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 Gabriel Brown
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cb7c09d208 |
Give the desktop real themes, video wallpapers, and honest titlebars
Appearance now opens on Themes: light and dark side by side, each remembering its own choice, over galleries of ten shipped themes — Tokyo Moon and Day joined by Moon Rose, Catppuccin, Nord, Gruvbox and Everforest in both modes. A theme is a complete palette: the catalog lives in themes.json, Theme.qml reads every color token from the active record, and one render pipeline carries it to kitty, tmux, btop, GTK, Vicinae, Firefox's chrome, and the lock screen. The Theme editor builds new ones from four wells — wheel, hex, or eyedropper — with derived surfaces, a saturation slider, debounced fine-tune, and effects that save with the theme. Custom edits finally keep GNOME's accent, kitty's border, and hyprlock in sync. Wallpapers can be video: mpvpaper per output, hardware-decoded, muted and looped, supervised and respawned. Panama owns the pausing — games, battery, and a bar pill for right now — because the compositor rebuilds full-screen blur for every frame a video wallpaper draws. The lock screen gets a still frame. Titlebars stop lying. GNOME apps get close-only on your chosen side, the maximize and double-click settings are gone, the Settings window obeys the same rules, and its titlebar can be turned off entirely. Typography becomes five labeled dropdowns instead of a wall of samples. Contracts updated and written throughout (165 now); per the redesign workflow none were executed — the full sweep runs once at the end. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8 |
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Gabriel Brown
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7a5e990439 |
Let somebody extend this without forking it, and say when things die
Two of Section F. Hooks are the pressure valve. "Can Panama also do X when the theme changes" is now a five-line file in ~/.config/panama/hooks rather than a fork, a feature request, or a patch somebody rebases forever. Each name takes a single file and a .d directory so several things can react without fighting over one, and a broken hook is reported and stepped over: somebody's script must never cost a theme change, an upgrade or a login. Wired at theme-set, post-upgrade and post-migrate. This is the thirty-line version of the plugin host the upstream ledger defers, and it has no API to keep stable beyond "we will run your script and tell you what happened". Testing it caught a real bug the reading would not have: run_one captured the script path but never shifted it off, so every hook got its own filename as $1 and the real arguments arrived one place late. A hook reading $1 as the colour scheme got a path. The crash watcher notices when a program dumps core and says so. Under GNOME, ABRT does this; here nothing did, and applications died silently, which is most of how "Linux is flaky" gets earned. Once per program per session is the entire design, not a nicety. This machine's portal backend crashes between eleven and sixty times a day, and a notification per crash would be one every few minutes for something nobody can act on. The first is news; the fortieth is why people turn notifications off. The health page keeps the running count. It waits for the notification server before reporting, because the crash most worth hearing about is the one that took the shell with it, and it names the executable rather than the kernel's comm field, which truncates at fifteen characters. Verified against real segfaults. |
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Gabriel Brown
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e1a04d2d70 |
Write the eight accents down once
They were written down five times: ThemeProfileModel.js for QML, looks.lua for the compositor, and again in panama-theme-apps and panama-lock. The GNOME accent-name mapping was a sixth list. Adding a ninth accent meant editing all of them, and the file most likely to be missed was the lock screen, which fails silently -- the machine locks in last season's colour and nothing says why. panama-theme-apps admitted it in a comment: "there is no shared source between QML and a shell script". config/palette.json is that source now. looks.lua reads it through a new prefs.readJson, which uses the same never-raise parser the settings store uses, so an unreadable palette costs the accent colours and never the compositor config. The two shell generators read it through scripts/panama-palette, which also carries the hex-to-rgb conversion hyprlock needs and the GNOME member lookup. QML keeps its table, because a .js module imported into QML cannot read a file. That is still a copy, so the palette contract compares the two value by value -- every accent, every field -- and fails on any disagreement. Verified by planting a wrong hex and watching it name the exact field. The adwaita contract used to check the shell's own copy of the GNOME mapping. It now checks that the shell resolves through the palette, and fails if that copy ever grows back. |
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Gabriel Brown
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91306ce810 |
Give libadwaita applications the desktop's accent
