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
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
Two more applications that keep their own palette and so never followed
the desktop. btop was on "Default" and had never been themed at all;
tmux had Tokyo Night Moon hardcoded across seventeen lines, which meant
a dark status bar sitting under a light terminal in light mode.
Both themes are authored rather than borrowed. btop ships a
"tokyo-night" theme, but it is the Night variant (#1a1b26) where the
rest of this desktop is Moon (#222436), and two Tokyo Nights side by
side read as a mistake; it ships no Tokyo Night light theme at all.
Colours come from kitty's theme files so a terminal and what runs inside
it cannot disagree.
tmux follows kitty's shape: the colours move to themes/, tmux.conf
sources a generated current-theme.conf, and running servers are
re-sourced so an open session changes immediately rather than at next
launch. btop is different -- it OWNS btop.conf and rewrites it on exit,
so only the color_theme line is edited in place and the file is not
symlinked into the repository. btop reads its theme once at startup, so
a running instance keeps the old colours; forcing a restart would kill a
process the user is watching.
The tmux light theme took two passes. Mapping the palette role-for-role
put the standard Day accents on a mid-grey panel at 2.74:1 and 2.94:1 --
under the 3:1 floor, on a bar you read at a glance. It now uses Day's
darker accent variants on a lighter panel: 4.42:1 and 4.17:1, and
5.01:1 / 4.73:1 for the light text inside the inverted blocks.
The helper also now reports every target rather than only kitty. Saying
"kitty: applied" while silently skipping three other applications is
how a half-applied theme goes unnoticed.
Not changed: bat is configured with --theme ansi, which follows the
terminal's own palette, so it already tracks kitty with nothing to do.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
Gabriel Brown
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