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fix(menu): explain unsupported battery-limit and BlueZ-down states
BACKLOG #96 + #97 (Acer live pass). Battery limit: the System row now
gates on battery presence (same rule as Power profile) instead of the
charge-threshold sysfs node, so firmware without the control gets the
leaf's explanation ("no charge_control_end_threshold — hardware
capability") rather than a silently missing row that reads as a broken
feature. Bluetooth: the leaf checks bluetooth.service before launching
blueman-manager and replaces the raw "Connection to BlueZ failed" with
a state-aware message (service stopped vs no adapter in
/sys/class/bluetooth, with rfkill/firmware hints).

Verified: V1 — nomarchy-menu builds, bash -n green, both paths in the
generated script; V0 flake check green. QEMU can fake neither a
threshold-less battery nor a BT adapter: #96 behavioral check queued in
HARDWARE-QUEUE (Acer + T14s); #97's no-adapter message will be
click-checked in the next VM run (V2 pending).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 18:36:19 +01:00

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# 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`](../docs/VISION.md); design history
in [`docs/ROADMAP.md`](../docs/ROADMAP.md); map in
[`docs/README.md`](../docs/README.md) and [`agent/README.md`](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.
---
## NOW
### Live ISO hardware findings — Acer Aspire M5-481T (Bernardo, 2026-07-13)
These are separate queue items from one real install/session pass. Preserve
that separation when fixing them: the installer blocker, unclear installer
copy, and post-install desktop failures have different verification paths.
### 94. Live ISO/install: no default browser observed
Chromium is the resolved default-browser decision and is present in the
downstream template, but this hardware pass found no usable default browser.
Trace the live-to-installed Home Manager path rather than merely checking the
template source. Pass = Chromium launches after installation and HTTP/HTTPS
mime defaults resolve to `chromium-browser.desktop` (and the intended live-ISO
browser posture is explicit).
### 95. Live ISO/install: Ghostty does not open
Reproduce from the launcher and a terminal, capture its stderr/journal, and
fix the packaging/session/runtime cause. Pass = the default terminal opens in
the installed graphical session and the SUPER+Return path works.
### 98. Boreal: button text renders black and is difficult to read
Audit GTK button foreground/background contrast under Boreal, including the
installer surface where it was observed. Follow THEME-DESIGN's two-theme
visual protocol. Pass = normal, hover, focused, and disabled button labels
remain legible and palette-consistent.
### 99. Doctor/Waybar reports `theme.json` is not git-tracked
The live-installed checkout shows a doctor/Waybar warning that `theme.json`
is not tracked. Determine whether the warning targets the generated alias or
the canonical `theme-state.json`, then align the check with the in-flake state
contract. Pass = a fresh install has no false warning while a genuinely
untracked canonical state file is still detected.
## NEXT
### 103. Live ISO baseline desktop applications
Make Chromium and Firefox, `libreoffice-fresh`, GNOME Text Editor, Amberol, and
GNOME Snapshot explicitly available in the live profile and application
launcher. Text Editor and Snapshot are the maintained gedit/Cheese successors;
HTTP remains assigned to Chromium. Pass = all six launch in the live session
and the resulting ISO-size delta is recorded.
### 104. Runtime Airplane mode
Add Airplane mode under System connectivity controls. It must disable Wi-Fi
and Bluetooth together, remember their prior states, and restore those states
when disengaged. Pass = the runtime round trip works, and a Waybar indicator is
visible only while engaged with parity across every whole-bar swap.
### 105. `[big]` System-menu information architecture
Keep exactly six root menu entries while reorganizing System into
Connectivity, Devices, Recovery, and Preferences. This item must be split into
scoped implementation/verification tasks before work starts. Pass = every
current route has one deliberate home, navigation remains shallow, and no
root-level entry is added or lost.
### 106. Internal menu Back/Left navigation contract
Reproduce the reported internal leaf with neither Back nor Left behavior, then
fix any breach of the already-intended navigation contract. Add a permanent
guard covering every internal leaf; external GUIs and free-text prompts retain
their explicit Esc exceptions. Pass = no internal leaf can strand the user and
the guard fails on a regression.
### 108. Keybindings menu presentation and completeness audit
Group the menu as Window, Workspace, Menu, and Media, then prove every live
Hyprland binding appears from the canonical source. Do not repeat the obsolete
claim that float/move bindings are absent. Pass = presentation is scannable and
an automated comparison detects omissions or stale displayed bindings.
### 109. Conditional keyboard Waybar indicator parity
Hide the keyboard indicator for an unambiguous one-layout setup; show it when
multiple layouts, a per-device override, or a remembered keyboard makes it
useful. Pass = hotplug/remembered-device transitions update correctly and every
whole-bar swap matches the generated default bar.
### 110. `[big]` Retire Control Center safely
Split this into two phases before implementation: first build a migration/drop
matrix for every unique setting, then remove the package and all references.
Keyboard and terminal replacements must reject unsafe free-text values. Pass =
no supported setting silently disappears and the second phase leaves no stale
launcher, menu, package, documentation, or generated-artifact reference.
