Make Shell a category, the bar legible, and the dock a real dock

Desktop & Dock becomes Shell — Bar, Dock, Control Center, Tiling,
Workspaces — the home for everything Quickshell draws. The settings-
management cluster moves to System as Sync & Backup, Appearance's
Shell tab dissolves, and 24-hour time finally lives on Date & Time,
which always owned it.

The bar gets what it never had: a way to survive the wallpaper. A
second neutral text family (follow theme, or forced light or dark),
a one-layer shadow under every glyph, and a gradient scrim for
wallpapers nothing else survives — all off by default, pixel-identical
until asked. Widgets earn toggles (weather, media, clipboard, calendar
countdown), the vitals cluster stops leaving a dead pill behind, and
Control Center's sections learn to step aside.

The dock graduates from MVP: a context menu with window rows, pin,
unpin, quit and new-window; scroll an icon to cycle its windows; drag
to reorder on the dock itself; hover previews with one-shot captures;
and "Add App to Dock" in the launcher. Three real bugs died en route —
menus that slid away with the autohide, a readonly-property crash on
every menu open, and a drag that drifted half a slot per icon on side
docks. The pinned-apps editor in Settings becomes a drag strip.

166 contracts; the full suite is green except two live display and
switcher tests that cannot run behind a locked session — re-verified
on unlock.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
This commit is contained in:
Gabriel Brown
2026-08-24 04:28:20 -04:00
parent 4d7a194300
commit f8f5b25510
77 changed files with 2982 additions and 800 deletions
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ SettingsPage {
{ value: "background", label: "Background" },
{ value: "type", label: "Typography" },
{ value: "windows", label: "Windows" },
{ value: "shell", label: "Shell" },
]
current: root.tab
onSelected: value => root.tab = value
@@ -581,48 +580,4 @@ SettingsPage {
ToggleRow { setting: "animationsEnabled"; divider: false }
}
SettingsCard {
visible: root.tab === "shell"
title: "Clock"
ToggleRow { setting: "use24Hour" }
ToggleRow { setting: "showSeconds" }
ToggleRow { setting: "showWeekday"; divider: false }
}
SettingsCard {
visible: root.tab === "shell"
title: "System vitals"
subtitle: "Choose what appears beside the workspace indicator."
ToggleRow { setting: "showCpu" }
ToggleRow { setting: "showMemory" }
ToggleRow { setting: "showGpu" }
// Only where there is a battery to report on. A desktop should not be
// offered a switch for a readout it can never show.
ToggleRow { setting: "showBattery"; visible: Battery.available }
ToggleRow { setting: "showBatteryPercent"; visible: Battery.available && Settings.showBattery }
ToggleRow { setting: "showAgentUsage"; divider: true }
// Refresh interval was on the Home page, which split one concept across
// two pages -- what the vitals show here, how often they update there.
SliderRow { setting: "vitalsIntervalMs"; divider: GraphicsDevices.devices.length > 1 || GraphicsDevices.selectionMissing }
// Only worth asking when there is a choice to make.
ChoiceGrid {
visible: GraphicsDevices.devices.length > 1 || GraphicsDevices.selectionMissing
width: parent.width
label: "Graphics device"
detail: GraphicsDevices.selectionMissing
? "The stored device is not present on this machine, so the graphics readout is hidden. Choose one below."
: "Which GPU the graphics readout measures."
options: GraphicsDevices.devices.map(device => ({
value: device.path,
label: GraphicsDevices.shortName(device.name)
}))
current: GraphicsDevices.selectedPath
divider: false
onPicked: value => GraphicsDevices.select(value)
}
}
}