The tile background exists so a white lucide glyph has something to sit on —
on nothing it is invisible. Artwork does not need it, and a logo framed in an
arbitrary coloured square reads as a mistake.
badge rounded square filled with `color`, icon inset (what a glyph needs)
bare no background, artwork fills the tile (what a mark wants)
DEFAULTED from whether the plugin ships assets/icon.png — artwork gets bare, a
glyph gets badge — with `tile` on the manifest to override either way. Presence
is the declaration, as everywhere else here; the field exists only for the
plugin whose artwork genuinely wants a backdrop. Music sets nothing and gets
bare.
`color` is still required either way. It does four jobs and only one of them is
the square: the active glow, the indicator dot and the plugins-list tint all
read it too.
The icon was also smaller than it looked. The source carried ~8% transparent
margin on every side and the artwork is 233x221 inside a square frame, so with
the old `h-7 w-7` inset inside a `w-10` box the duck occupied roughly 39% of
the tile's area. Cropped to its alpha bounding box, padded back to square to
keep aspect, and rescaled: it now fills 95% of the frame instead of 79%, and
`bare` gives it the whole tile instead of half.
Measured rather than eyeballed — the bounding box came from extracting the
alpha plane and scanning it, then the crop was applied to the 1254px original
so nothing was resampled twice.
tsgo clean, 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7. Verified live: music reports
tile=bare, example and offscale still badge.
The manifest's `icon` was a lucide NAME, resolved by `resolveIcon` — which
knows 106 glyphs out of lucide's ~1,500. A plugin naming one outside that set
silently rendered a neutral box, and a plugin from a marketplace had no way to
see the ceiling coming.
So the icon is a FILE now: `plugins/<name>/assets/icon.png`, discovered by
presence like everything else here. `manifest.icon` stays as an optional
fallback for a plugin with no artwork — example and offscale still use it — and
the file wins when both exist.
No new mechanism was needed. The app store already published sidecar assets:
`<dir>/assets/` → `public/plugins/<id>/`, served by a dynamic `/plugins/*`
route, with `DockItem.image` rendering an <img>. `pluginDockManifests()` simply
never emitted `image`. Install now publishes and uninstall unpublishes — the
one thing uninstall is allowed to delete, because these are copies whose
originals are still in the plugin's source.
Base64 in the manifest was considered and dropped. It would ride in every
/api/user/capabilities response for every user on every page load, can't be
cached separately, and puts a 5KB string literal in a source file — against the
rule this manifest keeps: what a directory listing can say, it says. It also
needs no support: `image` goes straight into <img src>, so a data: URL already
works for anyone who wants one.
Music ships OffMusic.png, resized 1254² → 256² (1.6MB → 108KB) with alpha
intact, sized for 3× DPI at the dock's 32px render. It also drops `icon` — the
artwork is a voxel duck in headphones, not a glyph.
The plugins page showed a generic Puzzle for every plugin; the list and detail
header now show the plugin's own icon when it has one.
Two bugs found while testing.
Dock.tsx imported 26 lucide icons and used 14. The twelve dead ones — Music,
Bitcoin, Receipt, Images, CalendarDays, Contact, Clapperboard, Mail, Network,
ArrowDownUp, FileText, FolderKanban, MonitorSmartphone — were residue from when
every feature had a hardcoded tile. Deleted.
And uninstalling a plugin left its icon URL answering 500, not 404. server.tsx
globs ./public at BOOT into one exact route per file, each holding a Bun.file
handle, spread into the route table AHEAD of the /plugins/* wildcard. So an
icon present at boot got an exact route that outlived the file, returning
ENOENT on every dock render with the error logged each time — exactly what the
wildcard's own comment says it exists to prevent. The comment covered the ADD
case; this is its mirror. `plugins/` is now excluded from the boot glob, so the
wildcard owns that prefix alone. Verified: 200 installed, 404 uninstalled, 200
reinstalled.
[open] A plugin's icon cannot be seen BEFORE installing it, which is the one
place an app store most wants to — assets are published at install by design,
and an authenticated icon route is no use to an <img>.
pastilhas