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Before and after of the desktop (private until shared): https://claude.ai/artifact/1gQ57Bv31si3vBBBLSs9u4

The desktop's design review (brand's ui-hill-climb/, merged in Construct-Linux/brand#1), the Wi-Fi menu that ran off the screen, and kernel 7.3.3.

Design review

Four council rounds over round 0: median 6 → 7, 60% of blind pairs won in round 4, no screen lost by a majority.

• Quick settings and the calendar: a toggle that is on, and today, is the on tint with text; the empty notification list has no dead "Clear".
• Files: the selected place reaches the pane's edge, as Construct's own sidebar.
• Switches: the knob of an off switch reads on a row in dark.
• The installer: no disk is a state with a way out. Its tile is the mark set back with an arrow.
• construct-app: a page's title is said once.
• Palettes: the forks' palettes come from the one brand commit the image pins (fork:brand).
• Forks:
  • Orchis and Bibata are pinned at the review's last round.
  • clipboard-indicator flashes and colours as the theme.
  • tilingshell's border uses the brand's cyan instead of GNOME's teal.

lf checks the on tint with text where it checked the selected tint with accent_text (THEMING's row 3, changed in brand).

The Wi-Fi menu

Orchis sized a popover's icons only inside a .popup-menu, and quick settings is none. A network's signal therefore took St's default 48px, every row was twice as tall, and with a dozen networks around the menu ran past the bottom of the screen. Orchis now sizes them in every toggle menu.

The harness had no Wi-Fi at all. Its new wifi scenario puts twelve networks in the air (mac80211_hwsim, wpa_supplicant's AP mode, each a unit) and fails when the menu with the list open leaves the screen. Before the fix the menu measured 1013px on a 900px screen; after it, 781.

Kernel 7.3.3

Two stable point releases over 7.3.1. None of kernel/patches is in 7.3.2 or 7.3.3, and task kernel:config asserts every line of the fragments.

Validation

• task check (go test ./cmd/image) passes.
• task lock builds both roots.
• task test:usb on 7.3.1: 605 PASS. The remaining failures are:
  • the needles of the redesigned views;
  • two harness defects this branch then fixed (the lock screen view, the wifi scenario's supplicant timeout);
  • four that passed in every earlier run and failed under a load of 25.
• The run on 7.3.3: to be posted here.
• The needles are proposed in Construct-Linux/needles; merging that pull request approves the new look.

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