workHubHelp copy disagrees across en, zh-CN, and zh-TW #5289

What happened

workHubHelp in apps/desktop/src/renderer/locales/settings-preferences-copy.ts says three different things across the three locales, and the two versions describe opposite situations — one says the feature is unusable, the other describes what it does.

I do not know which one is right, and that is the question here. Either WorkHub is still unavailable and the zh-TW string needs replacing, or it has since become usable and it is en/zh-CN that are stale. Someone who knows the current state of the feature has to say which.

How to reproduce

grep -o "workHubHelp: '[^']*'" apps/desktop/src/renderer/locales/settings-preferences-copy.ts

Then open Settings → Chat defaults with the interface language set to each of the three locales and compare the help text under the WorkHub toggle.

Environment

Not runtime-specific. Present on main and on stack/i18n-ko-core; the strings above are read from a193ad8d1.

Logs, screenshots, or additional context

How the three came apart

Nobody did anything wrong here — it is ordinary merge-order drift between two pull requests:

• feat(workhub): persist delegation linkage #3935 (feat(workhub): persist delegation linkage, merged 2026-08-28) rewrote workHubHelp for en and zh-CN. Before it, en read “See existing work in one entry and conservatively route new input to ordinary tasks.” and zh-CN read “在一个入口查看已有工作，并将新输入保守地送往普通任务。”
• feat(i18n): add Traditional Chinese locale #3853 (feat(i18n): add Traditional Chinese locale, merged 2026-09-04) added the zh-TW catalog. Its workHubHelp is a faithful Traditional-Chinese rendering of the pre-feat(workhub): persist delegation linkage #3935 zh-CN text, character for character.

So #3853 branched before #3935 landed, translated the copy that was current at the time, and merged a week later. Git does not flag that as a conflict, because the two pull requests touched different lines of the same object.

The chronology is worth stating plainly, because it cuts the other way from what a reader might assume: zh-TW is the most recently committed of the three, so “the newest one is right” does not settle it either.

Scope

workHubHelp is the only key affected. #3935 changed exactly two lines in this file, and comparing every key on those lines before and after shows workHubHelp as the only entry whose value differs — 14 keys on the zh-CN line and 44 on the en line are otherwise identical.

Why this is being filed separately

Found while building the Korean glossary for #3977 (desktop slice 1), which covers this file. It is out of that issue's scope — slice 1 adds a ko catalog and does not change existing locales — and resolving it needs a product answer about WorkHub rather than a translation decision, so it should not be folded into a translation pull request.

Once the intended wording is settled I am happy to fix it, including the ko string, so slice 1 does not add a fourth variant.

cc @AcerYue0, who wrote the zh-TW catalog in #3853 and will know what the source text looked like at that point.

Claude Opus 5 assisted with the investigation and this write-up. Every line number, commit, and string above was read from a local checkout.