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+## 2026-07-12 — #90 correction: scoping regressed the bar; USER-priority cure (e8658fe)
+- **Task:** Bernardo reports ac7e6bd broke Boreal's bar + icons still missing.
+- **Did:** Two lessons. (1) `window#waybar *` carries id specificity, so
+  the reset started *beating* the later class rules (pill radius/borders)
+  that plain `*` correctly lost to — reverted all three stylesheets;
+  arrows restored instead via stylix gtk.css (`menu menuitem arrow
+  { min-width/height:16px }`) — USER priority (800) outranks waybar's
+  APPLICATION (600) regardless of specificity, same mechanism as the
+  existing check/radio rule. NB comments guard each `*` block.
+  (2) The "missing icons" were also GTK3's `gtk-menu-images` default-off:
+  set `gtk.gtk3.extraConfig.gtk-menu-images = 1`.
+- **Verified:** **V3** — repro (no forced always-show-image): icon, check
+  and arrow all render even with Boreal's reset injected screen-wide;
+  bar screenshot shows pills restored. Flake check green.
+- **Pending:** Bernardo eyeballs the real nm-applet menu (icons + arrow).
+- **Next suggestion:** #89 slice 2 — the override-icon layer.
+
 ## 2026-07-12 — #76 closed: hibernate V3 PASSED on TuringMachine (this commit)
 - **Task:** BACKLOG #76 `[human]` closure — Bernardo reports the V3 check.
 - **Did:** Bernardo ran the real power-cycle on the T14s (LUKS + btrfs