The win7 skin is dropped. Everything else the branch built stays: Linux
support and the HTML context menus, the workspace-tab menu, the continuous
interface scale (rem everywhere, stepper, Ctrl/Cmd +/-/0) and the core/
service layer. The modern tree already carried all of them, and nothing
outside skins/7like/ imported the win7 tree except main.ts and styles.css.
Removed: the skins/7like/ tree (5.1k lines, fonts), the 7.css dependency,
the skin setting and its options row + strings in all 7 locales, the
frameless-window plumbing (window-control RPCs, windowState push,
trackMaximizeState, the synthesized resize grip and its postinstall
watchdog), the session-skin pinning in buildPreload/chromeOptions, the
skin/skinfix cascade layers, and the win7-only probes and screenshot
harness (the harness cannot render the modern tree: plain Firefox has no
RPC bridge). chromeOptions() stays as the one shared frame decision.
Fixed on the way out:
- index.html's per-theme pre-paint background is restored. The branch had
replaced it with a win7-only transparent rule, so modern dark windows had
silently lost one of the three flash guards.
- editor-windows.ts wrote its window-key separator as a literal NUL byte,
which made git and grep treat the file as binary; it is `\0` now (same
string at runtime).
No settings migration: a stale "skin" key is carried harmlessly by the
store's spread-merge and dropped on the next save.
UI bundle: 616.7 kB -> 405.4 kB, back under the 500 kB budget.
Docs: architecture, gotchas and platform-notes lose the win7 material but
keep what stays true (construction-time preloads/frames, drag regions
ignoring preventDefault, electrobun's missing resize/maximize primitives);
flash-prevention, dev-URL and Bun-panic notes move back under Electrobun;
stale context-menu/tab-bar links fixed; README documents the scale keys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Evaluation branch: a full Aero skin, including frameless windows with our own
title bar, switchable against the existing modern look.
The app already had a four-axis runtime skinning mechanism and zero component
stylesheets, so the skin is one new setting plus one stylesheet section rather
than a parallel UI. The key move is cascade order: 7.css is imported into a
`skin` layer ABOVE Tailwind's `utilities`, so its bare element rules outrank
the ~1900 inline utility classes already in the templates. Template changes are
limited to additive, skin-inert hooks (ARIA roles, `has-scrollbar`,
`w7-toolbar`, `w7-btn`).
- styles.css: explicit layer order, `7.css/dist/7.scoped.css` via `layer(skin)`,
a token bridge re-pointing the existing semantic tokens at Win7 values (no new
tokens, so `@theme inline` is untouched), a hand-authored dark Win7 palette,
and neutralizers that `revert-layer` 7.css's dialog-button metrics back to the
utility layer. Neutralizers must live inside `skin`, not `skinfix` —
`revert-layer` only reaches `utilities` from one layer up.
- Frameless chrome: `chromeOptions(skin)` is now the single place either skin's
frame is decided. `titleBarStyle: "hidden"` on every platform, which is also
the only way to drop the macOS traffic lights. New `title-bar` component
mounted by all three window roots.
- Window controls over RPC (minimize/toggle-maximize/close/is-maximized), served
per window kind so the X reuses each one's existing close path — editors still
get their dirty prompt. electrobun has no maximize event, so the state is
derived from `resize`; double-click-to-maximize is implemented here too.
- Font: Noto Sans vendored (OFL-1.1) under ui/src/fonts, since Segoe UI is
absent off Windows and not redistributable.
Verified: backend `tsc --noEmit` clean, `bun run build:ui` clean (486 kB initial,
under the 500 kB budget), app launches with the skin active and no console
errors. The rendered result has not been eyeballed — screen capture and
accessibility are both denied to the shell on this machine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Electrobun 1.18 shell with branding in src/shared/branding.ts
- Angular 22 zoneless UI in ui/ (workspace), Tailwind v4 shadcn-style tokens
- ng-icons/mynaui icon registry
- Node-version shim so Angular CLI runs under Bun without Node installed
- ssh2 SFTP verified working under Bun against test box
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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