test(e2e): fix native e2e failures on macOS instances and two spec leaks

[chhoumann]

Summary

Native e2e specs failed on master in a macOS isolated worktree instance. The failures came from the test environment and from test hygiene. None of them is a QuickAdd UI defect. This PR fixes five causes, each reproduced in a live instance before the fix and verified after it.

1. New choice menu specs (3 tests). On macOS, Obsidian treats an unset nativeMenus as native OS menus (app.updateUseNativeMenu), so no .menu element exists for a spec to find. The shared dev vault passes only because its appearance.json turns native menus off. The e2e setup now draws menus in the page. It sets the config, calls updateUseNativeMenu(), and restores the config, so a later config save cannot write the override to a real vault.
2. package-import-result. The import summary overhangs the scroll body by exactly 0.0703125px at every window size tried. Scroll offsets snap to device pixels on a 2x display. The check now allows half a pixel. A spec with the modal's scrollIntoView removed still fails it.
3. one-page-pinned-actions (flaky). There are two causes. A test window covered by other windows reports visibilityState: hidden and gets 0 animation frames, so the footer's scroll-driven animation never applies. The setup now turns on CDP focus emulation when the page is not already visible and focused. The settings-popout-save hidden-window case turns it off, because it needs throttled timers: 302 timer ticks in 3s with emulation, 3 without. Separately, Submit's focus ring grows from 0 to 3px over a 0.15s transition, and the spec measured it once right after Tab. It now waits for the transition to finish. Mutations with footer padding of 0 and of 2px both fail the check.
4. external-settings-change "does not treat its own saves as external changes". It flipped showCaptureNotification through the plugin's own save and never flipped it back, inverting the value in data.json on every run. It now restores the value in a finally through the same path. After two runs, data.json is byte-identical.
5. templater-rerun-deprecation. It never disconnected the MutationObserver that pushes into window.__qaNotices. Once that spec had run, choice-builder-pages "says once that a choice deleted elsewhere..." saw its one notice twice. The spec now disconnects the observer after each test.

Verification

All runs used a fresh isolated instance (Obsidian 1.14.3, macOS).

• The reported files, plus choice-builder-pages-phone, passed 24/24 with the window covered. The menu-then-pinned-actions pair passed 15/15, against 2 failures in 18 runs before the ring fix.
• Before the rebase onto test(e2e): set vault options in memory so a restore holds under load #2216, the full native suite passed 447/447 (24 skipped).
• After rebasing onto master, the full native suite passed 449, with 24 skipped, and 1 failure: the master regression listed below.
• pnpm run test passes, including the test(e2e): set vault options in memory so a restore holds under load #2216 setConfig lint.

Not fixed here

• choice-builder-pages-phone "keeps the focused field..." fails on current master. It bisects to fix(settings): stop an unloaded QuickAdd from adding or removing choice commands #2215 and is tracked in e2e: choice-builder-pages-phone fails since #2215 (row never holds still after reload) #2218.
• Under load, the Obsidian CLI sometimes loses a reply. One lost reply to the harness's plugin:disable left QuickAdd unloaded and failed 22 later files in one run. The setup sends its CDP call only when needed, so it adds no CLI calls to most tests.

Release impact

None. Only tests change.

Note

Fix native e2e test failures on macOS and two spec leaks

• Makes the e2e harness use page-rendered menus and enable main-window focus emulation before each test in setup.ts, restoring the native-menu setting afterward
• Adds a setFocusEmulation helper in uiHelpers.ts that sends the CDP focus-emulation command and throws on a bad response
• Fixes spec leaks: the external settings change test restores the original notification setting in a finally block, and the templater deprecation suite disconnects its notice observer in afterEach
• Fixes flaky measurements: the pinned-actions test waits for focus-ring animations before asserting layout, and the package import test allows 0.5px of overhang at the dialog body edges
• Behavioral Change: all e2e specs now run with non-native menus and focus emulation when the window is not visible or focused

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Improved end-to-end test coverage for settings saves, pinned actions, package import results, and template reruns.
  • Updated test setup to handle window focus and menu behavior more consistently, and to clean up notices between tests.

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Walkthrough

This pull request updates E2E test setup and cleanup, adds focus-emulation control, restores a settings value after a test, and adjusts UI assertion timing and bounds.

