Continues reducing terminal-reliance for graphical system control. Five
new panels, plus three GUI apps shipped for things better served by an
existing dedicated tool than reimplemented in bos-settings
(gnome-disk-utility, gufw, mission-center).
- Power: battery status/health, brightness, charge-limit thresholds where
the hardware exposes them, TLP profile shown read-only by design (no
Balanced/Performance switcher — TLP auto-selects by power source, and
power-profiles-daemon isn't installed because it conflicts with tlp).
- Firewall: ufw enable/disable, add/remove rules, view active rules.
ufw's own status check requires root (confirmed against the installed
script — not just changes, reads too), so unlike every other panel this
one does NOT query state in build(): every view is constructed eagerly
at app launch, and an unconditional privileged read here would mean a
polkit prompt on every single bos-settings open. Starts blank with a
"Status not loaded" placeholder; state loads only on an explicit Refresh
click, with a guard so refresh's own set_active() doesn't loop back into
triggering ufw enable/disable.
- Users: add/remove accounts, change passwords. All through pkexec on a
background thread. Can't remove the account you're currently running as.
- AUR: search via yay. Installing deliberately opens a terminal instead of
a silent --noconfirm install — yay's interactive PKGBUILD diff review and
sudo prompt are the actual safety mechanism against a malicious AUR
package, not a formality worth automating away.
- Firmware: fwupd device list + updates, same stream-output-then-refresh
pattern as Packages.
packages.x86_64: gnome-disk-utility, gufw, mission-center for disk/firewall/
task-manager GUIs that don't need reinventing inside bos-settings.
Root cause of two panels rendering full-bleed instead of the 760px column
(breadsearch, breadclip): hint()'s long unwrapped text reported an
unbounded natural width, and CONTENT_MAX_WIDTH is a floor (set_size_request),
not a cap — nothing was actually capping width. hint() and empty_state()
now bound their labels with set_max_width_chars, which stabilizes every
panel's column at a consistent width and left edge for the first time.
service_control(): added a second status line (enabled-at-boot vs
just-running), a confirm dialog on Stop for critical units (breadd — the
whole desktop's event backbone was one accidental click from stopping,
styled identically to optional helpers), and a consistent "Save only
writes the file, Restart applies it" hint on panels that have both a
service and a config file (previously only breadsearch said this, in its
own inconsistent wording).
Consistency sweep: Network's Scan button and empty-state treatment now
match the rest of the app (was full-width where every other secondary
action is auto-width; "not scanned" was a hint while "no results" was an
empty_state card — now both empty_state). breadclip gets an actual "Open
history" action instead of reading as an unfinished stub. breadbox's Save
button pulled out of a mixed row into its own row like every other panel.
Packages list rows now get the same card styling as every other row in
the app.
Panel title now shares view_scaffold's width+center treatment with the
content column, so it actually heads the column instead of sitting ~440px
to its left.
Also: switch widgets had a stray box-shadow/outline/border showing as a
faint ring around the knob, and bread-theme's switch slider color
(@on-surface) was being masked by Adwaita's default gloss background-image
— clearing it reveals the correctly-themed near-white knob against the
dark surface.
sidebar.rs and window.rs each independently hardcoded "about" as the
default selected/visible page — harmless while both literals happened to
match, but a real latent bug: changing one without the other silently
desyncs the sidebar highlight from the actually-displayed panel. Found
while capturing screenshots of every panel for a design review, where
exactly that happened. window.rs now owns DEFAULT_PAGE and passes it to
sidebar::build().
New panels: About, Network (Wi-Fi/Ethernet via nmcli), Sound (PipeWire
volume/device via pactl), Date & Time (timedatectl), and Clipboard
(breadclip previously had no bos-settings presence at all despite running
its own daemon).
Layout: every panel now shares one scaffold (6 views were hand-rolling their
own, inconsistently) with a centered, width-capped content column instead of
rows stretching edge-to-edge on a wide window with the control stranded far
from its label. Rows render as individual cards. Sidebar got human labels +
icons + task-based grouping (System/Personalization/Maintenance/About)
instead of raw binary names under "Apps"/"System".
