Gabriel Brown
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The sidebar was a flat scan of thirty-one rows; now it reads like a settings app. Multi-subject categories (Input, Network & Sharing, Applications, Users & Accounts, Privacy & Security, System) carry an Appearance-style tab strip above the page, drawn by the shell so the leaf pages themselves are untouched. The taxonomy lives in one new file, services/SettingsRoutes.qml; the sidebar, the strip, route validation, search breadcrumbs, and both generators derive from it. ShellState.settingsPage still holds leaf ids, so every deep link, IPC call, and search result keeps working — and now lands on the exact tab. Dictation moves out of Sound onto its own page under Input, with a handoff back to Sound for the microphone. The strip scrolls when System's nine tabs outgrow a tiled window. All 161 contracts pass. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
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Making it yours
Settings
Super + I. Fifteen categories down the side, covering appearance, displays,
sound, input, network, power, accounts and the rest. A category with more than
one subject in it opens a row of tabs above the page, which is where the
narrower topics live: Printers is a tab of Network & Sharing, Dictation a tab
of Input, and About, Software Update, Storage, Snapshots and this manual are
tabs of System.
The search box at the top searches the settings themselves rather than page names, and each result says where it will land, so if you know what you want to change you can type it and never touch the sidebar.
Appearance
Panama ships Tokyo Night Moon in a light and a dark variant, with eight accent colours. Changing either repaints the shell, the terminal, GTK applications, the lock screen and the system monitor at once.
The wallpaper is per-monitor if you want it to be.
Applications
panama apps in a terminal offers the optional application categories the
installer asked about, so a machine can acquire Slack in March without having
wanted Discord in January.
panama app builds the handful of applications no repository carries. It is
deliberately not part of installing, because a source build is slow and
depends on an upstream that moves.
Autostart and defaults
The Applications settings page controls which application opens which kind of file, and what starts when you log in.
Going further
The compositor is configured in Lua under ~/.config/hypr, and every file
there explains what it does and why. overrides.lua is loaded last and is
the intended place for per-machine changes, so you can adjust anything
without editing a file the repository will update.
The shell is QML under ~/.config/quickshell. Both directories are symlinks
into the Panama repository, so an edit is a change to your checkout and
panama update will offer to commit it.