Home is now Overview | My Home | Phone. Overview leads with quick-action
tiles (focus, Do Not Disturb, health, snapshots, storage), keeps the
findings card — updates fold in, the reclaim-space prompt is gone on
purpose — and adds glance cards, the next calendar event, and weather.
My Home groups every light by Home Assistant area: the helper gained an
`areas` command (one REST template render, no websocket), and the rooms
degrade to a flat list on setups without areas. The favorites editor and
connection card moved intact. Phone gains a vitals strip — battery and
cell signal read from KDE Connect's plugin D-Bus objects, where absence
is data, not an error — beside ring, clipboard, send-a-file, and the
BlueBubbles handoff.
The retired home-phone id resolves to my-home forever via a new alias
map in SettingsRoutes (with a hasOwnProperty guard so prototype names
cannot leak into settingsPage). Storage no longer claims 0 B free — the
old page read a field the disks helper never emitted.
Contracts updated alongside; per the new workflow, the full suite runs
once at the end of the redesign (see the test backlog note).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
The sidebar was a flat scan of thirty-one rows; now it reads like a
settings app. Multi-subject categories (Input, Network & Sharing,
Applications, Users & Accounts, Privacy & Security, System) carry an
Appearance-style tab strip above the page, drawn by the shell so the
leaf pages themselves are untouched. The taxonomy lives in one new
file, services/SettingsRoutes.qml; the sidebar, the strip, route
validation, search breadcrumbs, and both generators derive from it.
ShellState.settingsPage still holds leaf ids, so every deep link, IPC
call, and search result keeps working — and now lands on the exact
tab. Dictation moves out of Sound onto its own page under Input, with
a handoff back to Sound for the microphone. The strip scrolls when
System's nine tabs outgrow a tiled window. All 161 contracts pass.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
Thirty settings pages is the opposite of the usual problem: a person
arriving from GNOME, macOS or Windows cannot tell which few things
matter. This is those few, once, on the first start.
Not a tour. Nobody reads a tour, and a multi-step wizard on a desktop
somebody just installed is one more thing between them and using it.
One card, five keys, and a way out.
The chords come from the live keymap rather than being written here, so
a machine whose owner has already rebound something teaches what they
actually have. A welcome screen is the one surface read by somebody
with no way to tell it is wrong, which is exactly why it must not be.
Two deliberate departures from how every other surface behaves. It does
not close on a click outside, because a stray click in the first thirty
seconds would throw away the only explanation on offer. And dismissing
by any route marks it seen, Escape included, because a desktop that
reintroduces itself every login has failed to take no for an answer.
It stays reachable from the launcher afterwards, since the moment
somebody wants it again is exactly when a one-shot has thrown it away.
Also teaches the keymap to spell punctuation: slash, period, comma and
the rest were rendering as their raw keysym names, so the welcome
screen offered "Super + slash" and the cheatsheet agreed with it.
Gabriel Brown