From 7eb05ee77f772f0962ceb080f8f50e11215abe90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doxa Maps <maps@doxa.example>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 11:08:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Posterverse: the Experimental folder starts open

Closed, the folder sat mid-drawer under the one short Posters section with
empty space below, so it read as a caption with nothing under it and was easy
to miss on a phone. Open, its plugins show like any section's rows; a reader
can still collapse it. check:posterverse-shelf asserts the open default, and
its self-test plants a closed folder.
---
 .../posterverse/scripts/check-posterverse-shelf.mjs       | 6 +++++-
 plugin-designs/posterverse/src/tabs.js                    | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugin-designs/posterverse/scripts/check-posterverse-shelf.mjs b/plugin-designs/posterverse/scripts/check-posterverse-shelf.mjs
index 922d007c2..b87e55992 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/posterverse/scripts/check-posterverse-shelf.mjs
+++ b/plugin-designs/posterverse/scripts/check-posterverse-shelf.mjs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * GATED. The allow-list lives in src/tabs.js; this gate is what keeps it one.
  *
  * WHAT IT ASSERTS (each arm is poisoned by --self-test before a pass is trusted):
- *   A. the rail's rows are exactly the named sets: Posters = upg-100, country-posters, poster-design;
+ *   A. the Experimental folder starts open, and the rail's rows are exactly the named sets: Posters = upg-100, country-posters, poster-design;
  *      Experimental = wall-of-people-groups, bible-posters (poster plugins only). Ids unique,
  *      every row in a declared section.
  *   B. no row names a NEVER bundle (key-cities, the shells themselves), and resolving the built
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ export function checkShelf({ SECTIONS, TABS, NEVER, resolveTabs, manifest, meta,
     const got = TABS.filter((t) => t.section === sec).map((t) => t.id)
     if (!sameList(got, want)) errs.push(`A: section ${sec} rows are [${got.join(', ')}], expected [${want.join(', ')}]`)
   }
+  // The Experimental folder starts OPEN: closed, under one short section, it read as an empty caption.
+  const exp = SECTIONS.find((g) => g.key === 'experimental')
+  if (!exp || !exp.folder || exp.open !== true) errs.push('A: the Experimental folder must be declared folder:true, open:true (closed, it is easy to miss)')
   const extra = TABS.filter((t) => !EXPECT[t.section]).map((t) => t.id)
   if (extra.length) errs.push(`A: rows outside the allow-listed sections: ${extra.join(', ')}`)
   // B. never a gated bundle — by declaration and by resolution over the real manifest
@@ -114,6 +117,7 @@ function selfTest(base) {
   const clone = (o) => JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(o))
   const cases = [
     ['A: key-cities added to Experimental', (c) => { c.TABS = [...c.TABS, { id: 'key-cities', section: 'experimental', bundle: 'key-cities', profile: 'key-cities' }] }, /^A: section experimental|^B: row key-cities/],
+    ['A: the Experimental folder closed again', (c) => { c.SECTIONS = c.SECTIONS.map((g) => g.key === 'experimental' ? { ...g, open: false } : g) }, /^A: the Experimental folder must be/],
     ['A: a row dropped', (c) => { c.TABS = c.TABS.filter((t) => t.id !== 'wall-of-people-groups') }, /^A: section experimental/],
     ['B: resolver that shows whatever the manifest carries', (c) => { c.resolveTabs = (m) => (m.bundles || []).map((b) => ({ id: b.bundle, bundle: b.bundle, profile: b.bundle, tag: b.bundle, scriptUrl: b.scriptUrl })) }, /^B: resolution produced a key-cities row/],
     ['C: a composite row falls back to a leaf', (c) => { c.manifest = clone(c.manifest); const b = c.manifest.bundles.find((x) => x.bundle === 'my-upg-100-list'); b.profiles = b.profiles.filter((p) => p.profile !== 'upg-100-mfe') }, /^C: row upg-100 opens/],
diff --git a/plugin-designs/posterverse/src/tabs.js b/plugin-designs/posterverse/src/tabs.js
index c251b6605..97966b7c4 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/posterverse/src/tabs.js
+++ b/plugin-designs/posterverse/src/tabs.js
@@ -20,10 +20,14 @@
  *   composite is the plugin as its owner designed it (and it is what makes Posterverse capability 5).
  */
 
-// The rail's sections, in order. `folder` renders collapsible and starts closed, like the gallery's.
+// The rail's sections, in order. Experimental is a collapsible folder, like the gallery's, but it starts
+// OPEN: the gallery's closed folder sits at the foot of a long rail, while Posterverse has one short
+// section above it, so a closed folder sat mid-drawer with empty space below and read as a caption with
+// nothing under it (measured at 390: the heading at y 335 in an 800px drawer, ~500px empty below).
+// Open, its plugins show like any section's rows; a reader can still collapse it.
 export const SECTIONS = [
   { key: 'posters', i18n: 'sec.posters', icon: 'poster' },
-  { key: 'experimental', i18n: 'sec.experimental', icon: 'flask', folder: true, open: false },
+  { key: 'experimental', i18n: 'sec.experimental', icon: 'flask', folder: true, open: true },
 ]
 
 // Every row Posterverse can show, in rail order.