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diff --git a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-28-thread-row-identity-design.md b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-28-thread-row-identity-design.md index 97e9ba3..6bc0d9c 100644 --- a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-28-thread-row-identity-design.md +++ b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-28-thread-row-identity-design.md @@ -176,6 +176,27 @@ Blocks, top to bottom: reason the user is on the dashboard, and hunting for them past a long participant list is the case the scrolling exists for. +**The dashboard invents no colours.** Every colour on it already means +something elsewhere in the application, which is what keeps it from becoming +decoration: + +- **Participants** reuse `Avatar::pixmapFor()` unchanged — the same squircle, + initials and colour the sender carries on every card in the list. + `Avatar::colourFor()` hashes the ADDRESS at a fixed saturation and lightness + (item 169), so a participant is already the same colour in every thread and + in both themes, with nothing to decide here. +- **Tag chips** use `TagColors::colourFor()`, exactly as a card draws them. One + tier, so no muting. +- **The read-progress bar** is the palette's highlight, one colour. It shows a + quantity, not a category. +- **The sparkline** is one colour for the bars with the highlight on the + busiest bucket. Buckets are not categories either; colouring them per + participant would read as data and mean nothing. +- **Unread emphasis** is the cue the list already uses, not a new colour. + +Deliberately NOT done: shading the participant list by how much each person +has written. It looks meaningful and is not. + **The content scrolls.** Everything above the action strip sits in a `QScrollArea`: a thread with many participants and several unread messages overflows the pane, and a dashboard that cannot be scrolled hides the half the @@ -274,9 +295,6 @@ thread-specific binding should simply be deleted. ## Open, deliberately -- **Per-sender colours in the dashboard** reuse the account-avatar palette from - item 169. Whether a participant's colour should be stable across threads is - not decided; nothing depends on it. - **Item 168** (Delete hidden when every selected row is already in the trash) needs restating in thread terms: a conversation is in the trash when all of its messages are. Not part of the core change, and it is a defect if left |