Two hardware-reported contrast bugs, both the same family: surfaces
that fell back to something designed on dark.
1. Inactive workspace numbers unreadable on every light theme.
- Generated bar: the @muted dim role is floor-gated at only 2.0:1 —
fine as "dim" on dark, washed out at number size on light. Light
mode now promotes inactive buttons to @subtext (3.0 floor,
typically 4-7:1); dark themes keep @muted.
- boreal-dawn + kiln-clay whole-swaps: same @muted -> @subtext
(6.4:1 / 6.6:1).
- summer-day whole-swap: had NO button color rule at all — the
container's @fg does not inherit into GTK buttons, so the numbers
took the GTK default over the cream chip. Explicit @fg_dim
(= the palette's subtext, 4.0:1) added.
- executive-ivory already used @subtext; untouched.
2. Notification popup unreadable on hover (bg turns dark, text stays
dark). Root cause found by probing, not guessing: the popup body is
one big GTK button (.notification-default-action) and swaync's
DEFAULT stylesheet — still loaded under our style.css — hovers it to
rgb(56,56,56). Our sheet never overrode that node (only the
control-center row), so the default bled through; on light themes
dark @text sat on it. Now the body + action buttons + close button
are re-pinned to the palette's alpha(@text) tint construction —
mode-proof by construction. The first fix attempt (row-level hover)
was probed, SHOWN insufficient, and replaced.
Verification: V2. nix flake check --no-build, theme-wholeswap,
theme-contrast green. §3 evidence viewed: a purpose-built VM hover
probe under summer-day (notify-send -u critical, cursor parked ON the
popup, screenshot) — before: dark card, drowned text (reproduces the
report exactly, /nix/store/q1qf67fl...notify-shot-summer-day); after:
cream card + faint tint, fully readable (shot-notify2). Bar renders
verified under catppuccin-latte (generated light path incl. the mode
branch) and summer-day (edited whole-swap). An inactive-number visual
needs two live workspaces — VM shows one — so the on-hardware
confirmation is queued (HARDWARE-QUEUE light-theme refits entry);
the ratio change itself is machine-checked.
Bookkeeping riding along: BACKLOG #152 deleted (shipped in d79ad35).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the three dark/light pairs for v1 (batch: 0ba1762, e51c8a7).
Kiln is a potter's workshop at night, lit only by the kiln: warm
near-black (#1D1815), copper accent (#D68C5C, 6.5:1), brass accentAlt,
CaskaydiaCove, rounding 8. Kiln Clay is the same studio at midday:
cream plaster (#F4EDE3), espresso text (11.1:1 AAA), fired-copper
accent (#A34F1F, 4.89:1), brick-red bad. Both waybars are a NEW
whole-swap identity — 'the workbench': ONE continuous floating plank
(window#waybar carries the surface, modules transparent) — deliberately
distinct from boreal's three pills and slate's edge-to-edge strip;
module set verbatim-parity with the generated config. Matched rofi,
btop themes. The wallpapers share identical ring geometry — banked-coal
heat rings at night, terracotta glaze rings at noon — so the autoTheme
flip visibly rhymes.
Sync sweep in this commit (LOOP §5): README 24->28 presets + the
whole-swap list now names the three pairs; CONVENTIONS waybar parity
list gains the four new slugs; OVERRIDES autoTheme table points at the
pairs; HARDWARE-QUEUE gains the batch V3 entry (real-GL blur, btop
visual, launcher grid, tray menus, pair flip); BACKLOG files #153
(PROPOSED: per-theme desktop widgets — the conky idea, engine spike
needed, not v1).
Verification: V2. Full targeted set green on the final tree:
theme-contrast, theme-wholeswap (previews + backgrounds + CSS
self-containment), waybar-language, waybar-swap-env, rofi-text-width,
state-sync-validate, auto-theme VM; nix flake check --no-build green.
Visual protocol: theme-shot VM desktop + menu viewed for BOTH themes
(plank renders as one island, copper/terracotta semantics, legible
menus; /nix/store/2fizd945...theme-shot-kiln and
/nix/store/0126yd48...theme-shot-kiln-clay). audit-theme-design:
CVD-only findings (≤ executive-slate's own baseline); ANSI slots
in-family after the magenta retune. V3 pending: HARDWARE-QUEUE entry
above. btop visual is VM-blocked (GL terminal never starts under
softGL) — file-level assertions only, listed for hardware.
Design + wallpapers on Fable; assets by a Sonnet subagent to a written
identity spec; reviewed on Fable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
