Panama absorbed Users, Sharing, Printers and Online Accounts one page at a time.
Each time, the row pointing at GNOME's equivalent stayed exactly where it was --
so an app whose stated purpose is to make GNOME Settings unnecessary shipped four
doors back to it, two of them inside a card headed "these areas remain owned by
Fedora and GNOME's mature system panels".
Nothing failed. Every row worked as written. They were simply no longer true, and
no test could notice, because none of them knew what Panama had come to own in
the meantime. gnome-handoff-contract reads the sidebar for the pages that exist
and the pages for the panels they hand off, and fails on any overlap -- derived
from both sides rather than a hand-kept list, so absorbing the next page cannot
leave a stale door behind. Adding an online account is allow-listed with its
reason: it genuinely requires GOA's own dialog.
health-ui-contract asserted those handoffs were present, which is how they
survived. The assertion is inverted rather than deleted, so reintroducing one
fails loudly.
The Home Assistant "Light entities" box is gone. It was a multi-line list of
comma-separated Zigbee entity IDs, and the light catalog does not come from it --
the helper discovers that live. It is a one-time migration seed for the Control
Center selection, so saving now passes the stored value back untouched: setting a
URL or a token cannot disturb it. Deleting the control naively would have written
an empty list over it.
Sharing showed two "Port" rows for RDP, same label and value, one read-only and
one editable, separated by a switch. The read-only leftover is gone. The SSH port
stays read-only because sshd's port is not ours to write.
About reported "488G free of 1.9T" where Storage said "523 GB free of 2.0 TB" --
the same drive, binary against decimal. About uses decimal now, matching how
drives are sold. Memory and swap stay in GiB, which is how RAM is sold.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
GNOME's Wi-Fi panel has this and it is the most-used thing in it: the
alternative is reading a passphrase out loud. Network & Devices now shows
a scannable code for any saved network whose passphrase this user can
read.
The image contains the network password in machine-readable form, so
most of the care here is about that rather than about QR codes. It is
written under XDG_RUNTIME_DIR -- 0700, on tmpfs, gone at logout --
rather than /tmp, which is shared; the file is 0600; the passphrase is
piped to qrencode on stdin rather than passed as an argument, because
argv is world-readable through /proc for as long as the process runs;
and it is never printed or included in an error message. Generated on
demand, because producing a code for every saved network up front means
writing images of passwords nobody asked to see.
Enterprise networks are listed as not shareable rather than offered and
broken: there is no passphrase to encode, so the code could not work.
Two bugs the contract caught while being written. Semicolons in an SSID
were not escaped -- the sed replacement had one backslash where its four
neighbours have two, so sed dropped it, and an SSID containing a
semicolon would have produced a QR code describing a different network.
And nmcli's trailing newline landed inside the payload; it decoded here,
but a newline in the middle of a WIFI: URI is not something every phone
tolerates, and that failure would present as "the QR code just doesn't
work on my phone".
The contract stubs nmcli and qrencode, because the real ones would write
this machine's actual Wi-Fi password into a fixture directory. It
asserts the escaping, the absence of a newline, the file and directory
modes, that no temporary payload survives, and that the passphrase never
reaches argv.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
Network & Devices was 92 lines and two buttons that opened GNOME. It now
scans, joins, and pairs directly through Quickshell.Networking and
Quickshell.Bluetooth -- NetworkManager and BlueZ over DBus, no shelling
out to nmcli or bluetoothctl. That was the founding requirement for this
desktop: never having to drop to a terminal to join a network.
Scanning follows the page being visible. Wi-Fi scanning and especially
Bluetooth discovery hold the radio, and running either for a list nobody
is looking at spends airtime on nothing.
Joining a secured network gets a real password field, not the clipboard
popover's search box with different placeholder text: a Wi-Fi key typed
into a field that echoes it is readable by anyone behind you, and a
search glyph in front of a password prompt is simply wrong.
Two bugs found by looking at the rendered page, both silent:
The device lookups used enum names that do not exist --
NetworkDeviceType.Wifi rather than DeviceType.Wifi -- so both returned
null and the page reported "No Wi-Fi adapter" on a machine whose Wi-Fi
was connected. Nothing was logged; QML resolves an unknown enum member
to undefined and compares happily.
signalStrength is 0.0-1.0, not a percentage, so thresholds written for
0-100 put every network including the connected one in the bottom
bucket. The labels now use the same buckets as the icons in
quicksettings/WifiList.qml so the two cannot disagree.
The contract compares what the service resolves against what nmcli
reports, rather than only checking that nothing crashed.
Also makes the Home Assistant bridge hermetic: resolve_config read the
user's private env file even when a caller supplied an explicit
environment, so adding a real PANAMA_HOME_ASSISTANT_ENTITIES to that
file silently overrode a fixture asserting the legacy fallback. An
explicit environment is now the whole environment; production still
reads the file. Its live contract skips when no token is configured --
an absent credential is not a defect, and a suite expected to be red
stops being read -- while a configured-but-broken bridge still fails.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
Gabriel Brown