Files, Papers, Loupe and every other libadwaita application read their accent from the Settings portal, so they rendered in GNOME blue no matter which accent this desktop was set to -- correct on our own surfaces, wrong on half the screen. xdg-desktop-portal-gtk cannot serve org.freedesktop.appearance accent-color at all; the string does not appear in the 1.15.3 binary. The gnome backend serves it, so Settings now routes to gnome with gtk still listed behind it -- the frontend merges Settings backends in order, so color-scheme keeps resolving if the gnome backend is ever unavailable. GNOME's accent-color is a fixed enum of nine names rather than a color, so each of our eight accents carries its nearest member. Nearest by hue rather than by name: rose maps to red, because it is the red role in this palette. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L |
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Gabriel Brown
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d96863b687 |
Convert British spellings to American across the repo
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 |
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Gabriel Brown
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9ba224d776 |
Finish threading the accent colour through the whole desktop
The recent accent-colour setting only reached part of the desktop. looks.lua still hardcoded the focused-window border and glow to blue, so any hyprctl reload -- or every fresh session, for about a second -- reverted a chosen accent; it now reads accentName the same way it already read colorScheme. The lock screen and terminal stayed blue regardless of the chosen accent despite the setting's own description claiming otherwise; panama-lock and panama-theme-apps now resolve and apply the real accent. AccentPicker built its swatch model from Theme.accents directly instead of the schema's own options list, so the two could drift silently; switched it to read the schema. Its hit target only covered the swatch, not the name label added specifically for colour-vision accessibility -- extended to the whole row. Settings search had no route for the "appearance" group, so searching for the accent or colour scheme landed on Home. ColorScheme's hex-to-Hyprland helper assumed 6-digit colours and would silently corrupt a future translucent one; fixed it to read from the end of the string instead of the start. An accent-only change no longer reruns the full colour-scheme pipeline. The gradient it builds for the focused border now goes through SystemSettings' existing serialiser instead of a second, under-escaped copy of the same logic. The settings-ownership contract test enforced the old rule that ColorScheme must never touch the focused border; updated it to verify the real, intended rule instead of contradicting the code. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E6TJUAh41HaP25MVHWkhRZ |
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Gabriel Brown
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2d69ce7648 |
Make the lock screen follow the colour scheme
hyprlock.conf shipped with Tokyo Night Moon hardcoded in six places, so choosing light mode left the lock screen dark. Every other surface had been taught to follow the scheme this week -- kitty, GTK, the launcher, btop, tmux, neovim -- and this was the one left, which is unfortunate, because it is the screen a user sees most often and the worst possible place to find a theming bug: you discover it while locked out of the machine and cannot fix it from there. It is now generated from a template on every scheme change, the same shape kitty, GTK, tmux and btop already use, and seeded by link-dotfiles so the first lock of a fresh install is themed rather than falling back to hyprlock's bare grey default. hyprlock is launched fresh on each lock (`pidof hyprlock || hyprlock`), so it picks the file up with no restart. The dark output is byte-identical to the file it replaces, ignoring comments -- verified by diff -- so nothing changes for anyone already in dark mode. One detail worth recording: hyprlock takes rgba(r, g, b, a) in DECIMAL, not hex, so the template carries "R, G, B" triples where every other theme file in this repository uses hex. Two values are the exception, sitting inside Pango markup where hyprlock wants ##rrggbb. Getting either wrong is not a parse error -- hyprlock ignores the value and uses its own default, silently. Which is why this has a contract. It generates both schemes into a fixture, never the live config, and checks that no placeholder survives substitution, that every colour is a well-formed decimal triple, that the Pango values are well-formed hex, that a light lock screen is actually light, and that the two schemes differ at all. Verified it catches a hardcoded colour left in the template and a light mode built from the dark palette, which is the original bug exactly. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L |
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Gabriel Brown
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27af4fd443 |
Carry the colour scheme into btop and tmux
