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fix(theme): #130 the chip moves, not the label; #129 pins the pair so it is checkable
Light-theme accent buttons sat at 2.72:1 — under AA and under even the 3:1
large-text floor. Bernardo: fix it. The plan on file ("darken the label")
turned out to be IMPOSSIBLE, and measuring all 24 palettes is what showed
it: on a saturated mid-tone accent nothing clears 4.5 — cream base 2.72,
dark text 1.65. That is why adw-gtk3 ships white-on-accent at ~2.7. The
chip has to move.

The chip is now the accent pulled AWAY from the label: toward white when
the label is dark, toward black when it is cream. One factor (0.70), only
the anchor flips, so "solid accent button + base label" stays the design
and just shifts tone. Worst dark 4.86 (nord/bad), worst light 5.59
(summer-day). The old 0.90 chip failed SEVEN themes (miasma/bad 3.43,
rose-pine 2.70) — never only a light-theme bug, contrary to the item.

#129 rides along, and the two are one idea. #98 shipped an invisible button
with every check green because the background was not a palette role —
adw-gtk3 computed it from currentColor. So the guard is not a CSS lint
(which would flag the harmless generic-button rule and get muted) but
arithmetic: pin both ends and the pair becomes checkable.
check-theme-contrast.py now models GTK's own mix(a,b,f) = a + (b-a)*f —
READ from gtkcsscolorvalue.c:234, not assumed — and asserts base-on-chip
>= 4.5 for all 24 themes. Its negative test reproduces the item's reported
2.72/2.74 exactly from an independent model, which is the best evidence
available that the arithmetic matches the pixels.

Invariant to keep: pin the pair, or pin neither. Both chips are pinned now
(suggested + .default + destructive), where #98 pinned only destructive.

tools/dialog-shot.nix deliberately not built: the checker covers the
numbers, and a VM that only ever confirms arithmetic is maintenance for
nothing. Render if a new widget class appears.

Also sweeps #127 with the latch finding (ff5017e): symptom 2 solved, not
DPMS — which raises the odds the mitigation treats the wrong cause.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 14:55:17 +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 / install hardware findings — Acer Aspire M5-481T + Dell XPS 9350
Bernardo, real installs 2026-07-1314 (photos of the install end screens and
post-boot sessions). Preserve separation: the installer bake failure and the
flake pin are different root causes even when they show up on the same machine.
(Terminal / Ghostty-on-Acer → shipped as Kitty-only, #95.)
### 127. `[blocked:hw]` Docked idle: black screens, no wake, undock does not restore panel
Bernardo 2026-07-15 (AMD dev box, docked): left the laptop docked; after a
few minutes of idle it appeared to "sleep". Then:
1. External keyboard/mouse did **not** wake any display.
2. Unplugging the external monitor did **not** turn the laptop panel back
on (dock mode has eDP disabled — undock *should* re-enable it).
3. The machine was still alive: Caps Lock LED toggled on the keyboard.
This also killed a long agent session (looked like a "crash" from the
outside). Separate from awake undock recovery (HARDWARE-QUEUE round 8):
the failure is **idle while docked**, then no path back to a usable panel.
**Likely shape (code-side, unconfirmed on the incident):** on AC, hypridle
does **not** call `systemctl suspend` (`onAc || suspend` — only battery
suspends at 15 min). Idle path is lock @5 min + `dpms off` @10 min
(`modules/home/idle.nix`). Caps Lock working fits **DPMS/lock blackout**
better than deep S3. Dock mode has already disabled eDP; recovery then
needs either (a) input → hypridle `on-resume` / `dpms on` on the external,
or (b) undock → `nomarchy-display-transition undock` re-enabling the
panel. Both failed. `after_sleep_cmd` only does `hyprctl dispatch dpms on`
and never re-enables a disabled internal.
**Progress 2026-07-15:**
- Recovery tooling: undock ends with `dpms on`; `nomarchy-display-wake` /
`nomarchy-display-dump` (SUPER+SHIFT+D; TTY if it works).
- **Mitigation (shipped):** do **not** DPMS-off when **clamshell** — if any
laptop internal (eDP/LVDS/DSI) exists in `monitors all` but is not
enabled, the 10 min listener skips blanking. Lock at 5 min still runs;
undocked laptops still DPMS-off as before. Bernardo: Ctrl+Alt+F3 did
not yield a usable TTY on the original brick, so prevention > dump path.
