Keep only the non-obvious bits: the override mechanism, what counts as
"active" on the bar, the flyout text-color constraint, the
notifications-border convention, and the image-picker alpha modulation.
Drop comments that just restated the key names.
Five plugins each owned their own colors.toml watcher with subtly
different parsers, plus two ad-hoc per-theme override files
(notifications.json, image-picker-colors.json). This collapses all of
that into one source of truth: Commons/Color.qml watches colors.toml +
shell.toml and exposes Color.bar.*, Color.popups.*, Color.notifications.*,
Color.menu.*, Color.imagePicker.* for every surface to bind to.
shell.toml is generated by the existing template pipeline from
default/themed/shell.toml.tpl. Themes can ship their own shell.toml to
override individual keys; everything missing falls back to the
foundational palette via root.pick(). Settings panel is intentionally
not themable beyond the foundational tokens.
last-horizon and solitude ship a minimal shell.toml to preserve their
historical 'notification border matches Hyprland active border'
behavior, which previously came from parsing the theme's hyprland.conf
(now removed).
Quickshell's UPowerDevice.percentage is a 0.0-1.0 real (energy /
energyCapacity), not 0-100. The bar was treating it as 0-100, so a 99%
charge picked the lowest icon, the tooltip read "1%", and the
low-battery active state was always true.
Settings dialogs were rendering text/spin/combo controls with Qt's
default light style, which clashed with the dark Omarchy theme — black
text on dark fills, white dropdown popups, rounded corners, and a
pill-style toggle that didn't match the native StyleToggleRow switch.
- Style.qml: collapse all radius tokens to 0 so Noctalia-compat widgets
inherit Omarchy's sharp-corner convention
- NToggle: rewrite to mirror the native 48x22 switch with accent fill
and a sliding 16x16 thumb
- NComboBox: skin contentItem, indicator, popup, and delegate so the
dropdown reads on dark themes
- NSpinBox: add a styled background, contentItem, and up/down indicators
- SettingsPanel calendar form + DynamicSettingsForm string field: drop
default TextField chrome for the same translucent foreground fill used
by WidgetCard, accent border on focus
Replace the inline detail flyout with a two-column hero: location chip
and large temperature on the left, big condition icon on the right.
Stats (Feels / Wind / Humidity) move below as caps-labeled columns,
separated from the forecast by a thin divider. Forecast cells now lead
with the day icon and put the day name above hi/lo temps.
Drop the Refresh and wttr.in pill buttons; a Timer refreshes the
forecast every refreshMinutes (default 15). The interval is exposed
through the Settings panel — Bar -> Weather has a gear that opens a
SpinBox-backed form, persisted as "settings": { "refreshMinutes": N }
in shell.json.
Replace the hover-driven detail flyout with a click-toggled popup that
includes a Noctalia-style row of upcoming days. Switching the wttr.in
fetch to the j1 JSON gives us structured current conditions plus a
3-day forecast; each day's representative icon comes from the hourly
entry nearest noon, mapped through the same code → glyph table as the
bar pill.
Text.implicitWidth/Height can be fractional. Passing those values
straight to the PopupWindow rounded the Wayland surface down, clipping
the 1px right/bottom border of the bubble.
Two leftover spots still pointed at command names that were renamed in
this branch:
- default/quickshell/omarchy-shell/README.md:124 said
`omarchy restart quickshell` (renamed to `omarchy restart shell`).
- config/hypr/bindings.lua:35 had a commented-out example using bare
`omarchy-menu`. The wrapper still works that way for now, but the
canonical hot path is `omarchy-shell-ipc menu toggle root` \u2014 update
the example so users copying it learn the right pattern.
The old bash bin short-circuited with close_visible_quickshell_menu at
the top of open_quickshell_menu, so pressing any menu keybind while the
menu was open just closed it. The IPC path I introduced summoned every
time, so keyboard shortcuts couldn't dismiss \u2014 only outside clicks did
(which is why the bar icon appeared to toggle: clicking it while the
menu was open hit the menu's outer-click MouseArea, not the icon).
Add a menu.toggle IPC method:
- if root.opened: cancel() and return "closed"
- otherwise: behaves exactly like summon
Switch every Hyprland binding and the two bar-icon click handlers
(omarchy logo, battery right-click \u2192 power menu) to toggle. summon stays
as the always-open primitive for callers that want explicit summon
semantics (rare \u2014 right now nothing internal uses it).
With bin/omarchy-menu gone there's no caller that summons the menu by
writing a JSON tempfile and polling a done file. Drop everything that
existed only to support that handshake:
- menuJsonFile / menuJsonFileView / loadMenuJson / openMenu(json,...)
- pendingSelectionFile / pendingDoneFile / selectionFile / doneFile
- mergeProviderJson (the JSON-wrapper for provider output)
- applyProc / releaseProc / doneFilesToRelease / finishDoneFile /
releaseNextDoneFile / resetRequest / requestActive / closeMenu
- the menuBin property pointing at the deleted bin
applySelected is now four lines (close + execDetached); cancel is two
(close + clear filter). open() takes either {menu: id} or a bare initial
menu name, and hands off to openExistingMenu which uses the cached items
from the JSONC FileViews.
Net: 91 lines smaller, no perf change.
The shell now owns the menu — both data and dispatch. The 821-line bash
bin was carrying the open path (cold spawn + jq pipeline + tempfile dance
+ IPC + poll) and a grab-bag of helpers that only existed inside it. Both
go away in this commit.
