fix(web): make project icons the default

[maria-rcks]

Automatic project fallbacks now use deterministic colored Lucide icons, while detected or uploaded images and saved emoji or icon overrides are unchanged. The picker opens on Icons, preserves each saved mode, and still supports Lucide search and color plus curated or pasted emoji selection. Verified with web typecheck, targeted lint, a production build, and browser e2e at desktop and 390px in light and dark; the three targeted tests are currently blocked before execution by Vite+ 0.3's undefined.config runner failure. Built by gpt-5.6-sol in T3 Code through the Codex harness.

evidence

before: automatic emoji fallback

after: automatic Lucide fallback

before: picker defaults to emoji

after: picker defaults to icons

browser e2e: icon search, green selection, save and reopen, custom emoji save and reopen, then reset

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Note

Low Risk
UI-only default change for automatic icons and picker state; no auth, data, or API behavior changes.

Overview
Automatic project icon fallbacks no longer map classified names to emojis. selectProjectIcon now returns { kind: "lucide", icon } only, and the emoji lookup table was removed. Name-based classification and stable generic icons are unchanged; saved emoji/Lucide overrides and uploaded favicons are unaffected.

The Choose project icon dialog defaults to Icons (Lucide + color) for new/automatic projects, puts the Icons toggle before Emoji, and updates the helper copy. Tests and user docs were updated to match icon-first behavior and ProjectFavicon fallback expectations (icon component + color class instead of emoji props).

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Note

Make Lucide project icons the default instead of emojis

• Changes selectProjectIcon in projectIconModel.ts to return Lucide icon selections for classified and generic project names, removing the PROJECT_ICON_EMOJIS lookup table.
• Updates ProjectIconPickerDialog in ProjectIconPickerDialog.tsx to open in Icons mode by default (unless an emoji override exists), reorder mode toggles to show Icons first, and revise the description text.
• Updates tests and project-settings.md to expect icon-based fallbacks.
• Behavioral Change: existing projects without an explicit emoji override will now display a Lucide icon instead of an automatically-assigned emoji.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes the default project icon experience from emoji to Lucide icons, affecting automatic fallbacks and the initial icon-picker mode across existing user flows. The change is localized and tested, but product-default changes require human review.

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