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Gabriel Brown 07db1068f1 Review everything shipped this weekend, and fix what the reviewers caught
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
2026-08-24 13:29:42 -04:00
Gabriel Brown f8f5b25510 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
2026-08-24 04:28:20 -04:00
Gabriel Brown 50077a0c31 Fix the second dead settings button, and pin the class shut
A sweep for controls wired to targets the backend does not handle -- the shape
of the dictation bug -- found one more: "Start Orca" on the Accessibility page
called openApplication("orca") with no "orca" in the command map, so it set an
error and launched nothing. orca ships in hyprland-packages; it now runs.

That is the whole count. Every service-method call across 84 settings pages
resolves, every helper subcommand a service invokes is implemented, every
openGnomePanel handoff is allow-listed. Two dead buttons existed in the entire
settings app -- the dictation Download and this -- and both are fixed.

settings-buttons-contract pins the class: every openApplication id and
openGnomePanel panel a QML button passes must be present in SystemSettings'
dispatch maps, both of which return false silently on an unknown name.
Verified it catches the orca button when the fix is reverted.

And a dependency-contract exception the ffmpeg fix needed: ffmpeg is provided
by a swap (ffmpeg-free -> ffmpeg), never a list entry, because listing it is
the conflict that fix removed -- so panama-transcode's use of it is satisfied
without a package name to point at.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
2026-08-23 14:11:15 -04:00
Gabriel Brown 9530e32326 Give a laptop its first week: the keys, the lid, the battery's endgame
The audit's fourth tier -- what a Framework owner reaches for in the first
week and found missing.

The power button stops being an instant, unconfirmed poweroff: a shipped
logind drop-in tells the daemon to stand down and the compositor binds the
key to the power menu, the way GNOME turns it into a question. Holding it
still hard-cuts through firmware. change-settings restarts logind so the
change applies without waiting for a boot, and the Power page says what the
button does now.

The function row fills in: F10 (XF86RFKill) toggles airplane mode through a
new panama-osd verb that blocks or unblocks every radio and says which way it
went; F9 (XF86Display) opens the Displays page, the honest action until
mirroring exists. And the lid becomes a switch bind: closing a docked lid
turns the internal panel off so nothing renders inside a closed shell and no
workspace strands on an invisible output, and opening it restores the panel
with the mode and scale chosen in Settings. panama-lid owns both decisions;
undocked machines suspend via logind before any of it matters.

The battery gets an endgame. On battery the screen dims to 30% two-thirds of
the way to blanking -- GNOME's single largest idle battery saver -- and
restores exactly the level it saved. At the urgent threshold the machine
suspends after a fifteen-second grace, cancelled by plugging in, because a
suspend preserves the session for days and a hard cut at 0% preserves
nothing; "Only warn" remains a choice on the Power page. Hibernate joins the
power menu, but only where logind answers CanHibernate with yes -- an entry
that fails silently is worse than none.

And brightness stops being two code paths: the Displays page now embeds the
same control the quick-settings panel uses, so the built-in backlight and
DDC/CI monitors share one surface that withdraws itself where neither
exists. The lid contract narrows to what its principle protects -- a
HandleLidSwitch drop-in -- so deliberate policy for other keys can ship.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
2026-08-23 12:21:08 -04:00
Gabriel Brown 153554b5df Make ./install something you could hand a stranger
The audit's third tier: everything between this installer and a fresh machine
it has never met.

The one path that could cost a person their display: the interview probes
Secure Boot with mokutil, which install-packages had not installed yet, so on
a minimal base the MOK question silently never fired -- and install-hardware
still installed akmod-nvidia and blacklisted nouveau, arming a reboot into an
unloadable driver with its fallback disabled. The probe tools (pciutils,
mokutil, fwupd) now bootstrap beside gum, and install-hardware re-checks
Secure Boot for itself and refuses the driver rather than the display.

Secrets leave the checkout: the personal environment moves to
~/.config/panama/env at mode 600 by migration, and .bashrc sources it with a
permission check that quietly re-tightens drift. change-settings no longer
overwrites /etc/dnf/dnf.conf -- two performance keys are set additively, the
defaultyes=True that made every `dnf remove` treat Enter as yes is gone, and
a migration strips it from machines that already received it.

Package installation survives the world changing: the initial and desktop
lists run with --skip-unavailable and a report_missing pass that names what
was skipped (resolved through --whatprovides, so capability names like awk
do not cry wolf); the openh264, appstream and core-group extras go through
soft; RustDesk resolves its RPM for the machine's own architecture; and the
Claude Desktop repository script is fetched to a kept file and run, never
piped from the network into root.

