NeuralScio is a native desktop workspace, so a meaningful part of the product lives in the local UI: themes, reading surfaces, docks, tabs, status indicators, and WebEngine-backed panels. These controls are there to make long research sessions readable without changing the underlying research data.
Appearance
The desktop settings expose:
- built-in Dark, Light, and Black themes
- a Custom theme mode with editable colors for backgrounds, panels, text, buttons, accents, borders, shadows, glow, gradients, and patterns
- built-in background patterns for the main area and sidebars
- PNG background choices for the main workspace and sidebar areas, including custom PNG paths
- transparency controls for PNG backgrounds and UI controls
- theme-aware PDF, article, and web reading surfaces where the underlying renderer supports it
Custom theme values are stored locally through the desktop settings layer. They are not a cloud theme marketplace or a shared team design system.
Workspace Layout
The main window uses Qt docks and tabs for the research surfaces around the central workflow. Depending on the build and current surface, you can show, hide, move, or float panels such as:
- management/sidebar dock
- AI Assistant dock
- Help dock
- Citation Graph dock
- Structured Insights dock
- clustering and other analysis surfaces when available
Some tab and dock visibility choices are persisted locally, so your workspace can reopen closer to the way you left it.
Help And AI Docks
Help and AI surfaces use WebEngine-backed UI where Qt WebEngine is available. In headless, test, or constrained environments, WebEngine-related behavior can be disabled or limited by the build and runtime environment.
Status And Comfort Controls
Settings also include several session-level comfort controls where available:
- resource monitor visibility
- session clock and Pomodoro status
- AI token counter visibility and reset behavior
- interface sounds, button animations, and tips
- frameless/native window chrome settings
Window chrome and live-resize behavior are platform-sensitive. Treat these as desktop UI controls, not as a guarantee that every platform-specific resize edge case is resolved.
What This Does Not Change
Workspace customization does not change provider results, AI calculations, citation parsing, PDF extraction, billing, or entitlement behavior. It only changes how the desktop workspace is presented and arranged on your machine.