It described the wrong object. A dashboard is a document that may hang on a
hallway tablet and in a desk browser at the same time, and only one of those
has fingers on it — so the flag moves off `DashboardDef.settings` and onto
`PanelDef` as a plain bool, ticked in the Panels dialog. `useCanvasRoot` takes
it as an argument rather than reading the document, and `/panel/{id}` is the
only surface with a panel to ask.
Dropping the message binding with it is deliberate: nothing drove it, and a
flow deciding whether a screen has fingers on it was never the point. A stored
`settings.touch` is inert rather than migrated, which `_check_settings`
skipping unknown names already guaranteed.
The rail was the other half. It had no touch behaviour at all and its 40px
buttons met neither branch of the 44/32 rule. `[data-touch] .dui-rail{-item}`
in `ui/core/core.css` spends the padding and the gap on the buttons instead,
so they reach the 44px target and the rail comes out taller at exactly the
same width — `RAIL_INSET` never moves, and the arrangement under it does not
either.
Also closes the panels-dialog icon gap: `DashboardSummary` carries the `icon`
now, so the dialog draws each assigned dashboard's rail glyph beside its
checkbox. `initials()` went from three identical copies in the looks to one in
`Dashboard/icons.ts`, so the dialog and the rail fall back the same way.
The node, flow, widget and dashboard panels explained themselves in
paragraphs under every control. They now carry a caption and an info
tooltip, so a panel reads as a list of settings.
InfoTip, PanelSection and FieldLabel live beside PANEL_SECTION in
SidePanel.tsx, which the panels already share. InfoTip holds its own open
state because a Radix tooltip ignores a touch pointer, and below md the
whole panel is a full-screen sheet — hover-only help would leave a phone
with the caption and nothing else.
Dashboard/panels.tsx drops from 30 helper paragraphs to 5; the ones left
are empty states and status, not explanation. Em-dashes are out of the
user-facing strings, except where one separates the halves of a select
item.
Follows the portal: the noun is "instance" everywhere the app says it —
UI strings, CLI output, error details, docs and comments. The wire keys
(`instance_id`, `instance_token`) and the hub route this calls move with it.
An existing cloud.json is adopted rather than refused: without the key
alias the dataclass fails to parse, which the caller swallows and reads as
"never enrolled" instead of "reconnect".
`instance_key` on a node type becomes `target_key`. It means the outside
thing a node points at, which is a different sense of the word, and keeping
both would put two meanings of "instance" in one codebase.
- IconPicker replaces the three icon selects (rail icon, icon-widget rule,
"Otherwise"): the glyphs in a grid, and a button that clears back to none —
which a Radix SelectItem could never offer.
- ModePicker/StylePicker drop out in favour of a shared ui/Segmented, the same
sliding-thumb shape RangePicker and the widget-side control already wear.
- PanelRail draws no scrollbars at all: hiding them also takes back the gutter
a vertical bar claimed from a column exactly as wide as its buttons, which is
what pushed a horizontal bar under them.
- The panels dialog can re-pair one screen (POST /panels/{id}/unpair) without
deleting the panel it hangs on.
A dashboard went live the moment it was created — an empty document straight to
the panels — while a new flow starts as a draft. It now works the way flows do:
published means `dashboard.json` exists, so every dashboard on every running
installation is already published and nothing needs migrating. Only the ones
created from here on start as drafts.
Mirroring FlowStore turned up a latent 500: discarding the draft of a dashboard
that had never been published unlinked its only file, and the read that followed
raised out of a 200 handler. It answers 400 now, the way a flow does.
Publishing all of them was 2N requests, because a publish has to name the
version it expects and the summaries did not carry one. They do now — and so do
the flow summaries, which had the same defect nobody had written down.
A panel had no way to hear about any of this. A publish, or a change to which
dashboards a panel carries, now puts one event on the bus and the screen
refetches what changed: no reload, so a wall display never blanks or asks for
its credential again. The subtle half is that a socket's message allowlist was
computed once at handshake — a reassigned panel would have fetched its new
document and then shown tiles that never updated.
The panels dialog logged non-superusers out. Every write in it needs a
superuser, not only the checkboxes the report mentioned, so the dialog is
read-only for everyone else. The logout itself was `main.tsx` treating 403 as a
dead session, against the contract deps.py spells out: only a 401 ends a
session, and a 403 now says so rather than silently signing someone out.
A screen somewhere this installation is not reachable from asks the portal for
a code instead, and the portal mints its credential — because a token signed
here is one such a device could never present.
Where it was minted changes nothing about what it may do. The panel gate moved
off the branch that decodes a local panel token and onto whatever claims name
a panel, so the portal's and this installation's are bounded by the same check
against the same panel's dashboards. A token of that scope naming no panel is
refused rather than left holding the account it borrows.
The connector marks what arrives on its socket, since that is the only thing
that makes it true, and the approval screen now names what is holding a code —
approving adopts whatever answers, so it is worth a look first.
Both links out of the dashboard editor were built root-relative, so a portal
serving the app under `/i/{id}` got a URL to itself: the hub has no route
there and answers a bare 404. That is what a device link and "open what a
wall panel sees" both landed on.
They want different answers. The view link is for the person already looking,
so it takes the router's basepath — `appPath` in `lib/portal` is the same
prefix the router applies to every `Link`, for the places that step outside
it. The device link is for a screen, which cannot go through the portal at
all: the shell is served only to a portal session, and the credential that
page carries is the portal's rather than the panel's. So the server now says
where it answers, and `FRONTEND_HOST` is that answer — the same setting the
password-reset links already use.
Also fixes the panel branch in the query error handler, which compared a raw
pathname and so never fired under a portal.
A panel is one screen and the ordered set of whole dashboards it shows, so a
hallway tablet and a workshop tablet carry different sets without either
dashboard knowing about the other. More than one and the device draws a rail
to switch between them — the same rail the editor puts on screen, because the
wall has it and it takes room off the canvas.
A screen has no keyboard, so it pairs rather than logs in: it shows a
six-character code, somebody approves it against a panel from the dashboards
overview, and the credential that mints reaches that panel's published
dashboards and the message endpoints its widgets speak, and nothing else.
Deleting the panel revokes it.
Closes the per-device view and the kiosk credential; supersedes the
multi-page/multi-section UI, since a page is now a dashboard of its own.
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Melvin Strobl