Merge pull request #76 from yusufipk/claude/model-selection-ui-organization-62dc90

Group the model lists and say which row this machine should take

tests/support.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from unittest import mock
 
 from dikte import assistant
 from dikte import config as cfg
+from dikte import ggml
 from dikte import i18n
 from dikte import update
 
@@ -95,6 +96,10 @@ class DikteTest(unittest.TestCase):
         i18n.set_language("en")
         self.addCleanup(i18n.set_language, "en")
 
+        # Read once and kept for the life of the process, which across a test
+        # run means one test's machine answering for the next one's.
+        self.patch_attr(ggml, "_MEMORY", None)
+
         # cli.launch_gui replaces this process with the application when no
         # instance is running. A test that reaches it would take the whole run
         # with it and hang, so it fails loudly here instead.

tests/test_ggml.py

@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ def item(name, data, url="https://example.invalid/f", sha=True):
                     hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest() if sha else "")
 
 
+def listed(name, size):
+    """A row as a listing hands it over: a name and a size, no bytes."""
+    return hub.Item(name, f"https://example.invalid/{name}", size, "a" * 64)
+
+
 @contextlib.contextmanager
 def serving(release, archive):
     """Answer by what is being asked for rather than by what came before.
@@ -664,6 +669,53 @@ class Catalogue(Local):
             with self.assertRaises(ggml.LocalError):
                 ggml.whisper_models()
 
