dsh-client-ui-skins

A skin plugin for the DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Web UI: 4 built-in skins plus custom image/video skins — use any photo (or looping video) as the whole-interface background and let the palette follow its dominant colour.

Pure client plugin; no DSH source is touched. Uninstalling fully restores the native look.

Features

• 4 built-in skins: Ocean Deep / Sakura Pink / Mint Clean / Amber Glow (light & dark variants each)
• Custom image skins: upload PNG / JPG / WebP — the image becomes the full Web UI background (translucent mask) and the palette is extracted from it
• Video wallpaper: upload MP4 / WebM — loops as an animated background; palette is sampled from the first frame
• Appearance-aware: follows dark / light / system switching
• Background veil slider: independently tune how much the wallpaper shows through, so text stays legible
• Input opacity slider: independently tune input-well opacity for comfortable typing over photos
• Body-text emphasis toggle: adds a light frosted scrim under assistant prose so photo highlights don't wash out the text (off by default)
• Readability guaranteed: bright accents auto-switch to dark text, dark accents to light text; translucent-mode labels use opaque stepped colours
• Persistent: skin choice, custom image/video, opacity controls and toggles stay in localStorage/IndexedDB across reloads
• Default option: one click back to the native appearance

Install

Requires a DSH web profile (~/.dsh/profiles/web) and pnpm.

A. One-shot script

bash install-dsh-skins.sh

B. Manual

# 1. install the package
cd ~/.dsh/profiles/web && pnpm add -w <path-to>/dsh-client-ui-skins-0.1.13.tgz

# 2. register (append to ~/.dsh/profiles/web/cordis.patch.yml):
#    - insert:
#        - id: ui-skins
#          name: 'dsh-client-ui-skins'

# 3. restart web
launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.deepseek.dsh.web

Then refresh http://127.0.0.1:3080 → Settings → General → Skins.

Uninstall

bash uninstall-dsh-skins.sh

Usage

1. Open Settings → General → Skins
2. Click any built-in skin card — applies instantly
3. Click Custom (image/video) and pick a photo or video — the whole palette follows it
4. With a custom skin active, tune the Background veil / Input opacity sliders and toggle Emphasize body text live
5. Click Default to restore the native look

Custom media stay on your machine (images compressed WebP in localStorage, videos in IndexedDB); nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Development

dsh-client-ui-skins/
├── package.json          # dsh.client dual-face declaration
├── lib/
│   ├── index.js          # Host side: intentionally empty (skins are browser-local)
│   └── client.js         # Client side: derivation, background layer, settings UI
└── scripts/              # install/uninstall scripts

How it works:

• Registers skin tokens (--dsw-* variables) via DSH's native theme.register()
• Acts as an orthogonal overlay writing tokens straight to body.style, never fighting ui-theme's appearance preference
• Four seed colours (accent / secondary / surface / text) → HSL derivation → semantic tokens
• Custom images: browser-side sampling (text / near-grey pixels ignored), re-encoded to WebP in localStorage
• Custom videos: first-frame sampling, Blob stored in IndexedDB, played by a fixed <video> layer

License

MIT © [your-name]