refactor(foxtrot): drop the Plasma desktop, keep Dolphin #672

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lytedev commented 2026-07-01 00:34:33 -05:00

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Stacked on #666 (couch-gaming/greetd). foxtrot runs niri, not Plasma, so tear out
the Plasma desktop while keeping the one KDE app in use (Dolphin).

Removed (via lyte.desktop.plasma.enable = false)

Plasma 6 desktop, its apps (kate/konsole/systemsettings-as-a-session/…),
plasma-login-manager + sddm, kwallet, kdeconnect, KDE xdg portal.

Kept / made safe

• Dolphin — kdePackages.dolphin + kio-extras (extra kioworkers) + breeze-icons (so its icons render without Plasma).
• gnome-keyring pinned explicitly as the Secret Service. It was only enabled via the GNOME desktop path in this repo; with Plasma removed, pin it so the login keyring survives. (Verified live: gnome-keyring-daemon is what's actually running — kwalletd6 was in the closure but not even running. Wifi PSKs are plaintext in system-connections, so they don't depend on any keyring.)
• niri already provides dconf, xdg portals, and the polkit agent, and the greeter is greetd/ReGreet, so nothing there regresses.

Deliberately left

systemsettings + plasma-integration remain, but they come from niri.nix's shared qt.platformTheme = "kde" (Qt/KDE theming for GUI apps like Dolphin), not the Plasma desktop. Reworking that is a separate, fleet-wide change.

Status

Builds clean; plasma binaries confirmed gone from the closure, Dolphin/gnome-keyring/niri/greetd confirmed present. Not yet deployed — this drops the desktop, so it wants a deploy + reboot (will do when you're ready, since it interrupts your session).

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Stacked on #666 (couch-gaming/greetd). foxtrot runs niri, not Plasma, so tear out the Plasma desktop while keeping the one KDE app in use (Dolphin). ### Removed (via `lyte.desktop.plasma.enable = false`) Plasma 6 desktop, its apps (kate/konsole/systemsettings-as-a-session/…), plasma-login-manager + sddm, kwallet, kdeconnect, KDE xdg portal. ### Kept / made safe - **Dolphin** — `kdePackages.dolphin` + `kio-extras` (extra kioworkers) + `breeze-icons` (so its icons render without Plasma). - **gnome-keyring** pinned explicitly as the Secret Service. It was only enabled via the GNOME desktop path in this repo; with Plasma removed, pin it so the login keyring survives. (Verified live: gnome-keyring-daemon is what's actually running — kwalletd6 was in the closure but not even running. Wifi PSKs are plaintext in `system-connections`, so they don't depend on any keyring.) - niri already provides **dconf, xdg portals, and the polkit agent**, and the greeter is **greetd/ReGreet**, so nothing there regresses. ### Deliberately left `systemsettings` + `plasma-integration` remain, but they come from niri.nix's shared `qt.platformTheme = "kde"` (Qt/KDE theming for GUI apps like Dolphin), **not** the Plasma desktop. Reworking that is a separate, fleet-wide change. ### Status Builds clean; plasma binaries confirmed gone from the closure, Dolphin/gnome-keyring/niri/greetd confirmed present. **Not yet deployed** — this drops the desktop, so it wants a deploy + reboot (will do when you're ready, since it interrupts your session). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01XX14i2xvfiY2TrYzm3A64c

lytedev added 1 commit 2026-07-01 00:34:34 -05:00

refactor(foxtrot): drop the Plasma desktop, keep Dolphin ... babd7bf428

foxtrot runs niri, not Plasma. Set lyte.desktop.plasma.enable = false, which drops
the Plasma 6 desktop, its apps (kate/konsole/systemsettings-as-a-session/etc.), the
plasma-login-manager + sddm display managers, kwallet, kdeconnect, and the KDE xdg
portal. niri already provides dconf, xdg portals, and the polkit agent, and the
greeter is greetd/ReGreet (couch-gaming PR).

Kept:
- Dolphin (kdePackages.dolphin + kio-extras + breeze-icons) — the one KDE app in use.
- gnome-keyring pinned explicitly as the Secret Service. It was only enabled via the
  GNOME desktop path in this repo; with Plasma gone, pin it so the login keyring
  survives. (NetworkManager wifi PSKs are plaintext in system-connections, so they
  don't depend on any keyring.)

Not touched: systemsettings + plasma-integration remain, but via niri.nix's shared
qt.platformTheme = "kde" (Qt/KDE theming for GUI apps like Dolphin), NOT the Plasma
desktop — reworking that is a separate, fleet-wide change.

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