Bernardo saw Recovery ellipsize on a 2560x1440 external, which falsified
the item's model (40% + Inter 11 → "only below 1920"). Real cause: text
menus render through themes/<slug>/rofi.rasi, where boreal + neon-glass
pinned width: 620px (fixed — a wide panel buys nothing) while seven used
40%, and the font is whatever that file says — mostly monospace, far
wider than the Inter that was measured. The modelled combination ships in
no theme.
The insight: a menu must fit its longest label, which is a count of
characters in the THEME's font — so the window must scale with the font,
not the screen. 40% gives a 1366 panel 546px and a 2560 one 1024px for
the same row, and a 14pt mono theme needs ~25% more room than an 11pt one
on both; a percentage cannot see either fact.
Rofi has the right unit (`ch` = width of one digit in the current font)
and `calc( a min b )` to cap it, so every text menu — generated and all
nine whole-swaps — is now `width: calc( 84ch min 65% )`. 84ch fits the
longest row we ship (69 chars) plus icon and padding; the cap is
Bernardo's condition (never sprawl on a low-res panel) and it is
measured, not assumed.
Verified on hardware, not by arithmetic: 84ch = 756px in GeistMono 11 and
924px in JetBrainsMono 14; `calc( 84ch min 300px )` → 300px, so the clamp
really clamps. Screenshots at both ends — the real Recovery menu at 756px
(29% of 2560) with every label complete, and the Acer worst case
reproduced pixel-exactly (888px = 65% of 1366, JetBrainsMono 14) also
complete. Grid views override width per-invocation and are untouched.
checks.rofi-text-width guards the class, proven by pinning boreal back to
620px and watching it fail by name. Acer V3 queued for its own fontconfig.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#54: permanent checks.installer-safety; test-install-safety harness with
offline compose-fail, LUKS-signature disk warn, and HM-hint FORCE paths.
#33: enable themed rofi scrollbars (generated + all whole-swap .rasi).
#43: MOTD + first-boot tip for System › Firmware (V3 LVFS stays hw-queue).
V2: compose-fail/disk-warn/hm-hint logs green offline; theme-shot
boreal+summer-night menus OK. V0 flake/installer-safety.
The executive-slate preset shipped a waybar.css that referenced @base/@accent
with no @define-color block, and no matching waybar.jsonc — so the raw-read
override ran a largely unstyled bar (the item-28 partial-whole-swap defect).
The palette was also flat (base->surface only 1.13x) with a dim accent
(#4D78CC, 3.91 on base).
- Palette: widen surface stepping (base->surface 1.13x -> 1.29x so panels/
selection/hover separate), brighten the accent (#4D78CC -> #5A8AE6, 3.91 ->
5.04 on base, now AA text), lift subtext/good/warn/bad a tier, realign ansi,
soften bright-white (#FFFFFF -> #F0F3F9). text stays 12.5 AAA. Contrast
checker: all 23 themes x 7 pairings pass.
- Waybar: complete the bespoke bar as a real whole-swap. New waybar.jsonc with
the full 17-module set (parity with summer-day/night); waybar.css rewritten
to lead with its own @define-color block and cover every module + state class
the helper scripts emit (.recording/.activated/.on/.available/.dnd-*/battery).
Identity: solid, edge-to-edge, sharp corners, accent underline on the active
workspace.
- Rofi: drop the broken var() idiom for the house *{}/@name convention (split
border syntax, message/textbox/scrollbar elements for the theme-grid picker).
- CONVENTIONS: Waybar parity rule now names executive-slate as a third
whole-swap target (was stale at summer-only).
V1: nix flake check --no-build green; strict JSON parse of both files; real
rofi parsed the .rasi cleanly; with executive-slate set active, the module
eval resolves waybar.settings -> the jsonc, waybar.style -> the css, rofi.theme
-> the override rasi, and theme.nix accepts the palette. NOT yet done: on-screen
render of the bar/rofi/desktop (V2/V3) and preview.png (deferred to on-hardware
capture, per the chosen path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Leveraged Nano Banana to generate a 4k functional minimalist wallpaper. Added the new preset with a solid, high-legibility waybar and flat rofi launcher.
