`nomarchy-welcome` wrote a "starter" `~/.config/home-manager/home.nix`
for users without one. Two problems:
1. Wrong path. The installer-generated canonical home.nix lives at
`/etc/nixos/home.nix` and is imported via the flake (both
home-manager.users and the standalone homeConfigurations). Nothing
in the installer flow ever reads `~/.config/home-manager/home.nix`
— it's a dead file.
2. Broken content. The starter is missing `home.username`,
`home.homeDirectory`, `home.stateVersion`, and doesn't import
`nomarchy.nixosModules.home`. Even on a hand-migration path it
wouldn't evaluate as a standalone HM config.
So in the installer flow it's dead, and in the migration flow it's
broken. Removed Step 4 entirely. The git-init step (was Step 5) is
now Step 4. Hand-migrated users follow `docs/MIGRATION.md`, which has
the correct home.nix template.
Found during Pillar 8 audit of first-boot UX.
- Update lib/state-schema.nix to default both home and system themes to 'summer-night'.
- Fix 'nomarchy-theme-list' and 'nomarchy-theme-set-templates' to resolve themes and templates from '~/.local/share/nomarchy' instead of the obsolete '$NOMARCHY_PATH' (fixing failures on Live ISO).
- Update 'nomarchy-welcome' to properly convert Title Case theme display names back to kebab-case identifiers and add input validation to prevent crashes.
- Fix installer impermanence symlink by using a relative path ('../persist/etc/nixos'), ensuring it resolves during 'nixos-install' both inside and outside the chroot.
- Deploy '~/.XCompose' symlink via Home Manager and add 'nomarchy-restart-xcompose' to the menu.
- Relocate 'Nomarchy.ttf' to 'core/branding/' and move user-level scripts ('pkg-add', 'pkg-remove', 'env-update', 'preflight-migration') to 'features/scripts/utils/' to align with the distro architecture.
- Remove obsolete '$NOMARCHY_PATH' exports and redundant 'bashrc' template.
- Export theme templates via 'xdg.dataFile' for script accessibility.
Scrubbed remaining upstream references and solidified Nomarchy's identity:
- Replaced 'Omarchy' and 'Spirit of Omarchy' with brand-independent terms in README.md and scripts.
- Updated nomarchy-welcome banner to 'The Professional NixOS Desktop'.
- Set nomarchy-version codename to 'Sovereign'.
- Verified core/system/branding.nix for OS-release and bootloader labels.
- Verified SDDM and Plymouth metadata for correct branding.
- Updated ROADMAP.md board.
- Fix critical bash dynamic scoping bug in install.sh (Impermanence/Form Factor).
- Polished Live ISO with auto-login and passwordless sudo.
- Repurposed nomarchy-toggle-suspend to directly execute systemctl suspend.
- Updated nomarchy-launch-wifi to use nmtui in alacritty.
- Optimized nomarchy-welcome to avoid redundant rebuilds via --no-update flag.
- Enabled nomarchy-welcome in Hyprland autostart.
- Wrapped Live ISO-modifying steps in welcome wizard to prevent failures.
- Removed obsolete hardware auto-detection from nomarchy-on-boot.
- Hardened script doc generator against false-positive wildcard tokens.
- Regenerated docs/SCRIPTS.md and updated docs/ROADMAP.md.
Sweep across the three script directories: features/scripts/utils,
core/system/scripts, themes/engine/scripts. 142 of 169 bash scripts
gained `set -e`; 27 already had it; the one Python helper
(nomarchy-haptic-touchpad) was skipped via shebang detection.
Why: bash's default behavior is to continue past a failed command,
which means a script that does "do A; do B; do C" leaves the system
in a half-applied state when B fails - and the user gets no signal.
Several recent fix commits (theme partial-apply, waybar reload race,
installer prewipe silent failures) all trace back to this. set -e
turns silent corruption into a loud abort the user can act on.
The 11 scripts with explicit `|| true` markers stay safe under set -e
because || true coerces the exit to zero; the markers continue to
mean "I deliberately tolerate this failure here."
Deliberate exception: nomarchy-menu runs WITHOUT set -e. It is an
interactive UX loop where action branches do `cmd; back_to <self>`
so a failed action would abort the script under set -e and the menu
would disappear without feedback. Soft-failure - menu re-displays,
user picks again - is the right semantic. Documented inline.
Validation: bash -n on every modified script (zero failures). The
new pre-commit hook (27f5663) was just updated to filter by shebang
so it doesn't try to bash-syntax-check the Python helper - that
filter was uncovered by this sweep.
Risk: set -e can surface latent bugs in scripts that previously
relied on silent continuation. If anything breaks, it's a real bug
that was already broken and is now visible. Easy per-script revert
if any UX glitches show up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Added nomarchy.panelPosition option and state persistence.
- Updated Waybar to respect the panelPosition setting.
- Refactored nomarchy-welcome to use state.json instead of a flag file.
- Added prompts for theme, font, panel position, and starter home.nix generation.
- Updated documentation and roadmap.
- Reorganize directory structure into core/, features/, and themes/
- Colocate application Nix logic, configs, scripts, and theme overrides
- Implement 'Inversion of Control' for theming: apps now pull theme-specific layouts
- Update flake.nix and shared library paths to match the new structure
- Document the new Feature-Centric architecture in README.md
