feat(rofi): real icons, zebra rows, content-fit menus across all themes

Reworked the menu look, palette-driven so it lands on every theme:

  - Real Papirus icons in place of Nerd Font glyphs: a row() helper emits
    rofi's per-row icon protocol, and the five static menus (root, Tools,
    System, Power, Capture) map each entry to a freedesktop icon name
    (verified present in Papirus). Entry text is now clean ("Apps"), the
    case-matching is unchanged.
  - Larger icons via a new t.ui.iconSize knob (36px, generated theme); the
    summer whole-swaps keep their 40px identity.
  - Rounded, roomy rows with subtle zebra striping: alternate rows lift to
    @surface (a faint bg0 wash on the summer cream/slate windows), the
    selected row to @accent — using rofi's normal/alternate/selected row
    parities.
  - Content-fit windows: fixed-num-lines=false so a 6-entry menu stops
    reserving 8 rows of empty space (the launcher still fills + scrolls).
    Dropped the fixed height:50% from the summer .rasi so they size to
    content too — which also unhid their clipped Power/Keybindings rows.
  - Title-cased the menu prompts.

Verified by building the HM config and rendering the generated theme plus
both summer whole-swaps headlessly (sway + grim): icons resolve, zebra
shows, every menu hugs its rows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

config.rasi

@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/**
+ * Rofi Everforest Theme
+ * Based on wofi everforest config
+ */
+
+* {
+    /* Everforest color definitions */
+    bg-dim:      #232a2e;
+    bg0:         #2d353b;
+    bg1:         #343f44;
+    bg2:         #3d484d;
+    bg3:         #475258;
+    bg4:         #4f585e;
+    bg5:         #56635f;
+    bg-visual:   #543a48;
+    bg-red:      #514045;
+    bg-green:    #425047;
+    bg-blue:     #3a515d;
+    bg-yellow:   #4d4c43;
+    fg:          #d3c6aa;
+    red:         #e67e80;
+    orange:      #e69875;
+    yellow:      #dbbc7f;
+    green:       #a7c080;
+    aqua:        #83c092;
+    blue:        #7fbbb3;
+    purple:      #d699b6;
+    grey0:       #7a8478;
+    grey1:       #859289;
+    grey2:       #9da9a0;
+    
+    /* Font settings */
+    font: "Iosevka Nerd Font 17";
+    
+    /* General styling */
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: @fg;
+}
+
+configuration {
+    /* Basic settings */
+    drun-display-format: "{name}";
+    case-sensitive: false;
+    location: 0;
+    disable-history: false;
+    hide-scrollbar: true;
+    display-drun: "Search";
+    
+    /* Image settings */
+    drun-icon-theme: "Papirus-Dark";
+    show-icons: true;
+    icon-size: 40;
+}
+
+window {
+    /* Window styling based on wofi config */
+    transparency: "real";
+    background-color: @fg;
+    text-color: @bg0;
+    border-bottom: 5px;
+    border-color: #7d6a40;
+    border-radius: 15px;
+    width: 40%;
+    height: 50%;
+    location: center;
+    anchor: center;
+    x-offset: 0;
+    y-offset: 0;
+}
+
+mainbox {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    children: [ inputbar, listview ];
+    spacing: 0px;
+    padding: 0px;
+}
+
+inputbar {
+    children: [ prompt, entry ];
+    background-color: @green;
+    text-color: @bg0;
+    expand: false;
+    border-bottom: 5px;
+    border-color: #556a35;
+    border-radius: 10px;
+    margin: 15px;
+    padding: 10px;
+    spacing: 15px;
+}
+
+prompt {
+    enabled: true;
+    background-color: inherit;
+    text-color: inherit;
+}
+
+entry {
+    background-color: inherit;
+    text-color: inherit;
+    cursor: text;
+    placeholder: "Type to search...";
+    placeholder-color: @bg0;
+}
+
+listview {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    columns: 1;
+    lines: 8;
+    spacing: 0px;
+    cycle: true;
+    dynamic: true;
+    layout: vertical;
+    padding: 20px;
+}
+
+element {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: @bg0;
+    orientation: horizontal;
+    border-radius: 10px;
+    padding: 10px;
+    spacing: 15px;
+}
+
+element-icon {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: inherit;
+    size: 40px;
+    cursor: inherit;
+}
+
+element-text {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    text-color: inherit;
+    highlight: bold;
+    cursor: inherit;
+    vertical-align: 0.5;
+    horizontal-align: 0.0;
+}
+
+element selected {
+    background-color: @bg0;
+    text-color: @fg;
+    border-bottom: 5px;
+    border-color: #161a1d;
+    border-radius: 10px;
+}
+
+element-text selected {
+    text-color: @fg;
+}
+
+element-icon selected {
+    text-color: @fg;
+}
+
+scrollbar {
+    width: 0px;
+    background-color: transparent;
+    handle-width: 0px;
+    handle-color: transparent;
+    border: 0px;
+}

modules/home/rofi.nix

@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ let
   nomarchy-menu = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-menu" ''
     # Nomarchy menu dispatcher — thin presentation layer over
     # `rofi -dmenu`; actions delegate to nomarchy-theme-sync, systemctl,
-    # hyprctl and friends. Icons are nf-md glyphs (Pango falls back to a
+    # hyprctl and friends. Menu entries carry real icons from the theme's
-    # Nerd Font for them). `nomarchy-menu` with no argument shows the
+    # icon set (Papirus) via rofi's per-row icon protocol — see row() below.
-    # module picker.
+    # `nomarchy-menu` with no argument shows the module picker.
 
