diff --git a/.claude/worktrees/tracing-layers b/.claude/worktrees/tracing-layers
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..f4dd047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.claude/worktrees/tracing-layers
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit f4dd04764204506fc275180364d0366d693036f4
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/db.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/db.cljs
index 6bd341b..c61f6af 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/db.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/db.cljs
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@
   THE EDITOR'S, NOT THE DOCUMENT'S. Showing a reference is a way of looking at
   the stage, like solo and zoom: not an undo step, not sent to collaborators,
   and it cannot reach an export. A layer is shown unless it is in `:hidden`, so
-  footage brought in shows without being found and switched on first."
-  {:on? true :opacity 0.5 :hidden #{}})
+  footage brought in shows without being found and switched on first — once
+  tracing itself is on, which it is not until asked for."
+  {:on? false :opacity 0.5 :hidden #{}})
 
 (def default
   {;; --- the document ---
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/domain/clip.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/domain/clip.cljs
index 7f83e45..04df444 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/domain/clip.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/domain/clip.cljs
@@ -25,13 +25,14 @@
   another clip is `arthur.domain.bring`. This namespace is the document and the
   operations that only need the document.
 
-  NO SYMBOL IS SPECIAL. There is no reserved root and no pointer to one: which
-  symbol is on screen is the editor's state, not the document's, and every
-  function here that needs a symbol is told which. A new document has one symbol
-  called `:main` because it has to be called something, and that is all the name
-  means — it can be renamed, placed inside another symbol or deleted like any of
-  them. `unplaced` answers the question a reserved root used to: which symbols
-  nothing else places, and so which ones a person opening the document wants.
+  NO SYMBOL IS SPECIAL. There is no reserved root id: which symbol is on screen
+  is the editor's state, not the document's, and every function here that needs
+  a symbol is told which. A new document has one symbol called `:main` because
+  it has to be called something, and that is all the name means — it can be
+  renamed or placed inside another symbol like any of them. What the document
+  does say is `:root`, which symbol it opens on: a pointer, not a kind of
+  symbol, the way a Flash file names its scene. See `opens-on` for why that
+  cannot be worked out instead.
 
   :fps is the output grid. A symbol's optional :fps names the native grid its
   frames were authored or measured on; absent means the document's grid."
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@
   layer must not be able to have. Add the field here and to `leaf/leaves` and
   `leaf/clip` in the same commit."
   #{:name :fps :analyses :subjects :features :groups :width :height :symbols
-    :palettes :default-palette})
+    :palettes :default-palette :root})
 
 (defn symbol
   "One of the clip's symbols, by id."
@@ -201,18 +202,39 @@
   (let [placed (into #{} (mapcat #(places clip %)) (keys (:symbols clip)))]
     (vec (sort-by str (remove placed (keys (:symbols clip)))))))
 
-(defn opens-on
-  "The symbol a document opens on: the longest one nothing else places, ties
-  broken by id. The symbol that contains everything else is the longest of the
-  unplaced ones in every document made so far, and a reserved name is what this
-  replaces.
-
-  Never a tracing symbol: it is footage nobody has placed yet, and as long as
-  the take it came from, so it would otherwise win."
+(defn- longest-unplaced
+  "The longest symbol nothing else places, ties broken by id, and never a
+  tracing symbol: that is footage nobody has placed yet, as long as its take."
   [clip]
   (first (sort-by (fn [sid] [(- (or (frames clip sid) 0)) (str sid)])
                   (remove #(trace? (symbol clip %)) (unplaced clip)))))
 
+(defn opens-on
+  "The symbol a document opens on: its `:root`.
+
+  IT IS STORED, NOT WORKED OUT. It used to be the longest unplaced symbol, on
+  the theory that the one containing everything else is always that. A take
+  disproves it: imported footage is a symbol a thousand frames long, and the
+  moment its instance is deleted, or the drop lands somewhere other than the
+  root, nothing places it and it outranks a 120-frame `:main`. The document then
+  opened on the take, and `set-root-fps` rewrote the take's rate to the
+  project's on the way in.
+
+  A document with no `:root` — a demo, a fixture — still gets the old answer."
+  [clip]
+  (let [root (:root clip)]
+    (if (contains? (:symbols clip) root) root (longest-unplaced clip))))
+
+(defn pin-root
+  "Give a document saved before `:root` existed the root it was made with.
+  Every such document started as `blank`, whose root is `:main`, and ids never
+  change, so `:main` is the answer wherever it survives; the old rule is only
+  for documents that never had one."
+  [clip]
+  (cond-> clip
+    (not (:root clip))
+    (assoc :root (if (contains? (:symbols clip) :main) :main (longest-unplaced clip)))))
+
 (defn set-root-fps
   "Set the document/output rate and the root symbol's editing rate together.
 
@@ -250,6 +272,7 @@
    :width 320 :height 200
    :palettes {pal/default-id pal/default-palette}
    :default-palette pal/default-id
+   :root :main
    ;; No native fps yet: an untouched canvas follows the project grid. Imported
    ;; and generated symbols carry their own rate explicitly.
    :symbols {:main {:id :main :frames blank-frames :nodes {}}}})
@@ -351,6 +374,58 @@
   (active-palette [this]
     "The palette selected by this resolver's most recently resolved frame."))
 
