chore: sync local working copy as of 2026-08-15

The Gitea repo was initialised from an earlier snapshot, so main and the
machine this runs on had drifted apart in 153 files before any UI work
started. This commit brings the branch up to the local tree as it stood
on 2026-08-15 21:31 (from cowork_local.7z), so the redesign that follows
shows up as its own reviewable diff instead of being mixed in with the
pre-existing divergence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

ui/icons.py

@@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ from PySide6.QtGui import QBrush, QColor, QIcon, QPainter, QPen, QPixmap
 from PySide6.QtSvg import QSvgRenderer
 from PySide6.QtWidgets import QComboBox, QHBoxLayout, QLabel, QWidget
 
-_COLOR = "#8b8d98"  # neutral grey, visible on both light and dark buttons
+def _default_color() -> str:
+    """The default icon tint: the theme's muted text colour, so glyphs sit at
+    the same weight as the labels beside them. Resolved per call — icons are
+    painted bitmaps, so a theme switch must repaint them, not restyle them."""
+    from ..theme import current_palette
+    return current_palette().text_muted
 
 
 def _hidpi_pixmap(size: int) -> QPixmap:
@@ -230,10 +235,11 @@ def icon_picker_combo(current: str = "") -> QComboBox:
     return combo
 
 
-def icon(name: str, size: int = 16, color: str = _COLOR) -> QIcon:
+def icon(name: str, size: int = 16, color: str | None = None) -> QIcon:
     """A flat thin-line icon for ``name`` (see ``_PATHS`` for the full list),
     tinted ``color`` — rendered from local SVG data, no image files/network.
     Stroke width 1.7 matches the Nova Platform web app's shared icon set."""
+    color = color or _default_color()
     # A user-added custom icon (full SVG under ~/.cowork_local/icons) is rendered
     # as-is (keeps its own colours). Then built-in glyphs; then a neutral fallback.
     if name not in _PATHS:
@@ -264,9 +270,10 @@ def icon(name: str, size: int = 16, color: str = _COLOR) -> QIcon:
     return QIcon(pm)
 
 
-def _panel_icon(fill_left: bool, size: int = 16, color: str = _COLOR) -> QIcon:
+def _panel_icon(fill_left: bool, size: int = 16, color: str | None = None) -> QIcon:
     """A rounded panel split by a divider, with one narrow side filled solid
     (the 'sidebar' toggle look)."""
+    color = color or _default_color()
     pm = _hidpi_pixmap(size)
     p = QPainter(pm)
     p.setRenderHint(QPainter.Antialiasing)
@@ -302,19 +309,24 @@ def collapse_right_icon() -> QIcon:
     return _panel_icon(fill_left=False)
 
 
-def pixmap(name: str, size: int = 16, color: str = _COLOR) -> QPixmap:
+def pixmap(name: str, size: int = 16, color: str | None = None) -> QPixmap:
     """The line-icon ``name`` as a QPixmap (for QLabel.setPixmap — QLabel has no
     setIcon). Same glyph/renderer as ``icon()``."""
     return icon(name, size, color).pixmap(size, size)
 
 
-# Status-LED colors — a filled dot, the one place a solid glyph (not a line
+# Status-LED colours — a filled dot, the one place a solid glyph (not a line
 # icon) is the right metaphor for an on/off/running indicator.
-DOT_GREEN = "#22c55e"
-DOT_RED = "#ef4444"
-DOT_AMBER = "#f59e0b"
-DOT_BLUE = "#3b82f6"
-DOT_GREY = "#9ca3af"
+#
+# Deliberately the SAME in light and dark. An LED means one thing regardless of
+# theme, and these mid-saturation hues clear 3:1 against both #0B0B0C and
+# #FFFFFF, so a status dot never has to be re-learned. Everything else in the
+# UI goes through theme.palette(); this is the documented exception.
+DOT_GREEN = "#2EA043"
+DOT_RED = "#E5484D"
+DOT_AMBER = "#B7791F"
+DOT_BLUE = "#4C7BE8"
+DOT_GREY = "#8B8B94"
 
 
 def dot_icon(color: str = DOT_GREY, size: int = 12) -> QIcon:
@@ -338,7 +350,7 @@ class IconLabel(QWidget):
     status labels (lock/unlock, …) keep working."""
 
     def __init__(self, name: str, text: str = "", *, size: int = 16,
-                 color: str = _COLOR, gap: int = 6, parent=None):
+                 color: str | None = None, gap: int = 6, parent=None):
         super().__init__(parent)
         self._size = size
         lay = QHBoxLayout(self)
@@ -357,7 +369,7 @@ class IconLabel(QWidget):
     def setText(self, text: str) -> None:  # noqa: N802 — QLabel-compatible alias
         self._text.setText(text)
 
-    def set_icon(self, name: str, color: str = _COLOR) -> None:
+    def set_icon(self, name: str, color: str | None = None) -> None:
         self._icon.setPixmap(pixmap(name, self._size, color))
 
     def text_label(self) -> QLabel: