The notification background was a 6% foreground tint over a transparent
window, which meant it had nothing behind it at all: the card sat
directly on whatever was on screen and the text competed with it.
Notifications are the one surface someone reads without having chosen to
look at it, so it now uses a real popover surface -- a little lighter
than one you opened deliberately, because a toast arrives unbidden and
full popover weight reads as a dialog demanding an answer.
Windows that ask for attention are now switched to rather than merely
highlighted, so a link opening on another workspace takes you there.
That setting already existed and was simply off; it is a preference
rather than a hardcoded behaviour, so it can be turned back off on the
Desktop & Dock page.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
The control center fix applies to five more surfaces: the date menu,
the clipboard panel, the activity panel, notification toasts, and the
signal glass all opened 48 pixels under the bar while their own
expression asked for 12.
wlr-layer-shell has three behaviors and only the middle one is subtle.
A positive exclusiveZone reserves space; a negative one ignores what
others reserved; zero reserves nothing but RESPECTS what others
reserved. Every popover here uses zero, so the compositor had already
placed them below the bar before their own margin applied, and adding
Theme.barHeight counted the bar twice.
It is not a crash or a warning -- the surface simply opens lower than
written -- so a contract now holds the rule mechanically: a surface
with exclusiveZone 0 may not name Theme.barHeight in a margin. It also
checks the premise it rests on, and fails if the bar ever stops
reserving its own height rather than quietly checking the wrong thing.
Measured after: date menu and clipboard at 12px, control center at 2px,
each matching what its code asks for.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
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
NotificationCenter.qml, CalendarPopup.qml, and RecordingIndicator.qml
were never instantiated anywhere -- shell.qml builds NotificationList,
DateMenu, and CaptureOverlay in their place. Verified with a repo-wide
grep before deleting; updated the two stale comments in Notifs.qml
that still pointed at NotificationCenter.
DESKTOP-PARITY.md still described Wi-Fi QR sharing as deliberately
omitted, though it was since built. The System Health colour-profile
handoff pointed at GNOME's colour panel as if it worked, but the
daemon that actually loads an ICC profile doesn't run in this session,
so it silently does nothing -- reworded the card to say so. Displays
carried two verify-timer attempt counters that were incremented but
never read anywhere.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E6TJUAh41HaP25MVHWkhRZ
WifiList and the notification toasts built their model from a plain
computed array, so any background property tick (a scan result, an
unrelated notification arriving) reassigned the whole array and the
Repeater destroyed and recreated every delegate -- including one with
an open, focused password field or an in-progress reply. Switched
both to a ScriptModel, which diffs by identity instead of resetting.
ValueSlider had its pointer-to-value mapping offset by 16px (the
hit-area margin was applied with the wrong sign), so 0% was
unreachable and every click landed to the right of where it was
placed -- affects every slider in the shell. SliderRow used -1 as a
sentinel for "nothing pending," which collides with legitimate
negative preference values like pointer sensitivity.
Dock intellihide read the globally focused workspace instead of each
monitor's own, so an empty workspace on one screen could hide the
dock on another; ActivityPanel rebuilt every row once a second during
a recording because the elapsed-time read lived in the model
construction instead of each row's own binding.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E6TJUAh41HaP25MVHWkhRZ
Gabriel Brown