Merge pull request #6733 from dotCooCoo/feat/symbols-sort-and-list-views

Symbols: the panel menu sorts by name and offers Small and Large List views

docs/mcp.md

@@ -2432,6 +2432,12 @@ already walks Image Trace. Short agent entry points:
   Instances in the art (opacity masks included), graph designs, pattern tiles (with the tiles that pattern editing's
   Cancel puts back) and the art of the document's brushes count, and so do the instances in the art of a symbol that
   is used; a symbol placed only inside an unused symbol is unused too.
+- The Symbols panel menu's Sort by Name: `symbol.sortByName` (`{}`) puts the document's symbols in name order,
+  ignoring case, as one undo step; symbols whose names differ only in case keep their order. `symbol.list` and the
+  panel list the symbols in the new order, the current symbol stays current, and instances are
+  unchanged. No undo step is added when the symbols are already in order. The panel menu's Thumbnail View, Small List
+  View and Large List View change only how the panel shows the symbols: thumbnails, or rows with a thumbnail and the
+  name (smaller rows in Small List View).
 - The Brushes panel menu's Select All Unused: `brush.unused` (a query) lists the brushes no stroke paints with, in
   library order, and the panel selects them. Strokes in the art (opacity masks included), symbols, graph designs,
   pattern tiles (with the tiles that pattern editing's Cancel puts back) and graphic styles count, and so do the

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - **9-slice guides on the canvas** ([public source](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/maintain-proportions-while-scaling-symbols.html)): while a symbol with Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling on is edited in symbol editing mode, the canvas draws its two horizontal and two vertical guides as dotted lines across its art, with any tool and with ruler guides hidden. With the Selection tool the pointer near a guide shows the Move cursor, and dragging the guide moves it (`symbol.options`'s `nineSliceGuides`) as one undo step; Escape during the drag puts it back. VectorCraft's own rules: a guide within 4 screen pixels takes the press before the art and the bounding box; it stays within the art's box (guides outside the art are not supported yet) and stops short of the opposite guide; the drag does not snap. Tests: `nineslice::tests`, `symbol_nine_slice::tests::the_edited_symbols_guides_cross_its_art_where_the_editing_layer_shows_it`, `a_moved_guide_stays_in_the_art_and_short_of_the_opposite_guide`, `canvas::tests::the_edited_symbols_nine_slice_guides_are_drawn_and_dragged_on_the_canvas`.
   - **Delete Symbol asks first** ([Symbols panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), [symbol libraries](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/create-or-import-symbol-libraries.html), [Alt-click Delete](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)): the Symbols panel's Delete Symbol button and menu item ask "Delete the selected symbol?" with Yes and No for a symbol no instance uses. For a symbol with placed instances they ask with Expand Instances (the instances become ordinary art), Delete Instances and Cancel; either Instances button deletes the symbol in one undo step. Alt-click on the button deletes an unused symbol without asking and still asks about one with instances. A question left open while another document became active deletes nothing. `symbol.delete` itself does not ask. Tests: `panels::symbols::tests::delete_symbol_asks_first_and_alt_click_deletes_an_unused_symbol_at_once`, `the_in_use_question_expands_or_deletes_the_instances`, `a_stale_delete_symbol_question_deletes_nothing`, `the_delete_symbol_questions_show_their_buttons`.
   - **Symbols › Select All Unused** ([Symbols panel](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html), #4918): the Symbols panel menu's Select All Unused shows the symbols nothing places selected (`symbol.unused`): instances in the art (opacity masks included), graph designs, pattern tiles and brush art count, and so do instances in a used symbol's art. Delete Symbol, the button or the menu item, then asks "Delete the selected symbols?" once and deletes those still unused in one undo step (`symbol.delete {names}`); Alt-click on the button deletes them without asking, and a click on a symbol picks just it again. Tests: `tests::brushsym::symbol_unused_lists_the_symbols_nothing_places_and_delete_takes_several`, `panels::symbols::tests::select_all_unused_picks_the_unused_symbols_and_delete_deletes_them`, `dialogs::symbol_delete::tests::several_symbols_get_the_plural_question`.
+  - **Symbols › Sort by Name and the list views** ([the help page](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html)): the Symbols panel menu's Sort by Name puts the symbols in alphabetical order (`symbol.sortByName`), and its Thumbnail View, Small List View and Large List View show them as thumbnails, in a compact list or in a list with larger thumbnails. VectorCraft's own rules: the sort ignores case and keeps names that differ only in case in their order; it changes the document's order, which `symbol.list` reports, as one undo step, keeps the current symbol and adds no undo step when the symbols are already in order; Thumbnail View is the default, Small List View has 18-point rows with 14-point thumbnails and Large List View 26-point rows with 22-point thumbnails, and a click or double-click on a symbol does the same in every view. Tests: `tests::brushsym::symbol_sort_by_name_orders_the_symbols_in_one_undo_step`, `panels::symbols::tests::sort_by_name_and_the_small_and_large_list_views`.
   - **Expand of symbol instances:** Object › Expand turns selected symbol instances (without effects, not in perspective, in groups or placed documents too) into their art as Break Link to Symbol places it, one level deep, as one undo step; the Expand dialog's Fill and Stroke reach that art (`object.expand`, `crates/engine/src/tests/expand_symbols.rs`; estimated, score unchanged).
   - **Reset Transformation** ([Transform symbols](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/transform-symbols.html), [Symbols panel options](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/symbols-panel-options.html)): the Symbols panel menu's Reset Transformation and the Control bar's Reset, shown while symbol instances are selected, give the selected instances their symbol's own scale again, without rotation or shear, as one undo step (`symbol.instance.resetTransform`); an instance in perspective is left as it is. VectorCraft's own rules: each instance keeps the center of its bounding box in place, reflection is removed too, and the menu item and the button are enabled only while a selected instance would change. Tests: `tests::brushsym::reset_transformation_restores_the_symbols_scale_and_keeps_the_center`, `reset_transformation_keeps_the_center_of_art_away_from_the_origin`, `reset_transformation_ignores_a_stored_size_that_is_not_positive`, `reset_transformation_leaves_unchanged_instances_and_refuses_bad_ids`, `panels::symbols::tests::reset_transformation_is_enabled_for_a_transformed_instance_and_resets_it`.
   - **Expand of dimensions:** Object › Expand, Expand Appearance, Create Outlines and Outline Stroke turn a dimension whose art they change into a plain group of that art, which stays as it is through later moves, scales and edits of what it measured; undo gives the live dimension back (`crates/engine/tests/it/dimensions.rs`; VectorCraft's own rule; estimated, score unchanged).