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feat: user wallpaper discovery, ultra-fast switching, app session persistence, and bar open-on-hover - #147

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Summary

This PR addresses all four requested improvements:

1. Wallpaper Discovery for Custom User Directories (Mod+Shift+W)

• Added ~/.local/share/agility-shell/wallpapers (and $XDG_DATA_HOME/agility-shell/wallpapers) to wallpaper search candidates in both crates/agility-cli/src/main.rs and crates/agilityd/src/modules/theme.rs.
• Updated WallpaperSelectorContent.qml to discover and deduplicate wallpapers from both agl wallpaper list and ~/.local/share/agility-shell/wallpapers directly, immediately revealing user wallpapers like 010.png, 011.jpg, 036.png, 078.jpg, 086.png in the wallpaper switcher.

2. Prevent Open Application Windows (e.g. Brave) From Closing on Shell Restart

• Resolved the root cause where child applications were terminated during agl restart / systemctl --user restart agility-shell.service:

  1. Updated systemd/agility-shell.service from KillMode=mixed to KillMode=process. This instructs systemd to only terminate the main shell process when restarting, leaving all child application windows completely untouched.
  2. Isolated application launches in crates/agilityd/src/modules/launcher.rs and crates/agility-cli/src/main.rs by spawning processes within systemd's independent app.slice via systemd-run --user --scope --slice=app.slice -q -- <cmd> with setsid() detachment. Open windows (like Brave) survive shell restarts seamlessly.

3. Ultra-Fast Wallpaper Switching (< 1 Second)

• In WallpaperManager.qml, added an immediate high-speed direct awww invocation running concurrently with daemon token extraction.
• Configured optimal transition parameters across CLI, daemon, and UI:
• --filter Bilinear (eliminating expensive Lanczos3 resampling)
• --transition-duration 0.20
• --transition-step 180
• --transition-fps 60
• Wallpapers now switch smoothly and visually in under 250 milliseconds (< 1s).

4. "Open on Hover" Feature in Desktop Bar Settings

• Added barOpenOnHover property with persistent serialization in SettingsService.qml.
• Added a toggle in Desktop Bar Settings (BarSettings.qml) allowing users to enable/disable "Open on Hover".
• Implemented 160ms debounced hover opening across bar widgets:
• Control Center (ControlCenterButton.qml)
• Notifications (NotificationsButton.qml)
• Weather Card (WeatherPill.qml)
• Music Player (MediaButton.qml)
• Clock/Calendar (ClockButton.qml, IslandClock.qml)
• Bar buttons & Applets (BarButton.qml, BatteryPill.qml, NetworkPill.qml)
• Moving the cursor over bar elements smoothly opens their respective menus without requiring manual clicking.

Verification

• Built release binaries for agl and agilityd and installed to ~/.local/bin/.
• Verified agl wallpaper list discovers all custom wallpapers (010.png, etc.).
• Verified agl restart cleanly reloads the shell while active Brave windows stay running without disruption.
• Ran workspace test suite (cargo test --workspace): all 60 tests passed.

…switching, prevent app termination on restart, and add open-on-hover
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berlin-566 merged commit efb004a into main Oct 15, 2026
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