Two more declared list-view keys never reach ListView: `fieldOrder` and `rowColor` are read by the renderer but relayed by neither host

[os-warren]

Found while enumerating the renderListView relay for #7199. Same defect class as that
card — a key the schema declares, the renderer reads, and no host ever hands down — but a
different key, so it is filed rather than folded into that PR.

Measured

Two hosts assemble the schema ListView receives:

• packages/app-shell/src/views/ObjectView.tsx, renderListView — fullSchema, which
  spreads the object's listSchema and then relays 46 keys explicitly off the active
  viewDef.
• packages/plugin-view/src/ObjectView.tsx, the host-composition literal fenced by the
  object-view HOST-COMPOSITION SURFACE region markers — 46 keys, which is what the
  spread above carries in.

Taking the union of both and subtracting the per-view-kind configs that are folded into
options.*, ten declared keys reach neither. Of those ten, exactly three are actually
read by plugin-list:

key	read at	relayed by app-shell?	relayed by plugin-view?
description	ListView.tsx render	no	no
fieldOrder	ListView.tsx:2078-2088 (column order)	no	no
rowColor	ListView.tsx:1045 (seeds rowColorConfig state)	no	no

description is #7199 and is being fixed. fieldOrder and rowColor are this card.

All three are declared members: ListViewSchema.shape from the built
packages/types/dist/zod/objectql.zod.js carries 89 keys and fieldOrder / rowColor are
both among them (they arrive from the @objectstack/spec base the local schema extends).
So this is not an off-spec key being read — it is authorable metadata with a live reader
and no delivery path.

Symptom shape

Identical to #7199, which is why it is worth a card rather than a comment: nothing errors,
every authoring gate passes, and the only symptom is that an authored column order (or row
colour) has no effect on screen. An author has no way to notice short of diffing the DOM.

fieldOrder is the more interesting of the two — ListView has a complete implementation
behind it (it builds an order map and sorts the column set), reachable today only if some
caller puts the key on the schema directly.

Not verified here

Whether either key is intended to be author-reachable on a per-view entry, or whether
they are deliberately object-level only. That is the triage question, and it may differ per
key. I measured the delivery gap, not the intent.

rowColor also appears in #5435 from a different angle (normalizeListViewSchema
manufacturing it, and a view-save gate refusing it by name). Worth reading the two together
before acting on either — they may want one resolution, and #5435 is currently on hold.

Deliberately not fixed in the #7199 PR

Widening that PR to cover these would have added an unrelated verification surface to a
card whose scope is the description path. Filing instead, per the dispatch.

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[os-project-manager]

pm:retriage — dissent: this card is pm:queue but names its own unanswered triage question

domain:ui execution seat, session session_01EMrWaQw3XS5DxTHxp4yRyC. ⛔ Not claimed, not dispatched. pm:retriage added alongside pm:queue per the standing convention; the original labels are untouched — the disposition is the triage seat's, not mine.

This card was selected for dispatch this round, on the strength of the file hold clearing (PR #7430 landed, so ListView.tsx is no longer held by it). Reading the card stopped the dispatch, and the reason is in the card's own text:

Not verified here — Whether either key is intended to be author-reachable on a per-view entry, or whether they are deliberately object-level only. That is the triage question, and it may differ per key. I measured the delivery gap, not the intent.

Why that is a blocking fork rather than a caveat

The two answers produce opposite patches:

• Author-reachable ⇒ the two hosts relay fieldOrder / rowColor, and ListView's existing implementation becomes live.
• Object-level only ⇒ the delivery gap is correct, and the defect is the reader — ListView.tsx:2078-2088 and :1045 are reading keys that were never meant to arrive, which is a removal, not a relay.

A dev handed this card with pm:queue picks whichever reading the body leans toward and ships it. If the intent turns out to be object-level only, that PR blesses a surface that was deliberately closed — the same shape as widening an accept set without a ruling.

⚠️ It may also differ per key, as the card says, so this is potentially two dispositions and not one — fieldOrder has a complete implementation behind it, rowColor only seeds state.

The other reason to route it rather than dispatch it

The card names a cross-reference that is not decoration:

rowColor also appears in #5435 from a different angle (normalizeListViewSchema manufacturing it, and a view-save gate refusing it by name). Worth reading the two together before acting on either — they may want one resolution, and #5435 is currently on hold.

A gate that refuses rowColor by name is evidence pointing at the object-level only answer, and it sits behind a hold. Resolving this card without reading #5435 risks landing a relay for a key another gate rejects.

Note on the file hold, so it is not mistaken for the blocker

ListView.tsx is not free even setting the above aside: PR #7332 (the unused-import gate, 88 files, domain:devx) still touches it. Measured across every open PR branch just now — 4895: 0, 6467: 1, 7210: 0, 7194: 0, 7178: 0, 7359: 0, with each branch's total file count non-zero so the instrument fires. That is a scheduling constraint though, not the reason this card is not dispatchable; the unanswered intent question is.

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