Coherence: one component per idea, one spelling per word, one truth per claim

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/AccentEditor.qml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // This is the fine-tune behind a disclosure, not the fast path: the four wells
 // above cover what most edits are, and these six rows are for the last few
 // degrees. Each row is a labelled, keyboard-operable slider with a numeric
-// readout, because a hue ring alone tells someone with a colour vision
+// readout, because a hue ring alone tells someone with a color vision
 // deficiency nothing.
 //
 // Committed on a debounce rather than per move. Each move used to write BOTH
@@ -140,27 +140,27 @@ Column {
 
     HsvRow {
         target: "primary"; channel: "h"; channelValue: editor.primaryHsv.h; channelMaximum: 360
-        suffix: "°"; label: "Primary hue"; detail: "Colour family, measured from 0 to 360 degrees"
+        suffix: "°"; label: "Primary hue"; detail: "Color family, measured from 0 to 360 degrees"
     }
     HsvRow {
         target: "primary"; channel: "s"; channelValue: editor.primaryHsv.s; channelMaximum: 100
-        label: "Primary saturation"; detail: "Colour intensity from grey to vivid"
+        label: "Primary saturation"; detail: "Color intensity from grey to vivid"
     }
     HsvRow {
         target: "primary"; channel: "v"; channelValue: editor.primaryHsv.v; channelMaximum: 100
-        label: "Primary value"; detail: "Brightness from black to full colour"
+        label: "Primary value"; detail: "Brightness from black to full color"
     }
     HsvRow {
         target: "secondary"; channel: "h"; channelValue: editor.secondaryHsv.h; channelMaximum: 360
-        suffix: "°"; label: "Secondary hue"; detail: "Colour family at the far end of the Prism gradient"
+        suffix: "°"; label: "Secondary hue"; detail: "Color family at the far end of the Prism gradient"
     }
     HsvRow {
         target: "secondary"; channel: "s"; channelValue: editor.secondaryHsv.s; channelMaximum: 100
-        label: "Secondary saturation"; detail: "Colour intensity from grey to vivid"
+        label: "Secondary saturation"; detail: "Color intensity from grey to vivid"
     }
     HsvRow {
         target: "secondary"; channel: "v"; channelValue: editor.secondaryHsv.v; channelMaximum: 100
-        label: "Secondary value"; detail: "Brightness from black to full colour"
+        label: "Secondary value"; detail: "Brightness from black to full color"
         divider: false
     }
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Column {
     }
 
     // Hands the sliders back to the stored pair. If the write was refused they
-    // snap back to what is really in effect rather than showing a colour
+    // snap back to what is really in effect rather than showing a color
     // nothing accepted.
     Timer {
         id: releaseTimer

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/AccessibilityPage.qml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Accessibility.
 //
-// Organised by what a person came here unable to do -- see it, tolerate the
+// Organized by what a person came here unable to do -- see it, tolerate the
 // motion, hear it, reach it from the keyboard, have it read aloud -- rather
 // than by which subsystem happens to implement each control. The old page was
 // grouped by mechanism (Pointer / Text / Motion / Magnifier / Contrast), which
@@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ SettingsPage {
         // the preference at launch, and re-applying the value it is already
         // running would be a hyprctl call for nothing every time this page
         // opens.
-        ChoiceRow {
+        //
+        // A picker rather than a segmented control: five options with a
+        // sentence under each get ninety pixels apiece in a strip, which is
+        // room for neither.
+        OptionPickerRow {
             id: colorFilterRow
 
             property string appliedFilter: ""
@@ -164,26 +168,21 @@ SettingsPage {
         title: "Hearing"
         subtitle: "What the desktop does instead of making a sound."
 
-        ToggleRow { setting: "visualAlerts" }
+        ToggleRow { setting: "visualAlerts"; divider: false }
 
-        SettingRow {
-            label: "Mono audio"
-            detail: "Not offered yet — folding stereo into one channel is a real change to the PipeWire graph, and a switch that only looked like it did that would be worse than its absence. Balance lives on the Sound page meanwhile."
-            controlWidth: 90
-            divider: false
+        Item { width: 1; height: 10 }
 
-            SoundBadge {
-                anchors.right: parent.right
-                anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                text: "Not yet"
-                tone: Theme.fgMuted
-            }
+        // Said the same way the keyboard card says its absence, rather than as
+        // a row wearing a badge that stands for a control it never had.
+        SettingsNote {
+            headline: "Mono audio is not offered yet"
+            body: "Folding stereo into one channel is a real change to the PipeWire graph, and a switch that only looked like it did that would be worse than its absence. Balance lives on the Sound page meanwhile."
         }
     }
 
     SettingsCard {
         title: "Keyboard & pointer"
-        subtitle: "Key behaviour lives with the Keyboard settings; what the pointer does when you stop moving it lives here."
+        subtitle: "Key behavior lives with the Keyboard settings; what the pointer does when you stop moving it lives here."
 
         ActionRow {
             label: "Key repeat"
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                 spacing: 9
 
-                SoundBadge {
+                StatusBadge {
                     anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                     text: Accessibility.orcaRunning ? "Running" : "Stopped"
                     tone: Accessibility.orcaRunning ? Theme.ok : Theme.fgMuted
@@ -239,12 +238,12 @@ SettingsPage {
         }
 
         SettingRow {
-            label: "This app, read aloud"
+            label: "This application, read aloud"
             detail: "Every settings row carries a spoken name and takes keyboard focus — Tab walks the page, Space flips a switch, the arrows move a slider or step a choice"
             controlWidth: 90
             divider: false
 
-            SoundBadge {
+            StatusBadge {
                 anchors.right: parent.right
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                 text: "Built in"

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/AppearancePage.qml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     property string expandedPicker: ""
 
     // Whether the accent's HSV fine-tune is open. Collapsed by default: it is
-    // six sliders that answer a question the four colour wells above have
+    // six sliders that answer a question the four color wells above have
     // usually already answered.
     property bool fineTuneOpen: false
 
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ SettingsPage {
 
             Text {
                 width: parent.width
-                text: "Primary, secondary, background, foreground, effects — every colour yours, saved as a theme that lives in the galleries above"
+                text: "Primary, secondary, background, foreground, effects — every color yours, saved as a theme that lives in the galleries above"
                 color: Theme.fgDim
                 font.family: Theme.fontFamily
                 font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
@@ -316,15 +316,10 @@ SettingsPage {
             : "Based on " + ThemeProfiles.activeProfile.name
                 + " · every change previews live on the real desktop"
 
-        Text {
-            width: parent.width
-            visible: wells.lastError !== "" || ColorScheme.lastError !== ""
-            text: wells.lastError !== "" ? wells.lastError : ColorScheme.lastError
-            color: Theme.warn
-            font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-            font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-            wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-            bottomPadding: 10
+        ErrorRow {
+            label: "The theme needs attention"
+            message: wells.lastError !== "" ? wells.lastError : ColorScheme.lastError
+            divider: true
         }
 
         ThemeStartChips {
@@ -422,7 +417,7 @@ SettingsPage {
 
         SettingRow {
             label: "Application"
-            detail: "GTK and libadwaita apps that follow the desktop default"
+            detail: "GTK and libadwaita applications that follow the desktop default"
             divider: false
             controlWidth: 8
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml

@@ -268,24 +268,20 @@ SettingsPage {
     // a process each and only this page wants them, so a shell start where
     // nobody opens Applications pays for neither.
     Component.onCompleted: {
-        AppLibrary.refresh();
-        AppLibrary.refreshCatalog();
+        if (!AppLibrary.flatpaksLoaded)
+            AppLibrary.refresh();
+        if (!AppLibrary.catalogLoaded)
+            AppLibrary.refreshCatalog();
     }
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: DefaultApps.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "Application settings need attention"
-        detail: DefaultApps.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: DefaultApps.lastError
     }
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: String(AppLibrary.lastError ?? "") !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "The application list needs attention"
-        detail: String(AppLibrary.lastError ?? "")
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: String(AppLibrary.lastError ?? "")
     }
 
     // ── What is installed ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -361,7 +357,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: root.installedApps.length > root.installedLimit
             label: (root.installedApps.length - root.installedLimit) + " more"
-            detail: "Search finds any of them by name or by application id."
+            detail: "Search finds any of them by name or by application id"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }
@@ -369,7 +365,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: (AppLibrary.apps ?? []).length > 0 && root.installedApps.length === 0
             label: "Nothing matches that"
-            detail: "Both the application's name and its id are searched."
+            detail: "Both the application's name and its id are searched"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }
@@ -449,7 +445,7 @@ SettingsPage {
             label: AppLibrary.catalogLoaded
                 ? "The catalog is empty"
                 : "Reading the catalog…"
-            detail: "It is parsed from setup/packages/extras, the same files the command line uses."
+            detail: "It is parsed from setup/packages/extras, the same files the command line uses"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }
@@ -547,7 +543,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: !DefaultApps.busy && DefaultApps.autostartEntries.length === 0
             label: "No user autostart entries"
-            detail: "Applications can add entries to ~/.config/autostart."
+            detail: "Applications can add entries to ~/.config/autostart"
             value: ""
         }
 
@@ -612,7 +608,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         // once at launch and give no sign that nothing had happened.
         TextRow {
             label: "Compositor autostart"
-            detail: "Started from the Hyprland configuration, and read-only here."
+            detail: "Started from the Hyprland configuration, and read-only here"
             value: DefaultApps.luaAutostartEntries.length > 0
                 ? DefaultApps.luaAutostartEntries.length
                   + (DefaultApps.luaAutostartEntries.length === 1 ? " entry" : " entries")
@@ -622,7 +618,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: !DefaultApps.busy && DefaultApps.luaAutostartEntries.length === 0
             label: "No compositor entries found"
-            detail: "No hl.exec_cmd entries were found in config/dot/hypr/autostart.lua."
+            detail: "No hl.exec_cmd entries were found in config/dot/hypr/autostart.lua"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ColorWell.qml

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Rectangle {
                     clip: true
 
                     Accessible.role: Accessible.EditableText
-                    Accessible.name: root.role + " colour, hex"
+                    Accessible.name: root.role + " color, hex"
 
                     // Seeded once, then written only by the guarded handlers
                     // below and by onSwatchColorChanged. A binding here would
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ Rectangle {
 
                 IconButton {
                     glyph: "◐"
-                    title: "Open the colour wheel for " + root.role
+                    title: "Open the color wheel for " + root.role
                     onTriggered: root.wheelRequested()
                 }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ConnectivityPage.qml

@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ SettingsPage {
         NetworkTools.active = true;
         if (!WifiShare.scanned)
             WifiShare.refresh();
-        Vpn.refresh();
+        if (!Vpn.scanned)
+            Vpn.refresh();
     }
     Component.onDestruction: {
         Connectivity.active = false;
@@ -137,12 +138,9 @@ SettingsPage {
             NetworkTools.refreshDetails(root.wiredConnection);
     }
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: NetworkTools.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "The network needs attention"
-        detail: NetworkTools.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: NetworkTools.lastError
     }
 
     // ── Wired ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -406,12 +404,11 @@ SettingsPage {
         title: "VPN"
         subtitle: "WireGuard and OpenVPN profiles NetworkManager holds for you."
 