### 111. Scope-first Recovery menu
Replace confusing Rollback/Snapshots duplication with explicit Desktop
generation, System boot generation, and Files/root BTRFS scopes. Pass = labels
state what is restored and from where before action, with destructive or reboot
effects made clear and each existing recovery path represented once.
### 112. Installer disk-picker safety
Exclude floppy, pseudo, tiny, and otherwise non-installable devices such as
`/dev/fd0`; never select them by default. **Reproduced in QEMU 2026-07-13**
(#93's V2 run): with OVMF the guest exposes `/dev/fd0` and the picker listed
it FIRST — a blind Enter selected it (artifacts:
`/tmp/nomarchy-v2-swap-93/20-review.png`, `Disk: /dev/fd0 (WILL BE ERASED)`). Pass = the real install disk is clear,
invalid devices cannot reach destructive setup, a permanent guard covers the
filter/default logic, and a pre-destructive KVM run proves the picker behavior.
## 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.
- **MIPI/IPU software-ISP camera** support (no-UVC machines).
- **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).
## FUTURE (decided deferred — not the agent queue head)
Work we **intend** someday but explicitly **not** NEXT. Agents do not
pick these unless Bernardo promotes one into NEXT/NOW.
### 20. KVM runner → VM suite in CI `[human]`
**Status (2026-07-10):** keep **eval-only** CI on the current Gitea
stack (act_runner in docker-compose on the 4c/4GB IONOS VPS). Nested
KVM + RAM headroom on that host are a poor fit next to Gitea; full
`checks.*` VMs stay local / promotion-time until a **separate**
KVM-capable machine exists.
**When ready:** register a second runner (host-mode nix + `/dev/kvm`,
label `nix-kvm` — not the existing docker eval runner), then uncomment
the `vm-checks` job in `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` (`runs-on: nix-kvm`,
`nix flake check` + toplevel/HM builds). Do not enable the job until
that label is online (Gitea queues forever otherwise).
### Formatter — adopt later `[human]`
**Intent:** add a Nix formatter (likely `nixfmt-rfc-style`) in a dedicated
pass: reformat the tree once, document in CONVENTIONS, optional CI
check. **Not** the queue head — no drive-by reformats until that pass.
## 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/AC items (#47#63, #14, #52 theme
high-ROI, etc.) live in the journal + ROADMAP — not here.*
### Product / day-2
- **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.
- **Post-install hardware hints** (`VISION § B`) — After the general
“you're set” card (#81), optionally fire **one** additional
self-gated notify when the machine actually has the hardware:
(a) `fwupdmgr` on PATH → “System Firmware to check LVFS updates”;
(b) `fprintd-list` on PATH → “System Fingerprint to enroll”.
One-shot markers in `settings.*` (same in-checkout discipline as
`firstBootShown`); never a permanent MOTD nag. Cost: small — extend
`nomarchy-first-boot` or a sibling oneshot + `checks.first-boot`
fixture. Control-center / MOTD already mention these; the gap is the
silent first *graphical* session for people who never open those.
_(#80#83 + #85#88 shipped 2026-07-11. Theme A day-2 + neon-glass finish
shipped — VISION ✓. Dock/hibernate V3 → HARDWARE-QUEUE. Parallel
fingerprint-or-password shipped 2026-07-12 (Bernardo promoted it live;
`fingerprint.parallel`, pam-fprint-grosshack) — reader V3 →
HARDWARE-QUEUE.)_
### v1.0 pointer
See **VISION**. Open PROPOSED: post-install hardware hints; NVIDIA
deferred past v1; IR portal (b)/(c) need T14s (HARDWARE-QUEUE § T14s).
Standing calls: browser = Chromium; power = PPD.
## Decisions `[human]`
Open calls only Bernardo can make; agents add options/evidence but never
decide. **Resolved** entries stay for history; agents treat them as closed.
### Resolved (2026-07-10)
- **Docs site vs Markdown-in-repo** — **markdown in-repo for now**
(`docs/`, README). A rendered docs site is FUTURE if wanted.
- **Default browser** — **ship Chromium** in
`templates/downstream/home.nix`; mime → `chromium-browser.desktop`.
Opt out: delete the line / override mime.
- **Default power backend** — **keep PPD** (`nomarchy.system.power.backend`
default). TLP remains the one-line opt-in. Rationale: stability + live
profile API for menu/Waybar; Omarchys TLP experiment reverted.
### Resolved (2026-07-10, more)
- **Formatter adoption** — **yes, but not now.** Tracked as FUTURE
(below). Nix-source style only (`nixfmt-rfc-style` or similar); one
bulk reformat + CI/check when promoted. Until then: hand-aligned
style per CONVENTIONS.
- **Hibernation** — **want by default** (product intent). Needs a
disk-backed swap (file or partition) sized for resume; not zram alone.
**Shipped as #76**; V3 power-cycle PASSED on TuringMachine 2026-07-12
(ROADMAP § Hibernation + zram by default).
### Resolved (2026-07-10, #76 design)
- **Swap sizing** — **exactly RAM** (installer default, unchanged). Hibernate
image ≤ RAM; zram takes day-to-day paging. **`swapSize=0`** stays no-swap.
- **Migration** — **docs runbook** (`docs/MIGRATION.md`), not a tool.
- **No-swap Hibernate** — keep the menu row; **notify on failure**.