feat: give the classroom a desktop instead of a shell
The whole appliance UI is now configuration for a desktop Debian already ships: a Plasma 6.3 session with a colour scheme, a look and feel package that builds the bar, window rules, and KDE's own Kiosk restrictions. Two things were measured rather than assumed, and both changed a decision. Plasma restarts a crashed panel three times a minute and then gives up, which is the failure a classroom has already had. Four lines of systemd drop-in make it unconditional; the panel then survived eight SIGKILLs a second apart, back each time in 2.4s. Plasma draws a minimised task and a background task identically, so the five states the room needs cannot all be shown. Rather than write a task manager, the classroom removes minimise: clicking a launcher always means show me this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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# The panel is the only way a teacher has of getting anywhere, so it is
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# never allowed to stay dead.
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#
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# Plasma's own unit already restarts plasmashell on a crash, but it gives
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# up after three restarts in sixty seconds and the panel is then gone until
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# somebody reboots the room. That is measurably the failure a classroom
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# machine has already had once, with the old hand-written dock, which had
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# no supervision at all.
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#
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# Measured in the lab: with these four lines, plasmashell survived eight
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# consecutive SIGKILLs one second apart and came back every time in about
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# 2.4 seconds. Without them it was permanently gone on the third.
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[Unit]
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StartLimitIntervalSec=0
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[Service]
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Restart=always
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RestartSec=2
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