dsh-thinking-quips
English · 中文
v0.11.5 · a DSH bundle (install-and-go) · web client plugin
Lightweight personalisation for the DeepSeek Harness status line — the line the
conversation shows while the agent is working (DSH's default Deep diving...).
Rotating bilingual quips, sixteen loading icons in three sizes, one-click colour presets,
theme-colour matching that reaches 4.5:1, and an optional elapsed-time readout, all in
Settings → Playful quips (its own page in the settings nav, not a row under General).
Incremental by design: no dependencies, no build step, no config file, no network
requests. One hand-written client file, settings in localStorage, and stock DSH
packages are not modified.
Sixteen loading icons across three sizes beside a live status line rotating through the shipped quips
Features
- Sixteen loading icons — dot orbit (default), shape morph, pulse, bouncing dots,
equalizer bars, eight drawn sprites from two contributed design families
(a jelly block that squashes, a metronome arm, a mallet with sparks, a pinwheel, two rings
rippling outwards, a bead running its track, a pair of sparkle stars and a bouncing ball with
its own shadow), plus three that reuse what DSH already ships: the official
StateDot spinner (the plugin's own ring went in 0.11.2 —
the two were the same gesture), its logo mark, and DSH's own running whale (cloned out of the live line, animation included) — each
in S / M / L.
DSH's whale is one of the choices rather than a permanent neighbour, so the line always
shows exactly one indicator; pick Official whale to have it back.
- Rotating quips — your own list, one per line, split into
# Chinese /
# English sections and edited in a small modal; the Language control picks
which section shows (Follow UI, English only, Chinese only, or Mixed).
- Font colour — preview swatch, hex, RGB, or the native colour wheel.
- Colour presets — brand blue, violet, teal, amber and rainbow, one click each. Every chip
is fitted to the background that is on screen and floored at 4.5:1, so the same chip stays legible
in the light and the dark theme, and picking one stops Match theme from following (you named
a colour). Brand blue writes the plugin's default sentinel, so "brand blue" still means DSH's own
default rather than an override of it. Rainbow cycles the line's colour — icon included —
through six colours that are each fitted and floored, so the promise holds at every moment of the
cycle, while the chip itself stays a still spectrum; the cycle follows Slow / Normal / Fast and
freezes at the first colour when the system asks for reduced motion.
- Sweep brightness — 0–100%, how much brighter the official sweep's moving highlight is
than the text (0% makes it the text colour, i.e. an invisible sweep; 100% is white). It
writes the token the official
TextShimmer paints that highlight with.
- Match theme — one click fits the active theme's accent colour to at least 4.5:1 against
the live background, and keeps following theme switches until you stop it.
- Text effect — Shimmer (default: DSH's own sweep, because the plugin renders the
official
TextShimmer component) or Wave (each character/word lifts in turn). Two
choices, not four: the hand-painted "glow" copy of the official sweep was
indistinguishable from it side by side, so it was retired.
- Elapsed time — Inline folds the duration into the quip so it animates with
the text (the DSH 0.2 shape), Beside shows it as a separate grey note outside the
animation (the 0.1 shape), or turn it off. The time comes from DSH's own turn
start (
turn.start.time) and formats exactly like the official formatRunDuration.
- Animation speed — Slow / Normal / Fast in one click. Normal is the shipped
pace and overrides nothing; the others scale the plugin's own animations. DSH's own
whale carries its animation inside the image (a 60-frame APNG), so for that one the
plugin adds its own swim cue at the chosen pace instead.
- Time per quip.
- Indicator only — inject just the icon and leave the status text alone, so it
can sit alongside another status-text plugin.
Install
- Add the package to the profile:
dsh plugin --profile web add github:Saknutella/dsh-thinking-quips
- Add it to
dsh.profile.bundles in $DSH_HOME/profiles/web/package.json:
"dsh": { "profile": { "bundles": ["@deepseek-ai/dsh-base", "@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-app", "dsh-thinking-quips"] } }
- Restart
dsh web.
Requirements: DSH ≥ 0.2.0-rc.2 (the web surface). On 0.2 the running line is
[data-chat-running] and its label lives inside DSH's TextShimmer; the plugin detects
both that shape and the older [class*="turnStatus"] one, so 0.1.x shells keep working.
Uninstall: remove it from dsh.profile.bundles, run
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-thinking-quips, and restart dsh web.