+    def test_the_speculative_decoding_heads_are_not_models(self):
+        # They are the small files in a repository, so a list sorted by size
+        # puts them first, where the eye lands and the click goes.
+        tree = GGUF_TREE + [
+            {"type": "file", "path": "dflash-Qwen3-8B-Q8_0.gguf",
+             "size": 1_120_000_000, "lfs": {"oid": "f" * 64}},
+            {"type": "file", "path": "eagle3-gpt-oss-20b-Q8_0.gguf",
+             "size": 920_000_000, "lfs": {"oid": "0" * 64}},
+        ]
+        with fake_urlopen(tree):
+            names = [q.name for q in ggml.llm_quants("ggml-org/x-GGUF")]
+        self.assertEqual(names,
+                         ["gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf", "gemma-3-4b-it-Q8_0.gguf"])
+
+    def test_a_speech_or_vision_repository_is_not_a_cleanup_publisher(self):
+        listing = [{"id": "ggml-org/parakeet-GGUF"},
+                   {"id": "ggml-org/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-GGUF"},
+                   {"id": "ggml-org/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct-GGUF"},
+                   {"id": "ggml-org/Qwen3-8B-Base-GGUF"},
+                   {"id": "ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF"}]
+        with fake_urlopen(listing):
+            found = ggml.llm_repos()
+        self.assertEqual([r for r in found if r.startswith("ggml-org/Smol")],
+                         ["ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF"])
+        self.assertNotIn("ggml-org/parakeet-GGUF", found)
+        self.assertNotIn("ggml-org/Qwen3-8B-Base-GGUF", found)
+
+    def test_a_publisher_is_not_dropped_for_a_word_it_happens_to_contain(self):
+        # The skip marks are matched as plain substrings, and an unanchored
+        # "test-" is also inside "Latest-".
+        self.assertTrue(ggml.can_clean("ggml-org/Qwen3-Latest-GGUF"))
+        self.assertFalse(ggml.can_clean("ggml-org/test-model-router-download"))
+
+    def test_a_base_model_beside_its_tuned_twin_is_dropped(self):
+        # Gemma names the base model after the tuned one with the `-it` taken
+        # out, so the two sit next to each other and the wrong one answers a
+        # cleanup prompt by carrying on writing the transcript.
+        listing = [{"id": "ggml-org/gemma-4-E2B-GGUF"},
+                   {"id": "ggml-org/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF"},
+                   {"id": "ggml-org/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF"}]
+        with fake_urlopen(listing):
+            found = ggml.llm_repos()
+        self.assertNotIn("ggml-org/gemma-4-E2B-GGUF", found)
+        self.assertIn("ggml-org/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF", found)
+        # Nothing named it, so nothing says it is the wrong half of a pair.
+        self.assertIn("ggml-org/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF", found)
+
     def test_what_is_on_disk_is_read_from_disk(self):
         self.assertEqual(ggml.installed_whisper_models(), [])
         path = ggml.whisper_model_path("ggml-base.bin")
@@ -1183,3 +1235,205 @@ class WindowsOwnership(Local):
         # from here", and only one of those makes the pid file safe to drop.
         self.image("")
         self.assertIsNone(self.made._is_ours(1234))
+
+
+class Machine(Local):
+    """What this machine can hold, and what that makes worth pointing at."""
+
+    def _sysconf(self, phys_pages, page_size=4096):
+        """Stand where sysconf answers whatever this test wants it to.
+
+        `create` because Windows has no os.sysconf at all, and a patch that
+        insists on the real attribute fails there before the test runs. What
+        the code under test does about that absence is two lines down from
+        what these are checking, and it is checked on its own below.
+        """
+        return mock.patch.object(
+            ggml.os, "sysconf", create=True,
+            side_effect=lambda name: (page_size if name == "SC_PAGE_SIZE"
+                                      else phys_pages))
+
+    def test_the_memory_is_read_the_way_each_system_reports_it(self):
+        # Linux and most Macs answer through sysconf.
+        with self._sysconf(4_194_304):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.total_memory(), 16 * ggml.GB)
+
+    def test_a_mac_without_the_page_count_is_asked_for_the_number(self):
+        # Not every build of Python on a Mac carries SC_PHYS_PAGES, and a Mac
+        # that answered nothing would be a Mac with none of this on it.
+        def answer(args, **kwargs):
+            self.assertEqual(args, ["sysctl", "-n", "hw.memsize"])
+            return mock.Mock(stdout=f"{32 * ggml.GB}\n")
+
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml.os, "sysconf", create=True,
+                               side_effect=ValueError), \
+                mock.patch.object(sys, "platform", "darwin"), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml.subprocess, "run", answer):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.total_memory(), 32 * ggml.GB)
