Make w7-flat actually flatten; document this round
The status bar's transfers summary is a text toggle, but 7.css painted it as a full Aero push button — a stray bordered slab sitting in the status line. Marked it w7-flat, the per-button escape hatch that existed for exactly this and had never been used. It did not work, for a reason worth keeping: 7.css restates border-color at `.win7 button:not(:disabled):not(:hover)` = (0,3,1), which outranks `.win7 .w7-flat` = (0,2,0). The .w7-toolbar arm of the same rule only ever won that fight by tying on specificity and landing later in the same layer — an accident w7-flat did not share. Split the rule: `background: revert-layer` stays in `skin` (it must land on `utilities`), and the paint-suppression literals move to `skinfix`, where layer order settles it instead of a specificity arms race. Docs updated in the same change per the working agreement — architecture.md gains the tabs contract, the w7-flat/w7-toolbar split and the frame transparency invariant; gotchas.md gains a win7-skin section (unlayered beats every layer, the (0,3,1) border-color restatement, overflow-x clipping the y-axis, 7.css's hardcoded light literals, exact selectors) plus the two Angular traps this round hit: a duplicate `class` attribute is silently dropped, and a backtick inside a component template's HTML comment terminates the TS template literal. Also recorded the verification trap that cost three wrong readings today: `bun run start` leaves the old instance running and `import -window` grabs the OLDEST match, so screenshots silently come from a stale build — this is what made the w7-flat fix above look like a no-op when it was already correct. Kill and count instances before capturing. And `pkill -f 'electrobun dev'` matches the shell running it and kills your own command. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -43,6 +43,51 @@ touching the adjacent code.
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`styles.css` live under `ui/src/` (esbuild emits them hashed into `media/`
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and rewrites the url), NOT `ui/public/` — a public path fails the build with
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"Could not resolve".
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- **Two `class` attributes on one element: the second is silently dropped.**
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No warning, no build error — the layout classes simply never apply. This
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collapsed the tab strip and two window headers at once (`fe028a9`), because
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a scripted edit appended `class="…"` to elements that already had one.
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When removing a conditional binding, check what the branch *contained*: the
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bindings there were genuinely dead, but the layout classes inside them were
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not, and nothing replaced them.
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- **A component `template:` is a TS template literal, so no backticks inside
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it** — not even in an HTML comment. A backtick in a comment terminates the
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literal and the errors point at the prose, not at the quoting.
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## The win7 skin (7.css)
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- **Unlayered declarations beat every `@layer`, regardless of specificity.**
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`html, body { background: … }` in styles.css is unlayered, so no `skinfix`
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rule can override it — the win7 transparent-corner reset has to be unlayered
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too. The frame's rounded corners only read as rounded because nothing paints
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an opaque full-bleed ground behind them; anything that does fills the corners
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and the window becomes a rectangle with a curve drawn on it.
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- **7.css restates `border-color` at (0,3,1)** via
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`.win7 button:not(:disabled):not(:hover)` and its `:hover` twin. A two-class
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selector like `.win7 .w7-flat` (0,2,0) loses to it, so paint suppression for
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flat buttons lives in `skinfix` where layer order settles it. The
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`.w7-toolbar` arm only ever won by tying on specificity and landing later in
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the same layer — an accident `w7-flat` did not share, which is why it
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rendered a bordered slab while its neighbours went flat.
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- **`overflow-x: auto` also clips vertically.** CSS refuses to pair `visible`
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with a non-visible axis, so the computed `overflow-y` becomes `auto` too.
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7.css raises the active tab with `margin-top: -2px`; inside the horizontally
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scrolling tab strip that put its top border outside the scroll box and
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deleted it silently. The strip reserves `padding-top: 2px` to compensate —
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mirroring the `padding-left: 3px` 7.css already reserves for the same tab's
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`-3px` left margin.
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- **7.css hardcodes light-mode literals outside its own var system** —
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`color: #222` on tablist buttons, black/white bevels in the ListView and
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menu. Each one has to be routed through a `--w7-*` token declared in
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`:root.win7` and overridden in **both** dark blocks (the `[data-theme]`
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attribute one *and* the `prefers-color-scheme` one; system dark sets no
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attribute).
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- **Its selectors are exact, and a near-miss looks exactly like "7.css doesn't
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support this".** `menu[role=tablist] button` is a DESCENDANT selector, so
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every button inside the strip becomes a tab — the `+` and the right-hand
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tools must live outside it. `.window.glass > .title-bar` is direct-child, so
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an inner wrapper breaks the glass coupling. A wrong guess here already
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produced one hand-written lookalike that was deleted.
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## Electrobun
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an explicit `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER` from the user always wins.
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- A "does it boot?" log check does NOT catch this — grep for the GBM line, or
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look at the window.
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- **`bun run start` leaves the old instance running, and
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`import -window miniSCP` grabs the OLDEST match.** Instances pile up across
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rebuilds, so every screenshot silently comes from a stale build and the fix
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you just made looks like it did nothing. Cost three wrong readings in one
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session, including a "the CSS is in the bundle but does not apply" dead end.
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Kill first (`pkill -f dev-linux-x64`), confirm with
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`pgrep -cf 'dev-linux-x64/miniSCP-dev/bin/launcher'`, then launch and capture.
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Note `pkill -f 'electrobun dev'` also matches the shell running it and kills
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your own command (exit 144) — match on the build path instead.
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- **X11 capture cannot answer "is this pixel transparent?"** for the frameless
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window. `import -window` grabs the window's own pixels with no compositing,
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so a transparent corner and an opaque black one both come out black;
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`png32:` just fills alpha with 1 and proves nothing. XWayland's root window
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is not the composited desktop, so `import -window root` fails too. Frame
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transparency and the maximized corners need a human looking at the screen —
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say so rather than reporting a screenshot as confirmation.
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- Benign startup noise on Linux — non-fatal, the app runs normally:
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`libayatana-appindicator is deprecated. Please use libayatana-appindicator-glib`
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(upstream electrobun's choice, not ours).
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