-        TextRow {
+        ErrorRow {
             width: parent.width
-            visible: Vpn.lastError !== ""
             label: "The last VPN action did not finish"
-            detail: Vpn.lastError
-            value: ""
+            message: Vpn.lastError
+            divider: true
         }
 
         Repeater {

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ContainersPage.qml

@@ -61,22 +61,19 @@ SettingsPage {
         }).join(", ");
     }
 
-    Component.onCompleted: Containers.refresh()
+    Component.onCompleted: if (!Containers.scanned) Containers.refresh()
 
     // ── the list ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: Containers.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "That did not work"
-        detail: Containers.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: Containers.lastError
     }
 
     TextRow {
         visible: Containers.scanned && !Containers.available
         label: "podman is not available"
-        detail: "Nothing here can be shown until podman is installed."
+        detail: "Nothing here can be shown until podman is installed"
         value: ""
         divider: false
     }
@@ -449,7 +446,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     TextRow {
         visible: Containers.scanned && Containers.available && Containers.total === 0
         label: "No containers"
-        detail: "Nothing has been created on this machine yet."
+        detail: "Nothing has been created on this machine yet"
         value: ""
         divider: false
     }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/CountdownRing.qml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Item {
     // A Canvas reads Theme inside onPaint, where nothing records a dependency
     // on it, so a palette change would leave the ring drawn in the old warn
     // tone until the next tick -- or for good, on a countdown sitting still.
-    // Naming the colour as a property gives the repaint something to watch.
+    // Naming the color as a property gives the repaint something to watch.
     readonly property color ringColor: Theme.warn
 
     onSecondsLeftChanged: ring.requestPaint()

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/CustomShortcutEditor.qml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 // one of the compositor's window verbs.
 //
 // Nothing typed here becomes a command. The editor reports an enum kind and a
-// target that Keybinds.describeAction() already recognises; hypr/actions.lua
+// target that Keybinds.describeAction() already recognizes; hypr/actions.lua
 // resolves that to something runnable through whitelist tables of its own. That
 // is the whole reason there is no "run this command" option: settings.json has
 // to stay a file it is safe to hand somebody.
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Column {
         ChoiceGrid {
             width: parent.width
             label: "What it does"
-            detail: "Three kinds, and only three: Panama resolves the name you pick when you press the keys, so no shortcut ever stores a command."
+            detail: "Three kinds, and only three: Panama resolves the name you pick when you press the keys, so no shortcut ever stores a command"
             current: root.kind
             options: [
                 { value: "app", label: "Launch an application" },
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Column {
             width: parent.width
             visible: root.kind === "shell"
             label: "Shell action"
-            detail: "The shell's own surfaces, each one something Panama already answers over IPC."
+            detail: "The shell's own surfaces, each one something Panama already answers over IPC"
             current: root.target
             options: root.shellOptions
             divider: false
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Column {
             width: parent.width
             visible: root.kind === "window"
             label: "Window & workspace"
-            detail: "Compositor verbs: the first three act on the focused window, the rest go to a workspace."
+            detail: "Compositor verbs: the first three act on the focused window, the rest go to a workspace"
             current: root.target
             options: root.windowOptions
             divider: false

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/DateTimePage.qml

@@ -385,10 +385,9 @@ SettingsPage {
         // measurement system and not its page size, and deriving Letter from a
         // country list would be Panama inventing an answer glibc already holds
         // -- a preview that guesses is worse than a preview that stops.
-        TextRow {
+        NotMeasuredRow {
             label: "Paper size is not previewed"
-            detail: "Qt can report a locale's measurement system but not its page size, and guessing it from the country would be this page making something up."
-            value: ""
+            because: "Qt can report a locale's measurement system but not its page size, and guessing it from the country would be this page making something up"
             divider: false
         }
     }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/DictationPage.qml

@@ -507,12 +507,9 @@ SettingsPage {
             divider: Dictation.lastError !== ""
         }
 
-        TextRow {
-            visible: Dictation.lastError !== ""
+        ErrorRow {
             label: "Problem"
-            detail: Dictation.lastError
-            value: ""
-            divider: false
+            message: Dictation.lastError
         }
     }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/DisplayModePicker.qml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // picture, and whether this is the one the panel was built for.
 //
 // Applying is the page's job. Every per-display edit on the Displays page goes
-// through one funnel so the whole record -- position, colour, mirror state --
+// through one funnel so the whole record -- position, color, mirror state --
 // rides the same keep-or-revert transaction; this reports which resolution was
 // asked for and lets that funnel do the rest.
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/DisplaysPage.qml

@@ -516,17 +516,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     }
 
     // ── Everything that belongs to no display in particular ─────────────────
-    Text {
-        width: parent.width
-        text: "All displays"
-        color: Theme.fgMuted
-        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-        font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-        font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-        font.letterSpacing: 0.7
-        topPadding: 6
-    }
+    SectionLabel { text: "All displays" }
 
     // Two cards side by side while there is room for two, and one above the
     // other when there is not. This window is tiled: its width is anywhere from

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/DockPage.qml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Dock.
 //
 // The pinned applications come first because they are what the Dock is; the
-// behaviour card below is how it gets out of the way. The dock timings used to
+// behavior card below is how it gets out of the way. The dock timings used to
 // be shown here as text -- "Instant", "250 ms" -- even though they were already
 // stored, mutable integers. They are controls now.
 
@@ -80,35 +80,18 @@ SettingsPage {
                 Repeater {
                     model: Quickshell.screens
 
-                    delegate: Rectangle {
+                    delegate: SettingsChip {
                         id: screenPill
 
                         required property var modelData
 
                         readonly property string screenName: String(screenPill.modelData.name ?? "")
-                        // An empty list means all, so every pill reads as on.
-                        readonly property bool on: Settings.dockScreens.length === 0
+
+                        text: screenPill.screenName
+                        // An empty list means all, so every chip reads as on.
+                        active: Settings.dockScreens.length === 0
                             || Settings.dockScreens.indexOf(screenPill.screenName) >= 0
-
-                        width: pillLabel.implicitWidth + 20
-                        height: 28
-                        radius: 8
-                        color: screenPill.on ? Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.22)
-                                             : Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, 0.06)
-                        border.width: screenPill.on ? 1 : 0
-                        border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.5)
-
-                        Text {
-                            id: pillLabel
-                            anchors.centerIn: parent
-                            text: screenPill.screenName
-                            color: screenPill.on ? Theme.fg : Theme.fgDim
-                            font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                            font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-                        }
-
-                        HoverHandler { cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor }
-                        TapHandler { onTapped: root.toggleDockScreen(screenPill.screenName) }
+                        onClicked: root.toggleDockScreen(screenPill.screenName)
                     }
                 }
             }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/FileTypePicker.qml

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Column {
         width: parent.width
         visible: !root.busy && root.truncated
         label: "Only the closest matches are shown"
-        detail: "Narrow the search to reach the rest."
+        detail: "Narrow the search to reach the rest"
         value: ""
         divider: false
     }
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Column {
         visible: !root.busy && root.query.length >= root.minimumQuery
             && root.matches.length === 0
         label: "No file type matches that"
-        detail: "Only types this system knows about can be given a handler."
+        detail: "Only types this system knows about can be given a handler"
         value: ""
         divider: false
     }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/FirewallPage.qml

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 
 import Quickshell
 import QtQuick
-import qs.config
 import qs.services
 
 SettingsPage {
@@ -133,14 +132,11 @@ SettingsPage {
         return text;
     }
 
-    Component.onCompleted: Firewall.refresh()
+    Component.onCompleted: if (!Firewall.scanned) Firewall.refresh()
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: Firewall.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "The firewall needs attention"
-        detail: Firewall.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: Firewall.lastError
     }
 
     // ── The finding, when there is one ───────────────────────────────────────
@@ -378,7 +374,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                     : (root.addKind === "service"
                         ? "That is not a service name firewalld would accept"
                         : "That is not a port firewalld would accept")
-                detail: "This writes a permanent rule — the system will ask for your password."
+                detail: "This writes a permanent rule — the system will ask for your password"
                 action: "Allow"
                 enabled: root.addValid && !Firewall.busy
                 divider: false
@@ -565,43 +561,16 @@ SettingsPage {
             Repeater {
                 model: Firewall.allZones ?? []
 
-                delegate: Rectangle {
+                delegate: SettingsChip {
                     id: chip
 
                     required property var modelData
 
                     readonly property string zoneName: String(chip.modelData)
-                    readonly property bool current: root.browsingZone === chip.zoneName
 
-                    width: chipLabel.implicitWidth + 20
-                    height: 26
-                    radius: Theme.pillRadius
-                    color: chip.current
-                        ? Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.18)
-                        : Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, chipHover.hovered ? 0.11 : 0.055)
-                    border.width: 1
-                    border.color: chip.current
-                        ? Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.45)
-                        : Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, 0.09)
-
-                    Text {
-                        id: chipLabel
-                        anchors.centerIn: parent
-                        text: chip.zoneName
-                        color: chip.current ? Theme.fg : Theme.fgDim
-                        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                        font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-                        font.weight: chip.current ? Font.DemiBold : Font.Normal
-                    }
-
-                    HoverHandler {
-                        id: chipHover
-                        cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
-                    }
-
-                    TapHandler {
-                        onTapped: root.browsingZone = chip.current ? "" : chip.zoneName
-                    }
+                    text: chip.zoneName
+                    active: root.browsingZone === chip.zoneName
+                    onClicked: root.browsingZone = chip.active ? "" : chip.zoneName
                 }
             }
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/FocusAllowChips.qml

