spotlight had list metrics, and it is not a list

It read as cramped because the first pass reused the app's own list sizing — a 7px tile, text-sm, py-2 —
which is right for a row inside a panel competing with everything around it, and wrong for a modal you look
at for two seconds with nothing else on screen.

So the search input leads at text-base with a 5px glyph, rows are py-2.5 with a 9px tile, and the label is
text-[15px] with the hint and the route kept deliberately subordinate rather than scaled with it.

Two knock-on changes that are arithmetic rather than taste. The panel widened 560 → 640, because a row now
carries a label, a hint and a route on one line and the route is the first thing squeezed out — it is also
what disambiguates two rows with the same name. And the results box grew 52vh → 60vh, because taller rows in
the same box show fewer results, which would have quietly undone removing the eight-item cap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-22 03:56:01 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 7671368faf
commit e4117441b0
@@ -33,6 +33,20 @@ import { useSpotlightItems, type SpotlightItem } from './useSpotlightItems';
// things to collide with, and this one moved twice already.
//
// Escape closes, arrows move, enter goes. The mouse works, but nothing here is designed around it.
//
// ── Sizing ──
//
// Loosened 2026-08-22: the first pass reused the app's list metrics (7px tile, text-sm, py-2) and read as
// cramped, because this is not a list inside a panel — it is a modal you look at for two seconds with
// nothing else competing for the eye. So the search input leads at `text-base`, rows are `py-2.5` with a
// 9px tile, and the label is `text-[15px]` with the hint and path kept deliberately subordinate.
//
// The panel widened with them (560 → 640). Rows now carry a label, a hint and a route on one line, and the
// route is the first thing to be squeezed out — it is also the thing that disambiguates two rows with the
// same name.
//
// The results box grew 52vh → 60vh for the arithmetic reason: taller rows in the same box show fewer
// results, and the cap on how many are listed was removed for a reason.
/*
No cap, deliberately, and it used to be 8.
@@ -94,7 +108,7 @@ const Row = ({
ev.preventDefault();
onPick();
}}
className={`flex w-full items-center gap-3 rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-left transition-colors ${
className={`flex w-full items-center gap-3.5 rounded-lg px-3.5 py-2.5 text-left transition-colors ${
active ? 'bg-accent' : 'hover:bg-accent/50'
}`}
>
@@ -112,7 +126,7 @@ const Row = ({
it put a coloured pane behind Calendar, Contacts and every plugin logo.
*/}
<span
className="flex h-7 w-7 shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-md"
className="flex h-9 w-9 shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-md"
style={{
background: item.tile === 'bare' ? 'transparent' : (item.color ?? 'transparent'),
// No colour at all is a settings row: keep the muted glyph rather than inventing a swatch.
@@ -126,18 +140,20 @@ const Row = ({
className={item.tile === 'bare' ? 'h-full w-full object-contain' : 'h-5 w-5 object-contain'}
/>
) : Icon ? (
<Icon className={`h-4 w-4 ${item.color ? '' : 'text-muted-foreground'}`} />
<Icon className={`h-[18px] w-[18px] ${item.color ? '' : 'text-muted-foreground'}`} />
) : (
<Search className="h-4 w-4 text-muted-foreground" />
<Search className="h-[18px] w-[18px] text-muted-foreground" />
)}
</span>
<span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
<span className="block truncate text-sm text-foreground">
<span className="block truncate text-[15px] leading-snug text-foreground">
<Highlighted label={item.label} hits={hits} />
</span>
{item.hint ? <span className="block truncate text-xs text-muted-foreground">{item.hint}</span> : null}
{item.hint ? (
<span className="block truncate text-[13px] leading-snug text-muted-foreground">{item.hint}</span>
) : null}
</span>
<span className="shrink-0 font-mono text-[10px] text-muted-foreground/60">{item.to}</span>
<span className="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-muted-foreground/60">{item.to}</span>
</button>
);
};
@@ -205,12 +221,12 @@ export const Spotlight = () => {
onMouseDown={close}
>
<div
className="w-[min(92vw,560px)] overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-border bg-background/95 shadow-2xl"
className="w-[min(92vw,640px)] overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-border bg-background/95 shadow-2xl"
// The backdrop closes on mousedown; this stops a click INSIDE the panel counting as one.
onMouseDown={(ev) => ev.stopPropagation()}
>
<div className="flex items-center gap-2 border-b border-border px-4">
<Search className="h-4 w-4 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground" />
<Search className="h-5 w-5 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground" />
<input
ref={inputRef}
value={query}
@@ -228,11 +244,11 @@ export const Spotlight = () => {
}
}}
placeholder="Go to…"
className="w-full bg-transparent py-3.5 text-sm text-foreground outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground"
className="w-full bg-transparent py-4 text-base text-foreground outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground"
/>
</div>
<div className="max-h-[52vh] overflow-y-auto p-2">
<div className="max-h-[60vh] overflow-y-auto p-2">
{results.length === 0 ? (
<p className="px-3 py-6 text-center text-sm text-muted-foreground">Nothing matches “{query}”.</p>
) : (