Nomarchy/agent/BACKLOG.md

Backlog — the prioritized task queue

The forward-looking half of the old docs/ROADMAP.md, reworked as a queue agents can execute. Detailed design notes and decision records stay in docs/ROADMAP.md (referenced as "ROADMAP § "); this file is what's next, in what order.

Rules:

• Agents take the topmost actionable item (see LOOP.md). Finished items are deleted here — the journal + git log are the record; durable design notes get a ✓-entry in docs/ROADMAP.md if worth keeping.
• Item numbers are stable IDs — never renumbered or reused. A gap in the sequence means shipped (or dropped) work; new items take the next free number regardless of tier.
• Tags: [blocked:hw] needs real hardware (see HARDWARE-QUEUE.md) · [human] needs Bernardo · [stuck] two failed attempts, needs help · [big] must be split before starting.
• Agents may append to PROPOSED and Decisions freely; only Bernardo moves items out of PROPOSED into the tiers.

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NOW

(empty — NEXT's top item is the queue head)

NEXT

14. Automated upstream lock bumps (maintainer CI, slices b+c) [big]

ROADMAP § Automated upstream lock bumps — the scheduled half (the checks-on-push workflow shipped; see item 20 for the runner status): weekly job runs nix flake update (within pinned release branches) → full check suite → lands on main on green; v1 promotion stays human. Plus the fast-lane note for security bumps. Note the current runner is eval-only (no KVM) — a green bump run guards eval, not the VM suite, until item 20's stretch runner exists.

20. KVM runner → VM suite in CI [human]

The remaining stretch of the CI item — checks-on-push is live and green (run #58; runner = gitea/act_runner docker, eval tier). Register a second runner on a host with /dev/kvm + nix (host-mode label nix-kvm), then an agent uncomments the workflow's vm-checks job: the checks.* VM suite + real toplevel/HM builds on every push (also upgrades item 14's bump gate from eval-only to the full suite).

15. Display profiles — docked/undocked switching

ROADMAP § Display / monitor management, remaining: true profile switching of the same outputs (multi-layout toggles, beyond per-output hotplug rules), optionally workspace-to-monitor binding. Design first (state-file shape, menu surface) — write the plan into this entry before coding.

16. Greeter theming from the JSON

ROADMAP § Greeter. tuigreet themed from theme-state.json at system rebuild (same model as Plymouth's tint). Scope: tuigreet only (no SDDM).

17. Launch-or-focus UX scripts

ROADMAP § launch-or-focus. Hyprland dispatch scripts: a bind launches an app or focuses its existing window. Curate which apps get binds; cheatsheet entries via keybinds.nix.

18. "nomarchy" control center + first-boot welcome [big]

ROADMAP § control center. A single front-end over the common toggles on the same nomarchy-theme-sync surface, + a first-boot guided "pick your theme / essentials" flow. Needs a design pass (TUI vs GUI) → write options into Decisions before implementing. Note: items 9–11 (rollback menu, doctor, validation) are natural panels of it — design them as composable commands, not dead ends.

19. Look & Feel menu category

ROADMAP § Menu system, remaining: group Theme + night-light (+ wallpaper cycle, future appearance toggles) under a Look & Feel submenu once it earns ≥3 entries — keep the root at six.

LATER

• Wallpapers artifact split (ROADMAP § Faster switches — decided, deferred): pinned Nomarchy-wallpapers input so a state write stops re-copying 86 MB. Follow-on: pre-built theme variants if switches are still slow after.
• Installer round 2 (ROADMAP § Installer): multi-disk BTRFS RAID, impermanence, BIOS/legacy boot.
• Boot-from-snapshot: a systemd-boot equivalent of grub-btrfs.
• Night-light geo mode: lat/long auto sunset/sunrise (means wlsunset).
• Per-theme icon overrides / more icon packs (ROADMAP § Icon themes).
• MIPI/IPU software-ISP camera support (no-UVC machines).
• OCR screenshot-to-text: a Capture › entry (grim region → tesseract → clipboard) — recording (#12, shipped 2026-07-04) already reshaped the submenu, so this is now a two-row addition.
• Doctor Waybar warning: a self-gating bar indicator fed by nomarchy-doctor (shipped 2026-07-04) — appears only when the sheet has a ✖; click opens the sheet.
• Auto-timezone Waybar tooltip showing the detected zone (optional).
• VPN exit-node richer display (country/city) (optional).
• NixOS release bump → v2 [human]: deliberate, hand-edited, never automated; the previous attempt was discarded (2026-06-22) over a Hyprland OOM blocker — see MEMORY.md before retrying (NOW#3 should also soften that blocker class).

PROPOSED (agent suggestions — await human triage)

Agents: append here with a one-paragraph pitch (what/why/cost). Do not implement. Bernardo moves accepted items into a tier.

• Menu parity for downstream-flake options (raised by Bernardo, 2026-07-04, from the hardware sweep): anything the docs or the hardware queue ask a user to hand-edit into the downstream flake (keyboard.layout multi-layout, power.batteryChargeLimit, updates.enable, services.printing, …) should have a menu toggle instead — the in-flake-state philosophy already gives the menu a write-into-the-flake path, and night-light / auto-timezone / auto-commit prove the pattern (incl. rebuild-on-first-enable). Pitch: (a) an audit listing every user-facing nomarchy.* option vs its menu surface; (b) menu writers for the gaps, respecting the toggle-vs-package discipline (bare template packages stay hand-edits) and menu-placement convention (right submenu, root stays short). Values beyond booleans (layout lists, charge thresholds) need a small input UI per option. Cost: audit is one iteration; the writers a few more, sliceable per option.

• Portal/Flatpak camera picker still lists the internal IR sensor (ROADMAP § Webcam follow-up). The shipped IR-hide is a WirePlumber v4l2 rule, but Flatpak/portal apps consume cameras via the libcamera path, where both sensors remain visible — a Flatpak Zoom user can still pick the black IR "camera". Options, roughly ascending cost: (a) do nothing — document it (portal camera support is still rare in practice); (b) a WirePlumber libcamera monitor rule disabling GREY-only nodes — needs verifying that libcamera monitor rules can match early enough (the v4l2 investigation found only device.api binds pre-rule, which is why surgical scoping failed before — same wall likely applies); (c) a libcamera configuration/udev quirk hiding the IR sensor at the libcamera layer itself. Cost: (b)/(c) need a T14s-style RGB+IR machine to verify → pairs with a hardware-queue session. Recommend (a) now, (b) investigated when the T14s is next available.

Decisions [human]

Open calls only Bernardo can make; agents add options/evidence but never decide.

• Formatter adoption: repo deliberately has none; nixfmt-rfc-style would flatten the aligned hand-formatting of ~33 files. Adopt or declare never?
• Docs site vs Markdown-in-repo (from the docs-review item).
• Control center form factor: TUI (gum/ratatui-style) vs GUI vs "the rofi menu is the control center, just add a first-boot flow".
• zram swap: faster under pressure and pairs with NOW#3, but it interacts with the hibernation-swapfile story (resume device/priority ordering) — adopt, adopt-with-hibernation-guard, or skip?
• Default browser: the template comments Firefox out. The shipped mime defaults (item 8, done) point text/html/http(s) at firefox.desktop as inert entries — they activate the moment Firefox is installed and are skipped otherwise, so the remaining call is only: ship a browser active in the suite, or stay browserless-by-default?