+(defn- channel-value [store selection frame]
+  (cond
+    (nil? selection) nil
+    (and (map? selection) (contains? selection :animated?))
+    (ch/value-at selection frame store)
+    :else selection))
+
+(defn palette-at
+  "The palette symbol `owner` draws in at `frame`, as the stage's root does: a
+  palette id, or `{:from :to :t}` while its palette lane blends from one to the
+  next. `inherited` is what an unset palette falls back to, then `default`."
+  [clip store default owner frame inherited]
+  ;; A palette track has meaningful uncovered time. Ordinary held
+  ;; channels clamp to their first key before it, but doing that
+  ;; here would erase the gap before the first palette segment.
+  (let [channel-value (partial channel-value store)
+        fallback (or (channel-value (:palette owner) frame)
+                     inherited default)
+        materialize (fn [choice]
+                      (cond
+                        (= pal/inherit choice) fallback
+                        (map? choice) (-> choice
+                                          (update :from #(if (= pal/inherit %) fallback %))
+                                          (update :to #(if (= pal/inherit %) fallback %)))
+                        :else choice))
+        track (:palette-channel owner)
+        track-value (if-let [ks (:keys track)]
+                      (some->> (keys ks)
+                               (filter #(<= % frame))
+                               sort last
+                               (get ks))
+                      (channel-value track frame))]
+    (or (when-let [track-sid (and (keyword? (:palette-track owner))
+                                  (:palette-track owner))]
+          (let [track-symbol (symbol clip track-sid)
+                palette-clip (first
+                              (filter (fn [n]
+                                        (let [[a b] (node/placed-span n)]
+                                          (and a (<= a frame) (< frame b))))
+                                      (symbol/children (:nodes track-symbol))))
+                palette-symbol (some-> palette-clip node/source
+                                       (#(symbol clip %)))
+                fallback (when (= :palette (:type palette-symbol))
+                           (:palette-ref palette-symbol))
+                choice (get-in palette-clip [:channels [:palette]])
+                start (some-> palette-clip node/placed-span first)]
+            (or (when (and choice start)
+                  (materialize (channel-value choice (- frame start))))
+                fallback)))
+        track-value
+        fallback)))
+
 (defn resolver
   "Resolve an output frame, selecting native content at each symbol boundary.
   Every instance owns its cursors and buffers. The IResolver queries return
@@ -358,51 +433,8 @@
   [clip sid store palette opts]
    (let [context? (and (map? palette) (:palettes palette) (:offsets palette))
          active-palette-state (atom (:default palette))]
-    (letfn [(channel-value [selection frame]
-              (cond
-                (nil? selection) nil
-                (and (map? selection) (contains? selection :animated?))
-                (ch/value-at selection frame store)
-                :else selection))
-            (root-selection-at [owner frame inherited]
-              ;; A palette track has meaningful uncovered time. Ordinary held
-              ;; channels clamp to their first key before it, but doing that
-              ;; here would erase the gap before the first palette segment.
-              (let [fallback (or (channel-value (:palette owner) frame)
-                                 inherited (:default palette))
-                    materialize (fn [choice]
-                                  (cond
-                                    (= pal/inherit choice) fallback
-                                    (map? choice) (-> choice
-                                                      (update :from #(if (= pal/inherit %) fallback %))
-                                                      (update :to #(if (= pal/inherit %) fallback %)))
-                                    :else choice))
-                    track (:palette-channel owner)
-                    track-value (if-let [ks (:keys track)]
-                                  (some->> (keys ks)
-                                           (filter #(<= % frame))
-                                           sort last
-                                           (get ks))
-                                  (channel-value track frame))]
-                (or (when-let [track-sid (and (keyword? (:palette-track owner))
-                                              (:palette-track owner))]
-                      (let [track-symbol (symbol clip track-sid)
-                            palette-clip (first
-                                          (filter (fn [n]
-                                                    (let [[a b] (node/placed-span n)]
-                                                      (and a (<= a frame) (< frame b))))
-                                                  (symbol/children (:nodes track-symbol))))
-                            palette-symbol (some-> palette-clip node/source
-                                                   (#(symbol clip %)))
-                            fallback (when (= :palette (:type palette-symbol))
-                                       (:palette-ref palette-symbol))
-                            choice (get-in palette-clip [:channels [:palette]])
-                            start (some-> palette-clip node/placed-span first)]
-                        (or (when (and choice start)
-                              (materialize (channel-value choice (- frame start))))
-                            fallback)))
-                    track-value
-                  fallback)))
+    (letfn [(root-selection-at [owner frame inherited]
+              (palette-at clip store (:default palette) owner frame inherited))
             (selection-at [owner frame inherited]
               (let [selection (:palette owner)
                     chosen (cond
@@ -714,6 +746,9 @@
     (when (and (contains? clip :default-palette) (map? (:palettes clip))
                (not (contains? (:palettes clip) (:default-palette clip))))
       [":default-palette must name a project palette"])
+    (when (and (contains? clip :root) (map? (:symbols clip))
+               (not (contains? (:symbols clip) (:root clip))))
+      [(str ":root names missing symbol " (pr-str (:root clip)))])
     (for [[id p] (:palettes clip)
           :when (or (not= id (:id p)) (not (pal/valid-palette? p)))]
       (str "palette " (pr-str id) " is invalid or has a different :id"))
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/domain/leaf.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/domain/leaf.cljs
index 822294d..02a28f9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/domain/leaf.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/domain/leaf.cljs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       clip/<cid>/stage                    width, height
       clip/<cid>/palette/<pid>            a named indexed palette asset
       clip/<cid>/palette-default          the project fallback palette id
+      clip/<cid>/root                     the symbol the document opens on
       clip/<cid>/source                   the analysis record this came out of
       clip/<cid>/subject/<subj>           a tracked subject and its params
       clip/<cid>/feature/<fid>            one feature: area, nodes, params
@@ -138,6 +139,7 @@
            (some-leaf (at "timing") (select-keys clip [:fps]))
            (some-leaf (at "stage")  (select-keys clip [:width :height]))
            (some-leaf (at "palette-default") (select-keys clip [:default-palette]))
+           (some-leaf (at "root") (select-keys clip [:root]))
            (some-leaf (at "analyses") (:analyses clip))
            (concat
             (for [[id v] (:subjects clip)] {(at "subject" (segment id)) v})
@@ -198,6 +200,7 @@
                "stage"    (merge acc v)
                "analyses" (assoc acc :analyses v)
                "palette-default" (merge acc v)
+               "root"     (merge acc v)
                "palette"  (assoc-in acc [:palettes (unsegment a)] v)
                "subject"  (assoc-in acc [:subjects (unsegment a)] v)
                "feature"  (assoc-in acc [:features (unsegment a)] v)
@@ -239,7 +242,7 @@
                           false)
                         (case (count p)
                           ;; The clip's own facts carry no id.
-                          3 (#{"name" "timing" "stage" "analyses" "palette-default"} (nth p 2))
+                          3 (#{"name" "timing" "stage" "analyses" "palette-default" "root"} (nth p 2))
                           4 (#{"subject" "feature" "group" "palette"} (nth p 2))
                           false))))]
     (vec
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/events/project.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/events/project.cljs
index e6f133f..1b29bf4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/events/project.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/events/project.cljs
@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@
                        ;; also normalizes documents saved by the earlier model,
                        ;; where changing project FPS left the root on its old
                        ;; editing grid.
-                       built (clip/set-root-fps (:clip loaded) (:fps (:clip loaded)))]
+                       built (-> (:clip loaded)
+                                 clip/pin-root
+                                 (clip/set-root-fps (:fps (:clip loaded))))]
                    (let [entry (merge (select-keys built [:fps :width :height])
                                       {:label (str (or (.-name clip-json) cid) " (saved)")
                                        :cid cid
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/flow/freeze.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/flow/freeze.cljs
index 2f2641b..18a201e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/flow/freeze.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/flow/freeze.cljs
@@ -841,6 +841,7 @@
                :width (first stage) :height (second stage)
                :palettes {pal/default-id pal/default-palette}
                :default-palette pal/default-id
+               :root :main
                :subjects (into {} (map (fn [[id _]]
                                          [id {:id id :params {}
                                               :analysis (:id analysis)
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/subs/render.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/subs/render.cljs
index c535fe4..8acd478 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/subs/render.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/subs/render.cljs
@@ -136,6 +136,25 @@
  :<- [::palette]
  (fn [compiled _] (:ramp compiled)))
 
