bos-settings/src/theme.rs

@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ scale slider { background-color: @on-surface; border-radius: 999px; }\n\
    primary action instead of a dangerous one. Fixed regardless of palette. */\n\
 button.destructive-action { background-color: #c0392b; color: #ffffff; }\n\
 button.destructive-action:hover { background-color: #d64535; }\n\
+/* Adwaita's default switch slider (the knob) carries a box-shadow used for \
+   its 3D bevel look — bread-theme's override only sets background-color, \
+   so that shadow still renders as a pale ring around the knob on top of \
+   our flat colour. */\n\
+switch slider { box-shadow: none; outline: none; border: none; background-image: none; }\n\
+switch { box-shadow: none; outline: none; border: none; background-image: none; }\n\
 ";
 
 thread_local! {

bos-settings/src/ui/views/bread.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
 
     let (outer, c) = w::view_scaffold("Daemon");
 
-    c.append(&w::service_control("breadd.service"));
+    c.append(&w::service_control("breadd.service", true, true));
 
     c.append(&w::section("Daemon"));
     c.append(&w::dropdown_row(

bos-settings/src/ui/views/breadbox.rs

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
     let model = Rc::new(RefCell::new(read_contexts(&doc.borrow())));
 
     let (outer, content) = w::view_scaffold("Launcher");
-    content.append(&w::service_control("breadbox-sync.service"));
+    content.append(&w::service_control("breadbox-sync.service", false, true));
 
     content.append(&w::section("Contexts"));
     content.append(&w::hint(
@@ -157,10 +157,12 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
     scroll.set_child(Some(&list));
     content.append(&scroll);
 
-    let btn_row = GBox::new(Orientation::Horizontal, 8);
-    btn_row.set_margin_top(8);
-
+    // Add-row button lives with the list it adds to, halign Start like
+    // breadcrumbs' "Add network"/"Add profile" — Save stays alone in its
+    // own row at the bottom, consistent with every other panel.
     let add_btn = Button::with_label("Add context");
+    add_btn.set_halign(gtk4::Align::Start);
+    add_btn.set_margin_top(8);
     {
         let model = model.clone();
         let list = list.clone();
@@ -172,12 +174,14 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
             rebuild_list(&list, &model);
         });
     }
+    content.append(&add_btn);
 
+    let btn_row = GBox::new(Orientation::Horizontal, 12);
+    btn_row.set_margin_top(16);
     let save_btn = Button::with_label("Save");
     save_btn.add_css_class("suggested-action");
     let status_lbl = Label::new(None);
     status_lbl.add_css_class("dim-label");
-
     {
         let doc = doc.clone();
         let model = model.clone();
@@ -198,8 +202,6 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
             }
         });
     }
-
-    btn_row.append(&add_btn);
     btn_row.append(&save_btn);
     btn_row.append(&status_lbl);
     outer.append(&btn_row);

bos-settings/src/ui/views/breadclip.rs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 //! had no presence in Settings at all despite running its own service.
 
 use gtk4::prelude::*;
-use gtk4::Box as GBox;
+use gtk4::{Box as GBox, Button};
 
 use crate::ui::widgets as w;
 
@@ -13,12 +13,21 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
     let (outer, c) = w::view_scaffold("Clipboard");
 
     c.append(&w::hint(
-        "breadclip keeps a history of copied text/images and shows it as a \
-         popup (SUPER+V or SUPER+SHIFT+V). breadclipd is the background \
-         daemon that actually watches the clipboard — breadclip itself is \
-         just the popup UI, launched on demand.",
+        "Keeps a history of copied text/images and shows it as a popup. \
+         breadclipd (below) is the background daemon that watches the \
+         clipboard — breadclip itself is just the popup UI, launched on \
+         demand by the keybind or the button below.",
     ));
-    c.append(&w::service_control("breadclipd.service"));
+
+    let open_btn = Button::with_label("Open history (SUPER+V)");
+    open_btn.add_css_class("suggested-action");
+    open_btn.set_halign(gtk4::Align::Start);
+    open_btn.connect_clicked(|_| {
+        let _ = std::process::Command::new("breadclip").spawn();
+    });
+    c.append(&open_btn);
+
+    c.append(&w::service_control("breadclipd.service", false, false));
 
