# Roadmap & changelog Forward-looking plans, plus a running log of shipped fixes (the "Known issues & follow-ups" section). Split out of the README so that stays a focused entry point — what Nomarchy is, how to install it, and how to override it. Items marked ✓ are shipped. ## Roadmap - **Menu system** (apps launcher + theme switching + system actions), built on rofi 2.0 (native Wayland on 26.05) — its `.rasi` theme is baked from theme-state.json like every other app, with rich per-element styling: - ✓ shipped: `modules/home/rofi.nix` (per-element theme generated from the palette, `themes//rofi.rasi` whole-swap) and the `nomarchy-menu` dispatcher: root picker (no args) · `power` (lock/logout/suspend/hibernate/reboot/shutdown, SUPER+X) · `theme` (SUPER+T) · `clipboard` (cliphist, SUPER+CTRL+V) · `calc` (rofi-calc, live, SUPER+CTRL+C) · `files` (fd → xdg-open, SUPER+CTRL+F) · `emoji` (rofi-emoji, SUPER+CTRL+E) · `web` (Google). SUPER+D is `rofi -show drun`. - ✓ shipped modules: `network` (nmtui in `$TERMINAL`) · `bluetooth` (blueman-manager) · `capture` (grim/slurp submenu: region/full → clipboard/file, saved to `~/Pictures/Screenshots`) · `keybinds` (the cheatsheet, see below) · `ask` (free-text → claude CLI in a terminal; auths via OAuth, no API key; pulled fresh via `npx @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest` rather than the nixpkgs package, which lags model releases — `nodejs` is bundled for npx; REPL stays open) - ✓ keybindings cheatsheet: `modules/home/keybinds.nix` is the **single source** for both the Hyprland binds and the SUPER+? rofi list, so they can't drift; `nomarchy-menu keybinds` renders the padded two-column sheet (generated/mouse binds carried in its `extra` rows) - ✓ shipped binds: `SUPER+Space` → `rofi -show drun` (quick launch) · `SUPER+M` → `nomarchy-menu` (main menu) · `SUPER+?` → the cheatsheet; `SUPER+D` stays `-show drun` - launcher icons: ✓ `show-icons` on, drawing from the theme's icon set (Papirus, via the icon-themes work below) - decision record: resolves the old Walker/Lua question — no GTK4 launcher, no second theming pipeline; the dispatcher owns the menu structure, so the renderer stays swappable (we moved fuzzel → rofi 2.0 once mainline gained native Wayland, for its richer theming) - ✓ **Menu modules from rofi plugins:** the old `calc` flow committed the expression blind (result only in the *next* menu's `-mesg`) and `qalc -t` misparsed common phrasings (`15% of 200` → `rem(15, 1 B)`, the natural- language "of" tripping the CLI). Resolved by adopting purpose-built rofi modi (`programs.rofi.plugins`), all themed through the same `.rasi`: - **calc** → **rofi-calc**: live results as you type via libqalculate directly (dodging the qalc-CLI "of" bug), Enter copies, menu persists to chain calculations. - **emoji** → **rofi-emoji** (new module, SUPER+CTRL+E): glyph picker, copies via the plugin's Wayland clipboard adapter. - **files** stays the hand-rolled `fd` → `rofi -dmenu` → xdg-open fuzzy search: rofi-file-browser-extended was tried and dropped — its navigate-a-tree model felt worse than flat fuzzy-find for a quick launcher, and yazi (SUPER+E) already covers real browsing. - **More menu modules from rofi tools:** the script-based counterparts (run via `rofi -dmenu`, like the hand-rolled modules), each a deliberate replacement of an existing flow: **rofi-network-manager** (a keyboard wifi/VPN picker vs today's `nmtui`-in-terminal `network`), **rofi-rbw / rofi-pass** (a secrets module — Bitwarden via rbw, or `pass` — pairs with `keys.nix`), and **rofi-pulse-select** (an audio sink/source switcher). Decide per-module whether it earns replacing the current path. - **Theme parity with legacy:** summer-day/night now carry their legacy bar layouts as `waybar.jsonc` whole-swaps (adapted: dead legacy script modules dropped, Nerd-Fonts-v2 codepoints remapped to FontAwesome/v3, logo button opens nomarchy-menu); the other four identity themes are palette recolors and already match. Remaining: a visual pass over all six on the live ISO - **Per-theme rofi identity:** the `themes//rofi.rasi` whole-swap ships, and summer-day/night carry their legacy designs (inverted window, green inputbar, yellow bottom-border). Remaining: author `.rasi` identities for the other four ported themes if/when they want one (the generated palette theme is the default and looks fine) - **Faster switches:** move `backgrounds/` out of the flake source (the 86 MB re-copy on every state write is the main eval tax), then pre-built theme variants if still needed - Greeter (tuigreet/SDDM) theming from the same JSON (Plymouth ships since v1: `nomarchy.system.plymouth.