     urlencode() {
       local s="$1" out="" ch i
@@ -58,16 +58,22 @@ let
       printf '%s' "$out"
     }
 
+    # Emit one dmenu row with a themed icon: `row "Label" icon-name`. The NUL
+    # + 0x1f field separator is rofi's per-row icon protocol; printed straight
+    # to the pipe because bash can't store NUL in a variable. Rendered when
+    # rofi has show-icons (on globally; passed explicitly on the icon menus).
+    row() { printf '%s\0icon\x1f%s\n' "$1" "$2"; }
+
     case "''${1:-}" in
       power)
-        choice=$(printf '%s\n' \
+        choice=$( {
-          "󰌾  Lock" \
+          row "Lock"      system-lock-screen
-          "󰍃  Logout" \
+          row "Logout"    system-log-out
-          "󰤄  Suspend" \
+          row "Suspend"   system-suspend
-          "󰒲  Hibernate" \
+          row "Hibernate" system-hibernate
-          "󰜉  Reboot" \
+          row "Reboot"    system-reboot
-          "󰐥  Shutdown" \
+          row "Shutdown"  system-shutdown
-          | rofi -dmenu -p power) || exit 0
+        } | rofi -dmenu -show-icons -p Power) || exit 0
         case "$choice" in
           *Lock)      loginctl lock-session ;;
           *Logout)    hyprctl dispatch exit ;;
@@ -134,12 +140,12 @@ let
         exec blueman-manager ;;
 
       capture)
-        choice=$(printf '%s\n' \
+        choice=$( {
-          "󰆟  Region → clipboard" \
+          row "Region → clipboard"      applets-screenshooter
-          "󰆟  Region → file" \
+          row "Region → file"           applets-screenshooter
-          "󰍹  Full screen → clipboard" \
+          row "Full screen → clipboard" camera-photo
-          "󰍹  Full screen → file" \
+          row "Full screen → file"      camera-photo
-          | rofi -dmenu -p capture) || exit 0
+        } | rofi -dmenu -show-icons -p Capture) || exit 0
         dir="$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots"
         file="$dir/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"
         case "$choice" in
@@ -183,16 +189,16 @@ let
       tools)
         # Tools submenu — utilities you invoke. Each leaf is also reachable
         # directly (SUPER+CTRL+<mnemonic>); this just keeps the root short.
-        choice=$(printf '%s\n' \
+        choice=$( {
-          "󰃬  Calculator" \
+          row "Calculator" accessories-calculator
-          "󰅌  Clipboard" \
+          row "Clipboard"  edit-paste
-          "󰒨  Emoji" \
+          row "Emoji"      face-smile-big
-          "󰈞  Files" \
+          row "Files"      system-file-manager
-          "󰖟  Web search" \
+          row "Web search" system-search
-          "󰄄  Capture" \
+          row "Capture"    applets-screenshooter
-          "󰭹  Ask Claude" \
+          row "Ask Claude" internet-chat
-          "󰁍  Back" \
+          row "Back"       go-previous
-          | rofi -dmenu -p tools) || exit 0
+        } | rofi -dmenu -show-icons -p Tools) || exit 0
         case "$choice" in
           *Calc*)      exec "$0" calc ;;
           *Clipboard*) exec "$0" clipboard ;;
@@ -208,18 +214,17 @@ let
         # System submenu — connectivity and machine state. Snapshots and the
         # power-profile picker self-gate (BTRFS+snapper / laptop on ppd), so
         # the submenu shrinks to match the hardware, like the Waybar modules.
-        entries=(
-          "󰖩  Network"
-          "󰂯  Bluetooth"
-          "󰂛  Do Not Disturb"
-        )
-        command -v btrfs-assistant >/dev/null 2>&1 && entries+=("󰋚  Snapshots")
         bats=(/sys/class/power_supply/BAT*)
+        choice=$( {
+          row "Network"        network-wireless
+          row "Bluetooth"      bluetooth
+          row "Do Not Disturb" notification-disabled
+          command -v btrfs-assistant >/dev/null 2>&1 && row "Snapshots" timeshift
           if [ -e "''${bats[0]}" ] && command -v powerprofilesctl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-          entries+=("󰓅  Power profile")
+            row "Power profile" preferences-system-power
           fi
-        entries+=("󰁍  Back")
+          row "Back" go-previous
-        choice=$(printf '%s\n' "''${entries[@]}" | rofi -dmenu -p system) || exit 0
+        } | rofi -dmenu -show-icons -p System) || exit 0
         case "$choice" in
           *Network*)          exec "$0" network ;;
           *Bluetooth*)        exec "$0" bluetooth ;;
@@ -233,14 +238,14 @@ let
         # Root picker — grouped into category submenus so the top level stays
         # short and scannable. Apps/Theme/Power/Keybindings are frequent enough
         # to keep at the top; everything else lives under Tools or System.
-        choice=$(printf '%s\n' \
+        choice=$( {
-          "󰀻  Apps" \
+          row "Apps"        applications-all
-          "󰏘  Theme" \
+          row "Theme"       preferences-desktop-theme
-          "󰦬  Tools" \
+          row "Tools"       applications-utilities
-          "󰒓  System" \
+          row "System"      preferences-system
-          "󰐥  Power" \
+          row "Power"       system-shutdown
-          "󰋖  Keybindings" \
+          row "Keybindings" preferences-desktop-keyboard
-          | rofi -dmenu -p menu) || exit 0
+        } | rofi -dmenu -show-icons -p Menu) || exit 0
         case "$choice" in
           *Apps*)        exec rofi -show drun ;;
           *Theme*)       exec "$0" theme ;;
@@ -283,6 +288,10 @@ in
         drun-display-format = "{name}";
         display-drun = "apps";
         display-run = "run";
+        # Size the window to the actual number of rows instead of always
+        # reserving `lines` (8) — so a 6-entry menu doesn't leave empty space,
+        # while the app launcher still fills + scrolls past `lines`.
+        fixed-num-lines = false;
       };
 
