BACKLOG #103. Bernardo, live ISO 2026-07-14: still no browser, no office —
"that makes a live iso useful". He is right, and it is the thing a user judges
the distro by before installing, and what they boot to rescue a machine that
won't start. It could do neither.
The live HM user now names its own set: chromium, libreoffice-fresh,
gnome-text-editor, amberol, snapshot. Firefox deliberately excluded (Bernardo's
call): chromium already owns the HTTP mime default and ships in the installed
template, so it is the browser that matches what a user gets post-install.
I asked him to choose on a "~+2 GB" premise. The premise was wrong, and
measuring rather than assuming is what corrected it: system.extraDependencies
ALREADY pins the template's HM closure into the ISO for offline installs, so
chromium/libreoffice/amberol were already in the image's store — merely absent
from the live user's profile, so nothing put them on PATH or in the launcher.
The live and template chromium resolve to the SAME store path, verified, so
reusing the template's exact `chromium.override { enableWideVine = true; }`
costs zero; a plain `chromium` would have been a second 2.5 GiB closure. Only
gnome-text-editor and snapshot are new: 9 paths, 133 MiB uncompressed. His
Firefox call still held for the right reason — it was the one item genuinely
unpinned.
V2. Measured ISO delta, both built from the same tree — the item's pass
condition: 8.038 → 8.078 GiB = +41.2 MiB (+0.50%). New
checks.live-baseline-apps asserts each app is on PATH *and* has a .desktop the
launcher can see (a binary without one is invisible, which is the failure that
matters), that HTTPS resolves to a chromium entry actually PRESENT (#94's exact
trap — a mime default naming a package nothing ships), and that firefox has not
crept back, since that is a size decision not a drive-by. The guard was proved
to fail: dropping snapshot makes it name the missing entry. flake check,
live-install-entry, option-docs, template-sot green.
V3 pending: that the apps LAUNCH needs hardware — queued on the Acer M5-481T,
from the launcher only, since that is the claim a file-level check cannot make.
Also filed, from measuring the 8 GiB rather than speculating about it:
* #120 (NEXT, Bernardo's call) — a netinstall ISO beside the offline one.
Starts from numbers: the offline pin is only 4.02 of 18.03 GiB uncompressed
(~22%), so dropping it still leaves a 14 GiB desktop (~6.3 GiB compressed).
"No pin" is not the lighter ISO; and without a binary cache for Nomarchy's
own outputs a netinstall trades a download for a from-source install.
* #121 — the Widevine wrapper drags a SECOND 687 MiB unwrapped chromium in
for its share/applications alone. Pre-existing, on every installed machine.
* #119 — text/plain names vscode, which the live ISO never ships.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mpv (video) and amberol (audio) are both already in the template suite;
the gap was mime wiring — audio/* still resolved to mpv.desktop. Repoint
the audio types to io.bassi.Amberol.desktop (id verified against the
built package) and broaden coverage to mp3/flac/ogg/opus/wav/m4a/aac,
both canonical and x- names. Video stays on mpv. Degrades to mpv if a
downstream drops Amberol from the suite.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The complete-workstation gap: no PDF/image viewer shipped and nothing
set mime defaults, so 'open a photo' fell to GIMP. Two new default-on
toggles: nomarchy.viewers (programs.zathura — Stylix themes it, target
added to the explicit list — plus imv) and nomarchy.mime (mkDefault
xdg.mimeApps: pdf→zathura, image→imv, av→mpv, text→code, dir→thunar;
html/http(s)→firefox as inert entries that only activate when a
browser is installed — the ship-a-browser Decision stays open, now
smaller). Associations for absent apps are skipped by GIO, so the
whole thing degrades as the user curates the suite. Deviation from
the backlog text: viewers are a module toggle, not template package
lines — zathura's theming needs its HM module (the real-config
boundary of the toggle discipline).
V1: template-home generation asserted — mimeapps.list rendered, themed
zathurarc, binaries in home-path. V3 open-a-file smoke queued.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
