[MHohlios]

Why

The Gear panel spent most of its height on padding, a title row, a long set explainer and a row per empty slot, so the Worn list didn't fit on one screen, and an item's stats were hidden behind ···.

What changed

• No title row. The Worn / "Carrying · N" switch sits at the top; the panel stays labelled "Gear" for screen readers.
• Gear sets as one line of chips. Pressing a chip wears the set (same lock behaviour); a small Edit in each chip opens the editor; "+ New" follows. The explainer shows only when there are no sets, shortened to "Save what you're wearing as a set."
• Worn total. One line summing what's known across worn items (identified with enchants, measured, estimate ranges), noting how many are unknown. Hidden when nothing is worn.
• Two-line rows (~36px). Line 1: name, tag chips, ×N, and a warning "Lv N" chip for a level lock. Line 2: the item's stats, or "Stats unknown" / "No stat changes". The source (identified, measured, estimate) stays in More and the chat tooltip.
• Carrying comparison. Line 2 adds "→" and what wearing it would change against the slot, gains and losses coloured with new better / worse theme tokens; armor keeps "(better)/(worse)" so direction never relies on colour.
• Empty slots fold into one line in the plugin's slot order.
• Primary action is a borderless accent text button, lit on row hover and focus; ··· still opens More. Accessible labels are unchanged, and row labels include the stats line.
• Per-stat wording now lives in one helper (stat_words), shared by the stats line, the comparison and the tooltip.

Outside gear_panel/: theme tokens (theme.rs), the ax-check's expected labels (macos.rs), and a full Worn sample for the window images (window_images.rs).

With the 14-place sample, the Worn list used to run past the window at "hands"; now the sets, total, all nine items, the empty line and "named in chat" fit in about 60% of the panel.

Testing

• cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --release -- -D warnings and cargo test --workspace pass; mudling-desktop --synthetic --ax-check: 76 passed.
• New tests: worn total summing (identified, measured, ranges, unknowns, cancelling to zero), empty slots folded in plugin order, carrying comparison text and gain/loss marks, a locked row shows the chip and no Wear until level 7, and the total and empty line show only in Worn.

Reviewed with Wiffletree: 1 full reviews and 1 re-checks, 2 rounds (Tests, Claude, Style)