The auto-fill minmax(300px, 1fr) template stretched cards to fill the
glass box, so a 2-card category landed at ~301px each (the box
shrunk-and-stretched to a hair over 2*300) while a 3-card category
(box now full-width) landed at ~323px each. Cards visibly didn't
align between categories — the user spotted the 22px difference.
Switching the grid template to fixed-width tracks
(repeat(auto-fill, var(--app-min))) means cards are always exactly
--app-min (300px / 280px at ≤1024) regardless of how many are
visible. Card positions and widths line up across every category.
The natural-columns sentinel from the previous pass is no longer
load-bearing — with fixed-width cards, "full width" at high N gives
no extra card-width benefit, only trailing space inside the box.
updateAppsCount drops the measurement step and just sets the visible
count, letting the formula shrink the box around the cards.
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Two follow-ups to the dynamic-width change:
1. The box was centred (margin: 22px auto), which moved cards out of
their original left position whenever the cap kicked in. Revert to
margin: 22px so the cards keep their left X — the box just shortens
on the right when there are few visible cards.
2. The formula assumed content-box, but style.css:4 sets
* { box-sizing: border-box } globally. With border-box max-width is
the outer width, so a 2-card cap of 664px gave content = 664 - 44
(padding) - 2 (border) = 618, just under the 620 needed to keep
2 columns at minmax(300px, 1fr) with gap 20 — grid silently dropped
to 1 column and the cards stacked. Formula now adds 46px (padding
+ border) plus 2px of sub-pixel buffer, so 2 cards have 622px of
content and reliably stay on one row.
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
The glass box was a CSS Grid with auto-fill columns of minmax(300px,
1fr), so it always painted across the full content area. With only 2
apps on a wide row the third/fourth column slots remained inside the
border as empty space — visually a card-shaped hole.
Drive the box's max-width off a --app-count CSS variable, capped at
(100% - 44px) so it can't escape the layout's symmetric 22px gutter.
margin: 22px auto keeps the horizontal padding symmetric in both the
capped (auto-centers the smaller box) and full-width (auto collapses
to 22+22) cases. --app-min (300/280 at the ≤1024 breakpoint) feeds
both the grid template and the cap formula so the responsive column
width stays a single source of truth.
apps-manager.js sets --app-count to the count of visible .app-card
elements after every render and after the sidebar search filter, so
filtering down to 2 hits also collapses the box. Floor of 1 keeps the
empty state usable.
Mobile (≤768) overrides max-width to none — single column already
fills, and the 10px gutter shouldn't be auto-centered.
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
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