feat: give every room the broker, one scale, and its own panel back

Little Waders took the Plasma build and reported what a container
cannot. A disc player on a machine with no optical drive, a clock nobody
at the back of the room could read, a browser at half the size of the
panel around it, and Parent Call with no broker to call.

The broker is the same for every classroom, so it is a default now and
not something to fill in room by room. classroom-migrate brings an
existing room to the same place without touching its name, its username
or its password, and Parent Call distinguishes a broker it cannot reach
from one that was never set up: those send somebody to look at
completely different things.

The disc player's detection was right and ran too late — alongside the
session rather than before it, and the panel is built from the layout the
moment a session starts. It runs before the display manager now, and
again from udev when a drive is plugged in.

UI_SCALE had a ceiling of 1.5, which cannot express a 4K television; a
clock pinned at 15 points, which is the same size at every scale; and a
browser that was never told the number at all. All three are fixed and
the room doubles together at 200%.

This also brings 0.1.47's work into the repository, where it had only
ever existed in a build directory under /tmp: the hidden display dialog,
its authenticated writer, the polkit action, and the church's own
wallpaper. One piece of it is deliberately left out. The custom volume
display needed a shell package of our own, and with one selected
plasmashell builds no panel at all — measured twice, with that build's
own files, on a classroom that deletes its panel configuration at every
login by design.

The lab connected to the real church broker the moment the package
defaulted to it. Nothing was left behind, which was checked, but the
guard that should have stopped it had never worked: it used iptables,
which the lab image does not have, and probed with /dev/tcp under dash,
where that always fails. Both reported success.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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ekklesia
2026-09-12 19:05:09 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 926668dc9b
commit 34fd02e08f
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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ There is exactly one thing about the bar that depends on hardware: a room
with no optical drive should not be offered a disc player. This edits the
one marked line in the installed layout, and nothing else.
Run before the display manager by ekklesia-classroom-layout.service, and
again by udev when a drive is plugged in or pulled out. That ordering is
the whole point: the panel is built from this layout the moment a session
starts, and a room that is told about its hardware afterwards keeps the
wrong bar until the next login. It was being left to the provisioning
service, which runs at boot alongside the session rather than before it.
It writes the *layout*, not the running panel. Editing
plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc underneath a live plasmashell was
tried and it destroyed the panel: the shell owns that file and rewrites
@@ -30,12 +37,29 @@ LAYOUT = (
MARKER = "/* CLASSROOM-DVD-LAUNCHER */"
# The kernel names optical drives sr0, sr1, ... regardless of bus.
# The kernel names optical drives sr0, sr1, ... regardless of bus. Both
# views are checked: /dev is what anything opening the drive will use, and
# /sys/block is the kernel's own list, which cannot be left behind by a
# device node somebody or something created by hand.
DRIVE_GLOB = "/dev/sr[0-9]*"
SYSFS_GLOB = "/sys/block/sr[0-9]*"
def drives():
return sorted(glob.glob(DRIVE_GLOB)), sorted(glob.glob(SYSFS_GLOB))
def has_optical_drive():
return bool(glob.glob(DRIVE_GLOB))
nodes, blocks = drives()
# Said out loud every time. When a room shows a disc player it has no
# drive for, or hides one it has, this line in the journal is the
# difference between an answer and an afternoon.
print("classroom-desktop-layout: /dev "
f"[{', '.join(nodes) or 'none'}], /sys/block "
f"[{', '.join(blocks) or 'none'}]")
return bool(nodes and blocks)
def rewrite(text, wanted):