Amir Alexander Abdelbaki
f48c70273a
Daily-driving pass over the Cosmonaut Shell suite: transparency, holographic
effects, and layout/geometry fixes across every component built for the DE.
Global holographic layer (astro-menu/horizon-dock/station-bar lib/hologram.py):
- edge-fade mask (A8 DEST_OUT) so scanlines fade out at panel borders
- magenta particle field; "materialize from static" noise-mask intro animation
- optional clip_func so the mask follows non-rectangular / animated content
- universal `* { background-color: transparent }` at USER+1 to defeat the
CyberQueer theme painting opaque bg on plain containers; blur layer_rules
astro-menu: magenta text (alt red) for readability; thinner, glowier borders;
rounded map-texture corners; fixed transparency stacking + square corners.
orbit-menu: scanline mask now follows the zoom transition into a submenu.
horizon-dock: reworked into an orbit-menu node ~1/3 on-screen (<=2/3 width) with
horizon perspective (arched orbit rows), a non-functional center clock-sphere,
orbit glyph decorations, graceful edge fade-out, and centered/filled orbits;
tray removed; giant-surface clip fixed.
station-bar: redesigned as an extra Horizon Dock orbit — bare glowing color-coded
glyphs (no pills), width-adaptive, one bar per monitor, Super+Z toggles the
focused monitor's bar. Clickable HUD trapezoid around the title opens Astro Menu.
Workspaces are now per-monitor: each bar shows only its own monitor's workspaces
and highlights that monitor's active workspace. Populated workspaces show the
station glyph, empty ones the bare spaceship + number; the focused one is framed
by a `-< >-` reticle with the rocket prepended when there's a station to dock at.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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README.md
astro-menu
A touch-friendly GTK4 popup control centre for the hyprlua desktop, replacing
nwg-dock and nwg-drawer. Triggered from the EWW top bar (or Super+D).
Layout: a 2×2 quad grid of feature modules over a full-width application drawer. Any quad can expand to overlay the other three; the drawer can expand to the bottom of the screen. A single margined root box letterboxes the menu identically in every state.
Stack
- Frontend: Python + PyGObject + GTK4, as a
wlr-layer-shellsurface (gtk4-layer-shell). Chosen over Lua because lgi/Astal-Lua only support GTK3. - Location map: a static OSM image stitched from tiles (
backend/staticmap.py, Pillow). libshumate does not paint tiles in this environment (the officialshumate-demoshows the same blank map), though tile downloads work — hence the static fallback. - Services: Astal GObject libraries via introspection —
AstalNetwork,AstalBluetooth,AstalApps— plus our own IP-geolocation singleton. - Backends: Python/Bash scripts in
backend/(JSON on stdout), run async viaGio.Subprocessso nothing blocks the UI. - Theme:
style/_colors.css(@define-color, generated from~/Dotfiles/colors.confbyapply-theme.sh) +style/style.css.
Running
main.py is single-instance. The autostart launches a hidden resident daemon;
verbs are forwarded over D-Bus:
scripts/astro-menu-start.sh # resident daemon (hidden); sets LD_PRELOAD
scripts/menu-toggle.sh # --toggle
scripts/menu-toggle.sh appdrawer # open with the app drawer expanded
astro-menu-start.sh must LD_PRELOAD libgtk4-layer-shell (it loads after
libwayland under PyGObject otherwise).
Adding a module
- Create
modules/<name>.pyexposing a top-levelSPEC = ModuleSpec(...)whosebuild(ctx)returns aModuleInstance(compact=…, expanded=…, …).compactshows in the 2×2 cell; a distinctexpandedwidget enables the expand button (they must be separate instances — GTK widgets have one parent).- Declare per-feature toggles via
features=[Feature("id", "Label", default)]; read them withctx.feature("id"). A disabled quad never callsbuild(). - Shared state (network, bluetooth, location) is on
ctx.services.
- Append its
SPECtoALL_SPECSinregistry.py. Nothing else changes.
Files
main.py app + single-instance IPC window.py layer-shell + letterbox
registry.py module list (extension seam) settings.py JSON toggles/order
module_base.py ModuleSpec / ModuleInstance / ModuleContext
appservices.py shared Astal services + location
ui/ quadcard, quadgrid, appdrawer
modules/ location, weather, bluetooth, network
services/ location (geolocation singleton)
lib/ ansi (SGR→TextTag), proc (async subprocess)
backend/ geolocate.py, weather.sh, network.sh
style/ _colors.css, style.css