       # Whole-swap themes bring their own rofi.rasi; otherwise the theme
@@ -335,22 +344,34 @@ in
             columns = 1;
             dynamic = true;
             scrollbar = false;
-            spacing = px 2;
+            spacing = px 4; # a little air so the rounded zebra rows separate
             padding = mkLiteral "8px 0px 0px 0px";
           };
 
+          # Rounded, roomy rows with subtle zebra striping: alternate rows
+          # lift to @surface, the selected row to @accent. normal/alternate/
+          # selected are rofi's row parities (the `.normal` suffix is the
+          # match-state, untouched by our menus).
           "element" = {
-            padding = mkLiteral "8px 12px";
+            padding = mkLiteral "10px 14px";
             border-radius = px t.ui.rounding;
-            spacing = px 8;
+            spacing = px 12; # gap between the (larger) icon and the label
           };
-          "element selected" = {
+          "element normal.normal" = {
+            background-color = mkLiteral "@bg";
+            text-color = mkLiteral "@fg";
+          };
+          "element alternate.normal" = {
+            background-color = mkLiteral "@surface";
+            text-color = mkLiteral "@fg";
+          };
+          "element selected.normal" = {
             background-color = mkLiteral "@accent";
             text-color = mkLiteral "@bg";
           };
           "element-icon" = {
             background-color = mkLiteral "transparent";
-            size = mkLiteral "1em";
+            size = px t.ui.iconSize; # real icons (Papirus), not 1em font glyphs
           };
           "element-text" = {
             background-color = mkLiteral "transparent";

modules/home/theme.nix

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ let
       gapsOut = 12;
       borderSize = 2;
       rounding = 10;
+      iconSize = 36; # rofi launcher + menu icon size (px) for the generated theme
       activeOpacity = 1.0;
       inactiveOpacity = 0.95;
       terminalOpacity = 0.96;

themes/summer-day/rofi.rasi

@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ window {
     border-color: @yellow;
     border-radius: 15px;
     width: 40%;
-    height: 50%;
+    /* No fixed height — size to content (fixed-num-lines:false) so every
+     * entry shows without scrolling and there's no empty space below. */
     location: center;
     anchor: center;
     x-offset: 0;
@@ -90,6 +91,12 @@ element {
     spacing: 15px;
 }
 
+/* Zebra striping: every other row lifts with a faint light wash over the
+ * dark window (bg0 at ~12% alpha). The selected row below still wins. */
+element alternate.normal {
+    background-color: #fdf6e31f;
+}
+
 element-icon {
     background-color: transparent;
     text-color: inherit;

themes/summer-night/rofi.rasi

@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ window {
     border-color: @yellow;
     border-radius: 15px;
     width: 40%;
-    height: 50%;
+    /* No fixed height — size to content (fixed-num-lines:false) so every
+     * entry shows without scrolling and there's no empty space below. */
     location: center;
     anchor: center;
     x-offset: 0;
@@ -90,6 +91,12 @@ element {
     spacing: 15px;
 }
 
+/* Zebra striping: every other row lifts with a faint dark wash over the
+ * cream window (bg0 at ~12% alpha). The selected row below still wins. */
+element alternate.normal {
+    background-color: #2d353b1f;
+}
+
 element-icon {
     background-color: transparent;
     text-color: inherit;