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v0.19.0 — Glass & Cards: the chrome redesign

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@thrashr888 thrashr888 released this 19 Jul 23:01
v0.19.0
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Highlights

  • The card layout — the window is one chrome surface with the sidebars floating as inset rounded cards, Finder-style; chat and the reader stay an open center column. Headers align across every panel, collapsed rails shrink to their contents, and the home page follows suit with Latest Reports as a collapsible side-card.
  • Liquid Glass — the real macOS 26 material behind the whole chrome, with Off / Tinted / Clear levels matching the system's own vocabulary. The tint follows your theme (white glass under light palettes), explicit themes pin the material's appearance, and the System theme keeps auto-switching at sunset. Under glass, the material is the ambience — the blank-chat shader steps aside.
  • Frosted menus everywhere — dropdowns, popovers, the notebook color picker, and the ⌘K palette share one native-menu material: translucent elevation over a backdrop blur. Right-click menus included, and macOS "Reduce transparency" gets fully opaque fallbacks.
  • Reference-grade light mode — white border-only cards with hairline borders and whisper shadows, a defined chrome tone, and a WCAG AA contrast pass across all 20 themes (sixty muted-text, primary, and unread-accent fixes) driven by a reusable in-app audit.
  • Quiet color — color is semantic now: source-type icons went monochrome, studio tiles share one neutral treatment, the capacity gauge wears the notebook's color, and colored left-border stripes became dot chips.
  • Documents got properties — a Linear-style label/value header on every source and note (type, site, added, size · kind, origin, created, updated), excluded from find and citation matching.
  • Quieter chat plumbing — tool confirmations render as one-line chips instead of full message bubbles.
  • Notebook context menus — right-click a notebook card for open, rename, color, and delete.

Fixes

  • Switching a light theme on and off glass no longer leaves the window black — the chrome always paints
  • The System theme follows macOS light↔dark flips while glass is on
  • A failed glass apply no longer wedges glass off until relaunch
  • Panel resize handles are grabbable again (the rounded cards were clipping them)
  • Note-card dropdowns paint above card text — menus are portaled, ending the stacking whack-a-mole
  • Source error messages wrap instead of forcing a horizontal scrollbar
  • Find-in-source counts match between rendered and plain views
  • The reports blank slate is compact, and Settings can reveal the templates folder in Finder
  • The hidden ambience shader no longer burns CPU under glass

Full changelog: v0.18.0...v0.19.0

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