The app learns Appearance — Auto, Light, Dark from the View menu and a toolbar pull-down

View ▸ Appearance (11-command-nexus.md): three radio-exclusive rows,
app-wide, persisted, needing no window in front — the View menu's new
last group. AppearanceStore owns the override's rules (absent key =
Auto, lenient reads degrade to Auto, remove-at-default) with an
injectable apply seam so test hosts never touch NSApp; the one real
apply hands NSApp.appearance its answer in applicationDidFinishLaunching,
the global side effect KanbanApp.init must not carry. The board toolbar
gains its first .picker item — an NSMenuToolbarItem whose rows re-fetch
their spec fresh, checkmark read at menu-open like every other menu row —
and Appearance joins the search field as the second default item,
centered beside it (03-board-ui.md ▸ Toolbar, ratified 2026-08-07).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy

CHANGELOG.md

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 **August 2026**
 
+The app's appearance can now be set to Light, Dark, or Auto from the View menu or the toolbar's new Appearance item.
+
 A board can now wear a background image, painted across the whole window with a frosted strip keeping the title bar legible.
 
 The background field is now written as a mapping — *{color: green}* instead of a bare *green* — and a board's may name an image beside the color.