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Column {
 
             Text {
                 width: parent.width
-                text: "Apps that break through while this mode is on"
+                text: "Applications that break through while this mode is on"
                 color: Theme.fgDim
                 font.family: Theme.fontFamily
                 font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
@@ -156,37 +156,15 @@ Column {
                 }
             }
 
-            Rectangle {
+            SettingsChip {
                 id: addChip
 
-                height: 26
-                width: addLabel.implicitWidth + 20
-                radius: Theme.pillRadius
-                color: Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, addHover.hovered ? 0.1 : 0.05)
-                border.width: 1
-                border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, 0.2)
+                text: root.adding ? "Cancel" : "+ Add application"
 
-                Text {
-                    id: addLabel
-                    anchors.centerIn: parent
-                    text: root.adding ? "Cancel" : "+ Add app"
-                    color: Theme.fgDim
-                    font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-                    font.weight: Font.Medium
-                }
-
-                HoverHandler {
-                    id: addHover
-                    cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
-                }
-
-                TapHandler {
-                    onTapped: {
-                        root.adding = !root.adding;
-                        if (!root.adding)
-                            search.text = "";
-                    }
+                onClicked: {
+                    root.adding = !root.adding;
+                    if (!root.adding)
+                        search.text = "";
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -215,7 +193,7 @@ Column {
                 anchors.left: parent.left
                 anchors.right: parent.right
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                placeholder: "Search apps"
+                placeholder: "Search applications"
             }
         }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/FocusModeRow.qml

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Column {
         case "workspace":
             return "on workspace " + String(root.trigger.id ?? 1);
         case "fullscreen":
-            return "when an app is fullscreen";
+            return "when an application is fullscreen";
         default:
             return "manually";
         }
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Column {
                 + (root.allow.length === 0
                     ? ""
                     : " except " + root.allow.length
-                        + (root.allow.length === 1 ? " app" : " apps")));
+                        + (root.allow.length === 1 ? " application" : " applications")));
         }
         if (root.mode.keepAwake === true)
             effects.push(hypothetical ? "would keep the screen awake" : "keeps the screen awake");
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ Column {
                 },
                 {
                     value: "fullscreen",
-                    label: "When an app is fullscreen",
+                    label: "When an application is fullscreen",
                     detail: "On while a window is fullscreen on the focused display"
                 }
             ]
@@ -398,41 +398,30 @@ Column {
                 spacing: 5
 
                 Repeater {
+                    // `name` is what a screen reader says: four of the seven
+                    // initials repeat, so the letter alone is not a day.
                     model: [
-                        { value: 1, label: "M" }, { value: 2, label: "T" },
-                        { value: 3, label: "W" }, { value: 4, label: "T" },
-                        { value: 5, label: "F" }, { value: 6, label: "S" },
-                        { value: 0, label: "S" }
+                        { value: 1, label: "M", name: "Monday" },
+                        { value: 2, label: "T", name: "Tuesday" },
+                        { value: 3, label: "W", name: "Wednesday" },
+                        { value: 4, label: "T", name: "Thursday" },
+                        { value: 5, label: "F", name: "Friday" },
+                        { value: 6, label: "S", name: "Saturday" },
+                        { value: 0, label: "S", name: "Sunday" }
                     ]
 
-                    delegate: Rectangle {
+                    // Seven of them across, so they share one width rather than
+                    // each taking the width of its own letter.
+                    delegate: SettingsChip {
                         id: dayPill
 
                         required property var modelData
 
-                        readonly property bool on:
-                            (root.trigger.days ?? []).indexOf(dayPill.modelData.value) >= 0
-
                         width: 30
-                        height: 28
-                        radius: 8
-                        color: dayPill.on ? Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.22)
-                                          : Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, 0.06)
-                        border.width: 1
-                        border.color: dayPill.on ? Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.5)
-                                                 : Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, 0.08)
-
-                        Text {
-                            anchors.centerIn: parent
-                            text: String(dayPill.modelData.label)
-                            color: dayPill.on ? Theme.fg : Theme.fgDim
-                            font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                            font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-                            font.weight: dayPill.on ? Font.DemiBold : Font.Medium
-                        }
-
-                        HoverHandler { cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor }
-                        TapHandler { onTapped: root.toggleDay(dayPill.modelData.value) }
+                        text: String(dayPill.modelData.label)
+                        active: (root.trigger.days ?? []).indexOf(dayPill.modelData.value) >= 0
+                        Accessible.name: String(dayPill.modelData.name)
+                        onClicked: root.toggleDay(dayPill.modelData.value)
                     }
                 }
             }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/FocusPage.qml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: FocusModes.modes.length === 0
             label: "No focus modes"
-            detail: "Add one below and give it something to react to."
+            detail: "Add one below and give it something to react to"
             divider: false
         }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/GamingPage.qml

@@ -25,17 +25,15 @@ SettingsPage {
 
     // Polling only while this page is on screen.
     Component.onCompleted: {
-        Gaming.refresh();
+        if (!Gaming.scanned)
+            Gaming.refresh();
         Gaming.watching = true;
     }
     Component.onDestruction: Gaming.watching = false
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: Gaming.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "Gaming needs attention"
-        detail: Gaming.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: Gaming.lastError
     }
 
     // ── Right now ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/GradientSliderRow.qml

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ Item {
     // nothing in common but the digits.
     property string readout: ""
 
-    // Two or three colours, left to right. Painted across the whole track when
-    // `fullTrack` is set -- for a value whose range is the point, like colour
+    // Two or three colors, left to right. Painted across the whole track when
+    // `fullTrack` is set -- for a value whose range is the point, like color
     // temperature -- and as the fill alone otherwise.
     property var trackColors: [Theme.accent, Theme.accentSecondary]
     property bool fullTrack: false

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/HealthPage.qml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SettingsPage {
 
     readonly property string ledeText: {
         if (Health.checks.length === 0)
-            return "Checks the parts of the desktop this app owns, and explains what needs attention.";
+            return "Checks the parts of the desktop this application owns, and explains what needs attention.";
         const count = Health.checks.length + (Health.checks.length === 1 ? " check" : " checks");
         if (root.issueChecks.length === 0)
             return count + " · everything healthy.";
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         {
             group: "panama-tools",
             title: "Desktop tools",
-            subtitle: "Tracked links, launcher commands, apps, and inhibitors."
+            subtitle: "Tracked links, launcher commands, applications, and inhibitors."
         }
     ]
     readonly property var applicationTargets: ({
@@ -432,14 +432,14 @@ SettingsPage {
     // umbrella button reading "Open GNOME Settings", which landed on the System
     // panel. That button was the last door of its kind, and by the end it was
     // pointing at a house Panama had bought: Users, Sharing, Printers, Online
-    // Accounts, Privacy, Region, Colour and the whole of Connections are pages
+    // Accounts, Privacy, Region, Color and the whole of Connections are pages
     // here now. A generic front door to a settings app you no longer need is
     // not a boundary, it is a habit -- so it is gone, and gnome-handoff-contract
     // holds the door shut by naming `system` in its OWNED map.
     //
     // Screen time is the exception, and it is a real one: GNOME's wellbeing
     // panel does something Panama does not, and that button genuinely works.
-    // Colour profiles used to sit here too, with a detail line explaining that
+    // Color profiles used to sit here too, with a detail line explaining that
     // pressing the button changed nothing, because the colord daemon that
     // applies an ICC profile is not running under Hyprland. A handoff that
     // documents its own uselessness is a dead button with an apology attached,

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/HealthSummary.qml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SettingsCard {
         case "unavailable":
             return Health.lastError || "The latest health check could not be completed.";
         case "checking":
-            return "Checking the desktop services, tools, and integrations this app owns.";
+            return "Checking the desktop services, tools, and integrations this application owns.";
         case "error":
             return root.observationCount === 1
                 ? "One part of the desktop needs action."

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/HomeFavoriteCard.qml

@@ -126,27 +126,13 @@ Rectangle {
         elide: removeConfirm.armed ? Text.ElideNone : Text.ElideRight
     }
 
-    Rectangle {
+    StatusBadge {
         anchors.left: aliasFrame.left
         anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
         anchors.bottomMargin: 10
-        width: badgeCopy.implicitWidth + 14
-        height: 21
-        radius: Theme.pillRadius
         visible: root.featured
-        color: Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.1)
-        border.width: 1
-        border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.2)
-
-        Text {
-            id: badgeCopy
-            anchors.centerIn: parent
-            text: "Control Center"
-            color: Theme.accent
-            font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-            font.pixelSize: 9
-            font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-        }
+        text: "Control Center"
+        tone: Theme.accent
     }
 
     ConfirmAction {

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/HomeLightTile.qml

@@ -93,25 +93,11 @@ Rectangle {
                     elide: Text.ElideRight
                 }
 
-                Rectangle {
+                StatusBadge {
                     visible: root.featured
                     anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                    width: featuredCaption.implicitWidth + 16
-                    height: 19
-                    radius: Theme.pillRadius
-                    color: Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.1)
-                    border.width: 1
-                    border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.2)
-
-                    Text {
-                        id: featuredCaption
-                        anchors.centerIn: parent
-                        text: "Control Center"
-                        color: Theme.accent
-                        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                        font.pixelSize: 9
-                        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                    }
+                    text: "Control Center"
+                    tone: Theme.accent
                 }
             }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/HomePage.qml

@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: root.findings.length === 0
             label: "Nothing needs your attention"
-            detail: "Anything worth acting on would appear here."
+            detail: "Anything worth acting on would appear here"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/InstalledAppRow.qml

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Column {
         return name === "" ? "" : Quickshell.iconPath(name, true);
     }
 
-    // A stable colour per application, so the tile keeps its identity as the
+    // A stable color per application, so the tile keeps its identity as the
     // list re-sorts or the search narrows it.
     readonly property color tileColor: {
         const palette = [Theme.accent, Theme.teal, Theme.magenta, Theme.cyan,
@@ -190,31 +190,12 @@ Column {
 
