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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 323989ac61 fix: let an update change the Parent Call button
Two findings, both from watching the bar refuse to change.

The Icon widget copies the desktop entry into the user's home and uses
the copy. A classroom that had already run kept the old icon and the old
command for ever: the package no longer contained a bell and the bar kept
showing one. The button is a task manager holding a single launcher now,
which resolves /usr/share/applications live — the place an OTA update
writes to — and costs nothing, because the classroom already runs one for
the applications.

NoDisplay=true then hid the entry from the very index that resolves
launchers, and the bar drew a blank page. There is no application menu in
this classroom for the entry to clutter, so it is indexable now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-10 12:38:27 -05:00
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Screenshots from the classroom v2 experiment

All 1920×1080, captured with grim from a real running session in the container lab. See ../classroom-v2-experiment.md.

The desktop

v2-idle-desktop the idle desktop: the wallpaper, one bar, nothing else
v2-from-package the same desktop, produced by installing the .deb on a clean machine
v2-dark-bar, v2-light-bar the bar in both themes
v2-theme-compare the two, one above the other
v2-testpage a maximised browser, edge to edge above the bar
v2-wonderink Wonder Ink as an application, in its own profile

Application state

state-1-closed both launchers closed: no indicator
state-3-behind one active (teal), one running behind it (grey)
state-4-minimized minimised — measured identical to behind, which is why minimise was removed as a route
state-5-restored back
v2-both-apps both applications, one button each, from the packaged install
labelled-tasks the labelled task manager, evaluated and rejected: it shows changing page titles rather than application names

Windows

v2-secondary-window a window a page opened, floating over an untouched browser, with its own close button
v2-print-dialog the system print dialog, over the page that raised it, offering only Elmer
v2-fullscreen fullscreen video: the whole display, panel covered
v2-layershell a gtk-layer-shell overlay under KWin — what the DVD loading cover is made of
v2-notification-crop a notification card, top right

Reliability and lockdown

recovery-after-8-kills the panel after eight consecutive SIGKILLs
recovery-after-kwin-kill the session after KWin was killed twice; the application window survived
recover-panel the bar rebuilt from the layout script after its configuration was deleted
lock-desktop-rmb right-clicking the wallpaper: no menu
lock-panel-rmb right-clicking the bar: no menu
lock-krunner KRunner asked for, and not there

Failures, kept

wtype-probe keyboard injection never reached the nested session, so every interaction in this experiment was driven by the pointer instead
m-closed, m-minimized the pair whose pixels were sampled to show that Plasma draws minimised and closed differently, but minimised and behind the same