New capability: a shared service_control() widget gives every bread app
backed by a systemd --user daemon (breadd, breadbox-sync, breadcrumbs,
breadmill, breadclipd) live status plus Start/Stop/Restart/View logs —
previously these panels only ever edited a TOML file and hoped the running
process picked it up. breadbar (no systemd unit) gets an equivalent: Save
now actually sends the SIGHUP its own reload mechanism needs, instead of
just claiming to in the hint text.
Fixed two real bugs surfaced while building About: CPU model string kept a
stray leading tab+colon (trim_start_matches was missing '\t'), and GPU
showed "unknown" on hardware whose lspci entry says "Display controller"
instead of "VGA compatible controller".
Local CSS patches (bos-settings/src/theme.rs) for two upstream bread-theme
gaps: suggested/destructive buttons and scale widgets don't clear Adwaita's
default background-image, so flat colour overrides were invisible; and
destructive-action red must not be pywal-derived (it can land on gold
depending on the wallpaper, indistinguishable from a primary action).
Pulls the fix for panels turning brown/off-hue when pywal extracts a light
or muddy background from the wallpaper — background/surface now stay BOS's
fixed dark constants regardless of what the wallpaper looks like.
breadsearch v0.2.1+ ships breadmill built with --features full (npu + rocm
+ cuda in one binary via ort's load-dynamic/dlopen mode), so the earlier
CPU-only restriction here no longer applies. Hint explains what each
backend needs and how to confirm it actually took effect, since a failed
GPU EP registration falls back to CPU silently at the ONNX Runtime level.
Snapshots panel was non-functional (wrong snapper flag); breadgreet picked
the wrong session .desktop and skipped bos-session's PATH fixup; Calamares
aborted offline installs over an unnecessary packages module; snapshot
rollback silently no-op'd on BOS's pinned-subvolume layout (now points at
grub-btrfs instead); breadcrumbs was configurable but had no daemon to run
it. Also: SUPER+I double-bind, breadpaper/packages panels blocking the GTK
main thread, dead polkit rule, and a sweep of smaller drift (default
sidebar view, stale wording, missing .desktop launchers, wallpaper daemon
not recording its own default).
- breadbox panel edited [[contexts]] but breadbox reads [[context]]
(serde rename mismatch) — panel was always empty and Save appended
a dead array.
- Packages panel parsed installed.json as a flat map instead of
unwrapping {"packages": {...}} — always showed one bogus row.
- load_doc silently produced an empty document on any parse error,
so the next Save could clobber a config file with a syntax typo;
now backs it up first.
- Hyprland panel opened hyprland.conf/keybinds.conf (BOS ships
hyprland.lua) via $EDITOR with no terminal (dead click for any TUI
editor) and defaulted to foot (BOS ships kitty). Now opens
hyprland.lua and a keybinds cheat sheet via kitty -e $EDITOR.
- New breadsearch view: power (enabled/run-on-battery), compute
backend (cpu/npu/rocm), index/search settings.
- Move assets to assets/ directory (bread_white.svg, icons 256/512/1024px)
- Update Calamares branding + Plymouth theme logos
- Bake breadpaper (wallpaper manager + pywal) into /etc/skel alongside the
rest of the bread ecosystem — previously missing from the ISO build
- Bump bos-settings to 0.4.0
- .gitignore: ignore the /out/ ISO build dir
- bos-settings: use expect() with messages over unwrap() for piped stdio;
drop a stray blank line
- pacman.conf: reword the SigLevel=Never TODO as a future-improvement note
Pick up the directory-watch fix so bos-settings hot-reloads the shared stylesheet
on `bread-theme reload` like the rest of the desktop (its v0.2.6 build had the
broken file-watch). No code change — only the dependency + version bump.
Replace the hardcoded Nord palette (which ignored pywal and the rest of the
ecosystem entirely) with bread_theme::gtk::apply_shared() — bos-settings now
loads the same generated stylesheet as breadbar/breadbox/breadpad and keeps
only its own layout rules (.view-content padding). It recolours live with the
desktop. Bump gtk4 0.9 -> 0.11 / glib -> 0.22 to match the ecosystem.
Note: bread-theme dep pins tag v0.2.6 (cut at release); Cargo.lock to be
regenerated then.
