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>
New 2560×1440 cyan/purple geometric void wallpaper without the mid-screen
GLASSMORPHISM panel; preview regenerated to match.
Verified: V0 — theme-wholeswap; center pixels near-black (no grey box).
Align summer-day/night waybar tokens with JSON roles (hierarchy split
on night; day overlay≠muted), unify bar font 13px + battery 25/10, add
VPN pill and status states (.on/.available/.recording/…). Recapture
executive-slate and neon-glass picker previews from theme-shot.
Verified: V0 contrast+wholeswap; V2 theme-shot four slugs.
#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.
Capture executive-slate + neon-glass preview.png (480x270, theme-shot) —
all 24 themes now have picker previews. Quarantine neon-glass's broken
whole-swap: its waybar.css referenced @accent/@base/… with no
@define-color block, and waybar.nix reads a whole-swap css raw (no palette
prepend), so applying it rendered broken bar colours. Removing it falls
back to the generated bar from the theme's JSON palette.
Verified: V2 theme-shot renders viewed — executive-slate clean; neon-glass
bar now renders correctly, no config-error banner. V0 flake check green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