- **Scope settled (#136, 2026-07-16):** the gate is *clamshell*, not
"docked" — and Bernardo confirms the incident was exactly that, **laptop
closed**. So the code matched the evidence and only the wording
overclaimed; that is fixed (idle.nix, ROADMAP, and the journal line, now
`dpms-off skipped: clamshell`). Docked with the lid **open** still blanks
and is untested — not exempted, not claimed safe.
- **Revisit later (LATER):** intentional DPMS-when-clamshell once wake is
proven trustworthy (monitor power-save without a brick). Tracked as
**#135** (state key + the surface to delete this by), downstream of the
hardware test below.
- **Caveat the test must settle:** the mitigation is a cure for an
**unconfirmed cause**. "Blanking the only live output caused the brick"
is inference from one incident, shipped at V1. If DPMS-off is not the
trigger, we are paying a permanent behaviour cost (docked externals never
sleep) and the brick is still live — so confirming the cause outranks
#135/#136.
- **Symptom 2 is SOLVED, and it was not DPMS (ff5017e, 2026-07-16).** Bernardo
reproduced "unplugging did not turn the laptop panel back on" live, minutes
after TEST A — with **no blanking involved at all** (the mitigation had kept
the external lit). Cause: `awaiting_lid_open` is set by every successful
undock and cleared only when the external is gone **and** the lid is open, so
a clamshell undock **latches** it; a re-dock clears its sibling
`undock_pending` but not the latch, and the next departure is then silently
dropped by the `[ -z "$awaiting_lid_open" ]` guard. His journal shows the
first undock logging *nothing*, a release the instant he lifted the lid, then
a clean undock. Replaying the sequence with the lid never opened: 1 of 3
undocks ran; fixed, 3 of 3. **What this does to the theory:** the original
brick may simply have been an ordinary blank plus a recovery that could not
run — two mundane bugs, not one exotic DRM state. TEST B is now the only
thing standing between that hypothesis and the truth, and it is a much safer
test with the latch fixed (an undock is a real escape hatch again).
**Pass (current mitigation):** clamshell-docked on AC, idle past 10+ min →
external stays lit under hyprlock (journal: `dpms-off skipped: clamshell`);
undocked still blanks at 10 min and wakes on input. Full original pass (wake
after DPMS-while-clamshell) deferred to the LATER revisit.
---
### The two tests, exactly (2026-07-16)
**There is no SSH lifeline on this box** (`sshd` inactive), which is why test B
self-recovers instead of relying on one. If you would rather have the net, turn
`services.openssh.enable = true` on for the day and keep a phone SSH client
open — then a brick is a nuisance, not a reboot.
**Test A — does the mitigation hold? (safe, ~15 min, unattended)**
1. Docked, **lid closed**, on AC. Leave it completely alone for 12 minutes.
2. Expect: at 5 min the external shows hyprlock; at 10 min it **stays lit**.
3. Then: `journalctl --user -b -t nomarchy-idle --since '-15 min'`
→ one `dpms-off skipped: clamshell (internal eDP-1 present but off)`.
4. Now open the lid / undock, idle 11 min → the panel **should** blank, and
wake on a keypress. That half must still work; the mitigation is not
supposed to have disabled blanking everywhere.
**Test B — was DPMS-off actually the trigger? (the decisive one; bounded)**
This is the test that outranks everything else here, because the mitigation is
a cure for an *inferred* cause. Docked, **lid closed**, from a terminal on the
external:
```sh
( sleep 45
hyprctl dispatch dpms on
hyprctl reload # re-enables every output (the #142 hammer)
) >/tmp/dpms-test.log 2>&1 &
hyprctl dispatch dpms off
```
The screen goes black. Then, in order:
1. **Press keys / move the mouse** in the first ~40s. Does it come back?
(In the incident it did not — this is the exact step that failed.)
2. **Wait for the 45s auto-recovery.** Does the external return by itself?
3. If it is still dark, **open the lid** — the `reload` should have re-enabled
eDP even if the external stayed dead.
