The bar '*' matches every node directly — including menu labels — so an
inherited font from 'menu' never applies. 'menu, menu *' out-specifies
it. (Real-menu screenshot showed arrows/checks/icons fixed by 8eb672b
but labels still in the bar's mono face.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The e8658fe cure (USER-priority gtk.css counter-rules) verified in a
plain GTK app but not in the real Waybar-hosted nm-applet menu: Waybar
adds its provider at GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_USER as well
(src/client.cpp), and in practice its rules win the tie against
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css on GTK 3.24 — reproduced by injecting the
bar stylesheet above USER priority: arrow, checkmark and separator all
vanish, matching the live menu exactly.
The only placement that wins at ANY provider priority is inside the
same stylesheet: after each '*' reset, restore the CSS-sized menu
nodes (menuitem arrow 16px, check/radio 14px, separator 1px line) and
give menus a text face instead of the bar's glyph font. Applied to
boreal + executive-slate waybar.css and waybar.nix generatedStyle;
stylix.nix comment corrected (its rules now cover ordinary GTK apps
only).
Ground truth checked over D-Bus first: nm-applet exports per-network
Wi-Fi icons as dbusmenu icon-data, and with gtk-menu-images=1 the
connected network's icon already renders in the live menu — the
remaining loss was arrows/checks/separators, all CSS-box nodes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two corrections to ac7e6bd, which broke the bar it meant to spare:
1. Scoping the waybar '*' reset to 'window#waybar *' gave every reset
property id-level specificity, so it started BEATING the later
class rules (Boreal's pill border-radius/borders, workspace pills)
that plain '*' correctly lost to — visibly wrecking the bar.
Reverted all three stylesheets to the plain '*' block (bar restored
byte-identical to pre-ac7e6bd) and instead restored the arrow where
priority genuinely outranks waybar's stylesheet: stylix's gtk.css
loads at USER priority (800) vs waybar's APPLICATION (600), so a
'menu menuitem arrow { min-width/height: 16px }' there survives the
reset in Waybar-hosted menus — the exact mechanism the neighbouring
check/radio rule already uses for the same collapse. NB comments at
each '*' block warn against re-scoping.
2. The 'missing icons' were never just arrows: GTK3 ships
gtk-menu-images=false since 3.10, so image menu items (nm-applet's
Wi-Fi list, udiskie) render iconless everywhere. Set
gtk.gtk3.extraConfig.gtk-menu-images = 1 (merges into the
settings.ini Stylix already writes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BACKLOG #90 root-caused: the arrows were never missing from the icon
theme — Papirus-Dark resolves pan-end-symbolic through its breeze-dark
inheritance (breeze ships inside the nixpkgs papirus output). The real
culprit: Waybar loads its stylesheet screen-wide at application
priority, so the tray menus it hosts for SNI apps (nm-applet & co)
inherit the bar's '* { min-height: 0; }', which out-prioritizes
adw-gtk3's 16px min-height on the menuitem arrow node and collapses
the submenu arrow to zero height. Property bisect confirmed
min-height:0 alone reproduces; the font/border resets don't.
- boreal + executive-slate waybar.css, waybar.nix generatedStyle:
'*' block scoped to 'window#waybar, window#waybar *'; tooltip rules
restate the font (tooltips are separate toplevels outside the scope).
- stylix.nix: drop the go-next-symbolic remap — a workaround for the
misdiagnosis; native pan-end-symbolic resolves fine.
- BACKLOG #90 deleted; JOURNAL entry records the method (live GTK3
repro + grim screenshots + CSS property bisect, V3 on TuringMachine).
V3 pending: human click on the real nm-applet tray icon post-switch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Item 28 color-only accessibility sweep. Swept every Waybar status
indicator for shape/glyph redundancy: all already carry non-color
distinction (updates shows a count + self-hides; vpn/doctor/nightlight/
recording self-gate; battery/idle/muted are glyph-distinct) except the
swaync notification module — its `inhibited-*` states reused the normal
bells (/), so an app-inhibited (suppressed) state was distinguished
from a normal one by color alone.
