Animation speeds set in the token editor do not reach the theme transitions

[rubenvdlinde]

An admin who changes "Animation quick" or "Animation slow" in the token editor sees no change in the theme's own transitions. The editor writes one pair of names, and the theme's transitions read another.

Where, at development fd992ea:

• lib/Service/TokenRegistry.php:232-233 the editor offers --animation-quick and --animation-slow.
• css/systems/nldesign/overrides.css:212-213 maps --animation-quick and --animation-slow from --nldesign-animation-*, only in that direction.
• css/systems/nldesign/defaults.css:198-199 sets --nldesign-animation-quick to 100ms and --nldesign-animation-slow to 300ms.
• css/systems/nldesign/theme.css:382, :465-467, :611, :663-664 and :708 use var(--nldesign-animation-quick) directly, for example on .button.
  

  thematiq/lib/Service/TokenRegistry.php

  Lines 232 to 233 in fd992ea

  	'--animation-quick' => ['tab' => 'content', 'type' => 'text', 'label' => 'Animation quick'],
  	'--animation-slow' => ['tab' => 'content', 'type' => 'text', 'label' => 'Animation slow'],

  
  

  thematiq/css/systems/nldesign/overrides.css

  Lines 212 to 213 in fd992ea

  	--animation-quick: var(--nldesign-animation-quick) !important;
  	--animation-slow: var(--nldesign-animation-slow) !important;

The editor override lands on --animation-quick, which Nextcloud's own components read. The transitions in theme.css read --nldesign-animation-quick, which the editor never sets. So those keep 100ms whatever the admin picks, and the page ends up with two speeds.

Specified fix: openspec/changes/authoring-token-value-types (requirement "Motion tokens are typed and reach every transition", tasks 1.3 and 2.4).

Found by the OpenSpec pass on 27 Sep 2026 and re-read at fd992ea on 28 Sep.

Live check: set "Animation quick" to 2s in the editor, hover a themed button, and see the colour change in 100ms.

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[rubenvdlinde]

Fixed in #704 (merged into development). theme.css now times its transitions with --animation-quick, the name the editor writes, still fed from the set's --nldesign-animation-quick when no override is saved.