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Gabriel Brown 538c0a887c Save things where the rest of the software already saves them
Screenshots and recordings offered three folders to choose between, and three
guesses cannot include the folder somebody's other software already writes to --
which is the only folder that matters. This machine has had ~/Pictures/Screenshots
and ~/Videos/Screencasts since long before Panama, and Panama was writing
recordings to a Videos/Recordings it invented. Both are free text now, and the
recording default is the folder that was already there.

Wallpapers were swept from four directories at once, so the distribution's stock
images arrived mixed in with the user's own and there was no way to ask for just
one. Where wallpapers live is something somebody knows about their own machine.
It is a setting, not a search.

All three accept an absolute path as well as one relative to home, which meant
fixing Capture: it prefixed $HOME unconditionally, so naming /mnt/captures would
have written screenshots to ~/mnt/captures and left nobody able to find them.

The generator turned out to skip any entry whose comment sits inside the braces
rather than above them -- it looks for `key:` immediately after `{`. Three
settings were invisible in the reference because of it, one of them dockScreens,
which has never appeared there at all. The staleness contract could not see it
either: regenerating reproduced the same omission, so the copy was current and
incomplete at once. It now counts what was declared against what it could read
and refuses rather than quietly documenting less than exists.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q84axqUE5inJhf5Jz9CFy1
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Generate the settings reference from PreferenceSchema.qml.
Every other form of documentation in this repository has drifted at least once:
routing that pointed at a page not containing the setting, contracts that pinned
the bug they were meant to prevent, and a comment that failed to stop the person
who read it making the exact mistake it warned about. Prose describing 137
settings would drift the day after it was written.
So this is generated, and a contract fails when the committed copy no longer
matches what the schema says. The document cannot be wrong for longer than it
takes to run the suite.
Usage:
panama-settings-docs write docs/settings.md
panama-settings-docs --check exit 1 if the committed copy is stale
panama-settings-docs --stdout print without writing
Parsing rather than importing: the schema is QML, there is no QML interpreter
here, and a regex reader that FAILS LOUDLY when it stops recognising the file is
better than a dependency on a shell that has to start a compositor.
"""
import argparse
import pathlib
import re
import sys
# scripts/ -> quickshell/ -> dot/ -> config/ -> repo root. resolve() first, so
# this still works when invoked through the ~/.config/quickshell symlink.
ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[4]
SCHEMA = ROOT / "config/dot/quickshell/config/PreferenceSchema.qml"
SEARCH = ROOT / "config/dot/quickshell/services/SettingsSearch.qml"
OUTPUT = ROOT / "docs/settings.md"
# Page id -> the name a person sees in the sidebar.
PAGE_TITLES = {
"home": "Home", "appearance": "Appearance", "displays": "Displays",
"connectivity": "Network & Devices", "home-phone": "Home & Phone",
"desktop": "Desktop & Dock", "sound": "Sound",
"notifications": "Notifications & Focus",
"screen-intelligence": "Screen Intelligence", "shortcuts": "Keyboard",
"mouse": "Mouse & Touchpad", "privacy": "Privacy & Security",
"region": "Region & Language", "accounts": "Online Accounts",
"accessibility": "Accessibility", "power": "Power & Lock",
"datetime": "Date & Time", "applications": "Applications",
"services": "System Health", "about": "About",
"gaming": "Gaming",
}
class SchemaError(RuntimeError):
"""The schema stopped looking the way this reader expects."""
def read_routes():
"""group -> page id, from SettingsSearch."""
text = SEARCH.read_text()
block = re.search(r"groupPages:\s*\(\{(.*?)\}\)", text, re.S)
if not block:
raise SchemaError("could not find groupPages in SettingsSearch.qml")
routes = dict(re.findall(r'"([a-zA-Z]+)"\s*:\s*"([a-z-]+)"', block.group(1)))
if not routes:
raise SchemaError("groupPages matched but contained no routes")
return routes
def read_entries():
"""Every schema entry, as dicts, in declaration order."""
text = SCHEMA.read_text()
# Each entry begins at `key:` and ends at the closing brace of its block.
# Nested braces (options, hypr) are skipped by counting depth.
entries = []
# An entry is only found when `key:` is the first thing inside its brace, so
# a comment written INSIDE the literal rather than above it makes the whole
# setting invisible here -- silently, and the staleness contract cannot see
# it either, because regenerating reproduces the same omission. Three
# settings were undocumented this way before anyone noticed, one of them for
# weeks. Counting what was declared against what was parsed is what turns
# that from silence into an error.
declared = {m.group(1) for m in re.finditer(r'\bkey:\s*"([^"]+)"', text)}
