fix: Reduce visual clutter on startup (#2709)

- Closes: #2584

src/components-lib/notification/media.ts

@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ export interface MediaNotificationOptions {
   // A short heading. A longer explanation goes in `detail`.
   title: string;
 
-  // The heading icon. Defaults to a generic alert icon.
+  // The heading icon. Defaults to a generic alert icon; `null` for no icon at
-  icon?: string;
+  // all.
+  icon?: string | null;
 
   // Appended to the heading to identify the media, when it has a title (e.g. the
   // camera title `: Front Door`). Absent for untitled media (a url or
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ export const createMediaNotification = (
   options: MediaNotificationOptions,
 ): Notification => ({
   heading: {
-    icon: options.icon ?? 'mdi:alert-circle',
+    ...(options.icon !== null && { icon: options.icon ?? 'mdi:alert-circle' }),
     text: options.targetTitle
       ? `${options.title}: ${options.targetTitle}`
       : options.title,

src/components/live/provider.ts

@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ export class AdvancedCameraCardLiveProvider extends LitElement implements MediaP
     // endpoints). Instead, simply never render uninitialized cameras.
     if (!this.camera?.isInitialized()) {
       return renderMediaNotification({
-        icon: 'mdi:progress-helper',
+        icon: null,
         title: localize('error.awaiting_live'),
         targetTitle: this.cameraTitle,
       });
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ export class AdvancedCameraCardLiveProvider extends LitElement implements MediaP
 
     return html`<div class="fill">
       ${renderMediaNotification({
-        icon: 'mdi:progress-helper',
+        icon: null,
         title: localize('error.awaiting_live'),
         targetTitle: this.cameraTitle,
       })}