                 // Where it came from, said once and in the same place on every
                 // row -- the difference decides what the body can offer.
-                Rectangle {
+                StatusBadge {
                     id: badge
 
                     anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                    width: badgeText.implicitWidth + 14
-                    height: 17
-                    radius: Theme.pillRadius
-                    color: root.flatpak
-                        ? Theme.alpha(Theme.cyan, 0.09)
-                        : Theme.alpha(Theme.fgMuted, 0.12)
-                    border.width: 1
-                    border.color: root.flatpak
-                        ? Theme.alpha(Theme.cyan, 0.28)
-                        : Theme.alpha(Theme.fgMuted, 0.3)
-
-                    Text {
-                        id: badgeText
-
-                        anchors.centerIn: parent
-                        text: root.flatpak ? "FLATPAK" : "SYSTEM"
-                        color: root.flatpak ? Theme.cyan : Theme.fgMuted
-                        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                        font.pixelSize: Math.max(8, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 2)
-                        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                    }
+                    text: root.flatpak ? "Flatpak" : "System"
+                    tone: root.flatpak ? Theme.cyan : Theme.fgMuted
                 }
             }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ManualPage.qml

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ SettingsPage {
             // The scheme is Panama's own, so a chapter can never accidentally
             // hand an http link to openSettings, and an unknown page cannot be
             // smuggled in either: SettingsRoutes.resolve turns anything it does
-            // not recognise into Home rather than a blank loader. A fragment,
+            // not recognize into Home rather than a blank loader. A fragment,
             // where there is one, is the section within the page.
             onLinkActivated: link => {
                 const target = String(link ?? "");

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/MousePage.qml

@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@
 // knobs come back up with it: they are about gestures, not about the touchpad.
 
 import QtQuick
+import Quickshell
 import qs.config
 import qs.services
+import qs.modules.clipboard
 
 SettingsPage {
     id: root
@@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         ToggleRow { setting: "leftHanded" }
         ToggleRow {
             setting: "middleClickPaste"
-            detail: "Paste the primary selection in GTK and native Wayland applications; individual apps may choose not to support it"
+            detail: "Paste the primary selection in GTK and native Wayland applications; individual applications may choose not to support it"
         }
 
         OptionPickerRow {
@@ -170,14 +172,19 @@ SettingsPage {
         Keybinds.applyReload();
     }
 
-    // Nothing, then the shell's own actions, then the compositor's window
-    // verbs -- the same lists the shortcut editor offers, read from Keybinds so
-    // this page never becomes a second opinion on what resolves.
+    // Nothing, then an application, then the shell's own actions, then the
+    // compositor's window verbs -- the same lists the shortcut editor offers,
+    // read from Keybinds so this page never becomes a second opinion on what
+    // resolves.
     //
-    // Applications are deliberately absent: assigning one means searching
-    // several hundred desktop entries, which a picker of this shape cannot do.
-    // A gesture that already holds an application (written by the shortcut
-    // vocabulary elsewhere) still shows, so it can be read and cleared.
+    // Applications cannot be listed inline: a normal machine has several
+    // hundred desktop entries and a picker of this shape would be a page nobody
+    // can read. So the option is a door rather than a list -- picking it opens
+    // the same search the shortcut editor uses, below the row. A gesture that
+    // already holds an application shows it too, so it can be read and cleared
+    // without going back through the search.
+    readonly property string appPickerValue: "pick-application"
+
     function gestureOptions(key: string): var {
         const out = [{ value: "", label: "Nothing", detail: "The swipe passes through to whatever is under it" }];
         const stored = DesktopPreferences.get(key);
@@ -187,6 +194,11 @@ SettingsPage {
                 label: String(stored.label),
                 detail: "Application · launch-or-focus"
             });
+        out.push({
+            value: root.appPickerValue,
+            label: "Launch an application…",
+            detail: "Search everything installed, the way a custom shortcut does"
+        });
         for (const action of Keybinds.shellActions)
             out.push({ value: "shell:" + action.target, label: action.label, detail: "Shell action" });
         for (const action of Keybinds.windowActions)
@@ -194,6 +206,49 @@ SettingsPage {
         return out;
     }
 
+    // Which gesture is currently choosing an application, "" while none is.
+    property string pickingAppFor: ""
+
+    // Capped at eight and only ever searched, never browsed -- the same rule
+    // and the same reason as CustomShortcutEditor's list.
+    readonly property var appMatches: {
+        const needle = gestureAppSearch.text.trim().toLowerCase();
+        if (needle === "")
+            return [];
+        const out = [];
+        for (const entry of DesktopEntries.applications.values) {
+            if (entry.noDisplay)
+                continue;
+            if (String(entry.name).toLowerCase().indexOf(needle) >= 0)
+                out.push(entry);
+            if (out.length >= 8)
+                break;
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+
+    // The one path that writes an application onto a gesture. It builds the
+    // same three-field record assignGesture() writes for the named actions --
+    // an entry id is never a command, and hypr/actions.lua resolves it the same
+    // way it resolves one written by a custom shortcut.
+    function assignGestureApp(key: string, entry: var): void {
+        const target = String(entry?.id ?? "");
+        if (Keybinds.describeAction({ kind: "app", target: target }) === "")
+            return;
+        DesktopPreferences.set(key, {
+            kind: "app",
+            target: target,
+            label: "Launch " + String(entry?.name ?? target)
+        });
+        root.closeAppPicker();
+        Keybinds.applyReload();
+    }
+
+    function closeAppPicker(): void {
+        root.pickingAppFor = "";
+        gestureAppSearch.text = "";
+    }
+
     SettingsCard {
         visible: InputDevices.hasTouchpad
         title: "Gestures"
@@ -236,7 +291,67 @@ SettingsPage {
                 current: root.gestureValue(String(gestureRow.modelData.key))
                 enabled: !Keybinds.reloading
                 divider: gestureRow.index < root.gestureKeys.length - 1
-                onPicked: value => root.assignGesture(String(gestureRow.modelData.key), String(value))
+                onPicked: value => {
+                    if (String(value) === root.appPickerValue) {
+                        root.pickingAppFor = String(gestureRow.modelData.key);
+                        gestureAppSearch.text = "";
+                        return;
+                    }
+                    root.closeAppPicker();
+                    root.assignGesture(String(gestureRow.modelData.key), String(value));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // The search, unfolded under the four rows rather than inside one of
+        // them: the picker has already collapsed by the time this appears, and
+        // a list of eight results inside a collapsed row has nowhere to go.
+        Column {
+            width: parent.width
+            visible: root.pickingAppFor !== ""
+            spacing: 0
+
+            Item {
+                width: parent.width
+                height: 40
+
+                SearchField {
+                    id: gestureAppSearch
+
+                    anchors.left: parent.left
+                    anchors.right: parent.right
+                    anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                    placeholder: "Search installed applications"
+                }
+            }
+
+            Repeater {
+                model: root.appMatches
+
+                SettingRow {
+                    id: candidate
+
+                    required property var modelData
+                    required property int index
+
+                    width: parent.width
+                    label: String(candidate.modelData.name ?? "")
+                    detail: String(candidate.modelData.id ?? "")
+                    controlWidth: 96
+                    divider: candidate.index < root.appMatches.length - 1
+                    activatable: true
+
+                    onActivated: root.assignGestureApp(root.pickingAppFor, candidate.modelData)
+                }
+            }
+
+            TextRow {
+                visible: root.appMatches.length === 0
+                label: gestureAppSearch.text.trim() === ""
+                    ? "Type to find an application"
+                    : "Nothing installed matches that"
+                detail: "The gesture stores the application, never a command — the same three fields a custom shortcut stores"
+                divider: false
             }
         }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/MyHomePage.qml

@@ -111,15 +111,9 @@ SettingsPage {
                     width: parent.width
                     spacing: 8
 
-                    Text {
+                    SectionLabel {
                         visible: String(roomSection.modelData.name ?? "") !== ""
-                        text: String(roomSection.modelData.name ?? "").toUpperCase()
-                        color: Theme.fgMuted
-                        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                        font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-                        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                        font.letterSpacing: 0.8
-                        topPadding: 6
+                        text: String(roomSection.modelData.name ?? "")
                     }
 
                     Grid {
@@ -382,15 +376,10 @@ SettingsPage {
             }
         }
 
-        Text {
-            width: parent.width
-            visible: HomeAssistantConfig.lastError !== ""
-            text: HomeAssistantConfig.lastError
-            color: Theme.danger
-            font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-            font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-            wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-            bottomPadding: 9
+        ErrorRow {
+            label: "Home Assistant needs attention"
+            message: HomeAssistantConfig.lastError
+            divider: true
         }
 
         SettingRow {
@@ -432,7 +421,7 @@ SettingsPage {
 
         SettingRow {
             label: "Light catalog"
-            detail: "Light state is read through the Home Assistant helper."
+            detail: "Light state is read through the Home Assistant helper"
             divider: false
             controlWidth: 176
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/NotMeasuredRow.qml

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 // by "because" -- a bare dash invites the reader to assume zero, and zero is
 // a measurement.
 //
-//   NotMeasuredRow { because: "The desktop portal's permission store is not answering, so what has asked for this cannot be read." }
-//   NotMeasuredRow { label: "Not read yet"; because: "Reading what the battery firmware has recorded." }
+//   NotMeasuredRow { because: "The desktop portal's permission store is not answering, so what has asked for this cannot be read" }
+//   NotMeasuredRow { label: "Not read yet"; because: "Reading what the battery firmware has recorded" }
 //
 // `because` is required in spirit: the row renders without one, but a consumer
 // leaving it empty is exactly the dishonesty this component exists to prevent,

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/NotificationAppRow.qml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 //
 // The head is hand-built rather than a SettingRow because it needs two things
 // SettingRow has no room for -- the application's own icon, and a subtitle
-// whose second half is coloured when the rule is no longer the default, so a
+// whose second half is colored when the rule is no longer the default, so a
 // muted or redirected application is obvious without opening it.
 //
 // Every write leaves through `edited`/`forgotten`. The page owns the service
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ Column {
         return name === "" ? "" : Quickshell.iconPath(name, true);
     }
 
-    // A stable colour per application, so the tile is a recognisable shape
-    // rather than a different colour every time the list re-sorts.
+    // A stable color per application, so the tile is a recognizable shape
+    // rather than a different color every time the list re-sorts.
     readonly property color tileColor: {
         const palette = [Theme.accent, Theme.teal, Theme.magenta, Theme.cyan,
                          Theme.green, Theme.orange, Theme.pink];
@@ -263,11 +263,11 @@ Column {
         OptionPickerRow {
             width: parent.width
             label: "Urgency"
-            detail: "Override what the app claims its notifications are"
+            detail: "Override what the application claims its notifications are"
             options: [
                 {
                     value: "auto",
-                    label: "App decides",
+                    label: "Application decides",
                     detail: "Whatever urgency the notification arrives with"
                 },
                 {
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Column {
 
         ActionRow {
             width: parent.width
-            label: "Forget this app"
+            label: "Forget this application"
             detail: "Remove its rule; it returns on its next notification"
             action: "Forget"
             divider: false

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/NotificationsPage.qml

@@ -278,32 +278,18 @@ SettingsPage {
 
     SettingsCard {
         title: "Applications"
-        subtitle: "Apps appear after their first notification. Recent senders and apps you have customized stay up top; the rest wait in All apps."
+        subtitle: "Applications appear after their first notification. Recent senders and applications you have customized stay up top; the rest wait in All applications."
 