     outer
 }

bos-settings/src/ui/views/breadcrumbs.rs

@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
     let profiles = Rc::new(RefCell::new(read_profiles(&doc.borrow())));
 
     let (outer, content) = w::view_scaffold("Wi-Fi Profiles");
-    content.append(&w::service_control("breadcrumbs.service"));
+    content.append(&w::service_control("breadcrumbs.service", false, true));
 
     // [settings] — edited in place on the shared doc
     content.append(&w::section("Settings"));

bos-settings/src/ui/views/breadsearch.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
     let doc = Rc::new(RefCell::new(config::load_doc(&path)));
 
     let (outer, c) = w::view_scaffold("File Search");
-    c.append(&w::service_control("breadmill.service"));
+    c.append(&w::service_control("breadmill.service", false, true));
 
     c.append(&w::section("Power"));
     c.append(&w::hint(
@@ -110,10 +110,6 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
         200,
     ));
 
-    c.append(&w::hint(
-        "Changes take effect after a restart — use the Restart button above.",
-    ));
-
     outer.append(&w::save_button(&doc, path));
     outer
 }

bos-settings/src/ui/views/network.rs

@@ -104,18 +104,25 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
 
     let list = ListBox::new();
     list.set_selection_mode(gtk4::SelectionMode::None);
+    // Starts with an empty_state row ("Not scanned yet") rather than being
+    // hidden — the "no results yet" and "scanned, found nothing" states are
+    // the same idea and should look the same, not one a hint label and the
+    // other an empty_state card.
+    {
+        let row = ListBoxRow::new();
+        row.set_selectable(false);
+        row.set_child(Some(&w::empty_state(
+            "network-wireless-symbolic",
+            "Not scanned yet",
+            "Press Scan to see nearby networks.",
+        )));
+        list.append(&row);
+    }
     let scroll = ScrolledWindow::new();
     scroll.set_min_content_height(220);
     scroll.set_child(Some(&list));
-    // Hidden until a scan actually produces results — a 220px empty scroll
-    // area between the radio row and the Scan button was dead space on
-    // every fresh open of this panel.
-    scroll.set_visible(false);
     content.append(&scroll);
 
-    let not_scanned = w::hint("Not scanned yet — press Scan to see nearby networks.");
-    content.append(&not_scanned);
-
     // Password entry, shown only while connecting to a secured, unknown
     // network — set visible/hidden rather than a modal dialog, to keep this
     // panel's async flow in one place instead of a nested dialog callback.
@@ -189,8 +196,6 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
 
     let populate_list = {
         let list = list.clone();
-        let scroll = scroll.clone();
-        let not_scanned = not_scanned.clone();
         let pw_row = pw_row.clone();
         let pending_ssid = pending_ssid.clone();
         let connect_open_or_known = connect_open_or_known.clone();
@@ -198,8 +203,6 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
             while let Some(child) = list.first_child() {
                 list.remove(&child);
             }
-            not_scanned.set_visible(false);
-            scroll.set_visible(true);
             if networks.is_empty() {
                 let row = ListBoxRow::new();
                 row.set_selectable(false);
@@ -280,6 +283,7 @@ pub fn build() -> GBox {
     };
 
     let scan_btn = Button::with_label("Scan");
+    scan_btn.set_halign(gtk4::Align::Start);
     {
         let status = status.clone();
         let populate_list = populate_list.clone();

