.
@@ -647,6 +653,7 @@ trap, and the defaults (0.25 pt, 100%, 40%) are VectorCraft's own, the pages giv
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act. Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G10: the Linux Flatpak on GNOME stops the clipboard retry storm (retried with a growing wait, logged once). Estimate unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G12: Pathfinder: live compound shapes (#4522): the panel menu's Make, Release and Expand Compound Shape, Alt-clicking a Shape Mode, a selected member's Shape Mode and the Expand button act. No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | G8: a blend makes at most 100,000 steps in all, the steps of blends nested in its keys and steps included; past it each pair of keys keeps the same share of its steps (#3579). No entry closed, estimates unchanged. |

docs/ui-parity.md

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 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (Preferences: the workspace, panels, toolbars and other UI settings are saved within 2 seconds of a change instead of only on quitting, and a window saves only what it changed, merged into the file as another VectorCraft window left it, so a second window closing last no longer puts back the settings it started with (#4625); scores unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-30 · **Change:** minor (G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 ## Feature submission evidence
 
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ next unit in the order a right-click on a ruler lists them, from Feet back to Po
 | Swatch, graphic style and symbol library panels: each library opens in a panel of its own, several at once, that floats, groups, docks and closes like any panel; opening an open library brings its panel forward; Previous / Next Library change the library in place; the panel menu's Persistent reopens the panel at startup with its view and find field (a library loaded from a file is read again; when its file is missing the panel reopens showing the file's path with Locate Library…, and the status bar names the file) | done | #2603; panel ids `library:<kind>:<id>`, `ui.libraryPanel {panel, library?, view?, showFind?, persistent?}`, `ui.libraryPanel.locate {panel, path?}`; the library panels have no sort option, as before |
 | DXF export/import preserves intended curve closure | done | #1299; R13–2018 closed SPLINE bit set/read; an open curve ending at its start stays open; knots and control points unchanged; native CIRCLE/ARC export and CNC preset remain pending |
 | macOS save sheet: choose the format from a menu | done | #866; the save panel is VectorCraft's own `NSSavePanel` with its Format menu set before the sheet opens (`apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_save_format.rs`); #1855 had withdrawn the menu that was added after the sheet began, which made Save As, Save a Copy and the first Save show no sheet |
-| Preferences: every option acts | partial | ~15 stored but unused (#394); General › Corner Radius drives the Rounded Rectangle tool and follows its ↑/↓ (2026-10-24) |
+| Preferences: every option acts | partial | 5 stored but unused (#394, audited 2026-10-30): Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard; the rest act. General › Corner Radius drives the Rounded Rectangle tool and follows its ↑/↓ (2026-10-24) |
 | Preferences › General › Constrain Angle | done | arrow keys and Shift drags along the turned axes; the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse and grid tools, point and area type and the shape size dialogs draw along them with the bounding box turned; Shift-drawn polygons and stars keep the turned base orientation; the Line Segment tool's Shift steps count from it (#394, <https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/arrange-objects/rotate-objects-by-specific-angles.html>); arcs, spirals, flares and Pen paths are not turned |
 | Tabs panel: a stop drags from where the press landed, a stop just added included | done | #1458 |
 | Outline view keeps template layers in Preview, dimmed | done | #1486; a picture placed to be traced stays visible under the outlines |
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 | minor | G12: Preferences audit (#394): 5 options are stored but not acted on (Open Documents As Tabs, Units › East Asian Type, Hyphenation › Default Language, Scratch Disks, Legacy vector clipboard), each waiting on a subsystem; Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Real-time Drawing and the Devices options act; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Preferences: the workspace, panels, toolbars and other UI settings are saved within 2 seconds of a change instead of only on quitting, and a window saves only what it changed, merged into the file as another VectorCraft window left it, so a second window closing last no longer puts back the settings it started with (#4625). Tests `prefs::tests` in `apps/vectorcraft`; scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Character panel menu › Show Snap to Glyph Options shows the Snap to Glyph section (Baseline, x-height, Glyph Bounds, Proximity Guides, Angular Guides, Anchor Point; `view.snapToGlyph.options`) (#4232); scores and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Contextual Task Bar: with the Direct Selection tool, a path selected whole offers Corner, Smooth (every anchor), Connect (open paths) and Simplify instead of Edit Path and Offset Path, as the public overview lists for that tool (<https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html>); a compound path under that tool no longer offers Edit Path (#4469). Tests in `crates/ui-egui/src/tests/taskbar.rs`; scores and estimates unchanged |