         TextRow {
             visible: Notifs.applications.length === 0
             label: "No applications remembered yet"
-            detail: "Application controls will appear after the first notification arrives."
+            detail: "Application controls will appear after the first notification arrives"
             divider: false
         }
 
-        Item {
-            width: parent.width
-            height: root.recentApps.length > 0 ? 28 : 0
-            visible: height > 0
-
-            Text {
-                anchors.left: parent.left
-                anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
-                anchors.bottomMargin: 4
-                text: "Recent"
-                color: Theme.fgMuted
-                font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 1)
-                font.weight: Font.Bold
-                font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-                font.letterSpacing: 0.8
-            }
+        SectionLabel {
+            visible: root.recentApps.length > 0
+            text: "Recent"
         }
 
         Repeater {
@@ -329,23 +315,9 @@ SettingsPage {
             }
         }
 
-        Item {
-            width: parent.width
-            height: root.customizedApps.length > 0 ? 28 : 0
-            visible: height > 0
-
-            Text {
-                anchors.left: parent.left
-                anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
-                anchors.bottomMargin: 4
-                text: "Customized"
-                color: Theme.fgMuted
-                font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 1)
-                font.weight: Font.Bold
-                font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-                font.letterSpacing: 0.8
-            }
+        SectionLabel {
+            visible: root.customizedApps.length > 0
+            text: "Customized"
         }
 
         Repeater {
@@ -400,7 +372,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                 anchors.left: parent.left
                 anchors.right: parent.right
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                placeholder: "Search apps"
+                placeholder: "Search applications"
             }
         }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/OnlineAccountsPage.qml

@@ -168,27 +168,11 @@ SettingsPage {
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                 spacing: 8
 
-                Rectangle {
+                StatusBadge {
                     anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                     visible: HomeAssistant.phase === "ready"
-                    width: homeBadge.implicitWidth + 14
-                    height: 17
-                    radius: Theme.pillRadius
-                    color: Theme.alpha(Theme.ok, 0.1)
-                    border.width: 1
-                    border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.ok, 0.3)
-
-                    Text {
-                        id: homeBadge
-
-                        anchors.centerIn: parent
-                        text: "CONNECTED"
-                        color: Theme.ok
-                        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                        font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 2)
-                        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                        font.letterSpacing: 0.5
-                    }
+                    text: "Connected"
+                    tone: Theme.ok
                 }
 
                 SettingsButton {
@@ -211,27 +195,11 @@ SettingsPage {
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                 spacing: 8
 
-                Rectangle {
+                StatusBadge {
                     anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                     visible: KdeConnect.pairedCount > 0
-                    width: phoneBadge.implicitWidth + 14
-                    height: 17
-                    radius: Theme.pillRadius
-                    color: Theme.alpha(Theme.ok, 0.1)
-                    border.width: 1
-                    border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.ok, 0.3)
-
-                    Text {
-                        id: phoneBadge
-
-                        anchors.centerIn: parent
-                        text: "PAIRED"
-                        color: Theme.ok
-                        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                        font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 2)
-                        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                        font.letterSpacing: 0.5
-                    }
+                    text: "Paired"
+                    tone: Theme.ok
                 }
 
                 SettingsButton {
@@ -259,7 +227,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: OnlineAccounts.scanned && OnlineAccounts.accounts.length === 0
             label: "No accounts yet"
-            detail: "Adding one lets mail, calendar, contacts and file managers share a single sign-in."
+            detail: "Adding one lets mail, calendar, contacts and file managers share a single sign-in"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/PowerPage.qml

@@ -372,10 +372,10 @@ SettingsPage {
             controlWidth: 160
             divider: false
 
-            // SoundBadge is the pill Panama already has for "how this thing is
-            // attached, or why it is not here"; the name is where it was first
-            // needed rather than what it is.
-            SoundBadge {
+            // The state, in the pill the whole settings app uses for one. It
+            // is a fact about the session, not a control, which is why there
+            // is a badge here and no switch.
+            StatusBadge {
                 anchors.right: parent.right
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                 text: LidPolicy.inhibited ? "Docked · staying awake" : "Will suspend"

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/PrintersPage.qml

@@ -66,14 +66,11 @@ SettingsPage {
         });
     }
 
-    Component.onCompleted: Printers.refresh()
+    Component.onCompleted: if (!Printers.scanned) Printers.refresh()
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: Printers.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "Printing needs attention"
-        detail: Printers.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: Printers.lastError
     }
 
     // ── Which printers exist ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -255,7 +252,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                 // was built around: holding keeps the job, cancelling throws it
                 // away and the document has to be sent from the app again.
                 detail: cancelJob.armed
-                    ? "The job is thrown away — printing it means sending it from the app again. Hold keeps it in the queue instead."
+                    ? "The job is thrown away — printing it means sending it from the application again. Hold keeps it in the queue instead."
                     : String(jobRow.modelData.printer ?? "") + " · "
                     + String(jobRow.modelData.state ?? "")
                     + (Number(jobRow.modelData.pages ?? 0) > 0

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/PrivacyLiveTile.qml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Rectangle {
         return root.measured ? "Idle" : "Not measured";
     }
 
-    // The neutral third state is neutral in the colour too: warn means in use,
+    // The neutral third state is neutral in the color too: warn means in use,
     // dim means idle, and "not measured" must not read as either.
     readonly property color toneColor: root.active
         ? Theme.warn

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/PrivacyPage.qml

@@ -58,25 +58,25 @@ SettingsPage {
             table: "camera",
             label: "Camera",
             detail: "",
-            empty: "No app has asked for the camera. The portal records an answer the first time each one asks."
+            empty: "No application has asked for the camera. The portal records an answer the first time each one asks."
         },
         {
             table: "microphone",
             label: "Microphone",
             detail: "",
-            empty: "No app has asked for the microphone. The portal records an answer the first time each one asks."
+            empty: "No application has asked for the microphone. The portal records an answer the first time each one asks."
         },
         {
             table: "screencast",
             label: "Screen sharing",
             detail: "Can capture the screen",
-            empty: "No app holds a screen-capture grant."
+            empty: "No application holds a screen-capture grant."
         },
         {
             table: "remote-desktop",
             label: "Remote desktop",
             detail: "Can move the pointer and type",
-            empty: "No app holds a remote-control grant."
+            empty: "No application holds a remote-control grant."
         },
         {
             table: "location",
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     function askedCount(count: int): string {
         if (count === 0)
             return "";
-        return count + (count === 1 ? " app has asked" : " apps have asked");
+        return count + (count === 1 ? " application has asked" : " applications have asked");
     }
 
     // What a stored secret is FOR, from its attributes. Never its value.
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                 // An empty table means "nothing has asked" only once the store
                 // has been read and answered. Before that, and when the
                 // permission store is not running at all, every table is empty
-                // for the same reason -- and "no app has asked for the camera"
+                // for the same reason -- and "no application has asked for the camera"
                 // is then a measurement nobody took.
                 TextRow {
                     width: section.width
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                         // session, so an app that has shared four times is four
                         // entries and one question.
                         detail: grantRow.confirming
-                            ? "The recorded answer goes away, and this app is asked again the next time it tries."
+                            ? "The recorded answer goes away, and this application is asked again the next time it tries."
                             : (!section.simple && !section.revokeOnly
                                 ? (grantRow.modelData.allowed === true ? "Allowed" : "Withheld")
                                 : String(section.modelData.detail)
@@ -311,13 +311,14 @@ SettingsPage {
             }
         }
 
+        Item { width: 1; height: 10 }
+
         // The limit, stated rather than left to be discovered. Saying "your
         // camera is protected" when a system package can open /dev/video0
         // would be a claim this page cannot back up.
-        TextRow {
-            label: "Only sandboxed apps are covered"
-            detail: "These are the answers Flatpak apps gave the permission portal. Programs installed as system packages are not sandboxed, never ask, and reach these devices directly."
-            divider: false
+        SettingsNote {
+            headline: "Only sandboxed applications are covered"
+            body: "These are the answers Flatpak applications gave the permission portal. Programs installed as system packages are not sandboxed, never ask, and reach these devices directly."
         }
     }
 
@@ -334,8 +335,8 @@ SettingsPage {
         visible: Permissions.available
         title: "Run in the background"
         subtitle: backgroundCard.rows.length === 0
-            ? "No app has asked to keep running with no window open."
-            : backgroundCard.rows.length + " app"
+            ? "No application has asked to keep running with no window open."
+            : backgroundCard.rows.length + " application"
               + (backgroundCard.rows.length === 1 ? " is" : "s are")
               + " allowed to keep running with no window open."
 
@@ -412,10 +413,9 @@ SettingsPage {
             divider: Keyring.available || Keyring.lastError !== ""
         }
 
-        SettingRow {
-            visible: Keyring.lastError !== ""
+        ErrorRow {
             label: "Keyring problem"
-            detail: Keyring.lastError
+            message: Keyring.lastError
             divider: Keyring.available
         }
 
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: root.showingSecrets && Keyring.listed && Keyring.storedCount === 0
             label: "Nothing stored yet"
-            detail: "Applications that save a password or token will appear here."
+            detail: "Applications that save a password or token will appear here"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     // ── Traces ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     //
     // Panama's own, now. Each row clears one thing, once, when asked -- there
-    // is no "clean up your machine" button here and no number coloured red,
+    // is no "clean up your machine" button here and no number colored red,
     // because none of this is a problem to be solved. It is a list of what is
     // remembered, with a way to stop remembering it.
 