+(rf/reg-sub
+ ::palettes-shown
+ :<- [::clip]
+ :<- [::open]
+ :<- [::store]
+ :<- [::open-frame]
+ :<- [::palette]
+ ;; The palettes the stage is drawing in at the playhead: the open symbol's own,
+ ;; BOTH ends while its palette lane blends from one to the next, and any an
+ ;; instance in it is set to. The palette strip asks it whether the palette it
+ ;; is editing is one of these.
+ (fn [[document sid store frame compiled] _]
+   (when-let [sym (and document (clip/symbol document sid))]
+     (let [at #(clip/palette-at document store (:default compiled) % (or frame 0) nil)
+           ends #(if (map? %) [(:from %) (:to %)] [%])]
+       (into (set (ends (at sym)))
+             (comp (filter :palette) (mapcat (comp ends at)))
+             (vals (:nodes sym)))))))
+
 (rf/reg-sub
  ::store
  :<- [::clip-id]
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/layout.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/layout.cljs
index 4cf9c2c..027367c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/layout.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/layout.cljs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   half of this (see `@media` in app.css), and a drawer that is shut should not be
   holding video thumbnails live."
   (:require [arthur.domain.onion :as onion]
+            [arthur.ui.menu :as menu]
             [re-frame.core :as rf]))
 
 (def ^:private narrow?
@@ -146,8 +147,9 @@
   "− <readout> + for one zoomable surface. THE READOUT IS THE BUTTON BACK: it
   says what the zoom is, pressing it returns to normal, and it is accented while
   it has something to return from — so the quick way back is in the one place
-  you already look to find out where you are."
-  [k label]
+  you already look to find out where you are. `more` joins the group: the
+  stage's fit."
+  [k label & more]
   (let [z @(rf/subscribe [::zoom k])
         [lo hi] (limits k)
         home (k normal)]
@@ -162,10 +164,11 @@
       (str (js/Math.round (* 100 z)) "%")]
      [:button {:disabled (>= z hi) :aria-label (str label " zoom in")
                :title (str "zoom " label " in")
-               :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::set k (stepped k z false)])} "+"]]))
+               :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::set k (stepped k z false)])} "+"]
+     (into [:<>] more)]))
 
 
-(rf/reg-sub ::mat (fn [db _] (merge {:opacity 0.55} (get-in db [:ui :passepartout]))))
+(rf/reg-sub ::mat (fn [db _] (merge {:on? true :opacity 0.55} (get-in db [:ui :passepartout]))))
 (rf/reg-event-db ::mat (fn [db [_ k v]] (assoc-in db [:ui :passepartout k] v)))
 
 (rf/reg-sub ::onion
@@ -175,30 +178,42 @@
   (fn [db [_ k v]]
     (assoc-in db [:ui :onion (:clip/current db) (get-in db [:ui :open]) k] v)))
 
+(defn overlay
+  "Something drawn over the stage that is not the picture: a switch, and its
+  settings in a popover beside it. Tracing, onion and passepartout are all this
+  one shape, so they read as three of a kind."
+  [class label on? tip toggle! settings]
+  [:div.group.overlay {:class class}
+   [:button {:class (when on? "on") :aria-pressed (boolean on?) :title tip
+             :on-click toggle!}
+    label]
+   [menu/popover {:label "▾" :title (str label " settings")} settings]])
+
+(defn- slider [label lo hi v on-change]
+  [:label label
+   [:input {:type "range" :min lo :max hi :step 0.05 :value v
+            :on-change #(on-change (js/parseFloat (.. % -target -value)))}]])
+
 (defn onion-controls []
   (let [{:keys [on? before after opacity scope]} @(rf/subscribe [::onion])]
-    [:div.group.onion-controls
-     [:button {:class (when on? "on") :aria-pressed (boolean on?)
-               :title "Onion skin — neighboring cels of the selected lane"
-               :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::onion :on? (not on?)])} "onion"]
-     [:details
-      [:summary {:aria-label "Onion skin settings" :title "Onion skin settings"} "▾"]
-      [:div.view-popout
-       [:label "Scope"
-        [:select {:value (name scope)
-                  :on-change #(rf/dispatch [::onion :scope (keyword (.. % -target -value))])}
-         [:option {:value "selected"} "Selected lane"]
-         [:option {:value "symbol"} "Whole symbol"]]]
-       (for [[k label v] [[:before "Previous cels" before] [:after "Next cels" after]]]
-         ^{:key k} [:label label
-                    [:input {:type "number" :min 0 :max 5 :value v
-                             :on-change #(let [n (js/parseInt (.. % -target -value) 10)]
-                                           (when-not (js/isNaN n)
-                                             (rf/dispatch [::onion k (max 0 (min 5 n))])))}]])
-       [:label "Opacity"
-        [:input {:type "range" :min 0.05 :max 0.6 :step 0.05 :value opacity
-                 :on-change #(rf/dispatch [::onion :opacity (js/parseFloat (.. % -target -value))])}]]
-       [:small "Previous: red · Next: blue. Select a lane or one of its cels. Hidden during playback."]]]]))
+    [overlay "onion-controls" "onion" on?
+     "Onion skin — neighboring cels of the selected lane"
+     #(rf/dispatch [::onion :on? (not on?)])
+     (fn [_]
+       [:div.view-popout
+        [:label "Scope"
+         [:select {:value (name scope)
+                   :on-change #(rf/dispatch [::onion :scope (keyword (.. % -target -value))])}
+          [:option {:value "selected"} "Selected lane"]
+          [:option {:value "symbol"} "Whole symbol"]]]
+        (for [[k label v] [[:before "Previous cels" before] [:after "Next cels" after]]]
+          ^{:key k} [:label label
+                     [:input {:type "number" :min 0 :max 5 :value v
+                              :on-change #(let [n (js/parseInt (.. % -target -value) 10)]
+                                            (when-not (js/isNaN n)
+                                              (rf/dispatch [::onion k (max 0 (min 5 n))])))}]])
+        [slider "Opacity" 0.05 0.6 opacity #(rf/dispatch [::onion :opacity %])]
+        [:small "Previous: red · Next: blue. Select a lane or one of its cels. Hidden during playback."]])]))
 
