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authortv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-03 01:16:41 +0100
committertv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-03 01:16:41 +0100
commit72d05e54de4a051148578d8445ad4527550052ff (patch)
tree3e357016e3e81b50983c737cf0cef6e15033a360 /docs
parentd2c8d34cb086fd49cfece13d60c22967064ea34a (diff)
dashboard: neater graph title & legend
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@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ the whole width; drag the space right of the map back to bring it again. A
double-click there sets that space back to its default. The sizes are kept in the
browser, for the next time the page is opened.
-The `▾` before a box's title collapses it to its title (`▸` opens it again). A
-collapsed box isn't drawn at all, so it costs the browser nothing while the node
-updates; opened, it shows what's current. The open boxes take the room the collapsed
-ones leave: in the right column they share it as before (the peers take all of it
-when they're the only one open); the map collapsed, the right column takes the width.
+The `▾` before a box's title collapses it to its title (`▸` opens it again); the map
+always stays open. A collapsed box isn't drawn at all, so it costs the browser nothing
+while the node updates; opened, it shows what's current. The open boxes take the room
+the collapsed ones leave: in the right column they share it as before (the peers take
+all of it when they're the only one open).
The right column all collapsed keeps its width: its titles stay at the top, with a
hint that dragging the space beside them to the right hides the column. Which boxes
are collapsed is kept in the browser too.
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ legend and the sliders greyed meanwhile); the choice is kept in the browser.
A label on the map that changes, a round trip or a node's name, breathes once: it
glows around its new text and fades (not where the system asks for reduced motion).
-`links: live` beside the box's title says the members tell this node of their links'
+The map's controls are at its top right, over the map as the legend is (below):
+`links: live` says the members tell this node of their links'
changes as they happen. Clicked, it's `links: every 30 s`: the members are only asked
every 30 s, which costs the swarm fewer messages and leaves the map up to 30 s behind
(this node's own links stay current). It's the node's choice, for every page open on
@@ -125,8 +126,8 @@ it, until clicked again or the node restarts.
The legend, over the top of the map, names the transports that appear; its contents
are on an underlay of their own shape, as the map's labels, so they read over what is
-under them, and the map is dragged through it as anywhere else. `hide legend` beside
-the box's title hides it (`show legend` brings it back); the map stays as it is.
+under them, and the map is dragged through it as anywhere else. `hide legend`, among the
+map's controls, hides it (`show legend` brings it back); the map stays as it is.
`layout: static`, beside it, is the default: nodes move only when the map is laid out
(below). A click switches to `layout: dynamic`: each measured link is as