Persist the top bar collapsed/expanded state across reboots

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Drew Owens · 7d ago ·closed by John Lauer

Type: Feature request

Ask: remember whether I collapsed or expanded the top bar and restore that choice on the next launch.

Right now the top bar (the strip with the collapse or expand chevron at the top of the HD window) resets to its default state every reboot. If I collapse it to reclaim vertical space, it comes back expanded after a restart and I have to collapse it again each time. Persist the last state per user, the same way any window-chrome preference should stick, and apply it before the first paint so there is no visible flip on launch.

Explicitly out of scope: reopening the Wiki tab on every reboot is fine, keep doing that. This request is only about the top bar's collapsed/expanded state, not about which tabs restore.

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John Lauer · 7d ago

Fixed (commit 32b75245, in the next build/release). Root cause found: the collapsed state HAS persisted to localStorage since the first scaffold, but localStorage lives in the WebView2 profile, which app updates can wipe, so the choice appeared to reset "every reboot" (the color scheme survived because it is ALSO a synced setting, which was the tell).

The state is now a real synced setting (desktop.nav_minimized, visible in Settings > Behavior) bridged both ways with the chevron: either control updates the other, the value syncs to your Adom profile, and localStorage remains only the pre-paint hint so there is no visible flip on launch. Out-of-scope respected: tab restore behavior untouched.