The hardware predicates stop guessing: a wireless mouse's scope=Device
battery no longer turns a tower into a laptop, USB-PD-only machines read
their power state from the battery's own status instead of being permanently
"on AC", the lid falls back to logind's LidClosed where ACPI is silent, and
charge limits reach every pack of a two-battery machine in one authorization
-- with the reported percentage summed across packs.

And the parsers stop assuming this machine: snapper is read through
--machine-readable csv with named columns instead of a localized box-drawing
table, and reports whether snapshots are even possible so ext4 and
unconfigured-btrfs stop looking identical; fprintd is parsed under LC_ALL=C;
the hypridle drop-in resolves the binary it points at; the recorder's render
node became an "auto" token resolved at record time; update-grub writes the
config its firmware actually boots; the nvm prompt hook and the SSH tmux
takeover are guarded; hipblas and rocm-opencl move to an opt-in gpu-compute
category; and the two interactive python tools' libraries are declared.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
2026-08-23 12:10:03 -04:00
Gabriel Brown dfc0c49877 Let the laptop say what it is doing: battery percentage, the lid, a fingerprint
Three surfaces the first laptop install showed were missing.

The bar's battery icon gets an optional exact number beside it -- GNOME's
"Show Battery Percentage", off by default for GNOME's reason, one color with
the icon so it reads as one indicator.

The Power page says what closing the lid does. The policy already existed
(LidPolicy holds a suspend inhibitor while an external display is connected)
but was surfaced nowhere, so the machine's most physical behavior was
undiscoverable -- and the deliberate absence of an override deserves stating
rather than leaving someone to hunt for a switch that does not exist.

And the Users page grows a Fingerprint card, because fingerprint login is two
systems that fail silently when they disagree: fprintd holds the enrolled
prints, authselect decides whether PAM ever asks the reader. This machine
arrived with a finger enrolled from its GNOME days and with-fingerprint off,
which reads as "the reader is broken". The card shows both facts, flips the
authselect feature through polkit with a stated reason, and hands enrollment
to GNOME's Users panel, which owns the only good capture dialog -- a named
exception in the handoff contract. Everything through scripts/panama-fingerprint,
pinned by a stub-driven contract.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
2026-08-23 11:07:37 -04:00
Gabriel Brown 12f6b2a310 Let the contracts assert properties, not the machine they were written on
The first run of the suite on a laptop found five contracts asserting the
desktop instead of the code. settings-system pinned DP-2 at 4500x3000 in
XRGB2101010; it now asks Hyprland what is actually primary. ssh-keys hardcoded
id_ed25519; it now uses whichever key exists. switcher's live half stepped a
session with one window, which step() deliberately refuses. displays raced the
service's revert readback -- the compositor looks restored while verification
still holds busy, so an immediate apply was refused with its error already
cleared; the harness now exposes settled and the contract waits for it.

declared-dependencies gets an OPTIONAL list for docker: the aliases serve
machines that run Docker deliberately, Panama's runtime is rootless podman,
and a missing docker fails by naming the command, which is loud enough.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
2026-08-23 10:32:17 -04:00
Gabriel Brown 333ab9f6b7 Press the browser key twice, get one browser
The application keys ran their command unconditionally, so pressing the
browser key twice gave you two browsers. That is the single most common
"Linux feels wrong" moment and it is a twenty-line fix: match the
window class, focus it if it is there, launch if it is not.

Two details the obvious version gets wrong. Patterns are anchored,
because an unanchored "mail" matches gmail-notifier and the mail key
would raise somebody's notifier. And class alone is not enough here:
the terminal and the editor are both kitty, so the editor bind narrows
by title or it raises whatever terminal happened to be open. The
contract's fixture contains both traps.

Found and fixed a bug this shipped with earlier today. Hyprland 0.56
dispatches through Lua, so `hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:0x...`
is parsed as Lua source and fails with a syntax error -- which is what
the launcher's Switch Window command had been doing since it landed.
Its own contract stubbed hyprctl and recorded the arguments, so the
call looked correct and never ran. Both now use the selector form
hl.focus actually accepts, and the contract asserts the shape rather
than only that something was dispatched.
2026-08-22 06:02:47 -04:00
Gabriel Brown 3c359f3f7e Notice the battery, and the machine it is or is not in
Panama had no idea whether it was running on a laptop. No upower, no
battery, no lid, no AC: hypridle.conf says "This is a desktop" in its
own header, and that was true of the code as well as the machine.

panama-hw answers hardware questions one at a time, exits 0 or 1, and
prints nothing, so scripts, services and contracts all ask the same
way. The definition the rest of the laptop work hangs on is one line:
clamshell is lid-closed AND an external monitor. A machine with no
mains supply at all reports as being on wall power, because a desktop
cannot run out of it.