 (defn fit-stage! []
   (when-let [area (.querySelector js/document ".stage-area")]
@@ -209,14 +224,19 @@
                                            (/ (- (.-clientHeight area) 32) h))])
         (js/requestAnimationFrame #(do (set! (.-scrollLeft area) 0) (set! (.-scrollTop area) 0)))))))
 
-(defn stage-controls []
-  (let [{:keys [opacity]} @(rf/subscribe [::mat])]
+(defn stage-controls
+  "The stage's own view, after the tracing switch: what else is drawn over it,
+  then how big it is. Fit is in the zoom group because it IS a zoom."
+  []
+  (let [{:keys [on? opacity]} @(rf/subscribe [::mat])]
     [:<>
      [onion-controls]
-     [:button {:on-click fit-stage! :title "Fit stage in view"} "fit"]
-     [:details.passepartout-controls
-      [:summary "passepartout"]
-      [:div.view-popout
-       [:label "Passepartout"
-        [:input {:type "range" :min 0 :max 1 :step 0.05 :value opacity
-                 :on-change #(rf/dispatch [::mat :opacity (js/parseFloat (.. % -target -value))])}]]]]]))
+     [overlay "passepartout-controls" "passepartout" on?
+      "Darken the desk around the stage"
+      #(rf/dispatch [::mat :on? (not on?)])
+      (fn [_]
+        [:div.view-popout
+         [slider "Opacity" 0 1 opacity #(rf/dispatch [::mat :opacity %])]])]
+     [:span.sep]
+     [zoomer :stage "the stage"
+      [:button {:on-click fit-stage! :title "Fit stage in view"} "fit"]]]))
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/menu.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/menu.cljs
index 93342fe..61ae8a2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/menu.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/menu.cljs
@@ -79,3 +79,29 @@
                                     :on-click (fn [] (close!) (on-click))}
                  label
                  (when sub [:span.sub sub])]))]])]))))
+
+(defn popover
+  "A button that opens a panel of settings rather than a list of commands: the
+  onion's counts, a slider, the palette's name. Placed and dismissed exactly as
+  `view` is — measured against its button, shut by a click anywhere else — so
+  every popover in the window closes the same way. `body` is a function of the
+  close function, for a panel with a control that should shut it."
+  [_ _]
+  (let [at (r/atom nil)]
+    (fn [{:keys [label title class]} body]
+      (let [close! #(reset! at nil)]
+        [:div.menu-wrap {:class class}
+         [:button {:class (str "pop" (when @at " on")) :title title :aria-label title
+                   :aria-haspopup "dialog" :aria-expanded (boolean @at)
+                   :on-click (fn [^js e]
+                               (if @at (close!) (reset! at (placement (.-currentTarget e)))))}
+          label]
+         (when-let [{:keys [left top bottom max-height]} @at]
+           [:<>
+            [:div.menu-scrim {:on-click close!}]
+            [:div.menu.menu-drop.popout
+             {:role "dialog" :aria-label title
+              :style (cond-> {:left (str left "px") :max-height (str max-height "px")}
+                       top    (assoc :top (str top "px"))
+                       bottom (assoc :bottom (str bottom "px")))}
+             (body close!)]])]))))
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/palette.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/palette.cljs
index a95b038..e034ff6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/palette.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/palette.cljs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   The footage switch is NOT here. It is a viewing aid rather than something you
   set before you draw, so it is a section of the inspector. See `ui/params`."
   (:require [arthur.domain.channel :as channel]
+            [arthur.domain.clip :as clip]
             [arthur.domain.node :as node]
             [arthur.domain.palette :as pal]
             [arthur.domain.symbol :as symbol]
@@ -22,6 +23,8 @@
             [arthur.events.ui :as ui]
             [arthur.subs.render :as render]
             [arthur.subs.ui :as sub]
+            [arthur.ui.menu :as menu]
+            [clojure.string :as str]
             [re-frame.core :as rf]
             [reagent.core :as r]))
 
@@ -174,30 +177,107 @@
                  :on-click #(pick! [:remap {}] placements)}
         "⇄"]]]]))
 
