Convert British spellings to American across the repo

colour -> color, behaviour -> behavior, centre -> center, favourite ->
favorite, and about twenty other pairs, applied consistently across
comments, docs, error/UI copy, and a handful of QML identifiers that
used the British spelling as their actual name: SystemSettings'
serialiseValue/serialiseTable/normaliseGradient, Displays'
normaliseModes, Wallpaper's normalisePolicy, SettingsBackup's
serialiseHomeState, DateTime's ntpSynchronised property, Clipboard's
_normalise helper, and ShortcutCapture's cancelled signal (with its
onCancelled handler in ShortcutsPage.qml). Every call site and the two
tests that assert on the literal source text (settings-ownership and
settings-backup-live contracts) were updated in lockstep.

Left untouched: config/dot/espanso/match/packages/misspell-en/ is a
vendored third-party autocorrect dictionary -- its entries are typo
corrections, not our prose, and rewriting them would fight the
package's own purpose (and any future re-sync from upstream).

The already-American `favorites` property (Home page pinned
accessories) was never actually misspelled -- only nearby comments and
error strings said "favourites" -- so no data migration was needed
there.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E6TJUAh41HaP25MVHWkhRZ
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-19 08:07:55 -04:00
parent 8156fc47ca
commit d96863b687
113 changed files with 322 additions and 322 deletions
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ opacity=$(hyprctl -j getoption decoration:inactive_opacity | jq -r .float), \
writer-reported error=\"$(qs_for_harness ipc call settings-system-test status | jq -r .lastError)\""
fi
# Verification must recognise those shapes as success, not report them rejected.
# Verification must recognize those shapes as success, not report them rejected.
last_error="$(qs_for_harness ipc call settings-system-test status | jq -r .lastError)"
if [[ -n "$last_error" ]]; then
fail "a verified typed write was reported as failed: $last_error"