Follow-up: column width contention policy and toggleable style presets

[paddymul]

Summary

Track a follow-up for width contention policy and style presets after base auto-width improvements.

Problem

When many columns compete for limited width, we need explicit policy and optional user-facing presets.

Scope (follow-up)

• Add configurable hard/max width behavior as a separate concern from baseline auto-width sizing.
• Add style/presentation presets that can be toggled in UI (for example via named display/style groups).
• Ensure histogram cells keep a minimum usable width.

Notes

This should remain separate from the base issue that computes preferred widths by inspecting column data and sets explicit pixel widths.

[paddymul]

Implementation Plan

Overview

Add a width contention policy that caps column widths when many columns compete for space, and add toggleable style presets.

Steps

1. Width contention policy in the JS column-sizing logic:

   • After computing preferred widths for all columns, if total exceeds viewport width, proportionally scale down non-pinned columns
   • Enforce a minimum width for histogram columns (e.g. 80px) so they remain usable
   • Add a configurable maxColumnWidth cap (e.g. 300px)

2. Style presets — add named presets like "compact", "comfortable", "auto":

   • compact: smaller row height, narrower columns, smaller font
   • comfortable: default current behavior
   • auto: uses the contention policy to fit all columns
   • Store as a JS config object, selectable via a dropdown in the widget header

3. Python config — expose style_preset parameter on widget constructors that passes through to JS.

4. Tests: Playwright tests verifying column widths under different preset modes with wide DataFrames.

Files to modify

• packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/ — column sizing logic
• Widget header component — preset selector
• Python widget config

@codex

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Summary

• Added style preset infrastructure in the DF viewer (compact, comfortable, auto) with a header dropdown, plus preset-driven row-height/font tuning and propagation into the inner grid rendering path. packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/DFViewerInfinite.tsxL42-L51 packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/DFViewerInfinite.tsxL154-L205 packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/DFViewerInfinite.tsxL352-L380
• Implemented a width contention policy that:
  • caps preferred widths with maxColumnWidth,
  • scales non-pinned columns when total preferred width exceeds available width,
  • enforces a histogram minimum width,
  • and applies the policy on first render / grid ready in auto preset. packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/gridUtils.tsL165-L209 packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/DFViewerInfinite.tsxL277-L300 packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/DFViewerInfinite.tsxL371-L375 packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/DFViewerInfinite.tsxL454-L461
• Tagged histogram columns in generated AG Grid colDefs so the contention logic can reliably detect them for minimum width behavior. packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/gridUtils.tsL104-L131
• Extended JS/Python config schemas and constructors to support style_preset and maxColumnWidth passthrough from Python to frontend component config. packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/DFWhole.tsL180-L190 buckaroo/dataflow/styling_core.pyL158-L167 buckaroo/buckaroo_widget.pyL107-L146 buckaroo/buckaroo_widget.pyL368-L443 buckaroo/polars_buckaroo.pyL135-L177
• Added unit tests for contention sizing behavior (scaling + histogram min width + max-width cap). packages/buckaroo-js-core/src/components/DFViewerParts/gridUtils.test.tsL181-L199

Testing

• ✅ cd /workspace/buckaroo/packages/buckaroo-js-core && pnpm test -- --runInBand src/components/DFViewerParts/gridUtils.test.ts
• ✅ cd /workspace/buckaroo/packages/buckaroo-js-core && pnpm exec tsc --noEmit
• ✅ cd /workspace/buckaroo && python -m compileall buckaroo/buckaroo_widget.py buckaroo/polars_buckaroo.py buckaroo/dataflow/styling_core.py

Also completed requested follow-up actions: committed changes (ce3614e) and created a PR via the make_pr tool.

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