The file said ~/.config/quickshell is a symlink to this repo and that saving a
file hot-reloads the running shell. Both are wrong and cost real debugging
time: hosts/terra/home.nix ships the tree with xdg.configFile."quickshell",
which COPIES it into the store, so the config dir is a read-only symlink into
/nix/store and the running shell watches the frozen copy. Hot reload only
applies to a working-tree instance, which is what `nix develop` + qs-dev is
for.
Also records the trap that follows from it: a new file must be git-added
before it can be deployed at all, because flakes read the git tree and drop
untracked files silently — producing a deployed config that fails to load,
which does not surface until the next restart because the running shell keeps
serving the store path it resolved at launch.
Architecture section was stale independently of that: shell.qml has not
instantiated Bar/BarTop/BarBottom for a while, there are eleven launcher
variants rather than eight, the HyprChrome tree was undocumented, and there
are TWO Theme singletons — a token added to one does not exist in the other.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GAq2kKCLazZmrKvkd3akud
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