# Panama desktop parity

This is the living inventory for the GNOME-to-Hyprland transition. It records
real behavior, not a one-for-one count of extensions: an enabled extension with
no configured action is not treated as missing functionality.

Last live audit: 2026-08-17, Fedora 44, Hyprland 0.56.2, Quickshell 0.3.0.

## Daily desktop surfaces

| Capability | Panama implementation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| App launcher and run dialog | Vicinae; Wofi emergency fallback | Live |
| App grid | Vicinae applications provider | Live |
| Hidden applications | GNOME App Hider list in Vicinae provider config | Live |
| Tiling and dynamic workspaces | Hyprland Lua config, Forge keymap preserved | Live |
| Overview | Continuum filmstrip, large workspace preview, cross-workspace search | Live |
| Minimise | `SUPER+SHIFT+X` sends to scratchpad; `SUPER+X` restores | Live |
| Dock | Quickshell dock with GNOME favourites and intellihide | Live |
| Panel | Workspaces, CPU/RAM/GPU, clock, weather, media, clipboard, tray, status | Live |
| Clipboard history | Vicinae owns capture/storage; Quickshell provides the panel | Live |
| Notifications | Quickshell server, toasts, grouped history, DND, clear actions | Live |
| Date menu | Notifications, month calendar, weather, conditional media card | Live |
| Quick settings | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio input/output, caffeine, night light, focus | Live |
| Focus sessions | Persistent workspace-bound timer, DND/caffeine coordination, Signal Glass controls | Live |
| Brightness | Appears only when a backlight device exists | Live, not applicable on this monitor |
| AppIndicator / tray | Native StatusNotifierItem host and themed menus | Live |
| Screenshot and recording | Quickshell picker, grim/slurp/satty/wf-recorder | Live |
| Screen text and code recognition | Local Tesseract/ZBar Read mode, selectable Prism result sheet | Live after package install |
| Lock, idle, and power | hyprlock, hypridle, login1, Quickshell power menu | Live |
| Wallpaper | hyprpaper | Live |
| Keyring and authorization | gnome-keyring and hyprpolkitagent | Live |
| Portals and screen sharing | xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland plus GTK portal | Live |
| Removable media | udiskie plus udisks notifications | Live |
| Autostart apps | Nextcloud, Bitwarden, and RustDesk system service/tray | Live |
| System settings | Panama Settings for display policy, appearance, desktop, sound, focus, shortcuts, and services; labelled GNOME hardware/account handoffs | Live |

## GNOME extension migration

| GNOME extension | Result |
|---|---|
| Forge | Replaced by Hyprland tiling and the original keymap |
| Dash to Dock | Replaced by the Quickshell dock |
| AppIndicator | Replaced by the Quickshell system tray |
| Clipboard Indicator | Replaced by the bar clipboard panel and Vicinae history |
| Emoji Copy | Replaced by Vicinae emoji search on `SUPER+.` |
| Vitals | Replaced by the CPU, memory, and GPU bar readouts |
| Weather O'Clock | Replaced by bar weather and the date-menu weather card |
| Caffeine | Replaced by a real logind inhibitor in quick settings |
| Blur My Shell / Openbar / User Theme | Replaced by the Prism shell and compositor blur |
| Bluetooth Quick Connect | Replaced by the full Bluetooth picker |
| Wi-Fi QR | Package and UI support still to be completed |
| GSConnect | No paired phone profile was present; KDE Connect support is staged |
| Home Assistant | Useful integration, but needs a purpose-built panel and secure credential migration |
| Custom Hot Corners Extended | No action was configured, so there is no behavior to port |
| App Hider | Hidden app list is now applied in Vicinae |
| Allow Locked Remote Desktop | Mutter-specific patch; RustDesk is independent, but lock-screen access needs a real remote test |

## System UI still worth adding

These are not blockers for normal use, but they are the remaining places where
a polished general-purpose desktop can go beyond the current shell.

1. Calendar events, not just the month grid. The right integration point is
   Evolution Data Server so existing GNOME/Google calendars remain the source
   of truth.
2. Home Assistant favourites in a dedicated, secure quick panel. The token must
   stay in the keyring or a private state file, never in this repository.
4. Phone integration through KDE Connect, including battery/share status in the
   tray. The package is staged but needs installation and a new pairing.
5. Connected-network QR sharing after `qrencode` is installed. Password access
   must be on demand and must never enter shell logs.
6. A printer administration GUI. CUPS is already active; the staged
   `system-config-printer` package supplies the missing UI.
7. A real external RustDesk test while hyprlock is active. Local process state
   cannot prove what a remote client sees or whether input is accepted.

Packages staged in `setup/packages/hyprland-packages` but not installed in the
current session because privilege escalation requires an interactive password:

```sh
sudo dnf install kde-connect qrencode system-config-printer tesseract zbar
```

## Global menu decision

A macOS-style global application menu is not being shipped. Quickshell can
render a `DBusMenu` that an application already exports, but it does not provide
an application-menu registrar or a reliable focused-window-to-menu association.
Hyprland has no cross-toolkit global-menu protocol, and the daily applications
audited here do not consistently export one: GTK 4/Nautilus and Electron apps
are the important failures.

That would produce a premium-looking empty strip for most windows and a working
menu for a minority, which is worse than omitting it. Relevant references:

- <https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.3.0/types/Quickshell/DBusMenu/>
- <https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/discussions/1358>

A future focused-window menu could expose compositor actions such as float,
move, fullscreen, and close. It should not be labelled as an application menu.