Routine detail view: History/Instructions panel cut off and not discoverable when folder path is long
Description
On the desktop app's Routines panel, opening a routine with a long Folder path (e.g., a Google Drive shared-drive path with ~200 characters) pushes the History and Instructions panels entirely off the right side of the visible window. There's no scrollbar, no visual indicator that content exists to the right, and no cue that horizontal scrolling reveals it.
This led me to conclude that runs "weren't happening" because no run history was visible — when in fact runs were completing successfully and the History panel was just clipped off-screen. I clicked "Run now" on a routine four times before realizing the runs HAD completed; I just couldn't see the History panel showing four green-checkmark entries.
Steps to reproduce
- Create a routine with a Folder path longer than your window's content area (~150+ characters). A typical Google Drive shared-drive path qualifies.
- Open the routine's detail view from the Routines panel.
- Observe: the Folder path scrolls horizontally inside its row, but the History and Instructions panels (which live to the right of the main column) are not visible and there's no affordance signaling that off-screen content exists.
Expected behavior
Any of:
- Right-column panels collapse below the main column on narrower viewports (responsive layout)
- Long Folder path gets ellipsized or wrapped so the right column has room
- A visible scroll affordance indicates hidden content to the right
- Window content has a horizontal scrollbar that reveals the panels on scroll
Actual behavior
History/Instructions panels are silently clipped. New users (myself included) interpret the empty-looking detail view as "the routine isn't running."
Severity
Low (functionality works; content reachable via horizontal scroll once you know it exists) but high confusion cost — the routines feature appears broken when it isn't. This is the kind of bug that gets users to abandon the feature without filing a ticket.
Screenshots
I'll add screenshots of the cut-off detail view as a follow-up comment (the routine view with a long Google Drive folder path; the same view scrolled right showing the previously-hidden History panel with four successful runs).
Environment
- macOS desktop app
- Version: TBD (will add in follow-up comment after checking About menu)
Suggested priority
Medium — this is a discoverability cliff for a flagship feature (Routines). Easy fix on the layout side compared to the user-confusion cost.
This issue has 2 comments on GitHub. Read the full discussion on GitHub ↗