Studio had a colour contract with a mechanical audit but no layout equivalent,
which is where the recurring visual defects live: window flashing, the label
under the 3D view, the platform-not-moving report, and the 2D/3D sync work all
passed a 3,408-assertion tool suite because that suite asserts widget state, not
the visible result.
apps/studio/docs/ui-layout.md states the contract: ViewLayoutController owns the
top-level arrangement and each panel owns its internal layout; every path that
changes the view must go through apply_preset(); each view's pane priority and
degradation order; and which numeric geometry arguments are legitimate (a 1px
separator is not the same defect as a magic width on a flexible panel).
It also records the one transition that is broken today.
on_cal_panel_toggled(False) sets view_preset = "live" directly instead of
calling apply_preset("live"), so the replay -> calibration -> calibration-off
sequence leaves the rail on the replay source, the run button in playback role,
and the previous view's splitter sizes. The live branch does call apply_preset,
which is what makes the asymmetry easy to miss.
Three claimed enforcement gaps are stated so the contract is not mistaken for
something already enforced: audit_palette reads theme JSON and never scans
source for the hex literals ui-palette.md forbids; the containment test compares
width and height without x/y, so a shifted or overlapping child passes; and the
GL pixel suite skips invisibly without a real context.
Verified: doc_lint default and --all both exit 0; the new document is registered
in the workspace inventory (63 collected, 63 inventoried, 0 missing) and linked
from README.md beside the palette reference. No source file changed.
ykcheungab