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ SettingsPage {
             label: "Recent files"
             detail: recentsRow.confirming
                 ? "This empties the list. Applications start filling it again as you open things."
-                : "The recents list GTK apps show"
+                : "The recents list GTK applications show"
                   + (Traces.measured
                       ? " · " + Traces.recentsEntries + " entr"
                         + (Traces.recentsEntries === 1 ? "y" : "ies")
@@ -710,21 +710,19 @@ SettingsPage {
             }
         }
 
+        Item { width: 1; height: 10 }
+
         // A pointer, not a control: the history belongs to Vicinae, which owns
         // the database Super+V browses. Offering a Clear here would mean
         // reaching into another program's storage behind its back.
-        TextRow {
-            label: "Clipboard history"
-            detail: "Kept by Vicinae, which owns the database Super+V browses. Panama reads that history and does not clear it."
-            value: ""
-            divider: Traces.lastError !== ""
+        SettingsNote {
+            headline: "Clipboard history is kept by Vicinae"
+            body: "Vicinae owns the database Super+V browses. Panama reads that history and does not clear it."
         }
 
-        SettingRow {
-            visible: Traces.lastError !== ""
+        ErrorRow {
             label: "That did not work"
-            detail: Traces.lastError
-            divider: false
+            message: Traces.lastError
         }
     }
 
@@ -787,8 +785,8 @@ SettingsPage {
         }
 
         ActionRow {
-            label: "Per-app notifications"
-            detail: "Which apps may notify, and how much they may show on a locked screen"
+            label: "Per-application notifications"
+            detail: "Which applications may notify, and how much they may show on a locked screen"
             action: "Open Notifications"
             divider: false
             onTriggered: ShellState.openSettings("notifications")

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/README.md

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ disclosure. Background and foreground are never stored alone: the five surfaces
 and two text tints are mixed from them, so changing the ground moves the whole
 family instead of leaving twelve tokens pointing at the old one.
 
-Every route that writes color — typed hex, the colour wheel, the eyedropper,
+Every route that writes color — typed hex, the color wheel, the eyedropper,
 the HSV sliders — ends in `ThemeProfiles.commitActive`, which also recomputes
 `accentName` as the nearest curated accent. That is what keeps GNOME's accent
 enum, kitty's border and the lock screen from going stale after a custom edit.
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ erase a user-selected accent or a theme switch to leave the border behind.
 
 `SettingsNote` is deliberately quiet and must stay that way. It explains
 absences and boundaries — what this session cannot do, and why — and a
-warning-coloured box would turn "not offered yet, here is the reason" into
+warning-colored box would turn "not offered yet, here is the reason" into
 "something is wrong here".
 
 ### The rows are keyboard-reachable

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SectionLabel.qml

@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
-// A small uppercase heading inside a card, with an optional count beside it.
+// A small uppercase heading, with an optional count beside it.
 //
-//   SectionLabel { text: "Camera"; count: "2 apps have asked" }
+//   SectionLabel { text: "Camera"; count: "2 applications have asked" }
 //
 // A card whose rows come from four different permission tables needs to say
 // which table a row belongs to, and a second SettingsCard per table would give
 // four headers, four subtitles and four borders to one subject. This is the
 // lighter divider: it groups rows without pretending they are separate topics.
+//
+// It does the same job one level up, between cards, where a page has more
+// cards than a reader can hold at once and they fall into two or three
+// stretches -- Sound's "Alerts & feedback", Displays' "All displays". Same
+// shape either way, which is the point of it being one component.
 
 import QtQuick
 import qs.config
@@ -41,6 +46,9 @@ Item {
             text: root.count
             color: Theme.alpha(Theme.fgMuted, 0.75)
             font.family: Theme.fontFamily
+            // Counts are the usual thing to put here, and a count that changes
+            // as a filter narrows should not shuffle the digits beside it.
+            font.features: Theme.tabularFigures
             font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 1)
             font.letterSpacing: 0.7
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SettingRow.qml

@@ -7,9 +7,14 @@ Item {
     default property alias trailingData: trailing.data
     property string icon: ""
     property string label: ""
-    // The headline's colour. Foreground for every ordinary row; ErrorRow sets
+    // The headline's color. Foreground for every ordinary row; ErrorRow sets
     // it to Theme.danger so a failure reads as one at a glance.
     property color labelColor: Theme.fg
+    // The line under the headline. One sentence takes no full stop -- it is a
+    // caption, not a paragraph, and a lone trailing dot under two hundred rows
+    // is a speck. More than one sentence takes them throughout, last one
+    // included, because at that length the reader is reading prose and prose
+    // that stops without punctuation reads as truncated.
     property string detail: ""
     property string value: ""
     property bool divider: true

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SettingsNote.qml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 //   }
 //
 // Deliberately quiet. This is not a warning banner and must never grow one's
-// colouring: the things it explains are absences and boundaries, not problems,
+// coloring: the things it explains are absences and boundaries, not problems,
 // and a red-edged box would make "this desktop cannot do that yet" read as
 // "something is wrong here". It sits darker than the card it is in, which is
 // the whole visual signal it needs -- a note, set into the surface.

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SettingsTabs.qml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 // Only for pages long enough that scrolling hides the control someone came for.
 // Appearance was six cards deep, so light and dark -- the thing reached most --
 // sat below a wallpaper grid and an entire lock screen. Tabs are not a way to
-// make a short page look organised; they are for when the page is long enough
+// make a short page look organized; they are for when the page is long enough
 // that the order stops being a suggestion and starts being a burial.
 //
 // The strip scrolls horizontally when it overflows: the Settings window tiles

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SharingPage.qml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     title: "Sharing"
     lede: "What this machine offers to other machines on the network."
 
-    Component.onCompleted: Sharing.refresh()
+    Component.onCompleted: if (!Sharing.scanned) Sharing.refresh()
 
     SettingsCard {
         title: "This machine"
@@ -29,12 +29,11 @@ SettingsPage {
         // The error belongs to the machine, not to a floating banner above the
         // title: a bare row above the first card read as part of the page
         // furniture, which is exactly what an error must not do.
-        TextRow {
+        ErrorRow {
             width: parent.width
-            visible: Sharing.lastError !== ""
             label: "Sharing needs attention"
-            detail: Sharing.lastError
-            value: ""
+            message: Sharing.lastError
+            divider: true
         }
 
         TextFieldRow {
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: Sharing.remoteLoginOn && Sharing.remoteSessions.length === 0
             label: "Nobody is signed in remotely"
-            detail: "Remote login is on, and no one is connected from another machine."
+            detail: "Remote login is on, and no one is connected from another machine"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: Sharing.mediaSharing?.installed !== true
             label: "Share music and video to devices"
-            detail: "Needs Rygel, which is not installed."
+            detail: "Needs Rygel, which is not installed"
             value: "Not installed"
             divider: false
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ShortcutRow.qml

@@ -88,26 +88,11 @@ Item {
             font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
         }
 
-        Rectangle {
+        StatusBadge {
             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
             visible: root.overridden
-            width: badge.implicitWidth + 14
-            height: 18
-            radius: Theme.pillRadius
-            color: Theme.alpha(Theme.warn, 0.10)
-            border.width: 1
-            border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.warn, 0.32)
-
-            Text {
-                id: badge
-
-                anchors.centerIn: parent
-                text: "CHANGED"
-                color: Theme.warn
-                font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                font.pixelSize: Math.max(8, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 2)
-                font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-            }
+            text: "Changed"
+            tone: Theme.warn
         }
 
         SettingsButton {

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ShortcutsPage.qml

@@ -433,41 +433,12 @@ SettingsPage {
                 width: parent ? parent.width : 620
                 spacing: 0
 
-                Item {
-                    width: parent.width
-                    height: 30
-
-                    Row {
-                        anchors.left: parent.left
-                        anchors.leftMargin: 6
-                        anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
-                        anchors.bottomMargin: 4
-                        spacing: 8
-
-                        Text {
-                            anchors.baseline: groupCount.baseline
-                            text: groupColumn.modelData.name
-                            color: Theme.fgMuted
-                            font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                            font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-                            font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                            font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-                            font.letterSpacing: 0.8
-                        }
-
-                        Text {
-                            id: groupCount
-
-                            text: root.filtering
-                                ? "· showing " + groupColumn.modelData.binds.length
-                                    + " of " + groupColumn.modelData.total
-                                : "· " + groupColumn.modelData.total
-                            color: Theme.fgMuted
-                            font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                            font.features: Theme.tabularFigures
-                            font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-                        }
-                    }
+                SectionLabel {
+                    text: groupColumn.modelData.name
+                    count: root.filtering
+                        ? "· showing " + groupColumn.modelData.binds.length
+                            + " of " + groupColumn.modelData.total
+                        : "· " + groupColumn.modelData.total
                 }
 
                 Repeater {

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SnapshotsPage.qml

@@ -74,14 +74,11 @@ SettingsPage {
         return Number((config?.limits ?? ({}))[horizon] ?? 0);
     }
 
-    Component.onCompleted: Snapshots.refresh()
+    Component.onCompleted: if (!Snapshots.scanned) Snapshots.refresh()
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: Snapshots.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "Snapshots need attention"
-        detail: Snapshots.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: Snapshots.lastError
     }
 
     // What just happened to the file that was already there.
@@ -224,7 +221,7 @@ SettingsPage {
             TextRow {
                 visible: volumeCard.snapshots.length === 0
                 label: "No points in time yet"
-                detail: "One is taken automatically on the schedule above."
+                detail: "One is taken automatically on the schedule above"
                 value: ""
                 divider: false
             }
@@ -285,7 +282,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                             }
 
                             SettingsButton {
-                                text: pointRow.confirming ? "Keep" : "Delete"
+                                text: pointRow.confirming ? "Keep" : "Delete…"
                                 enabled: !Snapshots.busy
                                 onClicked: root.confirmingDelete =
                                     pointRow.confirming ? "" : pointRow.token
@@ -476,10 +473,10 @@ SettingsPage {
         // Honest about what cannot be measured: per-snapshot size needs btrfs
         // quota groups, which cost performance on every write. Reporting a
         // made-up number would be worse than saying so.
-        TextRow {
+        NotMeasuredRow {
             label: "Space used by snapshots"
-            detail: "Measuring this per snapshot needs btrfs quotas, which slow down every write. Free space above is the number that matters."
             value: "Not measured"
+            because: "Measuring this per snapshot needs btrfs quotas, which slow down every write. Free space above is the number that matters."
             divider: false
         }
     }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SoundBadge.qml

