From b52c87b336b0567636a1f8454622cb3b306447a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: npeter83 <npeter83+claude@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:40:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] polish(ui): tighter header gap, stronger row hover, readable
 tag chips (R13 S3)

- Channel-manager tab row: pt-4 -> pt-2, closing the too-wide gap under the
  fixed header.
- Row hover was barely visible (--card sits close to --bg in dark schemes). New
  shared --hover token (a 9% foreground mix, clear in every scheme + theme,
  auto-adapting via --fg); the .selectable recipe and the DataTable row both use
  it, so every hoverable row app-wide (tables, nav rail, menu rows) reads.
- Channel tag chips: text-3xs -> text-2xs + font-medium, so the tiny labels stay
  legible on the accent fill across all colour schemes.

Self-E2E'd: tighter gap, a table-row hover now clearly visible. gate green
(tsc/eslint-0/vitest 147/knip/prettier/build).
---
 frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx | 3 ++-
 frontend/src/components/Channels.tsx    | 2 +-
 frontend/src/components/DataTable.tsx   | 2 +-
 frontend/src/index.css                  | 7 ++++++-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx
index ee985a8d..99ad3c95 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ interface TagChipProps {
 }
 
 function TagChip({ tag, onClick, title }: TagChipProps) {
-  const cls = "chip-solid shrink-0 text-3xs px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded-full max-w-36 truncate";
+  const cls =
+    "chip-solid shrink-0 text-2xs font-medium px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded-full max-w-36 truncate";
   return onClick ? (
     <button
       type="button"
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Channels.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Channels.tsx
index 6ca1b90b..c7566b86 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Channels.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Channels.tsx
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ export default function Channels() {
     [t],
   );
   const tabs = (
-    <div className="px-4 pt-4 max-w-384 mx-auto flex items-center justify-between gap-4 flex-wrap">
+    <div className="px-4 pt-2 max-w-384 mx-auto flex items-center justify-between gap-4 flex-wrap">
       <Tabs
         tabs={viewTabs}
         active={view}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/DataTable.tsx b/frontend/src/components/DataTable.tsx
index d6da209e..3c781b9b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/DataTable.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/DataTable.tsx
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ export default function DataTable<T>({
             {paged.map((row) => (
               <tr
                 key={rowKey(row)}
-                className={`border-b border-border/50 hover:bg-card/40 transition ${
+                className={`border-b border-border/50 hover:bg-(--hover) transition ${
                   rowClassName?.(row) ?? ""
                 }`}
               >
diff --git a/frontend/src/index.css b/frontend/src/index.css
index 21d79e7f..ce4b33c9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/index.css
+++ b/frontend/src/index.css
@@ -294,6 +294,11 @@ html {
      jitter at DPR=1. round() keeps the font-scale feature but quantises to crisp integer metrics. */
   font-size: round(calc(16px * var(--font-scale)), 1px);
   background: var(--bg);
+  /* Shared interactive-row hover tint. `--card` reads faint in dark schemes (it sits close to `--bg`),
+     so hover was barely visible; a foreground-mix reads clearly in every scheme + theme (it lightens
+     on dark, darkens on light) and adapts automatically since --fg is per-scheme. One source for every
+     hoverable row (the .selectable recipe + DataTable rows). */
+  --hover: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fg) 9%, transparent);
 }
 
 body {
@@ -414,7 +419,7 @@ body {
       color 0.15s ease;
   }
   .selectable:hover {
-    background-color: var(--card);
+    background-color: var(--hover);
   }
   .selectable:focus-visible {
     /* outline (not a box-shadow ring) so it never fights a glass surface's box-shadow and never gets