E-Ink Retro for DeepSeek Harness

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E-Ink Retro is a client-side theme for DeepSeek Harness. It uses neutral paper surfaces, near-black type, hard offset shadows, compact corners, and black-and-white selection states. The geometry takes cues from classic Macintosh interfaces while keeping the DSH layout and workflows recognizable.

Highlights

• Balanced mode applies the paper-and-ink shell while keeping semantic status colors and user media.
• Immersive mode maps supported DSH surfaces and compatibility layers to a monochrome ink ramp.
• Links, menus, form controls, tree items, and other adapted elements share a visible keyboard focus treatment.
• Images, attachments, video, canvas output, and iframe content keep their original rendering.
• Theme settings follow the DSH page language in English or Simplified Chinese, with English as the fallback.
• The theme pauses when you select another third-party theme.

Modes

Install

Requirements:

• DeepSeek Harness with a web profile
• Node.js 20 or newer
• pnpm available to the DSH plugin command

Install the tagged GitHub release:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:exoticknight/dsh-theme-eink-retro#v0.3.1

Restart DSH Web after installation, then open Settings → E-Ink Retro.

Update

Install the newer release tag, replacing the version in the command:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:exoticknight/dsh-theme-eink-retro#vX.Y.Z

Restart DSH Web after changing versions. The tag is intentionally pinned, so updates are explicit and reversible.

Disable or remove

Clear Enable theme in Settings → E-Ink Retro to stop applying the theme without removing the plugin.

Remove the package from the profile:

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-theme-eink-retro

Restart DSH Web after removal. The plugin removes its injected style and token layer during unload. Two local mode preferences remain in browser storage so a later reinstall can restore your last selection.

Roll back

Install a specific release tag again:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:exoticknight/dsh-theme-eink-retro#v0.1.0

Directories

You can find E-Ink Retro in these directories:

• dsh.pub
• DSH Marketplace
• dshplugins.cc
• dshmarket.com
• dsh-plugin.org
• HackSing DSH Plugins
• Awesome DSH Plugin directory
• DSH Plugin Radar
• Awesome DeepSeek Harness
• dsh-xray capability card

Use

Open Settings → E-Ink Retro, enable the theme, then select Balanced or Immersive.

Selecting another third-party theme pauses E-Ink Retro. Enabling E-Ink Retro or changing its mode while a third-party theme is active switches DSH back to System. Returning to a built-in System, Light, or Dark theme restores the selected E-Ink mode.

Compatibility

The v0.3.1 release was built and checked with:

DSH is in developer preview. A future DSH release may change UI hooks or theme tokens and require a plugin update.

Compatibility boundaries

The theme uses DSH semantic tokens and verified component surfaces. Components that consume those tokens inherit the palette.

• Native select menus may use operating-system styling after they open.
• Plugins with hard-coded colors, Shadow DOM, or isolated rendering inherit only part of the theme.
• The optional dsh-context adapter targets the v0.31.x interface.
• High-contrast and print media have explicit fallback treatments. This project does not claim full WCAG certification.

Privacy and storage

E-Ink Retro runs in the DSH client. Its host entry performs no theme work.

• It uses the DSH runtime, theme, and settings services.
• It changes DOM attributes, CSS, and theme tokens.
• It stores two mode preferences in browser localStorage.
• The current source contains no network requests, telemetry, conversation access, or file access.
• Removing the plugin does not delete the two stored mode preferences.

Support

Report problems through GitHub Issues. Include the DSH version, plugin version, E-Ink mode, built-in DSH theme, screenshot, and reproduction steps.

Install from source

Clone the repository, install dependencies, and build:

npm install
npm run build

Link the checkout into DSH:

dsh plugin --profile web add link:/absolute/path/to/dsh-theme-eink-retro

Windows example:

dsh plugin --profile web add link:C:/path/to/dsh-theme-eink-retro

Development

Run the complete local check before submitting a change:

npm run check
git diff --exit-code -- lib
npm pack --dry-run

The main implementation files are:

• src/client/tokens.ts: Balanced tokens and the Immersive ink-ramp overlay
• src/theme.css: design tokens, component geometry, interaction states, and compatibility adapters
• src/client/index.ts: mode storage, token installation, DSH theme coordination, settings, and cleanup
• tests/theme.test.mjs: package, release, and theme-boundary regression checks

Conventions:

• Keep theme CSS under html[data-dsh-theme-eink-retro]. The plugin settings block uses .eink-retro-settings because it must remain readable while the theme is off.
• Put authored colors behind --eink-* tokens. A component may consume an official --dsw-* semantic token when that token represents the component's DSH surface role.
• Use --eink-rule for separators and static surfaces. Use --eink-rule-strong for operable or floating surfaces.
• Keep monochrome compatibility adapters under the immersive attribute selector.
• Do not add a global media filter. A generated class selector requires a comment explaining why no stable hook exists.
• Localized accessible-name selectors must use substring matching, include every supported locale, and carry a structural constraint.

License

Apache License 2.0