nextDash 1.6.x: a theme is more than a palette, and two views stopped being drawn twice
Two things happened in 1.6.0, and they turned out to be the same thing. A theme stopped being a list of colours and became a set of decisions about material — how solid a surface is, how much light bleeds off it, how faint the faint text is allowed to get. And Health and the Inbox stopped being two views that happened to look similar and became two views built out of one shell. Both are about the parts of the app that were being drawn twice, slightly differently, by nobody in particular. Source and downloads: github.com/jordibrouwer/nextdash — release notes: v1.6.0 on GitHub Two things change on screen the moment you are on 1.6.0, both deliberate, both explained below: 111 dark themes get a different backdrop, and Health looks substantially different. There is a note at the end about what that means for an install you have had running a […]