4. Afterwards:
`journalctl --user -b -t nomarchy-idle -t nomarchy-display-watch --since '-5 min'`
**What each outcome means — all three are useful:**
- **Input wakes it** → DPMS-off is **not** the trigger. The mitigation is a
permanent behaviour cost buying nothing, the brick is still live and
un-diagnosed → revert the skip, **#135 never exists**, and hunt the real
cause (hyprlock? hypridle's own resume path? the dock's DP link?).
- **Dark until the 45s recovery, then fine** → the compositor was alive and
`dpms on` works, so blanking-while-clamshell *is* the trigger and the
mitigation is right → **#135 becomes the way to opt back in**.
- **Dark even after recovery** (lid needed) → the original brick, reproduced
**deterministically and on demand**. That is the best outcome: it turns a
once-off incident into something bisectable (try it without hyprlock, with
the lid open, on the internal only …).
Note the deliberate omission: this runs `dpms off` **by hand** rather than
waiting for hypridle, precisely because the shipped mitigation would otherwise
skip it. Same command, same state, no rebuild.
**Fallback if the cause resists (Bernardo 2026-07-16):** diagnosing stays the
preference — DPMS when docked is the outcome we want. But the mitigation as
shipped holds a near-static lock screen on the externals indefinitely, so if
the cause cannot be pinned down, a **screensaver while docked** is the
consolation prize: it protects the panels (burn-in — the same cost #135
names) without re-entering the blanking path that bricked the session. Not a
new item: it is the "if diagnosis fails" branch of this one, and #135's state
key is where it would land.
## NEXT
### 135. Give the #127 DPMS mitigation a state key (and a way back)
The shipped mitigation is hardcoded policy: docked (clamshell) externals now
**never** blank, and hyprlock has no timeout of its own, so they stay lit
indefinitely. Two real costs land on the user — a couple of 27" panels at
~60100W all night, and **OLED burn-in** from a near-static lock screen held
for hours. Today there is no way to opt back in, which also breaks the
in-flake-state rule that settings are menu-writable.
Add `settings.idle.dpmsWhenDocked` (default **false** = today's safe
behaviour), read by `modules/home/idle.nix`'s `dpmsOff` gate, with a
Preferences row. The real point is not the option: it gives the mitigation a
**named surface to delete** once wake is proven, instead of an unowned LATER
note that quietly becomes the product. Whoever removes the mitigation removes
the key in the same commit.
**Order:** after the #127 hardware test. If DPMS-off turns out not to be the
trigger, the mitigation is reverted wholesale and this key never exists —
building it first risks shipping an option for a policy we withdraw.
### 143. Rofi keeps the selected *row number* when the search changes, so the highlight lands on an unrelated entry
Bernardo 2026-07-16, and his repro is exact: open the app menu, type `ca`, move
the selection two items right (onto ChatGPT), press backspace once (query is
now `c`). The list re-expands — first entry is now Slack — but the highlight
stays on the **third row**, which is now GHex, an app that has nothing to do
with what he typed. Enter at that moment launches the wrong thing.
**Cause — upstream rofi (2.0.0, `source/widgets/listview.c`), not our config.**
A filter change ends in `listview_set_num_elements()`, which does not reset the
selection; it re-asserts the old one:
```c
lv->req_elements = rows;
listview_set_selected(lv, lv->selected); /* the *previous* index */
```
and `listview_set_selected()` only clamps it to the new bounds:
```c
lv->selected = MIN(selected, lv->req_elements - 1);
```
So what is preserved is the **row number**, not the entry — nothing checks that
row 2 still holds the thing that was selected, or that it matches the query at
all. Typing *more* hides this (the list shrinks, the clamp usually drags the
highlight along); **backspacing exposes it**, because the list grows back
underneath a stationary index. There is no option for it: `-dump-config` has
nothing about selection-on-refilter, and `auto-select` is a different feature
(it fires only when exactly one row survives).
**One correction to the report:** it is not the app menu. `listview` is the
widget behind **every** rofi surface we ship, so our text menus (Recovery,
System, Preferences…) do the same. It is merely far more visible in drun, where
the list is long and — because we set `sort = true` — reorders on every
keystroke, so a stationary index points somewhere new each time. In a short
text menu you would probably see it and correct without noticing why.