The battery service follows Vitals: sysfs through FileView, an
availability flag, and no subprocess on the timer. Globbing is the one
thing QML cannot do -- a battery is BAT0 or BAT1 or CMB0, mains is AC
or ADP1 or ACAD -- so panama-battery resolves the names once and the
shell reads the files directly after. Nothing falls back to a
plausible zero: a desktop shows no indicator, no card, and no charge
limit control where the firmware has no ceiling.

Also repairs two contracts that were already failing and had not been
noticed, because only the full suite runs them. The dependency
scanner treated line-initial variable assignments, case labels,
comments and heredoc bodies as commands, and `count`, `host`, `cancel`
and `import` are all real binaries on Fedora, so `command -v` could
not filter them out. It now drops comments and heredoc bodies and
requires a command to be followed by whitespace. Verified it still
catches a genuinely undeclared dependency rather than passing quietly.
The launcher command contract had not been told about the fourteen
commands added earlier today.
2026-08-21 21:43:14 -04:00
Gabriel Brown 725e274ef4 Install the Node this shell config has always assumed
config/bash/shell sources /etc/profile.d/nvm.sh, switches Node per project from
.nvmrc, and puts PNPM_HOME on PATH. None of it worked on a fresh machine. nvm
was never installed -- it is a Terra package, present here since before Panama
-- and the source was unconditional, so every shell on a new box opened with an
error before it got as far as failing to find nvm.

That is the second instance of the same bug. $HOME/.cargo/env was the first, and
fixing it one file at a time is why this one survived: the dependency contract
scanned setup/scripts, bin and the quickshell helpers, but never config/bash --
the one place in this repository whose entire job is to name tools and source
the files that provide them.

So it scans it now, and checks the shape rather than the instance: a literal
path sourced without testing it exists is a finding, wherever it appears. It
found the nvm line, and authselect behind the fingerprint aliases.

Node and pnpm move to nvm with it. They were declared as dnf packages while the
machine ran them from ~/.nvm, which is not a preference so much as a
contradiction -- a system Node earlier on PATH wins every `nvm use`, so the
per-project switching this shell config sets up could never have worked. nvm
install --lts, then pnpm inside it, so pnpm travels with the Node version it
belongs to instead of outliving it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q84axqUE5inJhf5Jz9CFy1
2026-08-21 00:30:48 -04:00
Gabriel Brown e1faaf7a76 Drop the extension, and give the test suite a front door
Phase 6, the last of the fresh-install spec.

159 scripts lose their .sh: 110 contracts, 47 Vicinae commands, 2 compositor
contracts. A shebang and the executable bit already select the interpreter. The
extension only ever added something that had to stay in sync, and the rename
proved the point twice over in the space of an hour.

The spec's stated risk was Vicinae's script discovery. One script was renamed and
reloaded on its own before the other 46 followed; it came back as
scripts:panama.capture and all 47 resolve. What the probe turned up instead is
that the extension was never only a filename: Vicinae's command IDs embed it, so
every ID changed. Nothing in this repository refers to them, so nothing breaks.
The only trace is Vicinae's metadata.json, whose visited map had two Panama
entries that are now orphaned -- two commands lost their usage ranking and will
earn it back. Worth knowing before anyone renames these again on a machine that
has a keybind pointing at one.

Rewriting the references by exact filename missed two things it structurally
could not see: a name built from a variable, settings-$page.sh, and a glob,
-name '*.sh'. Both were in the contract that counts the generated commands, which
promptly reported 47 expected and 0 found. The mechanical part of a rename is the
part that looks finished.

The three subcommands. panama doctor fronts a health check that already existed
and already ran at the end of every install but could not be reached from a
terminal. panama upgrade re-runs the installer from anywhere. panama test runs
the suite, which had no entry point at all -- 121 files that were the main safety
net in this repository and were invisible in it.

Writing that runner found three tests nothing was running.
calendar_agenda_bridge_test, home_assistant_bridge_test and kdeconnect_bridge_test
are unittest suites without the executable bit, so no contract invoked them and
the first draft of the runner skipped them silently. All three pass, and have
passed unobserved for weeks. The runner collects *_test.py as well now, because a
runner with a blind spot is worse than no runner for the same reason a dependency
checker with one is: it reports PASS.

Six worktrees pruned. Each was re-checked rather than trusted to the spec's list,
and two needed it: panama-commands is not on feat/panama-commands but on
feat/gnome-tweaks-parity, and fix/panama-displays-review reads [ahead 3] -- ahead
of its remote, not of main, with every commit patch-equivalent to landed work.
roadmap-completion stays; it has five commits that are genuinely unlanded. The
branches are left alone: pruning a worktree costs nothing, deleting a branch is a
decision.

121 contracts pass.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NvgBuSWB5sE43yWmg21ozj
2026-08-20 21:55:55 -04:00