Two hardware-reported contrast bugs, both the same family: surfaces
that fell back to something designed on dark.
1. Inactive workspace numbers unreadable on every light theme.
- Generated bar: the @muted dim role is floor-gated at only 2.0:1 —
fine as "dim" on dark, washed out at number size on light. Light
mode now promotes inactive buttons to @subtext (3.0 floor,
typically 4-7:1); dark themes keep @muted.
- boreal-dawn + kiln-clay whole-swaps: same @muted -> @subtext
(6.4:1 / 6.6:1).
- summer-day whole-swap: had NO button color rule at all — the
container's @fg does not inherit into GTK buttons, so the numbers
took the GTK default over the cream chip. Explicit @fg_dim
(= the palette's subtext, 4.0:1) added.
- executive-ivory already used @subtext; untouched.
2. Notification popup unreadable on hover (bg turns dark, text stays
dark). Root cause found by probing, not guessing: the popup body is
one big GTK button (.notification-default-action) and swaync's
DEFAULT stylesheet — still loaded under our style.css — hovers it to
rgb(56,56,56). Our sheet never overrode that node (only the
control-center row), so the default bled through; on light themes
dark @text sat on it. Now the body + action buttons + close button
are re-pinned to the palette's alpha(@text) tint construction —
mode-proof by construction. The first fix attempt (row-level hover)
was probed, SHOWN insufficient, and replaced.
Verification: V2. nix flake check --no-build, theme-wholeswap,
theme-contrast green. §3 evidence viewed: a purpose-built VM hover
probe under summer-day (notify-send -u critical, cursor parked ON the
popup, screenshot) — before: dark card, drowned text (reproduces the
report exactly, /nix/store/q1qf67fl...notify-shot-summer-day); after:
cream card + faint tint, fully readable (shot-notify2). Bar renders
verified under catppuccin-latte (generated light path incl. the mode
branch) and summer-day (edited whole-swap). An inactive-number visual
needs two live workspaces — VM shows one — so the on-hardware
confirmation is queued (HARDWARE-QUEUE light-theme refits entry);
the ratio change itself is machine-checked.
Bookkeeping riding along: BACKLOG #152 deleted (shipped in d79ad35).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The machine flake's git-tracked settings file is system state, not
"theme" only — rename it to state.json. CLI becomes nomarchy-state-sync
with a nomarchy-theme-sync symlink for scripts and muscle memory.
Eval (mkFlake, doctor, lifecycle) still accepts theme-state.json; the
next write migrates to state.json and removes the legacy file.
Documented in MIGRATION.md; drop the CLI alias after release notes.
Palette roles aren't uniform: summer-day and flexoki-light use subtext
as text-ON-surface (== base) and surface as a dark chip (== text), so
swaync's @subtext-on-@base body text and @surface/@text buttons were
self-colored (caught on the Latitude).
- body/summary: @text on @base — the one text pairing that passes in
every palette (survey: worst WCAG ratio 5.18 across all 21 themes;
subtext/base bottomed at 1.00 twice, muted/base at 1.27).
- hover rows + widget-title buttons: alpha(@text, 0.1) tints —
contrast by construction; subtext/surface defines dropped.
- NEW checks.theme-contrast (tools/check-theme-contrast.py): asserts
the hex-on-hex text pairings across themes/*.json, cheap (no VM).
The audit also found the generated waybar/rofi CSS shares the bug
class, live on flexoki-light (no whole-swap) → BACKLOG item 27.
Verified: V0; V1 (checks.theme-contrast builds green, 21 themes;
rendered services.swaync.style has zero @subtext/@surface). Honesty:
NOT visually verified — V3 queued (notify-send on summer-day).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Plymouth boot splash ported from the legacy branch (modules/nixos/
plymouth/): logo + eased progress + LUKS entry, background tinted from
theme-state.json via the new nomarchy.system.stateFile (wired by
mkFlake/lib.nix; null → Tokyo Night fallback). Default on; OFF on the
live ISO (boot-message visibility on the install medium). Pulls
boot.initrd.systemd, which also drives the keyboard-at-LUKS feature.
- system.nixos.distroName = "Nomarchy" (os-release PRETTY_NAME,
systemd-boot entries, ISO menu label). distroId left "nixos" (feeds
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME + upstream isNixos checks — roadmapped).
- nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree distro-wide (here + both import-nixpkgs
sites) — unblocks claude-code for the menu's ask-Claude module.
- systemd-boot.configurationLimit = 10 so entries don't fill the ESP.
- Live ISO: nomarchy.idle.enable = false — hypridle was suspending the
VM mid-install (the install-hung regression); installed systems keep it.
- flake.nix offline pins (verified 0-leak via a foreign-identity
gap-analysis probe): the repo's own standalone HM gen + inputDerivations,
mustache-go + stdenv (stylix re-renders base16 per switch), microcode-amd/
intel (enableRedistributableFirmware activated updateMicrocode →
source-build cascade), buildEnv's builder.pl, findXMLCatalogs, and the
representativeInstall mirror (xkb/initrd-systemd/microcode).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
