Give the desktop real themes, video wallpapers, and honest titlebars

Appearance now opens on Themes: light and dark side by side, each
remembering its own choice, over galleries of ten shipped themes —
Tokyo Moon and Day joined by Moon Rose, Catppuccin, Nord, Gruvbox and
Everforest in both modes. A theme is a complete palette: the catalog
lives in themes.json, Theme.qml reads every color token from the
active record, and one render pipeline carries it to kitty, tmux,
btop, GTK, Vicinae, Firefox's chrome, and the lock screen. The Theme
editor builds new ones from four wells — wheel, hex, or eyedropper —
with derived surfaces, a saturation slider, debounced fine-tune, and
effects that save with the theme. Custom edits finally keep GNOME's
accent, kitty's border, and hyprlock in sync.

Wallpapers can be video: mpvpaper per output, hardware-decoded, muted
and looped, supervised and respawned. Panama owns the pausing — games,
battery, and a bar pill for right now — because the compositor
rebuilds full-screen blur for every frame a video wallpaper draws.
The lock screen gets a still frame.

Titlebars stop lying. GNOME apps get close-only on your chosen side,
the maximize and double-click settings are gone, the Settings window
obeys the same rules, and its titlebar can be turned off entirely.
Typography becomes five labeled dropdowns instead of a wall of
samples.

Contracts updated and written throughout (165 now); per the redesign
workflow none were executed — the full sweep runs once at the end.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
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// and emoji-copy extensions, so its clipboard and emoji views are bound
// directly in hypr/keybinds.lua.
// Vicinae 0.26 selects a theme per system appearance, and now there is a
// theme for each: the launcher follows Panama's light/dark setting instead of
// staying dark on a light desktop. Both are authored here rather than using
// Vicinae's bundled Tokyo Night, which ships Night and Storm but not the Moon
// and Day variants the rest of this desktop uses.
// Vicinae 0.26 selects a theme per system appearance, and there is a theme
// for each: the launcher follows Panama's light/dark setting instead of
// staying dark on a light desktop.
//
// Both are GENERATED, by quickshell/scripts/panama-theme-apps, from whichever
// Panama theme is chosen for that scheme -- so the launcher wears Catppuccin
// when the desktop does, rather than being pinned to the two Tokyo Nights the
// way the authored themes/ files were. They are written straight into
// ~/.local/share/vicinae/themes, beside the symlinks to the authored ones: a
// generated file inside the repository's themes folder would show up as a
// change to the repository every time the theme moved.
"theme": {
"light": {
"name": "tokyonight-day",
"name": "panama-light",
"icon_theme": "auto"
},
"dark": {
"name": "tokyonight-moon",
"name": "panama-dark",
"icon_theme": "auto"
}
},