The uniform wash (background-glass) made the rail and the chat chrome nearly
opaque - "why is the sidebar so white and non-translucent... its supposed to
be translucent and blurry!". The rail, the chat header, the welcome card and
the composer now use the same recipe as every other surface in the app
(background-blur under the shared gloss + veil + --glass-bg, exactly what the
deck cards do), and the dedicated wash asset is deleted. Answer bubbles keep a
thin 0.3 veil over the same blurred wallpaper.
Measured: the rail runs 181,229,241 over the sky to 133,174,75 over the grass
(translucent, d166) and the chat/library screens still scan at 0 below-minimum
text-contrast findings in all three themes. The chat suite now pins both the
shared recipe and the translucency, so a future "make it uniform" pass cannot
quietly reintroduce an opaque panel. Phone touch keeps the flat 32% glass.
Version 0.6.3, SW v85.
Martin Dvorak
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