*`, background tinted from the state file) - Installer round 2: multi-disk BTRFS RAID, impermanence, BIOS/legacy boot (v1 `nomarchy-install` is single-disk UEFI — see `pkgs/nomarchy-install`) - launch-or-focus UX scripts (swayosd volume/brightness OSD ships since v1: `nomarchy.osd.*`, media keys drive `swayosd-client`, themed from the JSON) - **Distro branding, round 2:** `distroName = "Nomarchy"` ships (os-release `PRETTY_NAME`, systemd-boot entries, ISO menu label). ✓ tuigreet greeting (`Welcome to `) and a branded `users.motd` (doubling as a helper cheat sheet), both keyed off `distroName`. ✓ `isoImage.splashImage` — the vendored vector logo (`modules/nixos/branding/logo.svg`, from legacy) recolored to the palette accent on the theme base, built at ISO-build time (`hosts/live.nix`). Remaining: `isoImage.grubTheme` so UEFI boot matches the isolinux splash (needs a full grub theme dir), and the `distroId` question (it changes `DEFAULT_HOSTNAME` and upstream `isNixos` checks — needs a test pass; nixos-* CLI names stay regardless) - ✓ **fastfetch branding:** `modules/home/fastfetch.nix` (`nomarchy.fastfetch.enable`) — the vendored vector logo, recolored to the palette accent and rendered to compact block-art via chafa at build time (tracks the theme), fronting a curated module list. Replaces the oversized legacy ASCII with a themed, sized logo. - ✓ **Nomarchy logo font in Waybar:** vendored `Nomarchy.ttf` (`modules/nixos/branding/`), installed via `fonts.packages`, and the summer-day/night menu buttons now use its `U+F000` glyph with `font-family: Nomarchy` pinned in their CSS (Nerd Fonts also occupy U+F000, so the pin is required). The other themes have no logo button. - **Quality-of-life command aliases:** assemble a curated collection of shell aliases/abbreviations for common operations (git, nix, navigation, the nomarchy helpers, …), themed into the zsh shell experience (`modules/home/shell.nix`). Decide scope and which to ship on by default. - **Theme-switch feedback:** ✓ the "rebuilding…" notification is now persistent (timeout 0) and replaced in place by "applied ✓" / failure via a synchronous tag, so a multi-minute switch never reads as a failed selection. (An honest indeterminate indicator — HM gives no % — a literal progress widget would be cosmetic; revisit only if wanted.) - **Icon themes:** ✓ ships `papirus-icon-theme`; the resolved name lives on `nomarchy.theme.iconTheme` (the JSON's optional `icons` field, else Papirus-Dark/Light by `mode`) and feeds both Stylix's `gtk.iconTheme` (Thunar/GTK apps) and rofi's `show-icons`. Remaining (optional): per-theme `icons` overrides for the presets, or shipping more icon packs. - **Nicer shell out of the box:** ✓ zsh is the default login shell, with a starship prompt themed from the JSON, autosuggestions + syntax highlighting, and modern-CLI ergonomics — `cat`→bat (theme "ansi", so it tracks the palette), `ls`→eza, `cd`→zoxide, plus `lt`/`tree`. `nomarchy.shell.enable`. (Deliberately did NOT alias grep→rg / find→fd: their flags differ enough to surprise; `rg`/`fd` ship as themselves.) - **Default application suite:** install a complete-workstation set (vscode, libreoffice, gimp, inkscape, texlive-full, …) behind a `nomarchy.apps.*` option surface so each is individually opt-out for users who want a leaner machine. Watch closure size (texlive-full is multi-GB — likely default-off or a lighter scheme). - ✓ **Plymouth logo contrast:** the shipped art was a fixed navy that vanished on dark bases. `modules/nixos/plymouth.nix` now recolors every element from the palette at build time (flat fill, alpha kept): logo/lock/bullet → text, entry/progress-box → surface, progress-bar → accent. Reads on light and dark; follows the theme as of the last system rebuild (like the background tint). - ✓ **Hibernate double-unlock:** on resume from hibernate the LUKS passphrase already gates the machine, but hypridle's `before_sleep_cmd` also locked hyprlock, so the user typed a password twice. Fixed with a `nomarchy-hibernate-unlock` systemd unit (`modules/nixos/default.nix`) that dismisses hyprlock *after* a hibernate resume (`WantedBy hibernate.target`, `After systemd-hibernate.service` → runs post-resume), gated on the disk being LUKS-encrypted. Suspend (and the RAM-resume phase of suspend-then-hibernate) keep locking — they have no passphrase gate. - ✓ **Key agents & pinentry:** ships `modules/home/keys.nix` (`nomarchy.keys.enable`): one agent — `services.gpg-agent` with `enableSshSupport` fronts SSH, so a single `pinentry-qt` (native-Wayland, Stylix-themed Qt) handles GPG and SSH passphrases alike. `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` comes from the agent's zsh integration; cache TTLs (30 min / 2 h) govern re-prompting. gnome-keyring stays the Secret Service (modern versions run no SSH agent, so no socket contention); screen lock doesn't flush the cache. Remaining (optional): a session-level `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` export so GUI clients launched outside a shell also see the agent. - **Sanitize & organize the repo:** a housekeeping pass for consistency and clarity. Candidate targets (scope still to be defined): prune now-redundant config (e.g. the installer still writes `console.useXkbConfig` / `boot.initrd.systemd.enable` into `system.nix`, which are distro-wide defaults as of the LUKS-keymap fix); reconcile the README option tables with the actual `nomarchy.