palettes: support subfolder and community palette paths

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to the equisdots theme-sync engine are documented here.
+Dates use YYYY-MM-DD.
+
+## [2026-09-28]
+
+### Fixed
+- Palette loading recurses into subfolders (`rglob`) and the active palette fallback also looks under `community/`, so the community palettes shipped by the `equisdots/palettes` repo generate themes exactly like the flat ones.

themesync/cli.py

@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ def build_env(args) -> Env:
     if palette is None:
         # The active palette may be missing from the directory (e.g. deleted):
         # try loading its file directly; otherwise it stays empty.
-        palette = load_json(palettes_dir / (slug + ".json"), {}) or {}
+        palette = load_json(palettes_dir / (slug + ".json"), {}) or \
+            load_json(palettes_dir / "community" / (slug + ".json"), {}) or {}
 
     return Env(home=home, palettes_dir=palettes_dir, settings_path=settings_path,
                slug=slug, palettes=palettes, palette=palette, dry_run=args.dry_run)

themesync/core.py

@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ def load_palettes(palettes_dir: Path) -> list:
     schema.json = format contract): only files with palette data count.
     """
     out = []
-    for pf in sorted(Path(palettes_dir).glob("*.json")):
+    # rglob: palettes may live in subfolders (e.g. community/), which the panel
+    # lists through index.json "path" entries.
+    for pf in sorted(Path(palettes_dir).rglob("*.json")):
         if pf.name in METADATA_FILES:
             continue
         pal = load_json(pf)