Take one machine's fingerprints off everyone's desktop

The audit's second tier: values that were measurements of the author's desktop, shipped to every machine as if they were defaults. Settings greeted every human as Gabriel; it now greets whoever accountsservice says is signed in, and nobody when it says nothing. The weather shipped his home coordinates and confidently reported his forecast anywhere on earth; it now ships unset, fetches nothing until a location is chosen, and the location row says so. The GTK bookmarks carried seven /home/gib paths and his file server into every file dialog; they are now generated per machine from a template and gitignored -- Nautilus edits the instance freely, the way settings.ini already worked one file over. Web search routed through his personal bang redirector; the engine is now the webSearchUrl preference with a DuckDuckGo default, read by both the script command and the suggestions extension, which the launcher-search contract already pins to one another. The GPU vitals path defaulted to his card1 and lost the readout on any machine enumerated differently; a machine with exactly one GPU now adopts it. And the Containers and Snapshots pages hide once a scan proves their backing stack absent, instead of rendering permanently empty on machines that never had podman or snapper. Lesser residue swept in the same pass: the DP-2 hyprpaper block one machine needed, the author's username-typo expansions (moved to his personal seed in user/, where personal content belongs), a capture fallback into /home/gib, and a parity table asserting one machine's hardware as fact. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
2026-08-23 11:55:43 -04:00
parent 3d21e20041
commit 44124d72fa
20 changed files with 139 additions and 42 deletions
@@ -55,6 +55,22 @@ Rectangle {
        { page: "about", label: "About", icon: "\u{F02FD}" }
    ]

+    // Pages whose entire backing stack can be absent hide once a scan has
+    // proven it absent: a Containers page with no podman and a Snapshots page
+    // with no snapper configuration render permanently empty, which reads as
+    // broken rather than inapplicable. Until the scan lands they stay
+    // visible, so machines that have the stack never see a blink -- and both
+    // scans fire when Settings opens (HomePage.onCompleted).
+    function pageAvailable(page: string): bool {
+        switch (page) {
+        case "containers":
+            return !Containers.scanned || Containers.available;
+        case "snapshots":
+            return !Snapshots.scanned || Snapshots.configs.length > 0;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
    width: 272
    color: Theme.alpha(Theme.bgDark, 0.96)
    border.width: 0
@@ -236,6 +252,7 @@ Rectangle {
                    Rectangle {
                        id: navItem
                        required property var modelData
+                        visible: root.pageAvailable(modelData.page)
                        width: parent.width
                        height: 40
                        radius: 10