Two looks were somebody else's language spoken well, and neither was the
product's. A dashboard nobody has dressed yet should look like the rest
of the app, so there is now a third set that follows the root
DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md to the letter — `--card` surfaces told from the page
by a hairline and a low shadow rather than by colour, every control a
pill, 16px panels, frosted floating chrome, one slate-blue accent spent
on what a person can act on — and it is what `look` means when nothing
says otherwise.
That also turns the exemption the other way round. The dashboard is still
allowed to look unlike the product; it just no longer does so by default.
An existing dashboard, which has never named a look, lands on the design
it had before any of this.
Restraint is the style rather than an omission here: no ripple, no glow,
no lift, and a press answered by the colour changing. The one deliberate
departure is the selector, which holds its choice in `--primary` rather
than the `--accent` the segmented rule asks for — that is a decision
about the widget, not about the look, and a control must not change what
it signals when the drawing changes. All three sets hold it the same way.
A dashboard is a wall panel somebody hangs in their own hallway, so it
now wears what they choose: a look, and a palette of their own colours.
Two complete component sets live under `Dashboard/ui/` — `glass`
(translucent panes over a slowly moving ground) and `material` (Material
3 tonal cards) — behind one prop contract. Every control's state,
keyboard and `aria-` live in `ui/core` and are shared, so the two sets
are the same dashboard drawn twice rather than two products: a set only
decides what a control looks like while doing it.
Four settings join the channel, each drivable by a flow like any other:
`look`, `palette`, `background` and `touch`. A palette is an ordered list
of hex colours — background, surface, primary, accent, text, then more
chart colours — pasted from a coolors.co link or typed, written onto the
canvas as the token variables everything already reads. Trailing roles
are derived, so three colours are a whole dashboard, and derived text is
held to AA rather than trusted (`theme.check.ts` measures it). A palette
also decides light or dark, since its first colour is the ground.
Widgets are measured against their own tile with container queries rather
than against the viewport, animate through `motion`, and can be drawn
without their title. The three reworks:
- a bar draws a row per reading, up to eight, each in the dashboard's own
data colours and each able to carry its own scale — replacing readings
nested in one fill, which could only ever share one colour and stop at
three. Documents written the old way are read as rows.
- a chart's range picker moved to a column down its right-hand edge, which
gives the plot back a whole row of a short tile.
- the colour wheel became a disc: hue is the angle and saturation the
distance from the middle, so a colour is one gesture rather than three,
with brightness on a slider beside it.
`index.css` and `lib/motion.ts` are untouched — the dashboard overrides
token *values* on its canvas, never the blocks the two repos share.
A chart that named no palette took the ramp in order, so three lines drew
slots 1, 2 and 3 — adjacent steps of a ramp that carries identity by lightness
alone, which at a 2px stroke read as close to one picture. Each count now
takes the slots furthest apart that the ramp allows: 1 -> 1, 2 -> 1/5,
3 -> 1/3/5, 4 -> 1/2/4/5. Five lines are unchanged.
Moving a default is only safe because the mechanism around it is inert: a
palette a dashboard wrote down is still drawn exactly as written, so no stored
document means anything different than it did. `palette.check.ts` now pins the
spread table and says which of the two properties is permanent.
An unnamed palette is empty rather than the whole ramp, so the settings panel
shows nothing picked when a dashboard is on automatic — and deselecting the
last colour is now the way back to it.
A dashboard names the data colours its charts draw with: an ordered, distinct
subset of the `--chart-1…5` ramp, stored on the settings channel that already
carries `theme` and `locked`. No backend or client change — `SettingDef.value`
is free-form and a name this build does not wire up is left alone rather than
refused.
Naming none is the whole ramp, which resolves to the identical token per
series as the `--chart-${(index % 5) + 1}` charts drew with before, so every
existing dashboard is unaffected. `palette.check.ts` asserts that equivalence
rather than trusting it.
Distinct slots, not free assignment with repeats: only slot 1 against slot 5
clears 3:1 within the ramp, so two traces on one slot could not be told apart.
Status colour is deliberately outside the palette — a fault is `--destructive`
because of what it means, not because of where it sits.
The provider is mounted by the editor as well as the view, so picking a
palette repaints the charts beside the panel instead of describing them.
A dashboard could only ever receive as a set of tiles. This adds the dashboard
itself as a receiver: `settings` maps a name to a value plus an optional
binding. Unbound, the setting is simply its value — a wall panel that is always
dark costs no flow. Bound, a flow drives it live and the value is the fallback.
Two settings are wired: `theme` (system/light/dark) and `locked` (read-only).
There is no schedule field on purpose — a node publishing to the bound message
on a cron is what a schedule is here, which is the point of a channel.
- `messages_for()` now walks a dashboard's bound settings as well as its
widgets' bindings. Without this a paired screen is refused its own theme
message, on the one surface the setting exists for; it bounds the socket too.
- `locked` is gated in `usePublish`, so every control inherits it, and each
control also draws itself disabled — a dead button reads as broken otherwise.
The panel surface says Read-only in the corner.
- The theme is a class on the dashboard's own surface, never the root: inside
the app shell it must not flip the chrome. `.light` gains the tokens `.dark`
already had (mirrored in the index repo) so both directions work on a subtree.
- Settings bindings are type-checked from the document alone, the rule widget
bindings follow, and mirrored on the server.
- A bound setting is drawn on the flow canvas as a dashboard-level endpoint.
- The demo's house flow now publishes `home.panel_theme`, which the demo
dashboard's theme binds to: the panel goes dark after sunset, at no tile cost.
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