+
+    def test_a_sysconf_that_shrugs_is_an_unknown_machine_and_not_a_tiny_one(self):
+        # sysconf answers -1 for a limit it holds to be indeterminate and
+        # CPython hands that back rather than raising, so the product came out
+        # negative: a 64 GB workstation was told every model past 512 MB was
+        # too big for it, and the machine line read "Memory: -4096 B".
+        with self._sysconf(-1):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.total_memory(), 0)
+        self.assertTrue(ggml.fits(574 << 20, memory=0))
+
+    def test_the_memory_is_read_once_and_kept(self):
+        # A list of thirty rows asks seventy times, and on the Mac path the
+        # answer comes from a program rather than a library call.
+        calls = []
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml, "_read_memory",
+                               lambda: calls.append(1) or 16 * ggml.GB):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.total_memory(), 16 * ggml.GB)
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.total_memory(), 16 * ggml.GB)
+        self.assertEqual(len(calls), 1)
+
+    def test_a_system_that_answers_nothing_is_an_unknown_machine(self):
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml.os, "sysconf", create=True,
+                               side_effect=ValueError), \
+                mock.patch.object(sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.total_memory(), 0)
+
+    def test_a_mac_is_taken_to_have_a_graphics_interface(self):
+        with mock.patch.object(sys, "platform", "darwin"):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.accelerator(), "Metal")
+
+    def test_elsewhere_the_vulkan_loader_is_what_says_so(self):
+        with mock.patch.object(sys, "platform", "linux"), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml.ctypes.util, "find_library",
+                                  lambda name: "/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1"):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.accelerator(), "Vulkan")
+        with mock.patch.object(sys, "platform", "linux"), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml.ctypes.util, "find_library",
+                                  lambda name: None):
+            self.assertEqual(ggml.accelerator(), "")
+
+    def test_a_model_is_measured_against_half_the_memory(self):
+        self.assertTrue(ggml.fits(2 * ggml.GB, memory=8 * ggml.GB))
+        self.assertFalse(ggml.fits(4 * ggml.GB, memory=8 * ggml.GB))
+
+    def test_a_machine_whose_memory_could_not_be_read_holds_anything(self):
+        # A wrong "too big" is worse advice than none.
+        self.assertTrue(ggml.fits(40 * ggml.GB, memory=0))
+
+    def test_the_smallest_machine_is_not_the_one_where_everything_fits(self):
+        # Half of 2 GB less the gigabyte of overhead is nothing, and a budget
+        # of nothing used to read as the unknown machine above.
+        self.assertFalse(ggml.fits(3 * ggml.GB, memory=2 * ggml.GB))
+
+    def test_a_crowded_machine_is_pointed_at_the_smaller_model(self):
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.suggested_whisper(memory=3 * ggml.GB, graphics=""),
+                         ggml.SMALL_MACHINE_WHISPER)
+
+    def test_a_card_and_the_memory_for_it_are_pointed_at_the_accurate_one(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            ggml.suggested_whisper(memory=32 * ggml.GB, graphics="Vulkan"),
+            ggml.ACCURATE_WHISPER)
+
+    def test_memory_without_a_card_is_pointed_at_the_fast_one(self):
+        # Several times the work per second is several times a long wait on a
+        # processor, whatever there is room for.
+        self.assertEqual(
+            ggml.suggested_whisper(memory=32 * ggml.GB, graphics=""),
+            ggml.SUGGESTED_WHISPER)
+
+    def test_a_sixteen_gigabyte_machine_counts_as_a_roomy_one(self):
+        # What a machine reports is what the firmware and the graphics left
+        # of it: 16 GB answers about 15.4, and a threshold written at the
+        # number on the box is one no machine ever reaches.
+        self.assertEqual(
+            ggml.suggested_whisper(memory=int(15.4 * ggml.GB), graphics="Metal"),
+            ggml.ACCURATE_WHISPER)
+
+    def test_the_suggestion_that_fits_is_offered_first(self):
+        first = ggml.suggested_llm(memory=6 * ggml.GB)[0]
+        self.assertTrue(ggml.fits(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM_SIZE[first],
+                                  memory=6 * ggml.GB))
+        # Nothing is dropped: what does not fit today fits once something else
+        # is closed.
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(ggml.suggested_llm(memory=6 * ggml.GB)),
+                         sorted(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM))
+
+    def test_the_wanted_model_wins_when_there_is_room_for_it(self):