Route every suppressed state (DND + inhibited) to the bell-off glyph
+ @muted, so "notifications are off right now" reads by SHAPE. Applied
to the generated bar and all four whole-swaps (summer-day/night use
their own bell-off glyph; executive-slate/boreal use ) — parity rule.
Reuses the glyph DND already ships, so no new codepoint / tofu risk.
Verified: V0 (flake check --no-build; 4 jsoncs valid JSON) + V1 (built
homeConfigurations.nomarchy.activationPackage — the built config has
inhibited-* = U+F009B and style.css routes .inhibited-* → @muted).
V3 pending: live inhibited-state render with an app holding an inhibitor
(HARDWARE-QUEUE). MEMORY gains the "status is never color-only" invariant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Pin `font-family: Nomarchy` on #custom-nomarchy (boreal, executive-slate)
so the branded mark at U+F000 wins over the Nerd Font's glass glyph at
the same codepoint (summer bars already pinned it).
- Enlarge the icons on icon+text modules via a Pango span, with a gap so
the glyph no longer crowds the value. The volume module gets a wider
gap: its level glyph is unusually wide and overlapped the % otherwise.
- Bump icon-only status modules (caffeine, speedometer, …) to match, so
they don't read smaller than their neighbours. The generated bar sizes
everything relative to fonts.size (+2/+3pt) so it scales per theme.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Boreal — a Nord × Everforest × Dracula dark theme: a boreal forest at
night under the aurora. Nord's frost bones, Everforest's comfort, Dracula's
jewel-tone violet/cyan as the aurora light.
Palette (WCAG-checked, all 24 themes × 7 pairings pass): frost-slate base,
soft-vivid violet accent (#B79BE8, 6.35 on base) + frost-cyan accentAlt
(#86C7C0, 7.84 AAA), sage-green/gold/coral semantics, text 10.66 AAA.
Bespoke, non-standard surfaces:
- Waybar whole-swap (jsonc + css): a floating "aurora frost" bar of three
frosted-glass pills; launcher+clock left, workspaces centre, and the whole
right side is ONE continuous pill — the system tray shares its glass with
the status modules, no separators (the seamless-tray requirement). Full
module set (parity). GeistMono.
- Rofi: a frosted list base (used by every menu), plus a 4×3 large-icon grid
for the app launcher only.
- Typography GeistMono Nerd Font (57 MB, new); Iosevka was rejected at 1.1 GB.
Per-theme appearance (new): a preset now carries a full fonts+ui block, like
border, so a theme can ship a bespoke font / terminal opacity / border
thickness / rounding and a switch always replaces it — no leak into the next
theme (verified: boreal→everforest resets mono/rounding/opacity). All 23 other
presets get the current defaults (idempotent — zero visual change). Boreal
runs GeistMono + 0.90 terminal opacity + 3px borders + 12px rounding.
Grid launcher (new, backward-compatible): drun renders via `-theme launcher`;
HM writes ~/.local/share/rofi/themes/launcher.rasi which defaults to
`@import "custom.rasi"` (every other theme's launcher = its list, unchanged),
and a theme may override it (Boreal's grid). Text menus keep the base list.
Wallpaper: an original procedurally-generated aurora-over-treeline (ImageMagick),
palette-matched.
V1: nix flake check --no-build green; strict JSON on every preset; contrast
checker green; the real rofi binary parses the base rasi and resolves
`-theme launcher` + @import + grid overlay; end-to-end eval with boreal active
resolves the waybar whole-swap (tray in the right cluster), the rofi grid
launcher, and the bespoke fonts/opacity/geometry reaching nomarchy.theme, with
no cross-theme contamination. NOT done: on-screen render of the desktop
(V2/V3) and preview.png (deferred to on-hardware capture).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
