From c697049ce6adf1adc718ea6b608220f612ae3e36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dawn <jiaxin.duan@psi.ch>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2026 15:10:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: hide operation panels in watch-only mode
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Without the baton the GUI now shows only the camera stream and status
bar; every operating surface (panels, docks, pop-out mirrors) is hidden
outright. Regaining the baton restores dock layout via saveState/
restoreState — per-dock visibility snapshots lose docks tabbed behind
others — so LogDock gains the objectName restoreState requires.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/aare/gui/main_window.py      | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/aare/gui/panels/log_panel.py |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/aare/gui/main_window.py b/src/aare/gui/main_window.py
index 781f1b49..c1314086 100644
--- a/src/aare/gui/main_window.py
+++ b/src/aare/gui/main_window.py
@@ -2417,6 +2417,42 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             for banner in banners:
                 banner.set_collapsed(True, persist=False)
 
+        # Watch-only shows ONLY the camera stream: every other operating
+        # surface is hidden outright (not just greyed), and regaining the
+        # baton restores exactly the visibility each one had before. The
+        # status bar and its SESSION VACANT badge stay — they are the way
+        # back in. To later hide the camera streams as well, add
+        # self.video_tab to this list.
+        # findChildren instead of a hand list: hand-listing missed docks
+        # (Console Log, Fluorescence, ...) and would again for future ones.
+        # Covers the pop-out mirrors too — they are operating surfaces.
+        hide_in_watch_mode = [
+            self.left_column_tabs,
+            self.beamline,
+            self.beamline_state_panel,
+            *self.findChildren(PopoutWindow),
+        ]
+        if owned:
+            for widget, was_visible in getattr(self, "_pre_watch_visibility", []):
+                widget.setVisible(was_visible)
+            # Docks restore via restoreState, not per-dock setVisible: a dock
+            # TABBED BEHIND another is isHidden() at snapshot time, so a
+            # visibility snapshot mistakes it for user-closed and loses it
+            # (the vanished Sample List). restoreState also brings back
+            # tab order, the active tab and dock sizes. Needs objectNames
+            # on every dock.
+            state = getattr(self, "_pre_watch_dock_state", None)
+            if state is not None:
+                self.restoreState(state)
+        else:
+            # not isHidden(), NOT isVisible(): the vacant gate first runs
+            # before the window is shown, where isVisible() is False for
+            # everything and the restore would then "restore" all-hidden.
+            self._pre_watch_dock_state = self.saveState()
+            self._pre_watch_visibility = [(w, not w.isHidden()) for w in hide_in_watch_mode]
+            for widget in hide_in_watch_mode + self.findChildren(QDockWidget):
+                widget.hide()
+
     @Slot(DAQStatusModel)
     def update_daq_status(self, s: DAQStatusModel):
         self._latest_daq_status = s
diff --git a/src/aare/gui/panels/log_panel.py b/src/aare/gui/panels/log_panel.py
index 9d1033ea..12289ea4 100644
--- a/src/aare/gui/panels/log_panel.py
+++ b/src/aare/gui/panels/log_panel.py
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ class RuntimeNotificationWidget(QFrame):
 class LogDock(QDockWidget):
     def __init__(self, title="Log", parent=None):
         super().__init__(title, parent)
+        # saveState/restoreState (watch-mode hide/restore) skips unnamed docks.
+        self.setObjectName("log_dock")
         self.setAllowedAreas(
             Qt.DockWidgetArea.BottomDockWidgetArea
             | Qt.DockWidgetArea.RightDockWidgetArea