+        items = [listed("ggml-tiny.bin", 70 << 20),
+                 listed("ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin", 574 << 20)]
+        self.assertEqual(
+            ggml.recommended(items, "ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin",
+                             memory=16 * ggml.GB),
+            "ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin")
+
+    def test_a_model_too_big_for_the_machine_is_not_recommended(self):
+        items = [listed("small.gguf", 1 << 30), listed("huge.gguf", 12 * ggml.GB)]
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.recommended(items, "huge.gguf",
+                                          memory=8 * ggml.GB), "small.gguf")
+
+    def test_the_full_precision_weights_are_never_the_recommendation(self):
+        # Twice the memory and twice the wait for a difference this job
+        # cannot see.
+        items = [listed("model-Q4_0.gguf", 2 * ggml.GB),
+                 listed("model-BF16.gguf", 3 * ggml.GB)]
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.recommended(items, memory=32 * ggml.GB),
+                         "model-Q4_0.gguf")
+
+    def test_nothing_is_recommended_when_nothing_fits(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            ggml.recommended([listed("huge.gguf", 40 * ggml.GB)],
+                             memory=8 * ggml.GB), "")
+
+
+class Grouping(Local):
+    """One group per model, rather than one long list sorted by size."""
+
+    def test_every_spelling_of_a_quantisation_reads_as_its_number(self):
+        # One list holds q5_1, Q4_K_M, MXFP4 and BF16, and the number is the
+        # whole of what any of them says to somebody choosing a row.
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.bit_depth("ggml-small-q5_1.bin"), 5)
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.bit_depth("SmolLM3-Q4_K_M.gguf"), 4)
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.bit_depth("gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4.gguf"), 4)
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.bit_depth("gemma-4-E2B-it-Q8_0.gguf"), 8)
+        # bf16 is not f16 read badly.
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.bit_depth("gemma-4-E2B-it-BF16.gguf"), 16)
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.bit_depth("mmproj-model-f16.gguf"), 16)
+        # A whisper file with no mark is the full model, and its name is the
+        # one convention here that does not carry the answer.
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.bit_depth("ggml-large-v3-turbo.bin"), 0)
+
+    def test_a_quantisation_belongs_to_the_model_it_is_a_copy_of(self):
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.whisper_family("ggml-small.en-q5_1.bin"), "small")
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.whisper_family("ggml-large-v3-q5_0.bin"),
+                         "large-v3")
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.whisper_family("ggml-large-v3-turbo.bin"),
+                         "large-v3-turbo")
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.whisper_family("ggml-medium.en.bin"), "medium")
+
+    def test_turbo_is_a_model_and_not_a_quantisation(self):
+        # The last chunk of the name is a quantisation for most of the list
+        # and part of the model's name here.
+        self.assertEqual(ggml.whisper_family("ggml-large-v3-turbo-q8_0.bin"),
+                         "large-v3-turbo")
+
+    def test_the_turbo_files_are_not_scattered_through_the_medium_ones(self):
+        # Sorted by size alone, large-v3-turbo-q5_0 lands between the two
+        # medium quantisations, half a screen from the model it is a copy of.
+        models = [listed("ggml-medium-q5_0.bin", 539 << 20),
+                  listed("ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin", 574 << 20),
+                  listed("ggml-medium-q8_0.bin", 823 << 20),
+                  listed("ggml-large-v3-turbo.bin", 1624 << 20)]
+        groups = dict(ggml.whisper_groups(models))
+        self.assertEqual([i.name for i in groups["large-v3-turbo"]],
+                         ["ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin",
+                          "ggml-large-v3-turbo.bin"])
+        self.assertEqual([i.name for i in groups["medium"]],
+                         ["ggml-medium-q5_0.bin", "ggml-medium-q8_0.bin"])
+
+    def test_the_smallest_model_comes_first_and_the_english_ones_last(self):
+        models = [listed("ggml-small.en-q5_1.bin", 190 << 20),
+                  listed("ggml-small-q5_1.bin", 190 << 20),
+                  listed("ggml-tiny.bin", 77 << 20)]
+        groups = ggml.whisper_groups(models)
+        self.assertEqual([family for family, _ in groups], ["tiny", "small"])
+        self.assertEqual([i.name for _, group in groups for i in group],
+                         ["ggml-tiny.bin", "ggml-small-q5_1.bin",
+                          "ggml-small.en-q5_1.bin"])