**Reported upstream 2026-07-16: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/issues/2317**
(open, filed as `bemagri`, with the 2.0.0 line numbers and the observation that
`rofi_view_set_selected_line` already maps a stable id through `line_map` — so
the fix reuses an existing primitive rather than inventing one). No patch was
sent: the scoping call is the maintainer's, since keeping the index across a
*reload* looks deliberate (#1064 asked for exactly that, and got it in 1.7.4).
No duplicate found before filing.
**Decided 2026-07-16 (Bernardo): wait for upstream. Do not carry a patch.** The
overlay option was real but priced badly — our derivations are in no binary
cache, so a patched rofi means **every machine compiles rofi from source**, on
every lock bump, to fix a highlight. That is a permanent, distro-wide install
cost for an annoyance with a free workaround (glance before you press Enter).
**This item is now a watch, not work:** the only thing to do is check
rofi#2317, and take the fix when a release carries it. If it is still open at
the next lock bump, that is fine — nothing here rots meanwhile.
## LATER
- **DPMS when docked (revisit #127):** today we **skip** display blanking
while any laptop internal is present-but-disabled (dock/clamshell), so
idle only locks. That avoids blanking the sole external and the brick
where wake/TTY failed (2026-07-15). Revisit when we want monitor
power-save on dock again: re-enable DPMS-off for that mode only if
`nomarchy-display-wake` (or better) reliably restores the external and
undock-while-black restores eDP on the AMD dock setup — without
depending on SSH. Until then, leave the skip in `modules/home/idle.nix`.
- **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.
## 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
### 120. A netinstall ISO, next to the fat offline one
**Deferred to PROPOSED 2026-07-16 (Bernardo): not now.** Nothing below is
stale — the measurements stand and the decision it needs is unchanged. It sits
here because it is the only genuinely large item left, and because the gotcha
at the bottom (no binary cache for our own derivations) probably makes a
cachix the real first step, not the ISO.
Bernardo 2026-07-14, after seeing the measured size: **keep the current ISO
exactly as it is** — the guaranteed offline install is the feature it buys —
and ship a **much lighter netinstall variant alongside it**. Two products, one
distro: "works on a plane" and "8 GiB is absurd to download" are both true, and
a second target settles them without compromising either.
**Measured facts (2026-07-14), so this starts from numbers, not vibes.**
*(These stand as measured: #121 would have cut ~0.67 GiB of duplicate chromium
from them, but it was **reverted** — decided against, ROADMAP § one chromium,
not two. If a netinstall ships, revisit it: the duplicate is worth ~195 MiB of
**download**, which is this item's whole currency, even though it is worth
almost nothing on disk or on the ISO.)*
> **Read this before using the numbers below.** They are **closure arithmetic**,
> and #121 proved the hard way that closure size is neither disk size nor image
> size: removing a 687 MiB path shrank the ISO by **8 KiB**, because
> **mksquashfs dedupes duplicate files** and **`auto-optimise-store` hardlinks**
> them on disk. So a change that looks like it sheds gigabytes of closure can
> shed nothing off the actual image. **Measure the artifact — build the ISO and
> `stat` it.** The corollary cuts the other way and is the good news for this
> item: what dedupe cannot help is the **wire**, so a netinstall's download is
> the one figure closure/NAR size predicts honestly (`nix path-info --store
> https://cache.nixos.org --json` gives the real `downloadSize`).
- Current ISO **8.078 GiB** compressed; **18.03 GiB** of store uncompressed
(`zstd -19`, 2.23:1 — compression is already near-max, not the lever).
- The offline pin (`system.extraDependencies`, 60 roots: a representative
installed system + the template HM closure + all flake inputs) is **4.02 GiB
uncompressed of that — only ~22%**. Dropping it entirely still leaves a
**~13.3 GiB** desktop → roughly **6 GiB** compressed at the same ratio.
**So "no pin" alone is NOT the lighter ISO** — this is the trap to avoid.
- The desktop's own top weights: libreoffice 1457 MiB, initrd 1369,
linux-firmware 770, chromium 1391 (two builds — #121, left in), llvm-lib 540,
bibata-cursors 322, mesa 264, mbrola-voices 259, nerd-fonts ~420 combined.
Note what that list implies: no single lever gets a desktop ISO under ~4 GB —
which is the case for (b) below.