src/images/README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 $ convert -strip -interlace Plane -quality 85% -scale 492x277 iris-screensaver-original.jpg iris-screensaver.jpg
 ```
 
-## icons/iris.svg / iris-background.svg
+## icons/iris.svg
 
 **Link**: https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/camera-iris/
 
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ $ convert -strip -interlace Plane -quality 85% -scale 492x277 iris-screensaver-o
 
 **Image Formatting Process**:
 
-- `icons/iris.svg`: single-path variant for the card's custom iconset
+- Single-path variant for the card's custom iconset
-- `iris-background.svg`: outline / opacity adjusted manually
 
 ## icons/{frigate,motioneye,reolink,tplink}.svg
 

src/images/iris-background.svg

@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
-<svg
-   inkscape:version="1.2.2 (b0a8486541, 2022-12-01)"
-   sodipodi:docname="iris-outline.svg"
-   id="svg4"
-   version="1.1"
-   viewBox="0 0 24 24"
-   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
-   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
-   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
-   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
-  <defs
-     id="defs8" />
-  <sodipodi:namedview
-     id="namedview6"
-     pagecolor="#b93e3e"
-     bordercolor="#000000"
-     borderopacity="0.25"
-     inkscape:showpageshadow="2"
-     inkscape:pageopacity="0.60784314"
-     inkscape:pagecheckerboard="false"
-     inkscape:deskcolor="#d1d1d1"
-     showgrid="false"
-     inkscape:zoom="19.378578"
-     inkscape:cx="8.2823415"
-     inkscape:cy="12.359008"
-     inkscape:window-width="3840"
-     inkscape:window-height="1527"
-     inkscape:window-x="1080"
-     inkscape:window-y="227"
-     inkscape:window-maximized="1"
-     inkscape:current-layer="svg4" />
-  <g
-     id="g1119"
-     style="fill-opacity:0.05;fill:#ffffff">
-    <circle
-       style="display:inline;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:0.49782825;stroke-width:1.39729;opacity:0.5"
-       id="path170"
-       cx="12"
-       cy="12"
-       inkscape:label="Background"
-       r="11.25" />
-    <path
-       d="M 13.730001,15 9.8300003,21.76 C 10.53,21.91 11.25,22 12,22 c 2.400001,0 4.6,-0.85 6.32,-2.25 L 14.660001,13.4 M 2.4600003,15 c 0.92,2.92 3.15,5.26 5.99,6.34 L 12.12,15 m -3.5799997,-3 -3.9,-6.7499996 c -1.64,1.749999 -2.64,4.1399993 -2.64,6.7499996 0,0.68 0.07,1.35 0.2,2 h 7.49 M 21.8,9.9999997 H 14.310001 L 14.600001,10.5 19.36,18.75 C 21,16.97 22,14.6 22,12 22,11.31 21.93,10.64 21.8,9.9999997 m -0.26,-1 C 20.62,6.0700005 18.39,3.7400002 15.550001,2.6600002 L 11.88,8.9999997 M 9.4000003,10.5 14.170001,2.2400002 c -0.7,-0.15 -1.420001,-0.24 -2.170001,-0.24 -2.3999997,0 -4.5999997,0.84 -6.3199997,2.2500003 l 3.66,6.3499995 z"
-       id="path2"
-       inkscape:label="Iris"
-       style="fill-opacity:0.50221002;fill:#ffffff;opacity:0.75" />
-  </g>
-</svg>

src/scss/live-provider.scss

@@ -21,6 +21,18 @@
 .fill {
   position: absolute;
   inset: 0;
+
+  // `both` holds the status invisible for the length of the delay.
+  animation: fade-in 0.4s ease-out 3s both;
+}
+
+@keyframes fade-in {
+  from {
+    opacity: 0;
+  }
+  to {
+    opacity: 1;
+  }
 }
 
 advanced-camera-card-icon {

src/scss/loading.scss

@@ -24,10 +24,9 @@
   opacity: 0;
 }
 
-// The hidden element stays mounted: without this the icon would rotate
-// invisibly forever.
 :host([loaded]) advanced-camera-card-icon {
-  animation: none;
+  display: none;
+  transition: display 0s 1.5s allow-discrete;
 }
 
 advanced-camera-card-icon {

src/scss/media-background.scss

@@ -1,11 +1,34 @@
-// Use the outlined Iris logo since the background color is unknown.
+$bracket-length: 24px;
-$bg-img: url('../images/iris-background.svg');
+$bracket-thickness: 1px;
+$bracket-inset: 10px;
+
+// Mix from text color so the brackets show against both light/dark.
+$bracket-color: color-mix(
+  in srgb,
+  var(--advanced-camera-card-text-color),
+  transparent 90%
+);
+
+$arm: linear-gradient($bracket-color 0 0);
+$arm-horizontal: $bracket-length $bracket-thickness;
+$arm-vertical: $bracket-thickness $bracket-length;
 
 :host {
   background-color: var(--advanced-camera-card-background);
-  background-position: center;
+
+  // Corner brackets mark a media surface that is rendering nothing at all,
+  // which is otherwise indistinguishable from a black video frame.
+  background-image: $arm, $arm, $arm, $arm, $arm, $arm, $arm, $arm;
+  background-size: $arm-horizontal, $arm-vertical, $arm-horizontal, $arm-vertical,
+    $arm-horizontal, $arm-vertical, $arm-horizontal, $arm-vertical;
+  background-position:
+    left $bracket-inset top $bracket-inset,
+    left $bracket-inset top $bracket-inset,
+    right $bracket-inset top $bracket-inset,
+    right $bracket-inset top $bracket-inset,
+    left $bracket-inset bottom $bracket-inset,
+    left $bracket-inset bottom $bracket-inset,
+    right $bracket-inset bottom $bracket-inset,
+    right $bracket-inset bottom $bracket-inset;
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
-  background-image: $bg-img;
-  background-size: 10%;
-  background-position: center;
 }

tests/components-lib/notification/media.test.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ describe('createMediaNotification', () => {
     expect(notification.heading?.icon).toBe('mdi:alert-circle');
   });
 
+  it('should omit the heading icon when it is null', () => {
+    const notification = createMediaNotification({
+      icon: null,
+      title: 'Awaiting live view',
+    });
+    expect(notification.heading?.icon).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
   it('should append the camera title to the heading', () => {
     const notification = createMediaNotification({
       icon: 'mdi:alert-circle',