*` surface; audit comments/docs for drift against the code; and re-check that every file still earns its place under the `modules`/`hosts`/`themes`/`pkgs`/`tools` rule of thumb. - **Full docs review & restructure:** a dedicated pass over all the prose, not just the code-adjacent cleanup the repo-sanitize item covers. The README has grown to ~540 lines with a ~200-line roadmap inline — the biggest single move is likely **splitting the roadmap out** (e.g. `ROADMAP.md` / `docs/`) so the README stays a focused "what it is / how to install / how to override" entry point. Also: reconcile every option table against the live `nomarchy.*` surface (snapper and others are missing); a pass over `docs/OVERRIDES.md` + `docs/TESTING.md` and the `templates/downstream/README.md` for drift; check the install/first-run story reads cleanly end to end; and decide whether anything wants a real docs site vs. staying Markdown-in-repo. Pairs with the first-boot welcome and control-center items (shared "how do I…" surface). - **Laptop power / battery management:** a real power story behind a `nomarchy.system.power.*` surface (`modules/nixos/power.nix`), replacing the old "only `services.upower` for Waybar reporting" baseline: - ✓ **profiles:** `power-profiles-daemon` ships by default (the upstream- aligned choice — power-saver/balanced/performance via `powerprofilesctl`, switched through polkit so no root prompt). A `power-profile` menu module (in the SUPER+M picker) and the first Waybar `custom/*` indicator (click to cycle) both **self-gate** on a battery being present + PPD running, so they hide on desktops and under TLP — no system→home wiring. **TLP** is the opt-in (`backend = "tlp"`) for deeper battery tuning; the two are mutually exclusive (asserted). - ✓ **thermal:** `thermald` behind `power.thermal.enable`; the installer turns it on for a `GenuineIntel` CPU. - ✓ **longevity:** `power.batteryChargeLimit` (e.g. 80) — a backend- independent sysfs oneshot writes `charge_control_end_threshold`. Off by default; the installer scaffolds it commented-out on laptops. - ✓ **installer:** writes `power.laptop = true` (battery probe) and `power.thermal.enable` (Intel) into the generated `system.nix`. - ✓ **idle cohesion:** `modules/home/idle.nix` now suspends only on battery (and sooner — 15 min vs the old fixed 30), gating the hypridle suspend listener on a `nomarchy-on-ac` probe so a plugged-in machine stays up mid-idle; lock/screen-off are unchanged on both sources. logind's lid handling is left at its defaults (suspend on lid close, ignore when docked) — an explicit "I'm done" that coheres with the idle behaviour. - Remaining: a boot-only→event-driven charge-limit re-apply (udev) if a firmware resets the threshold on unplug. - **Opt-in services & integrations:** the counterpart to the opt-*out* application suite above — heavier or more personal integrations shipped **off by default**, each a `nomarchy.services..enable` toggle a downstream flips on in one line. Keeps the base lean while making common additions trivial. Candidates by area: - **cloud/sync:** Nextcloud client; Syncthing (`services.syncthing`) - **local AI:** LM Studio (`lmstudio`); Ollama (`services.ollama`, optional GPU accel) — pairs with the menu's Ask-Claude philosophy - **containers/VMs:** Docker/Podman; libvirt + virt-manager - **networking:** Tailscale (`services.tailscale`); WireGuard - **gaming/media:** Steam (`programs.steam`); OBS Studio - **devices:** printing (CUPS + Avahi); KDE Connect / phone integration; OpenRGB - **backup:** restic/borg (`services.restic`) - **escape hatch:** Flatpak (`services.flatpak`) for apps outside nixpkgs Decisions: the curated set; whether system services and GUI apps share one surface or split (`nomarchy.services.*` system-side vs home-side packages); and how it relates to `nomarchy.apps.