+(defn- strip
+  "Every slot of a palette, side by side: what it looks like at a glance."
+  [{:keys [slots]}]
+  [:span.strip (for [[i {:keys [hex]}] (map-indexed vector slots)]
+                 ^{:key i} [:i {:style {:background hex}}])])
+
+(defn- rename
+  "The open palette's name, made editable. Committed on Enter or blur, so a
+  rename is one undo step and not one per letter; Esc leaves it as it was."
+  [pid palette done!]
+  [:input.palette-name
+   {:type "text" :default-value (:name palette) :auto-focus true
+    :aria-label "palette name"
+    :on-focus #(.select (.-target %))
+    :on-blur (fn [^js e]
+               (rf/dispatch [::project/palette-name pid (.. e -target -value)])
+               (done!))
+    :on-key-down (fn [^js e]
+                   (case (.-key e)
+                     "Enter" (.blur (.-target e))
+                     "Escape" (do (set! (.. e -target -value) (:name palette))
+                                  (.blur (.-target e)))
+                     nil))}])
+
+(defn- chooser
+  "Every palette in the project as a row — its strip and its name — so what you
+  would switch to is visible before you switch. The open one carries the edit
+  button that renames it; the ones the stage is drawing in at the playhead carry
+  a dot."
+  [clip pid]
+  (r/with-let [renaming? (r/atom false)]
+    (let [on-stage @(rf/subscribe [::render/palettes-shown])]
+      [:div.palette-list {:role "listbox" :aria-label "palettes"}
+       (doall
+        (for [[id p] (sort-by (comp str :name val) (pal/palettes clip))
+              :let [open? (= id pid)]]
+          ^{:key (str id)}
+          [:div.palette-row {:class (when open? "on")}
+           (if (and open? @renaming?)
+             [:div.choose [strip p] [rename id p #(reset! renaming? false)]]
+             [:button.choose {:role "option" :aria-selected open?
+                            :title (if open? (str "editing " (:name p)) (str "edit " (:name p)))
+                            :on-click (fn []
+                                        (when-not open?
+                                          (reset! renaming? false)
+                                          (rf/dispatch [::ui/set-tone 0])
+                                          (rf/dispatch [::select id])))}
+              [strip p]
+              [:span.name (:name p)]
+              (when (contains? on-stage id)
+                [:span.on-stage {:title "on the stage at the playhead"}])])
+           (when open?
+             [:button.rename {:title (str "rename " (:name p)) :aria-label "rename palette"
+                              :on-click #(swap! renaming? not)}
+              "✎"])]))])))
+
+(defn- elsewhere
+  "An info badge on the palette button when the palette being edited is not one
+  the stage draws in at the playhead — not an error: editing another palette is
+  how one is made ready for a palette lane. Hovering says where to change it.
+  The card is placed in the viewport, as `ui/menu` places its panels, because
+  the tool strip scrolls and clips its overflow."
+  [pid palette]
+  (r/with-let [at (r/atom nil)]
+    (let [on-stage @(rf/subscribe [::render/palettes-shown])
+          clip     @(rf/subscribe [::render/clip])
+          sid      @(rf/subscribe [::render/open])]
+      (when (and (seq on-stage) (not (contains? on-stage pid)))
+        [:span.palette-info
+         {:aria-label "palette not on the stage here"
+          :on-mouse-enter (fn [^js e]
+                            (let [r (.getBoundingClientRect (.-currentTarget e))]
+                              (reset! at [(+ (.-right r) 8) (- (.-top r) 6)])))
+          :on-mouse-leave #(reset! at nil)}
+         "i"
+         (when-let [[x y] @at]
+           [:span.info-card {:role "tooltip" :style {:left (str x "px") :top (str y "px")}}
+            [:strong (str (:name palette) " isn't on the stage here")]
+            (str (or (clip/symbol-name clip sid) "This symbol")
+                 " draws in " (str/join " and " (map #(:name (get (pal/palettes clip) %)) on-stage))
+                 " at this frame. To draw in " (:name palette)
+                 ", set the authoring palette in the symbol inspector, or blend to it with a palette lane.")])]))))
+
 (defn assets
-  "Which palette asset the grid shows, and a new or duplicated one, for the
-  tool strip, with a popout for the full asset controls."
+  "The palettes behind a button at the foot of the strip: switch, rename, add.
+  The name is NOT printed in the strip: 44px holds no palette's name, and a name
+  broken over three lines is worse than one shown when asked for."
   []
   (let [[clip pid palette] (shown)]
-    [:details.palette-assets
-     {:on-toggle (fn [e]
-                   (let [el (.-currentTarget e)
-                         box (.getBoundingClientRect el)
-                         pop (.querySelector el ".palette-popout")]
-                     (set! (.. pop -style -left) (str (+ 4 (.-right box)) "px"))
-                     (set! (.. pop -style -top) (str (max 8 (min (.-top box) (- (.-innerHeight js/window) 160))) "px"))))}
-     [:summary {:title (:name palette)} [:span (:name palette)]]
-     [:div.palette-popout
-     [:strong (:name palette)]
-     [:select {:value (str pid)
-               :title "palette asset"
-               :on-change (fn [e]
-                            (let [v  (.. e -target -value)
-                                  id (first (filter #(= v (str %)) (keys (pal/palettes clip))))]
-                              (rf/dispatch [::ui/set-tone 0])
-                              (rf/dispatch [::select id])))}
-      (for [[id p] (sort-by (comp str :name val) (pal/palettes clip))]
-        ^{:key (str id)} [:option {:value (str id)} (:name p)])]
-     [:button {:title "new 16-slot palette" :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::project/new-palette])} "+"]
-     [:button {:title (str "duplicate " (:name palette) " — a copy you can retone")
-               :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::project/duplicate-palette pid])} "clone"]]]))
+    [:div.palette-assets-wrap
+     [menu/popover {:class "palette-assets" :title (str "palette: " (:name palette))
+                    :label [:svg {:view-box "0 0 18 18" :width 18 :height 18}
+                            [:path {:d "M9 2C4.6 2 1.5 5.2 1.5 9c0 4 3.4 7 7.3 7 1.4 0 1.9-.9 1.4-1.9-.5-1 0-2.1 1.4-2.1h1.9c1.9 0 3-1.2 3-3.2C16.5 5 13.2 2 9 2Z"}]
+                            [:circle {:cx 5.5 :cy 8 :r 1.3}]
+                            [:circle {:cx 8.5 :cy 5 :r 1.3}]
+                            [:circle {:cx 12.5 :cy 6.5 :r 1.3}]]}
+      (fn [_]
+        [:div.palette-popout
+         [chooser clip pid]
+         [:div.row
+          [:button {:title "a new 16-slot palette" :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::project/new-palette])} "new"]
+          [:button {:title (str "a copy of " (:name palette) " you can retone")
+                    :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::project/duplicate-palette pid])} "duplicate"]]])]
+     [elsewhere pid palette]]))
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/stage.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/stage.cljs
index d08a324..b57a665 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/stage.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/stage.cljs
@@ -755,7 +755,8 @@
         destination-name (when-let [sid (:sid destination)]
                            (clip/symbol-name clip sid))
         zoom @(rf/subscribe [::layout/zoom :stage])
-        {:keys [opacity]} @(rf/subscribe [::layout/mat])]
+        {:keys [on? opacity]} @(rf/subscribe [::layout/mat])
+        opacity (if on? opacity 0)]
     [:div.stage-area
      (navigation)
      [:div.stage-wrap
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/timeline.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/timeline.cljs
index 091ad2e..654444a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/timeline.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/timeline.cljs
@@ -1241,10 +1241,9 @@
         (let [by-frame (group-by :at (concat key-items (mapcat :key-items cels)))]
          (for [[index f] (map-indexed vector (sort (distinct (concat keys (mapcat :keys cels)))))
               :when (and (<= 0 f) (< f frames))]
-          ^{:key index}
           (if-let [items (and (= :channel kind) (seq (get by-frame f)))]
-            [key-dot (vec items) frames key-selection key-preview key-anchor key-state key-elements]
-            [:div.tl-key {:aria-hidden true :style {:left (at% f frames)}}])))))]))
+            ^{:key index} [key-dot (vec items) frames key-selection key-preview key-anchor key-state key-elements]
+            ^{:key index} [:div.tl-key {:aria-hidden true :style {:left (at% f frames)}}])))))]))
 
