fix(settings): shorten long dropdown options that crushed their labels

[chhoumann]

Shortens two settings dropdowns whose long options crushed their labels in narrower windows.

A native <select> is as wide as its longest option. "Show at the bottom (keeps your top choice first)" made the launcher-row dropdown 335px wide, and "Show updates only on major releases (new features, breaking changes)" made Announce updates 400px wide. In an 800px window, the launcher row's label and description were squeezed into a 51px column (one word per line, several cut off with ellipses). The Announce updates label was squeezed to 0px, so it disappeared entirely.

The options are now short:

• "New note from template" in the launcher: Bottom / Top / Hidden
• Announce updates: Every release / Feature releases / Never. The major tier fires on minor and major bumps (see isFeatureUpdate in main.ts), so "Feature releases" describes it more accurately than "major releases" did.

Only display labels change; stored values (bottom/top/off, all/major/none) are the same, so existing settings are unaffected. docs/.../Settings.md quotes the new option names.

At 800px:

Before	After

Measured in Obsidian 1.13.7 across every QuickAdd settings row. At 800px these were the only two badly squeezed rows; at 700px Obsidian stacks rows, so they aren't affected.

Regression coverage: tests/e2e/settings-layout.test.ts opens QuickAdd's settings in an 800px window and requires every dropdown row to leave at least half its width to the label. It fails on master (launcher label gets 11.5% of the row) and passes here, and it will catch future long options in any dropdown. The full e2e suite (209), unit tests, and build-with-lint pass locally.

No release or migration impact.

Follow-up to #1806.

Note

Shorten settings dropdown labels that overflowed their row labels

• Changes the template launcher-row dropdown labels to Bottom, Top, and Hidden, and the update-announcement labels to Every release, Feature releases, and Never, in settingsDefinitions.ts. Option keys and defaults are unchanged.
• Updates Settings.md to match the new labels and documents Feature releases as the default.
• Adds an E2E test in settings-layout.test.ts that resizes the window to 800px and asserts each dropdown label area keeps at least half of its row.

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• Style
  • Shortened the placement options for “New note from template” to “Bottom,” “Top,” and “Hidden,” and update-announcement options to “Every release,” “Feature releases,” and “Never.”
• Tests
  • Added a check that settings labels remain readable in a narrow window.

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Two settings dropdowns now use shorter labels, with their option values unchanged. The settings documentation reflects the label changes. An end-to-end test checks the dropdown row layout at 800px wide.

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Settings labels and layout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update setting labels and verify layout src/gui/components/settingsDefinitions.ts, docs/src/content/docs/docs/Settings.md, tests/e2e/settings-layout.test.ts	The launcher options now read “Bottom,” “Top,” and “Hidden.” The update-announcement options now read “Every release,” “Feature releases,” and “Never.” The documentation uses the new labels. An end-to-end test checks that the label area occupies at least half of each dropdown row at 800px wide.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4532a

The shorter labels address the cramped settings rows without changing saved preferences. No actionable merge-blocking risk is evident after normal checks.

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