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 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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A custom hue ring — a conic gradient, not a canvas — with saturation and
brightness sliders beside or under it depending on the tile's shape, sized
for a wall panel and reachable from a keyboard. It publishes [h, s, v] by
default, which is what the reference installation's DMX encoders read, and
`format` switches that to [r, g, b] or "#rrggbb".
`usePublish` moves to its own module so a widget in a file of its own can
reach it without importing `widgets.tsx` back.
A wheel whose top-level module is `app` collides with anything else in a
user's venv, so the package that is about to be published takes the name
it is published under. Only the Python package moves; the repo, the
Docker WORKDIR and the compose project keep theirs.
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