bos-settings/src/ui/views/packages.rs

@@ -66,10 +66,9 @@ fn populate_packages(list: &ListBox, log_buf: &gtk4::TextBuffer, log_view: &Text
         let row = ListBoxRow::new();
         row.set_selectable(false);
         let hbox = GBox::new(Orientation::Horizontal, 16);
-        hbox.set_margin_top(6);
-        hbox.set_margin_bottom(6);
-        hbox.set_margin_start(8);
-        hbox.set_margin_end(8);
+        hbox.add_css_class("card");
+        hbox.set_margin_top(3);
+        hbox.set_margin_bottom(3);
 
         let name_lbl = Label::new(Some(name));
         name_lbl.set_hexpand(true);

bos-settings/src/ui/widgets.rs

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use std::rc::Rc;
 
 use gtk4::prelude::*;
 use gtk4::{
-    Adjustment, Box as GBox, Button, DropDown, Entry, Expression, Label, Orientation,
+    Adjustment, AlertDialog, Box as GBox, Button, DropDown, Entry, Expression, Label, Orientation,
     SpinButton, StringList, Switch,
 };
 use toml_edit::DocumentMut;
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ pub fn hint(text: &str) -> Label {
     lbl.add_css_class("dim-label");
     lbl.set_xalign(0.0);
     lbl.set_wrap(true);
+    // set_wrap alone doesn't cap a label's *natural* width — a long enough
+    // hint reports a natural width of its whole unwrapped string, which
+    // `view_scaffold`'s content column (sized to its widest child, floored
+    // not capped at CONTENT_MAX_WIDTH) then inherits, blowing the entire
+    // panel full-width. This is what makes breadsearch/breadclip render
+    // edge-to-edge while every other panel sits in a stable ~760px column.
+    lbl.set_max_width_chars(64);
     lbl.set_margin_bottom(4);
     lbl
 }
@@ -111,6 +118,7 @@ pub fn empty_state(icon_name: &str, title: &str, hint_text: &str) -> GBox {
     hint_lbl.add_css_class("dim-label");
     hint_lbl.set_justify(gtk4::Justification::Center);
     hint_lbl.set_wrap(true);
+    hint_lbl.set_max_width_chars(48);
     wrapper.append(&hint_lbl);
 
     wrapper
@@ -126,18 +134,19 @@ pub fn view_scaffold(title: &str) -> (GBox, GBox) {
     let title_lbl = Label::new(Some(title));
     title_lbl.add_css_class("title");
     title_lbl.set_xalign(0.0);
+    // Same width+center treatment as `content` below, so the title's left
+    // edge lines up with the column it's heading instead of sitting flush
+    // against the panel edge while the column centers ~440px to its right.
+    title_lbl.set_halign(gtk4::Align::Center);
+    title_lbl.set_size_request(CONTENT_MAX_WIDTH, -1);
     outer.append(&title_lbl);
 
     let content = GBox::new(Orientation::Vertical, 4);
     // Explicit hexpand(false) overrides the auto-computed value GTK would
     // otherwise derive from the hexpand-ing labels inside every row, and
-    // Start keeps content pinned under the left-aligned title instead of
-    // stretching (Fill) or floating in the middle of a wide pane (Center).
+    // Center distributes the dead space evenly either side on a wide window
+    // instead of stranding it all on the right of a left-hugging column.
     content.set_hexpand(false);
-    // Center rather than left-align: on a wide/maximized window, a
-    // left-hugging column just moves the dead space from "right of every
-    // row" to "right of the whole column" — centering distributes it evenly
-    // either side instead, which reads as deliberate rather than stranded.
     content.set_halign(gtk4::Align::Center);
     content.set_size_request(CONTENT_MAX_WIDTH, -1);
 
@@ -341,11 +350,29 @@ fn systemctl_active(unit: &str) -> bool {
         .unwrap_or(false)
 }
 
