#+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Dropdown Panel #+AUTHOR: Craig Jennings #+DATE: 2026-07-02 #+TODO: TODO | DONE #+TODO: DRAFT READY DOING | IMPLEMENTED SUPERSEDED CANCELLED * DRAFT Desktop-Settings Dropdown Panel :PROPERTIES: :ID: d6bb1e73-ec90-4327-85ee-bfa762da5bce :END: - 2026-07-04 Sat @ 12:36:56 -0500 — retrofitted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: - [2026-07-19 Sun] DRAFT — folded Craig's control-set decisions (home->archsetup handoff): added night-light, DND, lock/suspend, power profile, and scenes to the controls table; recorded volume and theme as out-of-scope with reasons; pulled the format pickers into a separate display-format sibling spec (stub filed). The "few other things" scoping decision and the scenes decision are now closed. One decision stays open — the wallpaper manager's shape (row-that-opens-a-sub-view vs its own sub-spec), to resolve at spec-review. UI prototyping (ui-prototyping rule: research -> 5 directions -> iterate) is not done yet and is the gate before READY. - [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, night-light, Do Not Disturb, power profile, lock/suspend actions, scenes, and a wallpaper manager (see the controls table). 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 | Kind | Backing | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Auto-dim toggle | toggle | hyprctl decoration:dim_inactive (dim-toggle) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Idle / caffeine | toggle | hypridle start/stop (caffeine-toggle) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Touchpad toggle | toggle | toggle-touchpad + touchpad-state file | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Mouse toggle | toggle | same mechanism, mouse-state file | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Airplane mode | toggle | airplane-mode script (laptop-only row) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Screen brightness | slider | brightnessctl (backlight class), slider + % | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Keyboard backlight | slider | brightnessctl (kbd_backlight class), slider | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Night light / | toggle | color-temperature shift (candidate: | | color temperature | | hyprsunset; confirm the tool at build) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Do Not Disturb | toggle | dunstctl set-paused (pause notifications) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Power profile | selector | powerprofilesctl (performance / balanced / | | | | power-saver, three-way) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Lock / suspend | actions | hyprlock / systemctl suspend (momentary | | | | buttons, not stateful toggles) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Scenes / profiles | composite| one control that flips several toggles at | | | | once: Focus, Presentation, Battery-saver, | | | | Night (see the Scenes decision below) | |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| | Wallpaper manager | sub-view | still-open shape (row-that-opens-a-sub-view | | | | vs its own sub-spec) — resolve at spec-review| |--------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| 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. The lock/suspend buttons are momentary actions with no persistent state to reflect. A scene reads back each toggle it sets and reports the composite as applied only when every member verified. ** 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. ** DONE What are the "few other things" beyond the toggles? CLOSED: [2026-07-19 Sun] Resolved (Craig, 2026-07-19, via the home->archsetup handoff). Beyond the seven base toggles/sliders, the panel adds: night-light / color temperature; Do Not Disturb (dunst); lock / suspend quick actions; power profile (performance/balanced/saver); and scenes/profiles (see the Scenes decision). Plus the wallpaper manager already confirmed 2026-07-04 (its shape stays open, see the Wallpaper decision). The controls table above now carries all of them. OUT of this panel, with reasons: volume / master-mute stays with the audio panel (this panel does not mirror it — one owner per control); theme light/dark goes to the separate theme-studio task, not here. Format pickers (time/date/weather display format) are pulled out entirely into their own future sibling spec. The real problem there is a single source of truth — many programs store their own format, so the design question is where the canonical time/date/weather format lives and how every consumer (clock module, weather chip) reads it without drift. Tracked as a stub: [[file:2026-07-19-display-format-single-source-of-truth-spec.org][display-format single-source-of-truth]]. *** 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). ** DONE Scenes / profiles — one control that flips several toggles at once CLOSED: [2026-07-19 Sun] Resolved (Craig, 2026-07-19): the panel offers named scenes that set several controls in one action — Focus, Presentation, Battery-saver, Night. Scenes are the payoff of consolidating every desktop control in one panel. The exact toggle set each scene applies is a build-time detail (design it against the control table); the spec commitment is that scenes exist and each verifies every member it sets (see Controls note above). ** DONE Wallpaper manager — a panel row that opens a sub-view, or its own sub-spec? CLOSED: [2026-07-19 Sun] Resolved (Craig, 2026-07-19): a row in the panel that opens a sub-view, kept inside the one panel (the "consolidate everything" thesis). The wallpaper manager's depth (directories to scan, persistent selection, a day/night sunup/sundown pair needing a sun-time source) lives in that sub-view, not a separate surface. Sun-time source (lat/long or sunrise/sunset lookup) is a build detail for the sub-view. * 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.