 (defn- cursor-hint
   "What the drag in flight would do, beside the pointer.
diff --git a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/tools.cljs b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/tools.cljs
index 44b8c89..a2a0aab 100644
--- a/frontend/src/arthur/ui/tools.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/arthur/ui/tools.cljs
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
                    :title (str name " (" (.toUpperCase key) ") — " tip)
                    :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::ui/set-tool t])}
           [:svg {:view-box "0 0 18 18" :width 18 :height 18} icon]]))]
-     [palette/assets]
-     [palette/grid]]))
+     [palette/grid]
+     [palette/assets]]))
 
 (defn- size-control []
   (let [size @(rf/subscribe [::sub/brush])]
@@ -87,17 +87,16 @@
          [:span.dim.hint tip]))
      [:span.spacer]
      (let [{:keys [on? opacity]} @(rf/subscribe [::render/tracing])]
-       [:<>
-        [:button {:class (when on? "on")
-                  :title "show tracing layers over the picture · never exported"
-                  :on-click #(rf/dispatch [::ui/tracing-on (not on?)])} "tracing"]
-        [:input.trace-opacity
-         {:type "range" :min 0 :max 1 :step 0.05 :value opacity :disabled (not on?)
-          :title "how strongly tracing layers draw" :style {:flex "0 0 64px"}
-          :on-change #(rf/dispatch [::ui/tracing-opacity (js/parseFloat (.. % -target -value))])}]])
-     ;; The stage's zoom: a property of the view and not of the document, so it
-     ;; sits in the view's own chrome rather than in the inspector.
-     [layout/zoomer :stage "the stage"]
+       [layout/overlay "tracing-controls" "tracing" on?
+        "show tracing layers over the picture · never exported"
+        #(rf/dispatch [::ui/tracing-on (not on?)])
+        (fn [_]
+          [:div.view-popout
+           [:label "Opacity"
+            [:input {:type "range" :min 0 :max 1 :step 0.05 :value opacity
+                     :on-change #(rf/dispatch [::ui/tracing-opacity (js/parseFloat (.. % -target -value))])}]]])])
+     ;; The stage's zoom and overlays: properties of the view and not of the
+     ;; document, so they sit in the view's own chrome rather than in the inspector.
      [layout/stage-controls]]))
 
 (defn adjust-last
diff --git a/frontend/test/arthur/domain/instance_test.cljs b/frontend/test/arthur/domain/instance_test.cljs
index 32b2f68..abe3d8f 100644
--- a/frontend/test/arthur/domain/instance_test.cljs
+++ b/frontend/test/arthur/domain/instance_test.cljs
@@ -216,10 +216,19 @@
 
 (deftest no-symbol-is-special
   (let [c (nested)]
-    (testing "a document opens on the longest symbol nothing places"
+    (testing "a document opens on its root, however long its unplaced symbols are"
       (is (= [:loose :main :outer] (clip/unplaced c)))
-      (is (= :outer (clip/opens-on c)))
-      (is (= :main (clip/opens-on (clip/blank)))))
+      (is (= :main (clip/opens-on c)))
+      (is (= :main (clip/opens-on (clip/blank))))
+      (is (= :loose (clip/opens-on (assoc c :root :loose))))
+      (is (= c (leaf/clip "u" (leaf/leaves "u" c))))
+      (is (seq (clip/problems (assoc c :root :gone)))))
+    (testing "without a root, the longest symbol nothing places"
+      (is (= :outer (clip/opens-on (dissoc c :root)))))
+    (testing "a document saved before roots opens on :main, not a longer take"
+      (is (= :main (:root (clip/pin-root (dissoc c :root)))))
+      (is (= :outer (:root (clip/pin-root (-> c (dissoc :root) (update :symbols dissoc :main))))))
+      (is (= :loose (:root (clip/pin-root (assoc c :root :loose))))))
     (testing "an instance can go into any symbol, and spans that symbol's frames"
       (let [[n] (vals (get-in c [:symbols :outer :nodes]))]
         (is (= #{:inner} (node/sources n)))
@@ -441,6 +450,9 @@
         extended (nest/resize-out document :palettes [:change] 1 false)]
     (resolve 2)
     (is (= {:from :day :to :night :t 0.5} (clip/active-palette resolve)))
+    (is (= (clip/active-palette resolve)
+           (clip/palette-at document nil :day (clip/symbol document :main) 2 nil))
+        "the palette strip asks the same question the resolver answers: both ends of a blend")
     (is (= [128 128 128]
            (nth (pal/effective-ramp context (clip/active-palette resolve))
                 (pal/render-index context :day 1))))
diff --git a/frontend/test/browser/onion.mjs b/frontend/test/browser/onion.mjs
index 9c8b81c..bacdbf3 100644
--- a/frontend/test/browser/onion.mjs
+++ b/frontend/test/browser/onion.mjs
@@ -72,14 +72,16 @@ try {
   })()`);
   await sleep(250);
 