The bread/breadpad/breadcrumbs/breadbox views wrote invented schemas
(e.g. top-level log_level, [[profile]] name/ssids) that did not match the
apps' real TOML, so they showed empty and — worse — clobbered the real
config on Save, since the old config::save serialized only the keys it
modelled.
Rework the config layer onto toml_edit: parse each file into a
DocumentMut, mutate only the specific keys a view exposes, and write it
back preserving comments and any unmodelled keys (calendar password,
saved-network passwords, model paths). Unit-tested.
Add ui/widgets.rs (switch/entry/password/dropdown/spin/float/csv rows +
view scaffold + save button) bound to the shared document, then rewrite
the four views against the real schemas with far more coverage:
- bread: [daemon], [lua], [modules], all five [adapters.*] with their
sub-options, [events], [notifications]
- breadpad: [settings], [model] + [model.ollama], [reminders], [calendar]
- breadcrumbs: [settings] (7 keys), [[networks]] editor, [profiles.*] editor
- breadbox: fixed to real [[contexts]] name/priority array editor
Goal: configure everything from the GUI rather than hand-editing TOML.
bos-settings was scaffolded but never compiled. Fixes:
- main.rs: import gtk4::prelude (connect_activate/run)
- window.rs: disambiguate WidgetExt::display(); drop unused GBox import
- hyprland.rs: Label has no set_monospace -> use the monospace CSS class
- theme.rs: drop unused prelude import
Also switch package.yml to secrets.REGISTRY_TOKEN (scoped write:package),
since the auto Actions token is not authorized for the owner registry.
- Fix XDG config dir logic in config/mod.rs (was double-nesting and had /home/user hardcode)
- Replace /home/user hardcodes in breadbar.rs and hyprland.rs with config::config_dir()
- Fix /home/user hardcode in packages.rs (uses /root fallback for .local/state path)
- Remove eprintln! from GTK callback in packages.rs (no stderr at runtime)
- Fix YAML parse error in branding.desc (missing space after sidebarTextHighlight key)
- Add .gitignore (Rust target/, ISO artifacts, editor/OS junk, secrets)
- Delete state.rs (dead code — never mod'd in main.rs)
- Add brightnessctl, grim, slurp to packages.x86_64 (used by keybinds)
- Rename can-you-begin-a-composed-beacon.md → DESIGN.md
ISO structural:
- Move post-install.sh → airootfs/etc/calamares/ (it was never in the squashfs)
- Create airootfs/etc/skel/.config/ with all dotfiles (deploy path now works)
- Add iso/pacman.conf with [breadway] custom repo stub for calamares + bakery
- Add Calamares branding component (bos/branding.desc + show.qml)
- Add missing unpackfs.conf and mount.conf modules
- Add live-session autostart: getty autologin → bash_profile → Hyprland → calamares
- Add polkit rule for wheel-group snapper rollback (pkexec path)
- Remove wlroots from packages (bundled with Hyprland); add bakery to package list
- Fix modules-search path in settings.conf
Dotfiles:
- Rename dotfiles/hyprland/ → dotfiles/hypr/ (Hyprland reads ~/.config/hypr/)
- Fix deprecated shadow options: drop_shadow/shadow_range → shadow { } block
bos-settings Rust:
- Replace glib::MainContext::channel (removed in glib 0.19) with async_channel
- Stream bakery update output line-by-line instead of buffering all at once
- Fix zombie processes: per-package update buttons now wait() in a thread
- Fix sidebar/stack mismatch at startup: select snapshots row to match default view
- Replace deprecated MessageDialog with AlertDialog (GTK 4.10+) throughout
- Use pkexec for snapper rollback so polkit handles privilege escalation
- Add confirmation dialog before delete snapshot (was missing, rollback had one)
- Add refresh button + repopulate after delete in snapshots view
- Add "Saved" / "Error: …" status label to every config view save button
- Add "Remove" buttons to breadbox contexts and breadcrumbs profiles
- Remove hardcoded model string from breadpad defaults
- Drop unused state mod; fix config_dir HOME fallback; fix zombie in editor launches
https://claude.ai/code/session_01WszGHvCmxgcyTwNSkfLF9P
