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Widget hover should show the widget bigger, not how it works; move about/refresh to right-click or a help item
Hovering a Title Bar widget gives a card explaining how the widget works. That is the wrong thing to show on hover: hovering is the reflex of someone who wants the number, not the manual.
Environment: Hydrogen 1.0.407, widgets claude-usage and codex-usage from adom/adom-vscode.
What the card shows now
Name and mark, repo, the live URL, brief, about ("Reads the Claude Code sign-in in this workspace and asks Claude's usage endpoint..."), refresh ("asks the provider at most once every 3 minutes; pauses while the window is hidden..."), the port, the log path, and four links.
Every one of those is a fact about the widget. None of them is the reading. The widget is a meter, and the reason to hover a meter is that the compact bar is too small to read at a glance, which is exactly the complaint in the sizing issue filed alongside this one.
What I want instead
Hover shows the widget, bigger. The same live data the slot is rendering, at a size that is comfortable to read, with the room to show what does not fit in 20 px: all the limits with their full labels, the exact percentages, and whatever the compact layout had to drop. In other words, the tall layout the SDK already describes, rendered in the card, rather than prose about the widget.
That is also cheap to specify, because the widget already has two layouts. The card is a bigger box; let the page render its tall layout in it.
The how-it-works moves to an explicit ask. Right-click on the slot, or a ? in the card, or a Help item in the widgets pulldown. about, refresh, the port, the log path and the SDK link are all things a person goes looking for on purpose, once, usually when something is broken. They do not need to be in the way of the reflex path.
Keep pinning as it is: pin the card and the links go live. That part works.
Why this is worth doing beyond these two widgets
The card is host-drawn from manifest fields, so this is one change for every widget anyone ships, present and future. A widget author writes about and refresh once and it lands in the right place instead of the front place. And it makes the compact bar honest: the glance gives you the shape, the hover gives you the number, the right-click gives you the manual.