New bins for the few composite helpers that were genuinely worth keeping:
- omarchy-install-app NAME PKG
- omarchy-install-and-launch NAME PKG DESKTOP_ID
- omarchy-install-font LABEL PKG FAMILY
- omarchy-launch-config-editor PATH
- omarchy-reminder-set-interactive
- omarchy-capture-screenrecording-with-webcam
Sweep through default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc rewrites:
- present_terminal X -> omarchy-launch-floating-terminal-with-presentation X
- install_terminal X -> omarchy-launch-floating-terminal-with-presentation 'omarchy-install-terminal X'
- install / install_and_launch / install_font / open_in_editor -> new bins above
- terminal X -> xdg-terminal-exec --app-id=org.omarchy.terminal X
- default_browser_is X -> [[ "$(omarchy-default-browser)" == "X" ]]
- default_terminal_is X / default_editor_is X / haptic_touchpad_is X same shape
- $(hypr_config_file X) -> ~/.config/hypr/X.lua
- show_custom_reminder_input -> omarchy-reminder-set-interactive
- screenrecord_with_webcam -> omarchy-capture-screenrecording-with-webcam
- stop_active_screenrecording -> omarchy-capture-screenrecording --stop-recording
Hyprland bindings switch from `omarchy-menu X` to
`omarchy-shell-ipc menu summon X` (the keybind hot path now skips bash
entirely). The Bar.qml omarchy widget and the battery right-click do the
same. ALT+PRINT becomes a one-liner: stop the recording if one is going,
otherwise summon the screenrecord submenu.
Measured: keybind-to-visible is ~30ms (was ~235ms). The shell's plugin
keepLoaded:true stops being theoretical \u2014 the menu data lives in memory
across opens, and the only work between keypress and paint is the IPC
roundtrip and the layer-shell window mount.
omarchy-menu used to spawn an 821-line bash bin on every keybind: 11 jq
invocations against omarchy-menu.jsonc, mktemp dance, summon, poll. The
shell waited ~235ms (keybind to visible) before painting the first row.
The bar plugin host is already a persistent process with the menu plugin
loaded (keepLoaded: true) — it just wasn't allowed to own the menu data.
Now it does:
- parseMenuJsonc / normalizeItem ports the bash bin's jq pipeline to
JS: strip // comments + trailing commas, infer parent from dotted
ids, dedupe keyword tokens across id/aliases/keywords, fill defaults.
- Two FileViews with watchChanges: true on the default and user
extension JSONCs. Edit either file and the in-memory item map
refreshes without a restart.
- IpcHandler exposes menu.summon(initialMenu) / refresh() / close() /
ping(). summon resolves aliases the way the old bash route_target
did, including the leaf-alias-is-an-action shortcut.
- Action dispatch is now direct: when summoned via IPC (no selection
or done file), Quickshell.execDetached(['bash','-lc', action]) runs
the action and the menu closes. The legacy tempfile dance is kept
only for the duration of the migration window.
- provider sub-menus (fonts, power-profiles) are inline: tab-delimited
bash one-liner per provider, parsed by mergeProviderRows.
- when:/checked: bash expressions are batched into one Process at
shell startup (and again whenever the JSONCs change). The menu
opens instantly; visibility/check marks settle within ~50ms.
Measured: keybind-to-visible via the new IPC path is ~30ms (was ~235ms).
The bash bin still works for now and is removed in the next commit.
- omarchy-bar-settings.lua is gone: the Hyprland rules it carried for
the old standalone bar-settings window no longer match anything,
since settings is now a panel plugin summoned via IPC. The still-
needed "Widget settings" sub-dialog rules move into
omarchy-shell.lua next to the existing "Omarchy Settings" rules.
- plugins README documents the `bar` plugin kind so third-party
plugin authors aren't surprised to see it on the first-party
omarchy.bar manifest. The note also calls out that they should ship
`bar-widget`s, not replace the host bar.
- omarchy-style-bar-position seeds from shell-defaults.json before
mutating, so a user without a shell.json (or with a malformed one)
no longer ends up with a stub config that blanks the bar layout.
omarchy-font-set already updates ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, which
is what fc-match, Qt, and every other XDG app reads from. Storing the
same family in shell.json gives the same value two homes that can drift
apart, and stops the bar from picking up font changes without a shell
restart.
- omarchy-font-set stops writing bar.fontFamily to shell.json and stops
poking ~/.config/waybar/style.css. fontconfig + terminals + hyprlock
+ swayosd are still updated as before.
- omarchy-font-current reads fc-match monospace -f '%{family}' and
takes the first comma-separated entry; the old jq-on-shell.json
path is gone.
- Bar / SettingsPanel / NDropdown.qml default fontFamily to
"monospace" and stop reading config.fontFamily. Qt resolves the
family through fontconfig at paint time, so omarchy-font-set updates
the bar live with no reload.
- shell-defaults.json drops bar.fontFamily.
User-visible effect: pick a Nerd Font, the bar follows it. Pick a font
without glyphs and you get tofu — same failure mode the terminals and
hyprlock already had.
The bin names should reflect the thing they manage. `refresh bar` is
misleading because the command resets the entire shell.json (which holds
plugins beyond just the bar), and `restart quickshell` names the runtime
rather than the product. Both now end in `-shell` to match the rest of
omarchy-shell.
Updates every caller in autostart, the menu, voxtype helpers, and the
shell README. No behavior changes.
David Heinemeier Hansson