Gryt 1.5.10

The 1.5 line ended with the client coming off the component library it was built on, and two things arrived on the way out: somewhere to keep a theme, and an answer to what leaving a server is supposed to do.

Themes

Settings → Appearance takes a link. Build a palette on ui.gryt.chat, paste the link in, see what arrived, and keep it. The list underneath holds everything you've imported, switching is immediate, and it survives a restart.

Eleven come built in — Ember, Paper, Signal, Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin, GitHub, Claude, shadcn, Solarized, and Gryt's own. They're read from the component library rather than copied in, so a palette that gets a contrast fix in a later release gets it on your machine too instead of being frozen the day you clicked it.

The titlebar stays on Gryt's colours whatever you pick. It sits against the window frame and the traffic lights rather than on the page, and it shouldn't turn purple because the chat below it did.

Leaving a server forgets it

Leaving used to remove the entry from the sidebar and stop. Two things that only mean something for a member outlived the membership.

The one people hit was the pinned identity. A pin says "the server I belong to answers with this key, tell me if anything else ever answers instead" — sensible while you're a member, and nothing at all once you've left. It stayed pinned, so deleting a server and building a new one on the same address was refused, with a message pointing at a settings screen you had to already know existed.

Security

• Deleting a hosted server left its credentials behind for the next one. The rail keys a server on the address you joined at, and deleting only cleared the entry under the loopback address. Anyone who joined over the LAN — which is what both Discovery and an invite you send somebody hand out — sat under a 192.168 address that survived the delete, and that entry is what holds the access tokens and the pinned identity. The next server you created took the same preferred port, landed on the same address, and was handed credentials it had never issued. Every entry for a server goes now, whatever address it was reached at.

Smaller things

Right-clicking a server took the whole app down. So did right-clicking a channel or a member — every context menu in the client had the same fault in it.

Server settings opens at a width that fits its contents rather than collapsing to 600 pixels around a rail. Status colours are readable in the light theme.

Under the hood

The client is off Radix Themes entirely and on @gryt/ui, which is the library the rest of Gryt uses. Avatars, inputs, toggles, buttons, menus, hover cards, dialogs, selects, tab rails and the layout primitives all moved. Nothing about that is visible on its own, and it is what made the theme list possible.

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The short version

Appearance

• Paste a link from ui.gryt.chat and Gryt wears that theme
• Eleven themes built in, read from the library so they stay current
• Switching is immediate and survives a restart
• The titlebar keeps Gryt's own colours whatever theme you pick
• Status colours are readable in the light theme

Servers

• Leaving a server forgets its pinned identity and its tokens, so rebuilding one on the same address works
• Server settings is as wide as what's in it

Security

• Deleting a hosted server left tokens and a pinned identity behind under whatever address people joined at, and the next server on that address inherited them

Under the hood

• The client is off Radix Themes and onto @gryt/ui