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-// A pill beside a device name: how the device is attached, or why it is not
-// here at all.
-//
-// Nine outputs named after their chipsets look alike in a list. Which of them
-// arrives over the network, over Bluetooth, or is simply away in its case is
-// the fact that tells them apart, so it is said next to the name rather than
-// left to be inferred from a subtitle.
-
-import QtQuick
-import qs.config
-
-Rectangle {
-    id: root
-
-    property string text: ""
-    // The token the badge is drawn from -- cyan for network devices, the accent
-    // for Bluetooth, muted for a device that is not present.
-    property color tone: Theme.accent
-
-    implicitWidth: label.implicitWidth + 14
-    implicitHeight: 17
-    radius: Theme.pillRadius
-    color: Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.10)
-    border.width: 1
-    border.color: Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.28)
-
-    Text {
-        id: label
-
-        anchors.centerIn: parent
-        text: root.text
-        color: root.tone
-        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-        font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 2)
-        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-        font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-        font.letterSpacing: 0.5
-    }
-}

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SoundCaptureRow.qml

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ SettingRow {
                 readonly property bool muted: AudioDevices.applicationMuted(chip.modelData)
 
                 implicitWidth: name.implicitWidth + muteButton.width + 20
-                implicitHeight: 28
+                implicitHeight: 26
                 radius: Theme.pillRadius
                 color: Theme.alpha(Theme.fg, 0.06)
                 border.width: 1

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SoundChannelStrip.qml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // One chip per channel the selected output actually has.
 //
-// "Test" used to play a single front-centre sample, which answers "is this the
+// "Test" used to play a single front-center sample, which answers "is this the
 // right device" and nothing else. A surround receiver wired to the wrong socket
 // passes that test. Each chip plays its own channel's sample, so the answer to
 // "is the rear left speaker actually rear left" is one click rather than a

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SoundDeviceRow.qml

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Item {
                         clip: true
 
                         // Full-width gradient behind a clipped window, so a
-                        // given level is always the same colour rather than a
+                        // given level is always the same color rather than a
                         // squashed copy of the whole ramp.
                         Rectangle {
                             width: meter.width
@@ -298,19 +298,19 @@ Item {
                         anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                         spacing: 6
 
-                        SoundBadge {
+                        StatusBadge {
                             visible: root.airplay && !root.ghost
                             text: "AirPlay"
                             tone: Theme.cyan
                         }
 
-                        SoundBadge {
+                        StatusBadge {
                             visible: root.bluetooth && !root.ghost
                             text: "Bluetooth"
                             tone: Theme.accent
                         }
 
-                        SoundBadge {
+                        StatusBadge {
                             visible: root.ghost
                             text: "Returns when connected"
                             tone: Theme.fgMuted

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SoundPage.qml

@@ -27,12 +27,20 @@ SettingsPage {
     // moves and the region past 100% is marked.
     readonly property real volumeMaximum: Settings.overAmplification ? 1.5 : 1
 
-    // The three services that read the machine rather than the graph do it once
-    // per page open, the way the Displays page refreshes hardware brightness.
+    // The three services that read the machine rather than the graph are asked
+    // when the page opens, the way the Displays page probes hardware
+    // brightness. Two of them read hardware that does not change while Settings
+    // is open, so they are asked once a session and not once a visit.
+    //
+    // SoundFeedback is not one of them: it reads GSettings keys any GNOME
+    // control panel can rewrite behind this page's back, so it is re-read every
+    // open rather than trusted from the first one.
     Component.onCompleted: {
         SoundFeedback.refresh();
-        SoundDefaults.refresh();
-        SoundCards.refresh();
+        if (!SoundDefaults.loaded)
+            SoundDefaults.refresh();
+        if (!SoundCards.loaded)
+            SoundCards.refresh();
     }
 
     SettingsCard {
@@ -136,17 +144,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     }
 
     // ── What the machine says when it wants attention ───────────────────────
-    Text {
-        width: parent.width
-        text: "Alerts & feedback"
-        color: Theme.fgMuted
-        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-        font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-        font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-        font.letterSpacing: 0.7
-        topPadding: 6
-    }
+    SectionLabel { text: "Alerts & feedback" }
 
     SettingsCard {
         title: "Alerts"
@@ -189,17 +187,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     }
 
     // ── The hardware underneath the devices ─────────────────────────────────
-    Text {
-        width: parent.width
-        text: "Advanced"
-        color: Theme.fgMuted
-        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-        font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-        font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-        font.letterSpacing: 0.7
-        topPadding: 6
-    }
+    SectionLabel { text: "Advanced" }
 
     SettingsCard {
         title: "Device profiles"

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SshKeysPage.qml

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: SshKeys.scanned && SshKeys.keys.length === 0
             label: "Nothing here yet"
-            detail: "A key you generate below shows up here, with its fingerprint and whether the agent is holding it."
+            detail: "A key you generate below shows up here, with its fingerprint and whether the agent is holding it"
             value: ""
         }
 
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: SshKeys.agent?.available === true && root.heldKeys.length === 0
             label: "Nothing loaded"
-            detail: "Add a key above and the agent will offer it without asking for its passphrase again."
+            detail: "Add a key above and the agent will offer it without asking for its passphrase again"
             value: ""
         }
 
@@ -390,12 +390,14 @@ SettingsPage {
         // moment later, because it is read back off disk. The Remove button
         // above stays -- the helper refuses and says this, which is a better
         // answer than a button that is not there.
-        TextRow {
+        Item { width: 1; height: agentNote.visible ? 10 : 0 }
+
+        SettingsNote {
+            id: agentNote
+
             visible: SshKeys.agent?.available === true && !SshKeys.durableRemoval
-            label: "Removing a key from this agent does not stick"
-            detail: "It lists every key in ~/.ssh, so one removed comes straight back at the next sign-in. That is the keyring agent's design, not a bug — move the file out of ~/.ssh to stop it being offered."
-            value: ""
-            divider: false
+            headline: "Removing a key from this agent does not stick"
+            body: "It lists every key in ~/.ssh, so one removed comes straight back at the next sign-in. That is the keyring agent's design, not a bug — move the file out of ~/.ssh to stop it being offered."
         }
     }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/StatusBadge.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// A pill beside a name: the one fact about that thing which decides how to
+// read the rest of the row.
+//
+//   StatusBadge { text: "Bluetooth"; tone: Theme.accent }
+//   StatusBadge { text: "No reader"; tone: Theme.warn }
+//
+// It was born on the Sound page as SoundBadge, where nine outputs named after
+// their chipsets look alike in a list and which of them arrives over the
+// network, over Bluetooth, or is simply away in its case is what tells them
+// apart. That turned out to be the general shape -- an account that is
+// connected, a package that came from Flatpak, a shortcut that has been
+// changed -- so it lost the "Sound" and became the one pill the settings use.
+//
+// Always a single short token, always upper-cased here rather than by the
+// caller. A badge carrying a sentence is a detail line wearing a border.
+
+import QtQuick
+import qs.config
+
+Rectangle {
+    id: root
+
+    property string text: ""
+    // The token the badge is drawn from -- cyan for network devices, the accent
+    // for Bluetooth, muted for a device that is not present.
+    property color tone: Theme.accent
+
+    implicitWidth: label.implicitWidth + 14
+    implicitHeight: 17
+    radius: Theme.pillRadius
+    color: Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.10)
+    border.width: 1
+    border.color: Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.28)
+
+    Text {
+        id: label
+
+        anchors.centerIn: parent
+        text: root.text
+        color: root.tone
+        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
+        font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 2)
+        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+        font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
+        font.letterSpacing: 0.5
+    }
+}

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/StoragePage.qml

@@ -51,14 +51,16 @@ SettingsPage {
 
     readonly property var removableDrives: Disks.drives.filter(entry => entry.removable)
 
+    // Unguarded on purpose, unlike the other refresh-on-open pages: this is the
+    // cheap snapshot, not the walk. Free space moves while Settings is open --
+    // that is most of the reason someone comes back to this page -- and
+    // disks-contract pins the bare call so a later sweep cannot quietly turn it
+    // into a once-a-session read. The expensive walks are asked for by hand.
     Component.onCompleted: Disks.refresh()
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: Disks.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "Storage needs attention"
-        detail: Disks.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: Disks.lastError
     }
 
     // ── Space ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ SettingsPage {
             visible: Disks.breakdownMeasured && Disks.breakdown
                 && Disks.breakdown.complete === false
             label: "The walk ran out of time"
-            detail: "Home, applications and caches are floors rather than totals, so the remainder is larger than it should be."
+            detail: "Home, applications and caches are floors rather than totals, so the remainder is larger than it should be"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }
@@ -249,11 +251,10 @@ SettingsPage {
             }
         }
 
-        TextRow {
+        NotMeasuredRow {
             visible: Disks.foldersMeasured && Disks.folderScanTruncated
             label: "Some folders were not measured"
-            detail: "The walk ran out of time before reaching them, so this list is incomplete."
-            value: ""
+            because: "The walk ran out of time before reaching them, so this list is incomplete"
             divider: false
         }
     }
@@ -343,7 +344,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: Disks.cleanablesMeasured && (Disks.cleanables ?? []).length === 0
             label: "Nothing itemized"
-            detail: "Caches, the trash, unused Flatpak runtimes and the package download cache were all measured and none of them holds anything."
+            detail: "Caches, the trash, unused Flatpak runtimes and the package download cache were all measured and none of them holds anything"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }
@@ -473,7 +474,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: root.removableDrives.length === 0
             label: "None connected"
-            detail: "Drives you plug in appear here, with a way to unmount them safely."
+            detail: "Drives you plug in appear here, with a way to unmount them safely"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SyncPage.qml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 // and restoring defaults both used to happen on a single press, which is the
 // one interaction on this page nobody can take back: the two-stage confirm is
 // the same one Snapshots and Privacy use, where the first press only arms the
-// second and the second is the one wearing the danger colour.
+// second and the second is the one wearing the danger color.
 
 import QtQuick
 import qs.config

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ThemeCard.qml

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Rectangle {
                     ? "Delete " + root.theme.name + ", press again to confirm"
                     : "Delete " + root.theme.name
                 Accessible.description: root.removeArmed
-                    ? "This theme's palette, terminal colours and effects go with it"
+                    ? "This theme's palette, terminal colors and effects go with it"
                     : ""
                 Accessible.focusable: true
                 Accessible.focused: remove.activeFocus