tests/test_ui.py

@@ -1352,6 +1352,35 @@ class LocalModels(DikteTest):
     def _item(name, size=1 << 20):
         return hub.Item(name, f"https://example.invalid/{name}", size, "")
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _rows(box):
+        """Every row's text, headings included."""
+        return [box.model.itemText(row) for row in range(box.model.count())]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _repos(box):
+        return [box.repo.itemText(row) for row in range(box.repo.count())]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _roomy():
+        """Stand on a machine with room for every suggestion.
+
+        The order the publishers come in follows the memory, so a test that
+        reads it has to say which machine it is standing on. A build runner
+        with 7 GB in it puts the two Gemma 4 rows last and is right to.
+        """
+        return mock.patch.object(ggml, "total_memory", return_value=64 << 30)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _offered(box):
+        """The model names in the box, headings and duplicates left out."""
+        names = []
+        for row in range(box.model.count()):
+            name = box.model.itemData(row)
+            if name and name not in names:
+                names.append(name)
+        return names
+
     def test_a_row_with_nothing_to_fetch_does_not_offer_a_download(self):
         # The model the settings name is not in the list any more, so its row
         # was rebuilt from the name alone and carries no file to fetch. The
@@ -1388,7 +1417,7 @@ class LocalModels(DikteTest):
         box._on_listed([("models", [self._item("SmolLM3-Q4_K_M.gguf")],
                          "ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF")], "")
         self.assertEqual(box.selected(), "SmolLM3-Q4_K_M.gguf")
-        self.assertEqual(box.model.count(), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(self._offered(box), ["SmolLM3-Q4_K_M.gguf"])
 
