The per-node palette hue was keyed on the display name's characters; it
is now derived from the node's key — the first byte picks the colour, so
a 2-hex path hop, the stored 12-hex id, and the full 64-hex public key
all agree, and a rename keeps its colour. name_style grows a key
parameter (theme.node_style is the raw derivation); the name-character
fallback remains only for genuinely keyless senders (a channel message's
inline name). Keys are threaded through the path widget, the route
graph's labels, the atlas lists, the trophy case's far point and area
pins, and the packet viewer's node lane.
In the Nodes screen and the Time Machine (the shared node list, the
static CLI table, and the mesh page's arrivals), names drop their
recency-heat colouring for the node's palette hue; the heat now glows on
the HEARD/first-heard age lane instead, where the recency actually
lives. A nameless node's "unknown" placeholder stays muted — colour
marks a name, and the hash lane already carries the identity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5
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