Nomarchy/agent/BACKLOG.md

Backlog — the prioritized task queue

This is the only executable work list for agents. Product themes and v1.0 intent live in docs/VISION.md; design history in docs/ROADMAP.md; map in docs/README.md and agent/README.md.

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 (and/or a note in VISION) 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 (include VISION § … or ROADMAP § … when relevant); 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

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 that later upgrades the bump gate from eval-only to the full suite.

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).
• 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.

Open work only. Shipped exam/A–C items (#47–#63, #14, #52 theme high-ROI, etc.) live in the journal + ROADMAP — not here.

Product / day-2

(Battery charge-limit instant → shipped 2026-07-10: udev GROUP=users + menu live sysfs + oneshot reads live theme-state; V3 confirm on laptop.)

(Portal/Flatpak IR camera → #71 docs (a); (b)/(c) still need T14s.)

(Post-install hardware hints residual → #73.)

(Look & Feel submenu → already shipped (Theme / wallpaper / night light); 2026-07-10: Reset wallpaper (auto) row; root stays six.)

• NVIDIA first-class options — deferred past v1 (Bernardo 2026-07-10). Keep #59 commented install guidance; no nomarchy.hardware.nvidia.* until a hybrid maintainer + queue.

Installer / template

(Installer ↔ template SoT CI → #72; V2 install → #75.) (Installer chown flake dir → #65.) (MIGRATION.md snapshot layout → #64.) (Unattended-install test matrix → #74.) (Friendlier mkFlake theme-state errors → #66.)

Theme polish

(#52 residual ANSI → #68 ✓.) (Fidelity / hierarchy nits → #67 ✓.) (Import pipeline hierarchy → #70 ✓.) (audit-theme-design identity exemptions → #69 ✓.) (summer-day/night pair polish + status CSS + preview recapture → shipped 2026-07-10: JSON SoT, status states, theme-shot previews for executive-slate + neon-glass.)

(Identity taste retunes + hand btop.theme for white/vantablack/lumon/ hackerman/matte-black/miasma/neon-glass/boreal/executive-slate → shipped 2026-07-10.)

v1.0 pointer

See VISION. Open PROPOSED: NVIDIA wrappers deferred past v1; IR portal (b)/(c) hardware.

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).

• 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?

• Default power backend — PPD vs TLP: (raised by Bernardo 2026-07-08: would TLP be more power-efficient, and should it be the default?) TLP does get more idle battery life, but only from device-level knobs PPD deliberately omits — PCIe ASPM, disk/NVMe link PM, USB autosuspend, runtime PM — which are the same knobs behind NVMe/USB flakiness that pillar 1 (rock-stable, never fight your machine) guards against. Evidence (2026-07-08): no credible hard-watt benchmarks exist — TLP's own maintainer declines to quote any ("measure on your hardware") and says PPD's power-saver gives similar savings under load; TLP's edge is idle-only (linrunner.de/tlp/faq/ppd.html — PPD covers a subset of TLP, "no settings to reduce consumption when the CPU is idle"). Our sibling distro Omarchy ran this exact experiment — a "replace Power Profiles with TLP for battery" guide — and the author reverted to PPD ("more headaches and weird issues"); Omarchy shipped PPD auto-switching instead (basecamp/omarchy#3907). PPD 3.4.0 now does AC/battery auto-switching, closing part of TLP's UX gap. Cost of TLP-default: TLP has no live D-Bus profile API, so the powermgmt menu + Waybar profile indicator + low-battery auto power-saver (all powerprofilesctl) would need a rework — it's not a one-line backend swap. Agent rec (evidence, not a decision): keep PPD default; chase battery via targeted low-risk tweaks (PCIe ASPM policy, battery-side EPP, the charge start threshold, PPD auto-switching) and keep TLP the documented one-line opt-in it already is (nomarchy.system.power.backend = "tlp"). Options: (i) status quo + targeted tweaks [rec]; (ii) TLP default (reworks the profile UX); (iii) nothing.