parsed = {m.group(1) for m in re.finditer(r'\{\s*\n\s*key:\s*"([^"]+)"', text)}
invisible = sorted(declared - parsed)
if invisible:
raise SchemaError(
"these settings are declared but cannot be read, which means they would "
"be silently missing from the reference: " + ", ".join(invisible)
+ ". Move the comment above the entry's opening brace.")
for match in re.finditer(r'\{\s*\n\s*key:\s*"([^"]+)"', text):
name = match.group(1)
start = match.start()
depth = 0
end = None
for index in range(start, len(text)):
if text[index] == "{":
depth += 1
elif text[index] == "}":
depth -= 1
if depth == 0:
end = index
break
if end is None:
raise SchemaError(f"entry {name!r} is not brace-balanced")
body = text[start:end]
def scalar(field):
found = re.search(rf'\b{field}:\s*("([^"]*)"|[^,\n]+)', body)
if not found:
return None
return (found.group(2) if found.group(2) is not None
else found.group(1).strip())
entry = {
"key": name,
"type": scalar("type"),
"default": scalar("def"),
"group": scalar("group"),
"label": scalar("label"),
"detail": scalar("detail"),
"unit": scalar("unit"),
"min": scalar("min"),
"max": scalar("max"),
"internal": scalar("internal") == "true",
"option": scalar("option"),
"options": re.findall(r'\{\s*value:\s*("?[^",]+)"?,\s*label:\s*"([^"]+)"', body),
}
if not entry["type"] or not entry["group"]:
raise SchemaError(f"entry {name!r} is missing a type or group")
entries.append(entry)
if len(entries) < 50:
raise SchemaError(
f"only {len(entries)} entries parsed; the schema has far more, so "
"this reader no longer recognises the file"
)
return entries
def render(entries, routes):
lines = [
"# Settings reference",
"",
"**Generated from `config/dot/quickshell/config/PreferenceSchema.qml`.**",
"Do not edit this file. Run `quickshell/scripts/panama-settings-docs`",
"after changing the schema; a contract fails when this copy is stale.",
"",
f"{len([e for e in entries if not e['internal']])} settings across "
f"{len({e['group'] for e in entries if not e['internal']})} groups. "
f"{len([e for e in entries if e['option']])} of them are applied to the "
"compositor and confirmed by reading the value back.",
"",
]
by_group = {}
for entry in entries:
by_group.setdefault(entry["group"], []).append(entry)
for group in sorted(by_group):
visible = [e for e in by_group[group] if not e["internal"]]
if not visible:
continue
page = routes.get(group)
# A routed page with no title used to fall back to the raw page id, so
# the group "gaming" documented itself as "Found on **gaming**" while
# every other group named a real page. The staleness contract could not
# see it: regenerating reproduced the same wrong file, so the copy was
# current and wrong at once. Refusing to render is what makes the next
# page added here impossible to miss.
if page is not None and page not in PAGE_TITLES:
raise SchemaError(
f"group '{group}' routes to page '{page}', which has no entry in "
"PAGE_TITLES; add one rather than letting the id be printed as a name"
)
title = PAGE_TITLES.get(page, page or "—")
lines += [f"## {group}", "", f"Found on **{title}**.", ""]
lines += ["| Setting | Default | What it does |", "|---|---|---|"]
for entry in visible:
default = entry["default"] or "—"
if entry["unit"]:
default = f"{default} {entry['unit']}"
if entry["options"]:
choices = ", ".join(label for _value, label in entry["options"])
detail = f"{entry['detail'] or ''} Choices: {choices}."
else:
detail = entry["detail"] or ""
if entry["min"] is not None and entry["max"] is not None:
# Schema details are written without trailing punctuation, so
# one is added before appending a second sentence.
if detail and not detail.rstrip().endswith((".", "!", "?")):
detail = detail.rstrip() + "."
detail += f" Range {entry['min']}{entry['max']}."
label = entry["label"] or entry["key"]
compositor = f" `{entry['option']}`" if entry["option"] else ""
lines.append(
f"| **{label}**<br>`{entry['key']}`{compositor} | {default} | "
f"{detail.strip()} |"
)
lines.append("")
return "\n".join(lines) + "\n"
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--check", action="store_true")
parser.add_argument("--stdout", action="store_true")
args = parser.parse_args()
try:
rendered = render(read_entries(), read_routes())
except SchemaError as error:
# Loudly, and without writing. A partial reference is worse than a stale
# one: stale is caught by --check, partial reads as complete.
print(f"panama-settings-docs: {error}", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
if args.stdout:
print(rendered, end="")
return 0
if args.check:
if not OUTPUT.exists():
print("panama-settings-docs: docs/settings.md has never been generated",
file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if OUTPUT.read_text() != rendered:
print("panama-settings-docs: docs/settings.md is stale; re-run this "
"script and commit the result", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
return 0
OUTPUT.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
OUTPUT.write_text(rendered)
print(f"wrote {OUTPUT.relative_to(ROOT)}")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())