Settings: Application

The settings window

Escouade’s settings live in a single window, with one tab per topic. Open it with Ctrl+, (⌘, on macOS) or with the ⚙ button in the status bar. It opens on the “Claude Code” tab, unless a button opens it straight on the tab that concerns it: the ⚙ button in the header of the Kanban opens “Kanban”, and a project’s menu opens “Projects”. The shortcut does nothing while another dialog is open.

The tabs

The left column lists the tabs, with Escouade’s version at the bottom. The name and description of the tab you are on sit at the top of the right-hand side. When the focus is on the list, the up and down arrows move from tab to tab, and Home and End jump to the first and the last.

“Projects”, “Kanban”, and “Integrations” set one project at a time. Under the header, a “Project” row offers one button per open project, with its color swatch and its name. The window starts on the project you are viewing, or on the one belonging to the button that opened it. Switching projects does not lose what you changed on the others. With no project open, these tabs say “No project open.”.

Save or cancel

Changes go into a draft: nothing applies until you click “Save”. A dot on a tab (tooltip “Modified, not saved yet”) means it holds changes that are not saved.

• “Save” saves everything that changed in one go, across all tabs and all projects. The window closes and shows “Settings saved”. If one part fails, an error message appears, the window stays open, and whatever was saved no longer counts as a change.
• “Cancel”, the cross, Esc, or a click on the backdrop closes the window and throws the draft away, without asking for confirmation. When you reopen it, everything starts again from what is saved.
• When a problem prevents saving, a red message appears at the bottom left, names the project concerned (even if it is not the one on screen), and “Save” is grayed out. There are three cases: a project has lost its name; a launch command has no name or no command line; the worktrees folder or a branch prefix of a project is not valid.

What saves right away

Two places do not wait for the button, because a “Cancel” could not undo what they write to disk: the “Claude accounts” tab, where each change goes through the moment you make it, and the “Claude can drive Escouade” switch on the “Claude Code” tab.

The “Application” tab

The tab has a single group, “Language”. Both choices take effect as soon as you save, with no restart: the window, the app’s menus, and the texts Escouade writes switch to the new language.

Interface language

Three choices, each written in its own language so you can find yours whatever language the interface is in:

• “System (French)” follows the computer’s language. Escouade comes in French and English: it picks French when the first preferred language of the system is French, English otherwise. The system’s language is named in the interface’s language, so a French system with an English interface gives “System (French)”.
• “English”.
• “Français”.

The change also reaches the app’s native menus and the tooltip of the taskbar icon.

Language of texts written by Claude

This choice decides which language Escouade asks Claude to use for what leaves the app:

• the proposed commit messages and pull request descriptions, see Git;
• the comments posted to Jira, Trello, GitHub, and Linear, see the integrations;
• the instructions Escouade gives to agents.

The three choices are “Same as the interface (default)”, “English”, and “Français”. With “Same as the interface”, the proposed commit message follows the language of the repository’s latest commits, to blend in. With “English” or “Français”, that language is the one asked for.