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
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// Control Center.
//
// The panel behind the bar's right corner. Its sections are real surfaces with
// real cost -- Home talks to Home Assistant, Phone to KDE Connect -- so a
// machine that has neither should be able to say so once instead of scrolling
// past two empty shelves every time the panel opens.
//
// The accessories themselves are not configured here. Which lights appear,
// what they are called, and what order they sit in is one arrangement shared
// with the Home page, and it is edited there.
import QtQuick
import qs.config
import qs.services
SettingsPage {
id: root
title: "Control Center"
lede: "What the panel offers when it opens."
SettingsCard {
title: "Sections"
subtitle: "Turning one off hides it from the panel. Nothing stops working — the settings pages behind each still do."
ToggleRow { setting: "ccShowFocus" }
ToggleRow { setting: "ccShowHome" }
ToggleRow { setting: "ccShowPhone"; divider: false }
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Accessories"
ActionRow {
label: "Control Center shelf"
detail: "Which lights and scenes appear, their names and their order — arranged on Home My Home"
action: "Open My Home"
divider: false
onTriggered: ShellState.openSettings("my-home")
}
}
}