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ThemeEditorWells.qml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 // whole family with it rather than leaving twelve tokens pointing at the old
 // one.
 //
-// One eyedropper process and one colour wheel are shared by all four wells --
+// One eyedropper process and one color wheel are shared by all four wells --
 // the target is remembered rather than duplicated four times.
 
 import QtQuick
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Grid {
     function apply(which: string, hex: string): void {
         const value = String(hex).trim().toLowerCase();
         if (!/^#[0-9a-f]{6}$/.test(value)) {
-            root.lastError = "That is not a colour this theme can use.";
+            root.lastError = "That is not a color this theme can use.";
             return;
         }
         root.lastError = "";
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Grid {
 
     ColorDialog {
         id: wheel
-        title: "Choose a colour"
+        title: "Choose a color"
         // Qt hands back a color value, not a string; toString() on it is
         // "#aarrggbb" when there is alpha, so the channels are read directly.
         onAccepted: root.apply(root.target, Qt.rgba(
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Grid {
         }
         onExited: (exitCode, exitStatus) => {
             if (exitCode !== 0)
-                root.lastError = "Screen colour picking was cancelled or unavailable.";
+                root.lastError = "Screen color picking was cancelled or unavailable.";
         }
     }
 }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ThemeGallery.qml

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 // 900px is narrower than its own caption.
 
 import QtQuick
-import qs.config
 import qs.services
 
 Column {
@@ -25,15 +24,7 @@ Column {
     readonly property real cellWidth: root.columns > 0
         ? (root.width - (root.columns - 1) * 12) / root.columns : 200
 
-    Text {
-        text: root.heading
-        color: Theme.fgMuted
-        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-        font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
-        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-        font.capitalization: Font.AllUppercase
-        font.letterSpacing: 0.7
-    }
+    SectionLabel { text: root.heading }
 
     Grid {
         width: parent.width

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ThemeSaveRow.qml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Naming what you built.
 //
-// Saving snapshots the palette, the terminal colours and the ten effect values
+// Saving snapshots the palette, the terminal colors and the ten effect values
 // as they stand, so a saved theme restores the whole look rather than two
 // accent hexes. Delete appears only for a saved theme, because a shipped one
 // cannot be removed -- it is read from the catalog every launch.
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ SettingRow {
 
     label: "Save as"
     // Armed, the row says what the delete actually costs: a saved theme is the
-    // only copy of its palette, terminal colours and effect values.
+    // only copy of its palette, terminal colors and effect values.
     detail: deleteConfirm.armed
         ? "Deletes “" + String(ThemeProfiles.activeProfile.name ?? "this theme")
-            + "” — its palette, terminal colours and effects go with it"
+            + "” — its palette, terminal colors and effects go with it"
         : (root.custom
             ? "Saving again under a new name keeps both"
             : "Editing a shipped theme forks it; give the fork a name to keep it")

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ThemeStartChips.qml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Flow {
             readonly property bool active: chip.modelData.id === ThemeProfiles.activeId
 
             implicitWidth: caption.implicitWidth + dot.width + 26
-            implicitHeight: 31
+            implicitHeight: 26
             radius: Theme.pillRadius
             color: chip.active
                 ? Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.12)

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/TilingPage.qml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ SettingsPage {
     // one application is what somebody came here to write, and the gaps and
     // borders below are set once and left alone.
     SettingsCard {
-        title: "App rules"
+        title: "Application window rules"
         subtitle: "How specific applications behave when they open. Behaviors, not regexes: pick an application, tick what it should do. Panama's own surfaces cannot be matched."
 
         Repeater {

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/UpdatesPage.qml

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ SettingsPage {
     property string expandedPackage: ""
 
     Component.onCompleted: {
-        Updates.refresh();
+        if (!Updates.scanned)
+            Updates.refresh();
         // A first visit with nothing cached should not show a confident "up to
         // date" it has no basis for, so it goes and finds out.
         if (!Updates.everChecked && !Updates.checking)
@@ -103,12 +104,9 @@ SettingsPage {
 
     // ── What just happened ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-    TextRow {
-        visible: Updates.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "Updates need attention"
-        detail: Updates.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: Updates.lastError
     }
 
     TextRow {
@@ -288,17 +286,18 @@ SettingsPage {
 
         // A check that failed is not a machine that is current. "Current" is
         // only ever said about a list that was actually read.
-        TextRow {
+        NotMeasuredRow {
             visible: Updates.sourceError("flatpak") !== ""
             label: "Flatpak"
-            detail: Updates.sourceError("flatpak")
             value: "Not checked"
+            because: Updates.sourceError("flatpak")
+            divider: true
         }
 
         TextRow {
             visible: Updates.sourceError("flatpak") === "" && Updates.flatpak?.available === false
             label: "Flatpak"
-            detail: "Flatpak is not installed."
+            detail: "Flatpak is not installed"
             value: "Unavailable"
         }
 
@@ -376,18 +375,18 @@ SettingsPage {
             onTriggered: Updates.apply("flatpak")
         }
 
-        TextRow {
+        NotMeasuredRow {
             visible: Updates.sourceError("firmware") !== ""
             label: "Firmware"
-            detail: Updates.sourceError("firmware")
             value: "Not checked"
+            because: Updates.sourceError("firmware")
             divider: false
         }
 
         TextRow {
             visible: Updates.sourceError("firmware") === "" && Updates.firmware?.available === false
             label: "Firmware"
-            detail: "Firmware updating is not available on this machine."
+            detail: "Firmware updating is not available on this machine"
             value: "Unavailable"
             divider: false
         }
@@ -460,7 +459,7 @@ SettingsPage {
         TextRow {
             visible: Updates.historyLoaded && Updates.history.length === 0
             label: "Nothing recorded"
-            detail: "Neither dnf nor flatpak has a transaction history here."
+            detail: "Neither dnf nor flatpak has a transaction history here"
             value: ""
             divider: false
         }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/UsersPage.qml

@@ -155,20 +155,19 @@ SettingsPage {
     }
 
     Component.onCompleted: {
-        UserAccounts.refresh();
+        if (!UserAccounts.scanned)
+            UserAccounts.refresh();
         // Probing fprintd bus-activates it, so it waits for the page rather
         // than costing every shell launch.
-        Fingerprint.refresh();
+        if (!Fingerprint.scanned)
+            Fingerprint.refresh();
     }
 
     // A write that failed is a row, not a page. Everything below stays usable,
     // because the thing that refused is almost never the thing being read.
-    TextRow {
-        visible: UserAccounts.lastError !== ""
+    ErrorRow {
         label: "That change did not go through"
-        detail: UserAccounts.lastError
-        value: ""
-        divider: false
+        message: UserAccounts.lastError
     }
 
     // ── You ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -466,26 +465,10 @@ SettingsPage {
                 anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                 spacing: 8
 
-                Rectangle {
+                StatusBadge {
                     anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                    width: noReader.implicitWidth + 14
-                    height: 17
-                    radius: Theme.pillRadius
-                    color: Theme.alpha(Theme.warn, 0.1)
-                    border.width: 1
-                    border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.warn, 0.3)
-
-                    Text {
-                        id: noReader
-
-                        anchors.centerIn: parent
-                        text: "NO READER"
-                        color: Theme.warn
-                        font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                        font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 2)
-                        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                        font.letterSpacing: 0.5
-                    }
+                    text: "No reader"
+                    tone: Theme.warn
                 }
 
                 SettingsButton {
@@ -513,17 +496,7 @@ SettingsPage {
                 onToggled: value => Fingerprint.setUnlockEnabled(value)
             }
 
-            Text {
-                width: parent.width
-                text: "ENROLLED FINGERS"
-                color: Theme.fgMuted
-                font.family: Theme.fontFamily
-                font.pixelSize: Math.max(9, Theme.fontSizeSmall - 1)
-                font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                font.letterSpacing: 0.8
-                topPadding: 12
-                bottomPadding: 4
-            }
+            SectionLabel { text: "Enrolled fingers" }
 
             TextRow {
                 width: parent.width
@@ -620,12 +593,9 @@ SettingsPage {
             }
         }
 
-        TextRow {
-            visible: Fingerprint.lastError !== ""
+        ErrorRow {
             label: "The reader had something to say"
-            detail: Fingerprint.lastError
-            value: ""
-            divider: false
+            message: Fingerprint.lastError
         }
     }
 

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/WindowRuleEditor.qml

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Column {
             width: parent.width
             visible: root.openWindows.length > 0
             label: "Open right now"
-            detail: "The class comes from the compositor, so these are exact."
+            detail: "The class comes from the compositor, so these are exact"
             current: root.windowClass
             options: root.openWindows
             divider: false
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ Column {
             width: parent.width
             visible: root.workspaceOn
             label: "Workspace"
-            detail: "The ten the keymap reaches."
+            detail: "The ten the keymap reaches"
             current: root.workspace
             options: root.workspaceOptions
             divider: false

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/WorkspacesPage.qml

@@ -96,11 +96,9 @@ SettingsPage {
             }
         }
 
-        TextRow {
-            visible: Projects.lastError !== ""
+        ErrorRow {
             label: "Problem"
-            detail: Projects.lastError
-            divider: false
+            message: Projects.lastError
         }
     }
 }

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/qmldir

@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ PasswordField 1.0 PasswordField.qml
 AudioBalance 1.0 AudioBalance.qml
 SoundDeviceList 1.0 SoundDeviceList.qml
 SoundDeviceRow 1.0 SoundDeviceRow.qml
-SoundBadge 1.0 SoundBadge.qml
 SoundChannelStrip 1.0 SoundChannelStrip.qml
 SoundVolumeRow 1.0 SoundVolumeRow.qml
 SoundThemeRow 1.0 SoundThemeRow.qml
@@ -117,6 +116,7 @@ TextEntryRow 1.0 TextEntryRow.qml
 PrivacyPage 1.0 PrivacyPage.qml
 PrivacyLiveTile 1.0 PrivacyLiveTile.qml
 SectionLabel 1.0 SectionLabel.qml
+StatusBadge 1.0 StatusBadge.qml
 SearchPicker 1.0 SearchPicker.qml
 OnlineAccountsPage 1.0 OnlineAccountsPage.qml
 TextFieldRow 1.0 TextFieldRow.qml