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diff --git a/docs/specs/2026-07-02-desktop-settings-panel-spec.org b/docs/specs/2026-07-02-desktop-settings-panel-spec.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50853f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/specs/2026-07-02-desktop-settings-panel-spec.org @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +#+TITLE: Desktop-Settings Dropdown Panel +#+AUTHOR: Craig Jennings +#+DATE: 2026-07-02 +#+TODO: TODO | DONE +#+TODO: DRAFT READY DOING | IMPLEMENTED SUPERSEDED CANCELLED + +* DRAFT Desktop-Settings Dropdown Panel +:PROPERTIES: +:ID: d6bb1e73-ec90-4327-85ee-bfa762da5bce +:END: +- 2026-07-04 Sat @ 12:36:56 -0500 — retrofitted by spec-sort; status set to DRAFT (evidence-based, human-confirmed) + +* DRAFT Status +:PROPERTIES: +:ID: fb7eec22-a214-4568-82c4-903612f4832f +:END: +- [2026-07-04 Sat] DRAFT — all four decisions resolved by Craig (dim + airplane collapse into the panel, touchpad + caffeine stay on the bar; Super+Shift+G keybind; code in dotfiles settings/ beside net/; 5% brightness floor). The four collapse/keybind/location/floor decisions are closed; one open scoping question remains ("few other things" — see Decisions) before a spec-review can flip it READY. +- [2026-07-03 Fri] DRAFT update — from the waybar/panel-family design + discussion: adopt the instrument-console faceplate aesthetic net + bt + shipped (lamps, engraved sections, console keys, machined plate), not just + the raw palette; add the audio panel as a sibling in the panel family; + cross-reference the shared faceplate CSS. Toggle-consolidation scope (the + "few other things") still open — see the Decisions section. +- [2026-07-02 Thu] DRAFT — initial spec from the todo.org task "Desktop-settings + dropdown panel" (2026-06-24 review), updated for the Blueprint/GTK4 pipeline + the net panel stood up 2026-07-01. + +* Metadata + +| Field | Value | +|--------+----------------------------------------------| +| Status | draft | +|--------+----------------------------------------------| +| Owner | Craig Jennings | +|--------+----------------------------------------------| +| Repo | dotfiles | +|--------+----------------------------------------------| +| Kin | net panel (architecture donor), theme studio | +| | audio panel (sibling), bt panel (aesthetic) | +|--------+----------------------------------------------| + +* Problem + +Desktop toggles are scattered: dim, caffeine/idle, touchpad/mouse, airplane +mode each own a bar module and a keybind; brightness and keyboard-backlight +have keybinds but no visible control or level readout. The bar is running out +of glanceable width (hence the collapse arrows), and sliders can't live in +waybar at all. One settings dropdown — a gear glyph opening a small panel — +gathers them. + +* Goals + +1. One panel with every desktop toggle + slider: auto-dim, idle/caffeine, + touchpad, mouse, airplane (laptop-only), screen brightness, keyboard + backlight. +2. Conditional rows appear only when the hardware/context applies (mouse + present, trackpad present, battery present) — reuse the detection the + airplane/touchpad indicators already do. +3. Every control reflects live state and verifies its action took (the net + panel's verify-everything contract). +4. Bar stays the quick layer: which standalone indicators survive is a + decision below. + +* Design sketch + +** Architecture — clone the net panel's proven stack + +- GTK4 + gtk4-layer-shell, Blueprint .blp sources compiled to committed .ui + (=make ui=; dev-only build dependency, fresh clones run without the + compiler). +- Humble-object split: a GTK-free PanelModel presenter (unit-tested to 100% + like the net PanelModel) + thin composite-widget pages. Backing actions in + a GTK-free settings.py that shells out to brightnessctl / hyprctl / the + existing toggle scripts, TDD'd with fake binaries like every dotfiles + suite. +- One gated AT-SPI smoke (the run-panel-smoke.sh pattern), no bespoke + headless widget suite. +- Instrument-console faceplate aesthetic, consistent with net + bt + audio: + the machined gradient plate, glowing status lamps, engraved section labels, + physical console keys for the toggles, and (where a level applies) needle + gauges. Load the shared instrument-console palette/faceplate CSS asset all + the family panels use — factor it once, don't duplicate (feeds the + theme-studio task later). + +** Controls and their backings + +| Control | Backing | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +| Auto-dim toggle | hyprctl decoration:dim_inactive (dim-toggle) | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +| Idle / caffeine | hypridle start/stop (caffeine-toggle) | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +| Touchpad toggle | toggle-touchpad + touchpad-state file | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +| Mouse toggle | same mechanism, mouse-state file | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +| Airplane mode | airplane-mode script (laptop-only row) | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +| Screen brightness | brightnessctl (backlight class), slider + % | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +| Keyboard backlight | brightnessctl (kbd_backlight class), slider | +|--------------------+----------------------------------------------| + +Slider changes apply live (throttled) and read back the actual level after +apply — verify-everything. Toggles re-read their source of truth after +firing, same as the bar indicators do, and the bar modules get their refresh +signals so both surfaces agree. + +** Open/close behavior + +Gear glyph module on the bar right cluster; click toggles the panel +(layer-shell anchored under the bar, right-aligned). Focus-out auto-hide + +Close button, matching the net panel. Keybind: Super+Shift+G (decision B). + +* Decisions (Craig) + +** DONE Which standalone bar indicators collapse into the panel? +CLOSED: [2026-07-04 Sat] +Resolved (Craig, 2026-07-04): touchpad and caffeine stay on the bar (glanceable state); auto-dim and airplane move into the panel (panel-only, freeing bar width). The airplane Super+Shift+A toggle keybind stays as the quick lane — only its bar indicator collapses in. + +** DONE Keybind for the panel? +CLOSED: [2026-07-04 Sat] +Resolved (Craig, 2026-07-04): Super+Shift+G (gear), for parity with the other panels' fast path. + +** DONE Where does the code live? +CLOSED: [2026-07-04 Sat] +Resolved (Craig, 2026-07-04): dotfiles =settings/= sibling to =net/= (same src-layout, tests in tests/settings/), sharing the palette css. The net panel is the architecture donor; the old in-tree pocketbook-style note is out. + +** DONE Slider granularity and floor +CLOSED: [2026-07-04 Sat] +Resolved (Craig, 2026-07-04): 5% floor on the brightness slider, so a dark-room drag can't black the screen out and lock you out. brightnessctl's 0-100% range clamps to a 5% minimum. + +** TODO What are the "few other things" beyond the toggles? +The 2026-07-03 discussion named consolidating the toggle buttons "and a few +other things" into this panel, but the extras weren't enumerated. Current +control list (above): auto-dim, idle/caffeine, touchpad, mouse, airplane, +screen brightness, keyboard backlight. Candidates raised or adjacent — +confirm which belong here vs the audio panel vs the bar: night-light / color +temperature, a theme/dupre-vs-hudson switch (theme-studio kin), volume or a +master-mute mirror (or leave all audio to the audio panel), a +notifications/do-not-disturb toggle (dunst), lock/suspend actions. Craig to +name the set. + +*** 2026-07-04 Sat — Craig's input (roam capture): the set includes a wallpaper manager +Confirmed the panel gathers the mouse/trackpad toggle, a no-sleep (idle-inhibit) toggle, and the auto-dim toggle, and adds a *wallpaper manager* (this is where the displaced waypaper functionality lands — see the media/keybind change that freed Super+Shift+P). The wallpaper manager needs its own depth: +- take a number of directories to look in; +- switch the wallpaper with the change persisting across sessions; +- switch between two pictures at sunup / sundown (a day/night pair). +That last one implies a sun-time source (a lat/long or a sunrise/sunset lookup). The wallpaper manager is sizable enough it may want its own sub-spec rather than a single panel row; decide during the spec-review whether it's a row that opens a sub-view or a separate panel. Remaining "few other things" candidates above (night-light, theme switch, DND, lock/suspend) still await Craig's yes/no. + +* Implementation phases + +1. settings.py backings (brightness get/set, kbd backlight, toggle + state readers) — pure engine, TDD with fake brightnessctl/hyprctl. +2. PanelModel presenter (rows, conditional visibility, verify-after-apply + semantics) — unit-tested, no GTK. +3. Blueprint UI + gear bar module + open/close wiring; palette css factored + to a shared asset; AT-SPI smoke. +4. Bar-module consolidation per decision A: drop the dim and airplane bar + modules (now panel-only), keep touchpad and caffeine on the bar, wire the + refresh signals so bar and panel agree, and bind Super+Shift+G. |