-  assert.equal(await evaluate(`getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('.onion-controls summary')).listStyleType`), 'none');
-  assert.equal(await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.onion-controls summary').textContent`), '▾');
+  assert.equal(await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.onion-controls .menu-wrap > button').textContent`), '▾');
   await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.onion-controls > button').click()`);
   await sleep(150);
   assert.equal(await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.onion-controls > button').getAttribute('aria-pressed')`), 'true');
-  await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.onion-controls summary').click()`);
+  await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.onion-controls .menu-wrap > button').click()`);
   await sleep(100);
-  assert.equal(await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.onion-controls details').open`), true);
+  assert.equal(await evaluate(`!!document.querySelector('.menu.popout')`), true);
+  await evaluate(`document.querySelector('.menu-scrim').click()`);
+  await sleep(100);
+  assert.equal(await evaluate(`!!document.querySelector('.menu.popout')`), false, 'a click outside shuts the onion settings');
   await evaluate(`(() => {
     const c = cljs.core, k = c.keyword, m = (...xs) => c.hash_map(...xs), v = (...xs) => c.vector(...xs);
     const db = c.deref(re_frame.db.app_db);
diff --git a/frontend/test/browser/take.mjs b/frontend/test/browser/take.mjs
index 039c147..93d3721 100644
--- a/frontend/test/browser/take.mjs
+++ b/frontend/test/browser/take.mjs
@@ -523,32 +523,32 @@ async function main() {
     // same synchronous block arrives while the tool is still unset and is dropped.
     // A person cannot click twice inside one microtask; a test should not either.
     const armed = await page.eval(`(() => {
-      const button = [...document.querySelectorAll('.palette-bar button')]
-        .find(b => b.textContent === 'pen');
+      const button = document.querySelector('.toolbox button.tool[title^="Pen"]');
       if (!button) return false;
       button.click();
       return true;
     })()`);
     await sleep(100);
-    const painted = armed && await page.eval(`(() => {
-      const svg = document.querySelector('.paint-overlay');
-      const box = svg.getBoundingClientRect();
-      for (const [x, y] of [[10, 10], [40, 10], [25, 40]]) {
-        svg.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent('pointerdown', {
-          bubbles: true, clientX: box.left + x * box.width / 320,
-          clientY: box.top + y * box.height / 200,
-        }));
-      }
+    // The overlay reaches past the stage on every side, so a stage pixel is
+    // found through the SVG's own transform, as the stage finds it coming back.
+    // Each point is its own eval: a click is a re-frame event, and the next one
+    // reads the draft it added to.
+    const PEN_AT = (x, y) => `(() => {
+      const svg = document.querySelector('.paint-overlay.tool-pen');
+      if (!svg) return false;
+      const p = new DOMPoint(${x}, ${y}).matrixTransform(svg.getScreenCTM());
+      svg.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent('pointerdown', {
+        bubbles: true, clientX: p.x, clientY: p.y,
+      }));
       return true;
-    })()`);
-    await sleep(100);
-    const finished = await page.eval(`(() => {
-      const button = [...document.querySelectorAll('.palette-bar button')]
-        .find(b => b.textContent === 'finish');
-      if (!button || button.disabled) return false;
-      button.click();
-      return true;
-    })()`);
+    })()`;
+    let painted = armed;
+    for (const [x, y] of [[10, 10], [40, 10], [25, 40]]) {
+      painted = painted && await page.eval(PEN_AT(x, y));
+      await sleep(60);
+    }
+    // Closed as a person closes it: on the first point.
+    const finished = painted && await page.eval(PEN_AT(10, 10));
     await sleep(250);
     const afterPaint = await page.eval(`(() => {
       const c = document.querySelector('canvas.stage');
@@ -556,7 +556,8 @@ async function main() {
       return [...d];
     })()`);
     check(painted && finished && beforePaint.join(',') !== afterPaint.join(','),
-          'a polygon drawn with the paint controls appears on the canvas');
+          'a polygon drawn with the paint controls appears on the canvas',
+          `${beforePaint} -> ${afterPaint}`);
     for (const f of [8, 16]) {
       await page.eval(SEEK(f));
       await sleep(100);
@@ -597,7 +598,18 @@ async function main() {
       return [...c.getContext('2d').getImageData(25, 20, 1, 1).data];
     })()`);
     check(afterPaint.join(',') === reopenedPaint.join(','),
-          'the painted polygon survives the project round trip');
+          'the painted polygon survives the project round trip', `${afterPaint} vs ${reopenedPaint}`);
+    // A reopened document has nothing selected, so the shape's keys are not in
+    // the inspector until it is selected again, as anybody would.
+    await page.eval(`(() => {
+      const c = cljs.core, k = c.keyword;
+      const db = c.deref(re_frame.db.app_db);
+      const nodes = c.get_in(c.get(arthur.footage.store.entry(c.get(db, k('clip/current'))), k('clip')),
+                             c.vector(k('symbols'), k('main'), k('nodes')));
+      const id = c.first(c.filter((id) => c.name(id).startsWith('paint-'), c.keys(nodes)));
+      re_frame.core.dispatch_sync(c.vector(k('arthur.events.ui/select'),
+        c.vector(k('node'), k('main'), id, c.vector(id))));
+    })()`);
     await page.eval(SEEK(8));
     await sleep(100);
     check(await page.eval(`(() => {
diff --git a/static/arthur/app.css b/static/arthur/app.css
index 8498c04..4ae29f5 100644
--- a/static/arthur/app.css
+++ b/static/arthur/app.css
@@ -1650,7 +1650,6 @@ button.share-button:hover, button.share-button.on { filter: brightness(1.1); }
   background-size: 8px 8px;
   background-position: 0 0, 4px 4px;
 }
-.palette .cell.clear { grid-column: span 2; width: 36px; }
 
 /* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    on the stage: the tools' marks, in stage pixels (the SVG's viewBox), and their
@@ -1697,7 +1696,6 @@ button.share-button:hover, button.share-button.on { filter: brightness(1.1); }
   background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3a3f52 0 50%, #e8d9a8 50% 100%);
   color: #fff; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6);
 }
-.palette .cell.map { grid-column: span 2; width: 36px; }
 .palette .cell { position: relative; }
 .palette .cell .badge {
   position: absolute; right: -2px; bottom: -2px;
@@ -1726,32 +1724,87 @@ button.share-button:hover, button.share-button.on { filter: brightness(1.1); }
   border-radius: 2px;
 }
 
