System details:

Positron and OS details:

Positron Version: 2026.08.0 build 61
Code - OSS Version: 1.124.0
Commit: a95ff81ea13351135b3e74745381ed8f1a30154e
Date: 2026-07-09T14:58:48-06:00
Electron: 42.2.0
Chromium: 148.0.7778.97
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.8.178.14-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0

Describe the issue:

The Settings dialog is inappropriately decorated with the Quarto kernel's status badge.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Enable inline output and open a Quarto document. Run code so that the kernel status badge shows you the kernel:

Then run the Preferences: Open Settings (UI) command.

There are two problems here:

• The kernel status badge is on the Settings dialog?! That's definitely wrong
• The "No Kernel" status for the Settings dialog is also incorrectly reflected behind the dialog (note the document says No Kernel even though it had an active kernel before the dialog was open)