Give Requests its own colour instead of leaving 4 fastext entries plain
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Plain ink for Watch/Requests/Activity/Settings read as flat and
unfinished, not deliberate — user feedback: "the new colors are
awful and basically the same color." Requests gets magenta
(--pending) back: not an arbitrary reuse, it's the same colour a
request already carries once approved elsewhere in the app, and
Requests genuinely is "waiting on a human." That's the real ceiling
though — the locked eight teletext colours leave exactly five legible
as text on black (blue fails contrast, black is invisible on black),
so Watch/Activity/Settings still share plain ink rather than a sixth
colour that doesn't exist in this palette.
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@ -1304,20 +1304,24 @@ def service_urls():
# Every destination, for the top of every page but the index. Order
# matches nav_items. Colour is semantic everywhere else in this app
# (red = off-air, magenta = needs a decision, ...), so only the four
# that still carry a real teletext keyboard shortcut (r/g/y/c) get a
# colour swatch; the rest render in plain ink rather than borrowing
# one of the four colours for a destination it doesn't mean.
# matches nav_items. The locked eight teletext colours leave exactly
# five that read as text on black without inventing a ninth tone or
# borrowing a colour that already means something else here: the four
# with a real keyboard shortcut (r/g/y/c), plus magenta for Requests —
# not arbitrary, it's the same --pending magenta a request already
# shows once approved elsewhere, and Requests IS "waiting on a human".
# Blue fails contrast as text and black is invisible on black, so the
# three destinations left over (Watch/Activity/Settings) share plain
# ink rather than a sixth colour that doesn't exist in this palette.
FULL_FASTEXT = [
("k-red", "r", "100", "Index", "/"),
("", "", "101", "Watch", "/watch"),
("k-green", "g", "102", "Library", "/library"),
("k-yellow", "y", "103", "Discover", "/discover"),
("", "", "104", "Requests", "/requests"),
("k-cyan", "c", "105", "System", "/system"),
("", "", "106", "Activity", "/activity"),
("", "", "900", "Settings", "/settings"),
("k-red", "r", "100", "Index", "/"),
("", "", "101", "Watch", "/watch"),
("k-green", "g", "102", "Library", "/library"),
("k-yellow", "y", "103", "Discover", "/discover"),
("k-magenta", "", "104", "Requests", "/requests"),
("k-cyan", "c", "105", "System", "/system"),
("", "", "106", "Activity", "/activity"),
("", "", "900", "Settings", "/settings"),
]
# The index's own closing row: just the four letter keys, since the