**So the real decision is what a netinstall ISO IS**, and it should be settled
first (`[human]`): (a) the full try-before-install desktop minus the pin
(~6.3 GiB — barely lighter, probably not worth a second target); (b) a **TUI
installer only, no desktop** (~1 GiB, the actual "netinstall" in the Debian
sense) which drops "try before install" from that medium — the fat ISO still
offers it; (c) a middle desktop (no libreoffice/chromium — but note #103 just
put those there deliberately, and a *demo* desktop that can't browse is the
bug #103 fixed).
**The gotcha that decides feasibility:** without the pin, a netinstall target
fetches from `cache.nixos.org` for stock nixpkgs paths — but **Nomarchy's own
derivations are in no binary cache**, so they would build *from source on the
user's machine* during install. That is the same failure `tools/vm/gap-analysis.py`
exists to diagnose (and #113 is a live instance of). So this item probably
depends on a public binary cache (cachix) for the flake's own outputs, or it
trades an 8 GiB download for a 40-minute install. Establish that before
building the target.
Pass = a second, documented ISO target that is *substantially* smaller (state
the measured number, both ISOs built from one tree), installs successfully with
a network in a QEMU run, says clearly at boot that it needs one, and leaves the
offline ISO's behaviour untouched (`checks.*` for the offline path stay green).
### 134. `unstable.<pkg>` in the downstream — a newer app without a second flake
Bernardo 2026-07-15, wanting a newer LM Studio (pinned 0.4.15-2 vs unstable
0.4.19-2) and disliking the only path that works today. There is **no seam**:
`mkFlake` takes `src`/`username`/`hardwareProfile`/`system` only, and
`homeConfigurations` is built from mkFlake's own `pkgs` (`inherit pkgs`), so a
`nixpkgs.overlays` in system.nix cannot reach a home package. The user is left
hand-pinning a `fetchTarball` rev+sha256 in home.nix (verified working) — a
second pin with no lock, which is exactly the Nix expertise the distro exists
to spare them. Sketch: `home.packages = [ unstable.lmstudio ];`, and maybe
`stable.` as an explicit synonym for today's bare `pkgs`.
The shape that keeps the promises: Nomarchy carries the `nixpkgs-unstable`
input **itself** and exposes it through `overlays.default` as an `unstable`
attrset, so downstream stays **one input**, stays locked, and `nomarchy-pull`
still moves it. Cost/questions to settle before building:
- Lock churn: every lock bump now moves two channels, and the full-checklist
rule (VERIFICATION §5) applies to both.
- Duplication: measured — pinned vs unstable lmstudio build closures share
only 690 of ~3.74k paths (separate stdenv bootstrap). Opt-in per package,
but a user who reaches for it pays a second glibc/stack in the closure.
- "Tested together upstream" weakens by construction: nothing validates
pinned-Nomarchy + unstable-app. Needs an explicit, documented "you own this
combination" line, not silence.
- Does `unstable` belong in the eval by default, or only when referenced?
(An unused input still locks + fetches.)
- Scope: home packages only, or system.nix too?
Alternative if that is too much surface: give `mkFlake` an `overlays ? []`
param (one-line seam, user still owns their own input/pin — cheaper for us,
still expert-only for them). Related: #133.
### 114. Greeter ignores per-device keyboard layouts
Found by Bernardo 2026-07-14: logging out while docked lands on tuigreet,
where his external keyboard (remembered as `us` via
`settings.keyboard.devices`) types the session layout `gb` — so the password
prompt fights him. Not a regression and not docking-related: per-device
layouts are applied with `hyprctl keyword device[<name>]:kb_layout`, which
only exists inside a running Hyprland session, while tuigreet draws on a
kernel VT whose single keymap comes from `console.useXkbConfig`
`services.xserver.xkb.layout`. A VT structurally cannot do per-device
layouts, so this is a design gap, not a bug to patch. Options, cheapest
first: (a) document it and stop there; (b) a greeter layout-cycle key
(tuigreet has no such feature — would need the keymap swapped under it);
(c) host tuigreet inside a small Wayland compositor (cage/labwc), which
*does* get per-device XKB and would let the greeter honour the same
in-flake state the session uses — real work, and it changes the greeter's
whole rendering path (`modules/nixos/greeter.nix` themes tuigreet through
the 16 ANSI console slots, so (c) is not a drop-in). Worth deciding whether
the greeter is meant to be layout-aware at all before costing it.
- **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**.