*` (opt-out suite). Unfree entries are already covered (`allowUnfree = true`). - **Display / monitor management:** today Hyprland just uses `monitor = ,preferred,auto,1` (mkDefault). Add a real external-monitor/dock story: declarative per-output config, hotplug profiles (kanshi-style, or Hyprland's own monitor rules), and optionally a GUI arranger (nwg-displays writes Hyprland monitor config). Decide declarative-only vs GUI, and the option shape (`nomarchy.monitors` vs plain Hyprland `monitor` lists). - **Night light / blue-light filter:** schedulable colour-temperature shift via `hyprsunset` (Hyprland-native; wlsunset/gammastep are alternatives) — sunset/sunrise or a fixed schedule, with a menu + Waybar toggle. - **Runtime keyboard-layout switching:** the session layout is a single `nomarchy.keyboard.layout` today. Support a list of layouts with a toggle bind (`hyprctl switchxkblayout` / xkb `grp:` options) and a Waybar indicator for the active layout. Natural follow-on to the LUKS-keymap work — keep the system (console/initrd) and session layouts in sync. - **Do-Not-Disturb:** a swaync DND toggle (`swaync-client -dn`) wired into the menu and a Waybar indicator, to silence notifications for presentations/focus. - **Snapshot browse/restore UX:** snapper already takes BTRFS timeline snapshots (`nomarchy.system.snapper`); surface them from the desktop — a rofi menu (or btrfs-assistant) to browse/diff/restore and boot-from- snapshot — so rollback isn't CLI-only. - **Update awareness:** updates are manual today (`sys-update`/`home-update`); add a Waybar indicator / notification when flake inputs are stale or a new nixpkgs rev is available (optionally with a pending-change count). Augments, never replaces, the explicit rebuild flow. - **"nomarchy" control center:** a single TUI/GUI front-end over the common toggles — theme, power profile, opt-in services, display, DND — built on the same `nomarchy-theme-sync` / `nomarchy.*` surface the menu already uses. Plus a first-boot welcome that lands new installs in a guided "pick your theme / essentials" flow (ties into the branding work). ## Known issues & follow-ups - ✓ **Yazi TOML parse error on startup:** yazi 26.x made fetchers' `group` field required, so `[[plugin.prepend_fetchers]]` failed to parse and yazi fell back to presets. Fixed by adding `group = "git"` to both git fetcher entries in `modules/home/yazi.nix` (the git plugin's `setup()` only renders the linemode; the fetcher still needs registering). - ✓ **Starship prompt styling:** dropped the powerline look (the `[]` separator glyph + `bg:` fills) for a flat prompt — bold-accent directory, warn git branch, subtext status/duration, `❯` character, all plain colored text (`modules/home/shell.nix`). Also wired in `cmd_duration`, which was configured but never referenced in `format`. - ✓ **xfce deprecation warnings:** moved `xfce.exo` → `pkgs.xfce4-exo` and the three Thunar plugins to their new top-level names in `modules/nixos/file-manager.nix`; the eval warnings are gone. - ✓ **Rofi function keybindings:** direct `SUPER+CTRL+` binds jump straight to each `nomarchy-menu` module — V clipboard · C calc · W web · F files · N network · B bluetooth · S capture · A ask — added to `modules/home/keybinds.nix`, so they also show in the SUPER+? cheatsheet. - ✓ **Enable nix-ld by default:** `programs.nix-ld.enable` is on distro-wide (`modules/nixos/default.nix`), so prebuilt/foreign dynamically-linked binaries run out of the box. - ✓ **Hyprland border colors off for some themes:** the cause was v1 forcing an `accent→accentAlt` gradient on every theme; legacy used a *solid* border (accent for nord/retro-82/lumon, the text tone for kanagawa/summer-day/summer-night). Added a palette-resolved `border` field (`{active, inactive}`) to the theme schema (`theme.nix`), consumed solid in `hyprland.nix`, and declared it in every preset so a switch always replaces it. All six identity themes now match legacy exactly. - ✓ **Waybar shows non-existent workspaces:** the v1 summer port "fixed" legacy's deprecated `persistent_workspaces` (underscore — silently ignored by current Waybar, so legacy only ever showed existing workspaces) into the modern `persistent-workspaces` (hyphen), which Waybar honours → all 10 rendered as phantoms. Dropped the block from `themes/summer-{day,night}/waybar.jsonc`; the other themes use the generated `waybar.nix`, which never had it, so they already match. - ✓ **GTK/Qt ignore the theme's light/dark mode:** Stylix set `polarity` but not the `org.freedesktop.appearance color-scheme` that GTK4/libadwaita and Qt6 read via the portal, so a light theme could still render apps dark. `stylix.nix` now sets `dconf` `org/gnome/desktop/interface color-scheme` = `prefer-light`/`prefer-dark` from `t.mode` (xdg-desktop-portal-gtk already ships, and `programs.dconf` is on system-side), so libadwaita/Qt follow the palette. Needs a live session to confirm the portal picks it up for all apps.