[Rovey]

Summary

Changes from a UX review of the whole window. Only text, icons, button order, window size and keyboard use changed. A run, how it is stopped, what is put back afterwards and every safety check are unchanged.

• Risk said up front. The choose screen and the run screen both say the screen can go black for a moment and that the PC must not be switched off. Until now only the result page said so, after the run.
• Abort.
  • The button shows an X and "Abort run", with a red outline. The old icon looked like an unchecked checkbox.
  • Once clicked, it is replaced by "Stopping and putting the card back...".
  • The title row shows how far the whole run is ("12 of about 40 min").
• First run.
  • With no saved tune, the Dashboard's blue button is Optimize GPU....
  • Without administrator rights, the Optimize page keeps its Optimize button. The elevated copy opens on that page with the profile still selected (--open-optimize=N).
• Stopping by choice is not a failure. Abort and "Don't start" lead to a calm Stopped page.
  • Other failures start with a capital and say where run.log is.
  • The window never tells a user to run gao --reset. boot.log and the command line keep the engine's wording; the Dashboard log rewords it.
• Result pages.
  • The heading gives the result: "Done: 4.6 % faster, 6 % more power".
  • The score row is called "Speed (stress test)", and the power change is shown in percent for every profile.
  • Done comes first. Revert to stock is set apart on the right.
• Window.
  • Minimum size 1000×700 (scaled), and the window always opens inside the monitor's work area. Before, at 150 % on a 1080p screen it was taller than the screen.
  • Text wraps, and card titles and tile labels shrink rather than being cut.
  • The scrollbar's space is always kept, so the Abort button no longer moves when the page grows.
  • Tab, the arrow keys, Enter and Space now work (ImGui keyboard navigation).
• Tray.
  • Exit during a run asks first.
  • Revert and Re-apply from the tray report what they did in a balloon while the window is hidden.
  • Failures use the warning icon.
  • After a driver update the balloon offers the 5-minute test, the same as at logon.
• Wording.
  • Dashboard log in plain words, three lines by default.
  • Detect GPU is now an icon button.
  • A next step under "Set by another program".
  • New Fan page text, "Back to the tested curve", and a button on both empty Fan pages.
  • About page updated.
  • "Not administrator", "Details", "Don't start", and °C everywhere.
  • The README gives about 40 minutes for All in one.

Not changed, by choice: progress per step ("step 2 of 5"), screen-reader support, and editing the fan curve with the keyboard.

Before and after

All pictures are PrintWindow captures of the --demo window, run without administrator rights. Most are 1180×1000; the small-window ones are at the new minimum, 1000×700 (the old pictures were taken at 960×700).

	Before	After
Run screen: risk text, Abort, overall progress
Question about other programs
Choose screen without administrator rights
Result page
Not starting next to other programs
Dashboard without administrator rights
Keyboard (after a few presses of Tab)
Small window: run screen
Small window: choose screen
Small window: Dashboard

The pictures are kept on the branch pr-assets/ux-review, so they never reach main. That branch can be deleted once this is merged.

Test plan

• cmake --workflow --preset ci: builds with /W4 /WX, core_tests and app_tests pass.
• --demo and --demo=run (without administrator rights): went through the question about other programs, every run step, the result, Abort, "Don't start", the Dashboard, the Fan page and the About page, at 1180×1000 and at the 1000×700 minimum; Tab, Enter and Space were tried too.
• Not visible in the demo, checked in the code only:
  • the tray menu, including the Exit question and the balloons;
  • the elevated restart with --open-optimize=N;
  • the "Stopping..." text after Abort (the demo stops at once);
  • result pages from a real run that failed;
  • the Fan page with administrator rights.

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