     def test_a_list_for_a_publisher_that_is_no_longer_chosen_is_dropped(self):
         # Every change starts its own request, and they do not come back in the
@@ -1416,6 +1445,173 @@ class LocalModels(DikteTest):
             time.sleep(0.05)
             _app.processEvents()
         self.assertEqual(fetch.call_count, 1)
+    def test_the_models_are_grouped_by_the_model_rather_than_by_size(self):
+        # Sorted by size alone, the turbo files land between the two medium
+        # ones, half a screen from the model they are a copy of.
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_whisper
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml, "total_memory", return_value=8 << 30), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml, "accelerator", return_value=""):
+            box._on_listed([("models", [
+                self._item("ggml-medium-q5_0.bin", 539 << 20),
+                self._item("ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin", 574 << 20),
+                self._item("ggml-medium-q8_0.bin", 823 << 20),
+                self._item("ggml-large-v3-turbo.bin", 1624 << 20),
+            ], "")], "")
+        rows = self._rows(box)
+        # The two medium files under one heading, the two turbo ones under
+        # theirs, and the model rather than the file deciding the order.
+        self.assertEqual(rows[rows.index("medium"):],
+                         ["medium",
+                          "ggml-medium-q5_0.bin  (539.0 MB, 5-bit)",
+                          "ggml-medium-q8_0.bin  (823.0 MB, 8-bit)",
+                          "large-v3-turbo",
+                          "ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin  "
+                          "(574.0 MB, 5-bit, recommended)",
+                          "ggml-large-v3-turbo.bin  (1.6 GB, 16-bit)"])
+        # A heading is not a model, and nothing can be saved from one.
+        self.assertIsNone(box.model.itemData(rows.index("medium")))
+
+    def test_the_row_for_this_machine_is_on_top_and_says_so(self):
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_whisper
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml, "total_memory", return_value=8 << 30), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml, "accelerator", return_value=""):
+            box._on_listed([("models", [
+                self._item("ggml-tiny.bin", 77 << 20),
+                self._item("ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin", 574 << 20),
+            ], "")], "")
+        self.assertEqual(box.selected(), "ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin")
+        self.assertEqual(box.model.itemData(1), "ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin")
+        self.assertIn(t("recommended"), box.model.itemText(1))
+
+    def test_a_model_the_memory_cannot_hold_says_so_on_its_row(self):
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        box.repo.blockSignals(True)
+        box.repo.setCurrentText("ggml-org/x-GGUF")
+        box.repo.blockSignals(False)
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml, "total_memory", return_value=8 << 30):
+            box._on_listed([("models", [
+                self._item("small-Q4_0.gguf", 1 << 30),
+                self._item("huge-Q8_0.gguf", 12 << 30),
+            ], "ggml-org/x-GGUF")], "")
+        rows = {box.model.itemData(row): box.model.itemText(row)
+                for row in range(box.model.count())}
+        self.assertNotIn(t("too big for this machine"), rows["small-Q4_0.gguf"])
+        self.assertIn(t("too big for this machine"), rows["huge-Q8_0.gguf"])
+
+    def test_a_recommended_row_is_not_listed_twice_after_a_download(self):
+        # It has a row of its own on top as well as one in its group, and
+        # reading the rows back the way a finished download does was doubling
+        # it in the list every time.
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_whisper
+        with self._roomy():
+            box._on_listed([("models", [
+                self._item("ggml-tiny.bin", 77 << 20),
+                self._item("ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin", 574 << 20),
+            ], "")], "")
+            before = self._offered(box)
+            box._fill_models_from_current()
+        self.assertEqual(self._offered(box), before)
+        names = [box.model.itemData(row) for row in range(box.model.count())]
+        self.assertEqual(len([n for n in names if n]), len(before) + 1)
+
+    def test_a_processor_build_is_not_recommended_the_accurate_model(self):
+        # The Vulkan loader is on the machine but what was installed is the
+        # processor build, so there is no card in play whatever the loader
+        # says, and a 1 GB model on a processor is a wait somebody is sitting
+        # through with a sentence half typed.
+        binary = self.path("bin/whisper/v1.9.3/whisper-server")
+        binary.parent.mkdir(parents=True)
+        binary.write_text("")
+        binary.chmod(0o755)
+        self.path("bin/whisper/installed.json").write_text(json.dumps(
+            {"tag": "v1.9.3", "binary": str(binary), "backend": "processor"}))
+        self.patch_attr(ggml.shutil, "which", lambda name: None)
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_whisper
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml, "total_memory", return_value=32 << 30), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml, "accelerator", return_value="Vulkan"):
+            self.assertEqual(box._suggested(), ggml.SUGGESTED_WHISPER)
+
+    def test_a_publisher_with_nothing_to_offer_says_why(self):
+        # Half of what ggml-org publishes is split across files or past the
+        # size cap, and an empty box read as though the click had not landed.
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        box.repo.blockSignals(True)
+        box.repo.setCurrentText("ggml-org/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF")
+        box.repo.blockSignals(False)
+        box._on_listed([("models", [], "ggml-org/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF")], "")
+        self.assertIn("ggml-org/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF", box.status.text())
+        self.assertIn("publisher", box.status.text())
+
+    def test_an_empty_box_nobody_has_asked_yet_is_not_a_publisher_fault(self):
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        box.load("", "ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF")
+        self.assertNotIn("publisher", box.status.text())
+
+    def test_only_the_suggested_publishers_are_offered_to_start_with(self):
+        # Forty repository ids is not a choice anybody can make.
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        with self._roomy():
+            box._on_listed([("repos", [ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM[0],
+                                       "ggml-org/something-else-GGUF"], "")], "")
+            self.assertEqual(self._repos(box), list(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM))
+
+    def test_a_suggestion_missing_from_the_listing_is_still_offered(self):
+        # The listing is the forty repositories touched most recently, and a
+        # publisher that has not been updated in a season falls off it while
+        # still being the one to point at.
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        box._on_listed([("repos", ["ggml-org/something-else-GGUF"], "")], "")
+        self.assertIn(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM[0], self._repos(box))
+
+    def test_the_switch_brings_the_rest_and_keeps_them_apart(self):
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        with self._roomy():
+            box._on_listed([("repos", [ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM[0],
+                                       "ggml-org/something-else-GGUF"], "")], "")
+            box.every_repo.setChecked(True)
+            rows = self._repos(box)
+        self.assertEqual(rows[:len(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM)],
+                         list(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM))
+        # A separator rather than a heading: the box is typed into as well as
+        # chosen from, and a heading would land in the field as a repository.
+        self.assertEqual(rows[len(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM)], "")
+        self.assertEqual(rows[-1], "ggml-org/something-else-GGUF")
+
+    def test_a_publisher_typed_in_is_not_dropped_by_the_next_fetch(self):
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        box.repo.blockSignals(True)
+        box.repo.setCurrentText("ggml-org/something-else-GGUF")
+        box.repo.blockSignals(False)
+        box._on_listed([("repos", [ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM[0],
+                                   "ggml-org/something-else-GGUF"], "")], "")
+        self.assertFalse(box.every_repo.isChecked())
+        self.assertIn("ggml-org/something-else-GGUF", self._repos(box))
+        self.assertEqual(box.repository(), "ggml-org/something-else-GGUF")
+
+    def test_the_chosen_publisher_is_said_in_words(self):
+        # A repository id names the publisher, the parameter count and the
+        # shape of the weights, and none of that says whether to click it.
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        box.repo.setCurrentText(ggml.SUGGESTED_LLM[0])
+        self.assertTrue(box.repo_note.text())
+        box.repo.setCurrentText("ggml-org/nobody-wrote-a-note-GGUF")
+        self.assertEqual(box.repo_note.text(), "")
+
+    def test_the_box_says_what_this_machine_will_run_on(self):
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_whisper
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml, "accelerator", return_value="Vulkan"), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml, "total_memory", return_value=32 << 30):
+            box._show_machine()
+        self.assertIn("Vulkan", box.machine_label.text())
+        self.assertIn("32.0 GB", box.machine_label.text())
+
+    def test_a_machine_with_no_card_is_told_it_is_on_the_processor(self):
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_whisper
+        with mock.patch.object(ggml, "accelerator", return_value=""), \
+                mock.patch.object(ggml, "total_memory", return_value=8 << 30):
+            box._show_machine()
+        self.assertIn("processor", box.machine_label.text())
+
     def test_a_processor_build_where_the_vulkan_one_belongs_says_so(self):
         # The Vulkan whisper-server is published by hand, and until it is
         # there the download lands upstream's processor build. Said nowhere,