The design queue skipped a hand-kept UI_LESS_ROLES list in
cli/meta/roles/design. The decision now lives in each role: a web-app- or
web-svc- role without a UI to design sets design.enabled: false in its
meta/services.yml, and design_disabled() reads that flag. web-svc-design,
the provider, stays out by its entity name.
A new lint, test_design_off_reason.py, requires a design entry in every
web-app- and web-svc- role and, where the entry is switched off, a
"# nocheck: design-off Reason: <text>" on the design: line or the comment
lines directly above it. The rule is in the suppression catalog, and
requirement 037 decision 13 describes it.
Twelve roles switch design off with a reason checked against their code:
asset and simpleicons were already off; file, onlyoffice, bridgy-fed and
mig were on and no longer receive the shared CSS and design script; cdn,
collabora, coturn, legal, mirror and xmpp had no entry. The four that were
on drop their bond and their design variant overrides, which the
disabled-bond and variants-static-override lints reject on a literal false.
The queue lists 77 candidates; HEAD's list also counted bridgy-fed, mig,
collabora and onlyoffice. Cosmos diagrams and the integration matrix are
regenerated.
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web-svc-css becomes web-svc-design and owns the configuration that lived in group_vars/all/13_design.yml. Consumers switch their css service key to design, and sys-front-inj-css becomes sys-front-inj-design. javascript stays an independent key; a role's optional design.js.j2 is injected together with the design and CSP-hashed like the functional script.
An in-repo OKLCH lookup replaces colorscheme_generator. From design.colors.base alone it derives surfaces, text, borders, the primary and status fills with their on-colors, hover and active states and a dedicated dark palette; a unit test proves WCAG AA, and AAA for body text, across six base colors in both modes. Semantic --design-* tokens replace --color-NN-SS in every role stylesheet. The shared element styles sit in the cascade layer infinito-design, so an app's own design system always wins and takes the palette through a variable mapping in its role stylesheet or through its own theming mechanism.
design.logo and design.title resolve globally from web-svc-design or per role from its design entry, and false or 0 disables the replacement. The design_assets action renders the logo lockup per slot as SVG, PNG and ICO, and the legacy title keys move into the design entries.
Three roles carry the design end to end. The dashboard takes logo, favicon and title from the generator and replaces the hard-coded port-ui colors. Gitea maps its theme variables onto the tokens and mounts the generated logo and a branded start page. Nextcloud receives primary color, logo, name and slogan through occ theming and ships no stylesheet.
make design-sync re-renders the static design files of a deployed app, make design-gallery captures before and after screenshots in light, dark, desktop and mobile, and make design-queue orders the roles that are due for a design pass. The i8-designer skill and docs/agents/action/design.md describe that loop.
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