The audit's second tier: values that were measurements of the author's
desktop, shipped to every machine as if they were defaults.
Settings greeted every human as Gabriel; it now greets whoever
accountsservice says is signed in, and nobody when it says nothing. The
weather shipped his home coordinates and confidently reported his forecast
anywhere on earth; it now ships unset, fetches nothing until a location is
chosen, and the location row says so. The GTK bookmarks carried seven
/home/gib paths and his file server into every file dialog; they are now
generated per machine from a template and gitignored -- Nautilus edits the
instance freely, the way settings.ini already worked one file over. Web
search routed through his personal bang redirector; the engine is now the
webSearchUrl preference with a DuckDuckGo default, read by both the script
command and the suggestions extension, which the launcher-search contract
already pins to one another. The GPU vitals path defaulted to his card1 and
lost the readout on any machine enumerated differently; a machine with
exactly one GPU now adopts it. And the Containers and Snapshots pages hide
once a scan proves their backing stack absent, instead of rendering
permanently empty on machines that never had podman or snapper.
Lesser residue swept in the same pass: the DP-2 hyprpaper block one machine
needed, the author's username-typo expansions (moved to his personal seed in
user/, where personal content belongs), a capture fallback into /home/gib,
and a parity table asserting one machine's hardware as fact.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
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
The last two values that could only be changed by editing a file.
Weather was pinned to hardcoded coordinates, so the card could not be
pointed anywhere else. It is a location search now, not latitude and
longitude fields: nobody knows their own coordinates, and a control that
demands them is one nobody uses. Open-Meteo's geocoding endpoint needs
no key, the same reason the forecast already uses them. Only the search
term leaves the machine -- the stored place name is a label -- and
coordinates are rounded to four decimals, far finer than a weather
reading resolves and coarse enough to keep a precise home location out
of the settings file.
The graphics readout was hardcoded to card1. This machine has two amdgpu
cards, discrete and integrated, so that was right only by luck, and the
path is meaningless on any other machine. GPUs are enumerated with a
readable name from lspci, since sysfs exposes only numeric ids, and the
picker appears only when there is more than one to choose between. A
stored path the machine does not have is refused and reported rather
than silently measuring nothing.
Also merges the per-application notification rules UI. Its three commits
were believed integrated but the page half was not actually in the tree:
main had the service side in Notifs.qml and zero references to
setAppRule in NotificationsPage. Ancestry is not content.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
Gabriel Brown