Add polished multi-framework UI skins and color themes - #643
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Double check that is high quality polished UI, on screenshot I don't see something impressive. Re-read #557 We need to ensure all changes are correct, consistent, validated, tested, documented, logged and fully meet each and all discussed requirements in deepest and widest possible sense (check issue description and all comments in issue and in pull request, make sure each and every requirement listed before actually checking if they were addressed). Nothing should be defered or delayed. The scope is the entire repository, every change in one place should also be applied in all places in the codebase and docs. Ensure all CI/CD checks pass. Please plan and execute everything in this single pull request, you have unlimited time and context, as context auto-compacts and you can continue indefinitely, until it is each and every requirement fully addressed, and everything is totally done. |
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…557) Make the non-flat skins read as genuinely premium rather than a lightly tinted default (issue #557: 'as polished as possible'). - Glass: living multi-radial ambient gradient behind the app, with every panel/message card frosted on top via backdrop-filter blur(22-28px) saturate(1.7-1.85), inner-highlight borders, and soft floating shadows, in both light and dark. The opacity slider drives surface alpha through the --fa-glass-* CSS variables. - Material: Material 3 tonal surface roles, a primary surface-tint radial wash, elevation shadows, the M3 shape scale (16px radii), and filled-tonal accent buttons. - Fix critical selector bug: the skin classes live on the .app element itself, so descendant '.ui-skin-glass .app' never matched; switch all six occurrences to compound '.ui-skin-glass.app' / '.ui-skin-material.app'. - Regenerate the 16-shot skin gallery (4 skins x 2 themes x 2 viewports) with demo mode ON so the frosted/tonal message cards are visible over the ambient gradient, and document the polish pass in the case study.
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The ambient radial gradients were fading to transparent by ~50%, so the color only showed in the corners and the chat canvas read as a flat tinted panel. Raise the radial alphas (light 0.55->0.7, dark 0.5->0.68) and extend the transparent stop (48-52% -> 60-64%) across all three glass blocks (light, explicit-dark, media-query-dark) so the blue/lilac/mint wash reaches the center. Frosted message cards (0.78 alpha + blur) keep text readable. Regenerated all 16 skin screenshots.
Polish pass follow-up — glass ambient now reads across the whole canvasFollowing the note that the earlier screenshot didn't look impressive, I made the frosted-glass ambient genuinely visible rather than pooling only in the corners:
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Glass (desktop): light now shows a soft blue→lilac→mint ambient with frosted cards; dark shows a present purple/teal glow. See the updated gallery in the PR description. |
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Not polished enough, check paddings/margins in all views, background of actual text field must be transparent, so it will match whatever the expanded rounded text field with buttons is. Double check all the best practices. We should keep basic UI skin in Chakra UI that was before, but with improvements about input field + buttons. And make everything much more polished. For material UI we should also add support for MUI framework, so the material skin will also switch UI framework from Chakra UI to MUI. We should support multiple of them. And Apple Liquid Glass like, should be done on top of Chakra UI in addition to basic skin, new skin should be named glass. For Chakra UI + glass skin use https://github.com/rdev/liquid-glass-react and best Glass UI guidelines from the Apple (make sure also support configuration of how transparent the glass is, and also other configuration settings for glass them in our settings). We need to make sure there is no ready Do not finish pull request, and don't update the pull request description until everything is perfect. Please plan and execute everything in this single pull request, you have unlimited time and context, as context auto-compacts and you can continue indefinitely, until it is each and every requirement fully addressed, and everything is totally done. |
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Implementation/evidence update for Issue #557, kept draft per the finalization gate. I found no later human comment containing the exact approval phrase Requirements -> evidence:
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I still see visible defects on presented screenshots. May be it will help to get smaller screenshots of parts of the UI and inspecting them much more closely, also it may help to use not only export to PNG/JPEG, but also to SVG, as maybe that will help you see that background in some places is not uniform, offsets/paddings/margings in some places are not centered, and icons/buttons in some cases gone completely wild. Try to cross check our codebase for the UI with:
May be comparing the code apples to apples we will see that are the best practices for the react.js UI components. Also I think #643 (comment) is not fully implemented. I'm especially interested in glass and other skins/themes configurability and quality/polishing. Please plan and execute everything in this single pull request, you have unlimited time and context, as context auto-compacts and you can continue indefinitely, until it is each and every requirement fully addressed, and everything is totally done. |
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…enabled send orb (Issue #557)
# Conflicts: # .gitkeep # src/web/app.js # src/web/app/main.jsx # tests/e2e/playwright.local.config.js # tests/e2e/tests/issue-511-cold-start.spec.js # tests/e2e/tests/issue-514.spec.js
Adds experiments/message-closeups.mjs, a reusable Playwright script that crops the chat transcript (user/assistant cards, THINKING sections, avatars, demo banner) per skin x light/dark. Close inspection across all five skins found no MUI-specificity or non-uniform-background defects in the message cards. Documents the pass in the case study and gitignores the scratch dir.