Two more applications that keep their own palette and so never followed the desktop. btop was on "Default" and had never been themed at all; tmux had Tokyo Night Moon hardcoded across seventeen lines, which meant a dark status bar sitting under a light terminal in light mode. Both themes are authored rather than borrowed. btop ships a "tokyo-night" theme, but it is the Night variant (#1a1b26) where the rest of this desktop is Moon (#222436), and two Tokyo Nights side by side read as a mistake; it ships no Tokyo Night light theme at all. Colours come from kitty's theme files so a terminal and what runs inside it cannot disagree. tmux follows kitty's shape: the colours move to themes/, tmux.conf sources a generated current-theme.conf, and running servers are re-sourced so an open session changes immediately rather than at next launch. btop is different -- it OWNS btop.conf and rewrites it on exit, so only the color_theme line is edited in place and the file is not symlinked into the repository. btop reads its theme once at startup, so a running instance keeps the old colours; forcing a restart would kill a process the user is watching. The tmux light theme took two passes. Mapping the palette role-for-role put the standard Day accents on a mid-grey panel at 2.74:1 and 2.94:1 -- under the 3:1 floor, on a bar you read at a glance. It now uses Day's darker accent variants on a lighter panel: 4.42:1 and 4.17:1, and 5.01:1 / 4.73:1 for the light text inside the inverted blocks. The helper also now reports every target rather than only kitty. Saying "kitty: applied" while silently skipping three other applications is how a half-applied theme goes unnoticed. Not changed: bat is configured with --theme ansi, which follows the terminal's own palette, so it already tracks kitty with nothing to do. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L |
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Gabriel Brown
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f0321432b4 |
Fix dark mode: the GTK theme it asked for does not exist
Reported symptom: Electron applications and a Chromium-based browser, all set to follow the system, went light when the desktop went light and never came back. Nothing reported an error, and the portal was serving the correct value the whole time. Cause: ColorScheme set gtk-theme to "Adwaita-dark" for dark and "Adwaita" for light. Neither is installed on Fedora 44 -- only adw-gtk3 and adw-gtk3-dark are. GTK responds to an unknown theme name by falling back to its built-in default, which is LIGHT. So asking for light worked by accident, asking for dark silently produced light, and anything that takes its cue from the GTK theme rather than the portal stayed light no matter what org.freedesktop.appearance said. Verified: the portal emits correctly in both directions, so this was never the portal's fault. Second cause, the mirror of the first: gtk-3.0/settings.ini and gtk-4.0/settings.ini were pinned to adw-gtk3-dark and prefer-dark=1 and never regenerated. Under GNOME that file is ignored because gnome-settings-daemon publishes over XSETTINGS; under Hyprland nothing does, so for GTK3 it is authoritative -- and it contradicted the scheme in light mode. They are now generated from a template on every switch, gitignored as machine state, and seeded by link-dotfiles, the same shape kitty's current-theme.conf already uses. These directories are symlinked into the repository, so writing the live file directly would dirty the working tree on every theme switch. The failure was silent by construction, so it gets a test rather than a comment: gtk-theme-contract asserts every theme name Panama sets is actually installed, and that the generated GTK config agrees with the scheme in both directions. Verified it catches both original bugs. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L |
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Gabriel Brown
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19063a3e02 |
Carry the colour scheme into terminals and the editor
The scheme switch already reached everything that reads org.freedesktop.appearance -- GTK4, Qt6, Chromium, Electron -- because ColorScheme.qml writes the gsettings key those all watch. Applications carrying their own palettes did not follow, so choosing light mode left the two windows actually used all day, kitty and neovim, still dark. kitty: the 32 colours move out of kitty.conf into themes/, and kitty.conf ends with `include current-theme.conf`. The generated file is machine state rather than configuration, so it is gitignored and link-dotfiles seeds it on install -- otherwise a fresh checkout starts by complaining about a missing include. Running terminals are re-coloured in place over their control sockets; a restart is not needed. neovim: reads settings.json directly, since it neither watches the portal nor keeps a socket open. Tokyo Night ships Day in the same family as Moon, so light mode keeps the editor's identity instead of turning it into a different-looking application. The existing readability overrides were written against Moon and are now dark-only -- applied to Day they would have put light grey on a light background, the same problem they exist to fix, inverted. Light mode gets one override of its own: tokyonight's shipped comment colour measures 2.54:1 against Day's background, under the 3:1 floor for secondary text, so it is replaced with 3.25:1 -- readable, still dimmer than Normal's 4.52:1. An editor already open when the scheme flips re-applies on FocusGained, which is cheap and fires exactly when the mismatch would be noticed. Verified both directions: kitty re-coloured 4 live terminals, and neovim starts as tokyonight-day with background=light and tokyonight-moon with background=dark. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L |