-/* Palette assets stay in the existing narrow tool strip. */
-.toolbox .palette-assets { display: block; width: 44px; flex: 0 0 auto; }
-.palette-assets summary { cursor: pointer; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.25; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 3px; }
-.palette-popout, .view-popout { position: fixed; z-index: 100; background: var(--pane); color: var(--fg); border: 1px solid var(--line); padding: 10px; box-shadow: 0 4px 16px #0008; line-height: 1.4; }
-.palette-popout { left: 52px; width: 230px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 7px; }
-.palette-popout strong { width: 100%; overflow-wrap: anywhere; }
-.palette-popout select { width: 100%; }
-.view-popout { right: 16px; width: 240px; }
+/* The palette's own settings, at the foot of the strip: drawn as a tool button,
+   because it is one more thing in the strip you press. */
+.palette-assets > button {
+  width: 34px; height: 30px; padding: 0;
+  display: grid; place-items: center;
+  border: 1px solid transparent; border-radius: 4px; background: none;
+}
+.palette-assets > button:hover:not(:disabled) { background: var(--sunk); border-color: var(--hair); }
+.palette-assets > button.on { background: var(--sel-bg); border-color: var(--sel); }
+.palette-assets svg path { fill: var(--fg); }
+.palette-assets svg circle { fill: var(--chrome); }
+.palette-assets > button.on svg circle { fill: var(--sel-bg); }
+
+/* A popover's panel: settings, not commands, so narrower than a menu and laid
+   out as a form. Placed and dismissed by `ui/menu`. */
+.menu.popout { width: 240px; min-width: 0; padding: 10px; line-height: 1.4; }
+.menu.popout:has(.palette-popout) { width: 280px; }
+.palette-popout { display: grid; gap: 8px; }
+.palette-popout .row { margin: 0; }
+
+/* Every palette as its strip and its name: what you would switch to, seen
+   before you switch. The open one is the selected row. */
+.palette-list { display: grid; gap: 1px; max-height: 50vh; overflow: auto; }
+.palette-row { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 2px; border-radius: 3px; }
+.palette-row.on { background: var(--sel-bg); }
+.palette-row .choose {
+  flex: 1; min-width: 0;
+  display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr auto; align-items: center; gap: 3px 8px;
+  padding: 5px 6px; border: 1px solid transparent; border-radius: 3px; background: none; text-align: left;
+}
+.palette-row button.choose:hover:not(:disabled) { background: var(--sunk); border-color: var(--hair); }
+.palette-row.on button.choose { border-color: var(--sel); }
+.palette-row.on button.choose:hover { background: var(--sel-bg); }
+.palette-row .strip { grid-column: 1 / -1; }
+.palette-row .name { overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; }
+.palette-row.on .name { font-weight: 600; color: #14395f; }
+.palette-row .palette-name { grid-column: 1 / -1; width: 100%; min-width: 0; }
+.palette-row .rename { align-self: stretch; padding: 0 7px; border-color: transparent; background: none; }
+.palette-row .rename:hover:not(:disabled) { border-color: var(--sel); background: #fff; }
+
+.strip { display: flex; height: 14px; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .35); border-radius: 2px; overflow: hidden; }
+.strip i { flex: 1; }
+
+/* On the stage at the playhead. */
+.on-stage { width: 7px; height: 7px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--live); }
+
+/* A palette being edited that the stage is not drawing in here. Information,
+   not alarm: the accent of a selection, not of a warning. */
+.palette-assets-wrap { position: relative; }
+.palette-info {
+  position: absolute; top: -3px; right: -5px;
+  width: 13px; height: 13px; border-radius: 50%;
+  display: grid; place-items: center;
+  background: var(--sel); color: #fff;
+  font: italic 600 9px/1 Georgia, serif;
+  cursor: help;
+  box-shadow: 0 0 0 1.5px var(--chrome);
+}
+.info-card {
+  position: fixed; z-index: 60;
+  width: 240px; padding: 8px 10px;
+  display: grid; gap: 3px;
+  background: var(--pane); color: var(--fg);
+  font: 11px/1.45 "Lucida Grande", "Segoe UI", system-ui, sans-serif;
+  border: 1px solid var(--sel); border-left-width: 3px; border-radius: 3px;
+  box-shadow: 0 3px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);
+  cursor: default;
+}
+.info-card strong { color: #14395f; }
 .view-popout label { display: block; margin-bottom: 8px; }
-.view-popout input { width: 100%; }
-.passepartout-controls summary { cursor: pointer; }
+.view-popout label:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
+.view-popout input, .view-popout select { width: 100%; }
+
+/* An overlay switch and its settings: one object, two parts. */
+.overlay > .menu-wrap > button { margin-left: -1px; padding: 1px 5px; border-radius: 0 2px 2px 0; }
+.overlay > button { border-radius: 2px 0 0 2px; }
 .stage-wrap { flex: 0 0 auto; }
 
 
 .onion-skin { position: absolute; inset: 0; pointer-events: none; image-rendering: pixelated; }
-.onion-controls { display: inline-flex; align-items: center; }
-.onion-controls > button { border-radius: 2px 0 0 2px; }
-.onion-controls summary {
-  display: block; cursor: pointer; list-style: none;
-  color: var(--fg); background: var(--pane); border: 1px solid var(--line);
-  border-radius: 0 2px 2px 0; margin-left: -1px; padding: 1px 5px;
-}
-.onion-controls summary:hover, .onion-controls details[open] > summary { background: #fff; }
-.onion-controls summary::-webkit-details-marker { display: none; }
-.onion-controls .view-popout { line-height: 1.4; }
-.onion-controls select { width: 100%; }
+
 
 /* Expanded automation lanes expose editable keyframe dots. */
 button.tl-key { pointer-events: auto; padding: 0; border: 0; width: 11px; height: 11px; margin: -5.5px; cursor: ew-resize; z-index: 4; opacity: 1; border-radius: 50%; }