Working session summaryNo I've now completed the full close-inspection pass requested in comment 39 across every distinct UI surface:
No modal dialog or drawer exists in the app (Settings is an inline sidebar section, already inspected), so those two new surfaces close out the un-inspected set. What I did this turn:
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… limit src/web/i18n-catalog.lino had grown to 1566 lines, exceeding the 1500-line Links Notation limit enforced by scripts/check-file-size.rs (the failing 'Lint and Format Check' CI job). Extract the chat-message and reasoning-trace strings (message.* keys, ~142 lines per locale across en/ru/zh/hi) into a new i18n-catalog-messages.lino, mirroring the existing i18n-catalog-permissions.lino split. The loader merges all catalog files by per-locale key, so runtime behaviour is unchanged. Register the new file with the loader (src/web/i18n.js CATALOG_URLS) and the three parity/coverage checkers so they keep validating the full catalog: - tests/e2e/scripts/check-i18n-catalog.mjs - tests/e2e/scripts/check-language-change-parity.mjs - tests/e2e/scripts/check-language-test-coverage.mjs Main catalog is now 998 lines; messages 577; permissions 488 - all under 1500.
Working session summaryWhile that runs, here's a summary of what I did. SummaryThe failing Lint and Format Check CI job was caused by its "Check file size limit" step: Root causeRecent UI translation work pushed the single catalog file past the hard limit. The codebase already had an established pattern for this — permission/services strings were previously split into FixExtracted the chat-message and reasoning-trace strings ( Registered the new file everywhere the split must be known:
Resulting line counts, all comfortably under 1500: main 998, messages 577, permissions 488. Verification
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Summary
Fixes #557.
MuiThemeProvider+ScopedCssBaseline, uses an MUI-derived theme, and renders composer controls asMuiIconButtonwhile preserving accessibility, test ids, and disabled behavior.rdev/liquid-glass-react: real accessible controls stay above pointer-inert refractive backings, with CSS frost fallbacks and Apple-inspired ambient materials.Framework and React Bits decision
The selectable frameworks are intentionally Chakra UI (flat/glass/contrast) and MUI (Material). The React Bits audit found that its own project depends on Chakra UI and distributes its components as copy-paste React/CSS or React/Tailwind source, so adding a nominal third “React Bits framework” would duplicate Chakra rather than introduce another component framework.
React Bits still informed the implementation: progressive SVG/filter fallback (
GlassSurface), semantic labelled controls above decorative glass layers (GlassIcons), and responsive effect sizing. Its Three.jsFluidGlasslens/bar/cube modes are documented but deliberately not put into persistent productivity controls because they require WebGL, 3D assets, and pointer-following motion. Formal-ai instead provides product-appropriate surface glass, icon glass, and adjustable refraction modes.Research and requirement trace:
docs/case-studies/issue-557/README.mdRoot causes and reproduction
Before this work:
materialwas absent from the skin selector and Glass transparency was hardcoded; the focused Playwright repro failed while selecting Material. The failing log is preserved atissue557-test-before.log..ui-skin-glass .app, but both classes live on the same<main>. That selector could never match, so the ambient material looked flat. Compound selectors (.ui-skin-glass.app/.ui-skin-material.app) restore the intended gradients.The dedicated Playwright suite now verifies all skin markers, the Chakra/MUI boundary, MUI controls, conditional Glass settings and live blur wiring, textarea transparency in every skin, persistence, and all seven palettes through both light and dark token layers.
Visual verification
Desktop skins
Mobile and component detail
Colour themes
The case study links all 40 gallery/component screenshots and explains the visual decisions.
Verification
bun run build:web— passednpm --prefix tests/e2e run test:local -- --grep "Issue #557"— 24 passednpm --prefix tests/e2e run test:local -- --grep "Issue #(108|557)"— 28 passednpm --prefix tests/e2e run check:i18n— 4 locales / 409 keys passednpm --prefix tests/e2e run check:web-hardcoded-ui— passednode --check src/web/app.js— passedcargo fmt --all -- --check— passedcargo test check_file_size— 9 passedThe branch contains current
main, the worktree is clean, and the complete PR diff was self-reviewed for unrelated removals and regressions.