Changes

E2E test stability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Focus emulation and popout setup tests/e2e/uiHelpers.ts, tests/e2e/setup.ts, tests/e2e/settings-popout-save.test.ts	Adds a CDP helper for focus emulation. Setup checks document visibility and focus, manages native menus and the vault setting, and enables focus emulation when needed. The popout test disables it when mainWindow is "hidden".
Test state cleanup tests/e2e/external-settings-change.test.ts, tests/e2e/templater-rerun-deprecation.test.ts	The settings test restores its original toggle value in a finally block. The notice observer disconnects after each test.
UI assertion timing and bounds tests/e2e/one-page-pinned-actions.test.ts, tests/e2e/package-import-result.test.ts	The pinned-actions test waits for animations before measuring the focus ring. The import-result test allows up to 0.5 pixels of overhang at either review-body edge.

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A setup failure can leave the test vault’s native-menu setting false for a later save. This is a bounded test-environment risk; the remaining changes have no established material issue.

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- Around line 3-27: Update the native-menu setup in the beforeEach hook so
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• tests/e2e/external-settings-change.test.ts
• tests/e2e/one-page-pinned-actions.test.ts
• tests/e2e/package-import-result.test.ts
• tests/e2e/settings-popout-save.test.ts
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• tests/e2e/templater-rerun-deprecation.test.ts
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PASS+NOTES

Head fbf4edb, base 2abd73c (master's tests/e2e checked out into the same worktree). Isolated instance, Obsidian 1.14.3, macOS.

1. Base fails, head passes:
   • Base: choice-list-layout "opens the New choice menu under its button" FAIL (expected false to be true), both choice-builder-pages Back from a choice's settings page clears the choice filter and moves focus to the top of the list #2150 tests FAIL (.menu-item never appears, 10s timeout), package-import-result FAIL (inView: false). 4 failed / 12 passed.
   • Head: same 3 files 16/16, run once with the window visible and once with it covered (20/20 with pinned-actions included).
   • one-page-pinned-actions on base, 5 runs: run 1 (window visible) 1/4 failed (is-phone focus ring). Runs 2-5 (window covered, visibilityState: hidden) 4/4 failed (15px inset misalignment, so the scroll-driven animation never applied).
   • one-page-pinned-actions on head: 5 runs 4/4, plus 3 runs of menu + pinned-actions together at 7/7 with the window confirmed hidden (emulation off) before and after.
2. external-settings-change leak: base flipped data.json showCaptureNotification true -> false (7742 -> 7743 bytes, sha256 f3db13a9 -> 7e5dd177). Head, 2 runs: byte-identical (cmp clean, sha 7e5dd177 before and after both runs), 7/7 passing each run.
3. templater-rerun-deprecation observer leak: after the base spec, a fake .notice appended to body was recorded in window.__qaNotices (recorded: true). After location.reload() and the head spec, it was not recorded (recorded: false).
4. Full head suite, window covered: 449 passed, 24 skipped (Templater-gated), 1 failed. The failure is choice-builder-pages-phone "keeps the focused field and its suggestions above the keyboard..." (More options for Phone macro never appears), the known fix(settings): stop an unloaded QuickAdd from adding or removing choice commands #2215 regression tracked in e2e: choice-builder-pages-phone fails since #2215 (row never holds still after reload) #2218. No other failures, so nothing needed a rerun. settings-popout-save has no skip gate, so both of its window cases ran and passed.
5. Diff review: nothing masks a user-facing defect, and nothing leaks into a real vault.
   • app.updateUseNativeMenu is e=vault.getConfig("nativeMenus"); isMacOS&&null===e&&(e=!0); Menu.useNativeMenu=e. It sets only the in-memory flag. After the full suite no vault config file contains nativeMenus, and getConfig("nativeMenus") still returns null.
   • Focus emulation toggles as claimed. Window covered, timer ticks in 3s at a 10ms interval: off 5, on 300, off 4. So the popout spec's setFocusEmulation(false) really restores throttling for its hidden case.

Notes (none block the merge):

• On macOS the menu specs now exercise page-drawn menus. Users on macOS with default settings get native OS menus, which the DOM can't observe, so no testable path is lost. It just means those specs never cover the native-menu path.
• In this instance document.hasFocus() stayed true even while the window was hidden, so the inFront gate effectively keys on visibilityState. Harmless, since a covered window still triggers emulation.
• The restore leaves nativeMenus as an own undefined property on app.vault.config. getConfig maps undefined to the default and JSON serialization drops it, so the behavior is unchanged.
• During one head run a CLI dispatch (Input.dispatchMouseEvent mouseReleased) lost its reply and left a client process hanging. The harness recovered and the run passed. This is the known transport noise, not this PR.