+fn systemctl_enabled(unit: &str) -> bool {
+    std::process::Command::new("systemctl")
+        .args(["--user", "is-enabled", "--quiet", unit])
+        .status()
+        .map(|s| s.success())
+        .unwrap_or(false)
+}
+
 /// Live systemd `--user` unit status plus Start/Stop/Restart/Logs controls —
 /// every bread-ecosystem panel whose app is actually a daemon (not just a
 /// config file) gets this, instead of only ever being able to edit the TOML
 /// and hope the running process picks it up.
-pub fn service_control(unit: &'static str) -> GBox {
+///
+/// `critical` guards Stop behind a confirm dialog — for a unit like `breadd`
+/// (the whole desktop's event backbone), a bare click currently stops it as
+/// casually as an optional sync helper; everything else can stay one-click.
+///
+/// `has_config` adds a one-line note that Restart (not Save) is what applies
+/// config changes below — previously only breadsearch's panel said this,
+/// inconsistently, in its own hint text; bread/breadbox/breadcrumbs edit a
+/// running daemon's TOML and never mentioned the running process won't
+/// notice until restarted.
+pub fn service_control(unit: &'static str, critical: bool, has_config: bool) -> GBox {
     let wrapper = GBox::new(Orientation::Vertical, 4);
     wrapper.append(&section("Service"));
 
@@ -354,6 +381,10 @@ pub fn service_control(unit: &'static str) -> GBox {
     status_lbl.set_selectable(true);
     wrapper.append(&row(unit, &status_lbl));
 
+    let enabled_lbl = Label::new(None);
+    enabled_lbl.add_css_class("dim-label");
+    wrapper.append(&row("Starts at login", &enabled_lbl));
+
     let btn_row = GBox::new(Orientation::Horizontal, 8);
     btn_row.set_margin_top(4);
     let toggle_btn = Button::new();
@@ -365,24 +396,53 @@ pub fn service_control(unit: &'static str) -> GBox {
     // plain closures aren't Clone.
     let refresh: Rc<dyn Fn()> = {
         let status_lbl = status_lbl.clone();
+        let enabled_lbl = enabled_lbl.clone();
         let toggle_btn = toggle_btn.clone();
         Rc::new(move || {
             let active = systemctl_active(unit);
             status_lbl.set_text(if active { "Running" } else { "Stopped" });
             toggle_btn.set_label(if active { "Stop" } else { "Start" });
+            enabled_lbl.set_text(if systemctl_enabled(unit) { "Yes" } else { "No" });
         })
     };
     refresh();
 
-    {
+    let do_toggle: Rc<dyn Fn()> = {
         let refresh = refresh.clone();
-        toggle_btn.connect_clicked(move |_| {
+        Rc::new(move || {
             let verb = if systemctl_active(unit) { "stop" } else { "start" };
             let log_buf = gtk4::TextBuffer::new(None);
             let refresh = refresh.clone();
             stream_command_then(&["systemctl", "--user", verb, unit], log_buf, move || {
                 refresh();
             });
+        })
+    };
+    {
+        let do_toggle = do_toggle.clone();
+        toggle_btn.connect_clicked(move |btn| {
+            if critical && systemctl_active(unit) {
+                let window = btn.root().and_then(|r| r.downcast::<gtk4::Window>().ok());
+                let dialog = AlertDialog::builder()
+                    .message(format!("Stop {unit}?"))
+                    .detail(
+                        "This is a core part of the desktop's event handling — \
+                         stopping it may affect other bread apps until it's \
+                         restarted.",
+                    )
+                    .buttons(["Cancel", "Stop"])
+                    .cancel_button(0)
+                    .default_button(0)
+                    .build();
+                let do_toggle = do_toggle.clone();
+                dialog.choose(window.as_ref(), gtk4::gio::Cancellable::NONE, move |result| {
+                    if result == Ok(1) {
+                        do_toggle();
+                    }
+                });
+            } else {
+                do_toggle();
+            }
         });
     }
     {
@@ -406,6 +466,13 @@ pub fn service_control(unit: &'static str) -> GBox {
     btn_row.append(&logs_btn);
     wrapper.append(&btn_row);
 
+    if has_config {
+        wrapper.append(&hint(
+            "Save (below) only writes the config file — click Restart above \
+             for the running service to pick up the change.",
+        ));
+    }
+
     wrapper
 }