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90 lines
5.6 KiB
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# Panama desktop parity
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This is the living inventory for the GNOME-to-Hyprland transition. It records
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real behavior, not a one-for-one count of extensions: an enabled extension with
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no configured action is not treated as missing functionality.
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Last live audit: 2026-08-17, Fedora 44, Hyprland 0.56.2, Quickshell 0.3.0.
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## Daily desktop surfaces
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| Capability | Panama implementation | Status |
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| App launcher and run dialog | Vicinae; Wofi emergency fallback | Live |
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| App grid | Vicinae applications provider | Live |
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| Hidden applications | GNOME App Hider list in Vicinae provider config | Live |
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| Tiling and dynamic workspaces | Hyprland Lua config, Forge keymap preserved | Live |
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| Overview | Continuum filmstrip, large workspace preview, cross-workspace search | Live |
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| Minimise | `SUPER+SHIFT+X` sends to scratchpad; `SUPER+X` restores | Live |
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| Dock | Quickshell dock with GNOME favourites and intellihide | Live |
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| Panel | Workspaces, CPU/RAM/GPU, clock, weather, quiet event capsule, media, clipboard, tray, status | Live |
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| Clipboard history | Vicinae owns capture/storage; Quickshell provides the panel | Live |
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| Notifications | Quickshell server, toasts, grouped history, DND, clear actions | Live |
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| Date menu | Two-column Daybook with Agenda, Ongoing activity, Notifications, month calendar, weather, and media | Live |
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| Ongoing activity | Focus, Caffeine, recording, screen sharing, camera, and microphone state with direct controls | Live |
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| Calendar agenda | Existing GNOME, Google, iCloud, and Nextcloud sources through Evolution Data Server | Live |
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| Control Center | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio input/output, Caffeine, Night Light, Focus, Home Assistant favourites, and KDE Connect phone continuity | Live |
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| Focus sessions | Persistent workspace-bound timer, DND/caffeine coordination, Signal Glass controls | Live |
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| Brightness | Appears only when a backlight device exists | Live, not applicable on this monitor |
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| AppIndicator / tray | Native StatusNotifierItem host and themed menus | Live |
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| Screenshot and recording | Quickshell picker, grim/slurp/satty/wf-recorder | Live |
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| Screen text and code recognition | Local Tesseract/ZBar Read mode, selectable Prism result sheet | Live after package install |
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| Lock, idle, and power | hyprlock, hypridle, login1, Quickshell power menu | Live |
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| Wallpaper | hyprpaper | Live |
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| Keyring and authorization | gnome-keyring and hyprpolkitagent | Live |
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| Portals and screen sharing | xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland plus GTK portal | Live |
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| Removable media | udiskie plus udisks notifications | Live |
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| Autostart apps | Nextcloud, Bitwarden, and RustDesk system service/tray | Live |
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| Printer administration | CUPS with the `system-config-printer` graphical interface | Live |
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| System settings | Panama Settings for display policy, appearance, desktop, sound, focus, shortcuts, and services; labelled GNOME hardware/account handoffs | Live |
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## GNOME extension migration
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| GNOME extension | Result |
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| Forge | Replaced by Hyprland tiling and the original keymap |
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| Dash to Dock | Replaced by the Quickshell dock |
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| AppIndicator | Replaced by the Quickshell system tray |
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| Clipboard Indicator | Replaced by the bar clipboard panel and Vicinae history |
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| Emoji Copy | Replaced by Vicinae emoji search on `SUPER+.` |
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| Vitals | Replaced by the CPU, memory, and GPU bar readouts |
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| Weather O'Clock | Replaced by bar weather and the date-menu weather card |
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| Caffeine | Replaced by a real logind inhibitor in quick settings |
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| Blur My Shell / Openbar / User Theme | Replaced by the Prism shell and compositor blur |
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| Bluetooth Quick Connect | Replaced by the full Bluetooth picker |
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| Wi-Fi QR | Deliberately omitted; it is not useful enough to justify another credential-reading surface |
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| GSConnect | Replaced by capability-aware KDE Connect phone continuity in Control Center; the paired iPhone exposes file, clipboard, and Ring actions when reachable |
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| Home Assistant | Replaced by secure favourites in Control Center; explicit private environment values take precedence over the existing GNOME extension and Secret Service setup |
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| Custom Hot Corners Extended | No action was configured, so there is no behavior to port |
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| App Hider | Hidden app list is now applied in Vicinae |
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| Allow Locked Remote Desktop | Mutter-specific patch; RustDesk is independent, but lock-screen access needs a real remote test |
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## System UI still worth adding
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These are not blockers for normal use, but they are the remaining places where
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a polished general-purpose desktop can go beyond the current shell.
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1. A real external RustDesk test while hyprlock is active. Local process state
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cannot prove what a remote client sees or whether input is accepted.
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KDE Connect, the printer UI, Tesseract, and ZBar are installed and remain
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tracked in `setup/packages/hyprland-packages`.
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## Global menu decision
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A macOS-style global application menu is not being shipped. Quickshell can
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render a `DBusMenu` that an application already exports, but it does not provide
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an application-menu registrar or a reliable focused-window-to-menu association.
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Hyprland has no cross-toolkit global-menu protocol, and the daily applications
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audited here do not consistently export one: GTK 4/Nautilus and Electron apps
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are the important failures.
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That would produce a premium-looking empty strip for most windows and a working
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menu for a minority, which is worse than omitting it. Relevant references:
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- <https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.3.0/types/Quickshell/DBusMenu/>
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- <https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/discussions/1358>
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A future focused-window menu could expose compositor actions such as float,
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move, fullscreen, and close. It should not be labelled as an application menu.
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