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 iris
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Colour the composer by what its buttons do, and let the read-out breathe less
Queue is the paper plane with a clock on it (`md-send_clock`) rather than the plain plane plus the word: the pair is now told apart by the mark, which is what an icon is for, and the word survives as the button's accessible name where a screen reader still needs it. The three composer buttons take their colour from what pressing one does -- green sends now, blue sends later, red takes the running turn away -- and Stop becomes a filled button like the other two. Outlined said it was a qualifier on the primary action; it is a second thing you can do about the turn, and what separates them is the colour and the mark. The fills are named in Theme.kt with their content colour stated beside them, because a semantic colour has to carry its own contrast: these do not change with the surface, so nothing will rescue a foreground that stops being readable. Worth knowing when reading that file: the action greens and reds sit next to a `runningColor` green and a `failedColor` red, which are *states*. Nothing in one set is pressable and nothing in the other is a state, so a reader never has to tell them apart. The usage read-out loses its per-machine cards. A card is a step up the surface ladder and inside a dialog -- already a raised surface -- the step barely rendered while costing 16dp on every side. The machine and the service it answered for are one small quiet line instead of a heading over a subtitle, since the numbers underneath are what somebody opened this to see. The gaps between the bars now go *between* them rather than after each, which is what put a band of empty dialog above Close. The rest of that band was AlertDialog's own spacing, fixed at sizes meant for a sentence of prose and a decision, so this is a plain Dialog with the same container colour and corner and spacing chosen for a dense read-out. Looked at on the emulator: green send, then blue queue beside red stop during a `/slow 20` echo turn, and the dialog over the live session. The account had risen to 78% by then, which showed the five-hour bar and the header glyph going yellow on real numbers rather than forced ones. |
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iris
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Say it in icons, and put the whole backend behind four tabs
Six things Bryan asked for, which turned out to be one change: the app had no icon set, so every one of them was blocked on having somewhere for icons to come from. That somewhere is dev-updater's arrangement, ported: a Nerd Fonts subset committed as an asset, drawn as text. `Gear.kt`'s hand-drawn canvas gear argued against icon fonts because a system font may not have the glyph and whoever gets the empty box is never the person who wrote it. The objection is right about *relying* on a system font and the answer is to ship the glyph, so the file is gone and its reasoning is restated in `NerdIcons.kt` rather than deleted -- otherwise the next reader re-derives it. `md-cog` and `md-refresh` are dev-updater's own codepoints, because a cog means the same thing in both apps. The root screen's four words under the title are now four tabs, and the two that act on the whole screen -- settings and refresh -- moved up onto the title row as glyphs. That row's old comment recorded that a fifth word would have had nowhere to go; tabs also say something the words did not, which is that sessions, import, models and setups are four views of one backend rather than four errands. Refresh feeds whichever tab is showing. Import, models and setups lose their headings and their Back buttons, since the tab row is now both. Usage is a dialog. It is checked *against* what you were reading -- "can I start this" is asked with the transcript still on screen -- and it had no navigation of its own, so the only thing its Back could mean was "put this away". The button that opens it is a chart glyph coloured by the worst of the machine's windows, so the row says whether the limits are worth opening before anybody opens them. One `quotaColor` now colours every bar that measures a quota: blue, yellow at 75%, red at 95%. The session bar escalates where it used to sit blue at every level, and the dialog's thresholds moved out of it. A download keeps plain blue at every value -- it has no limit to approach, and colouring it like one would say the opposite of what is happening. States that are not measurements take the ordinary control colour, since blue is the low end of this scale and would read as "checked, and fine" about a machine nobody could reach. Send and stop are the filled paper plane and the filled square. Send keeps the word "Queue" while a turn is in flight, because that is what pressing it then does, and an icon that does two things while looking identical would promise something immediate and do something that waits. Looked at on the emulator: all six glyphs render, the tabs and the system back gesture between them, the dialog over a live session, and the bar bands at 82% and 97% forced through a scratch build, since this account is at 72/31/5 and would only ever have shown blue. |