Update install notes and docs

README.md

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ It runs these steps, in this order, and every one of them is idempotent:
 | 1. Directories | creates the 19 directories the shell and scripts expect, before anything writes into them |
 | 2. `BLOB_PATH` | symlinks `~/.local/share/blob` to this checkout |
 | 3. Packages | installs what is missing from `packages/`, bootstrapping `yay` first on a machine that has no AUR helper |
-| 4. Config | copies `hypr/`, the themed app configs, `blob/shell.json`, the uwsm environment, and the icon font into `~/.config`, and writes `/etc/profile.d/blob.sh` so a login shell finds the `blob` command |
+| 4. Config | copies `hypr/`, the themed app configs, `blob/shell.json`, and the uwsm environment into `~/.config`, and writes `/etc/profile.d/blob.sh` so a login shell finds the `blob` command |
 | 5. First theme | links `~/wallpapers` to the checkout, applies `flats` headless, picks a background, and links the btop and Neovim theme files, so the first login is not a blank desktop |
 | 6. User units | installs the session services into `~/.config/systemd/user` and enables them |
 | 7. systemd drop-ins | writes the shutdown timeouts, oomd thresholds, plocate prune paths, and sleep hooks under `/etc` |

docs/install.md

@@ -35,9 +35,10 @@ with `--check`.
    resolves cannot cost you the other hundred and the config, service and login
    steps below. See [packages.md](packages.md).
 4. **Config** is copied into `~/.config`: `hypr/`, the themed app configs,
-   `blob/shell.json`, the uwsm environment, `fontconfig/fonts.conf`, and the
+   `blob/shell.json`, the uwsm environment, and `fontconfig/fonts.conf`. A
-   icon font, and the font cache is refreshed. The shell draws every icon as a
+   leftover Omarchy icon font in `~/.local/share/fonts` is removed, and the
-   Nerd Font glyph in the `monospace` family, and on a fresh Arch install
+   font cache is refreshed. The shell draws every icon as a Nerd Font glyph in
+   the `monospace` family, and on a fresh Arch install
    fontconfig resolves that to a font with no such glyphs, so the bar and its
    panels come up full of blanks. `fonts.conf` binds `monospace` to
    `JetBrainsMono Nerd Font`; `blob font set` rewrites the same file, and the

docs/packages.md

@@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ blob update
 
 Refreshes the keyring, runs `pacman -Syu`, runs `yay -Sua` when the AUR is
 reachable, prunes orphans, and sends a notification. `blob update-available`
-prints the pending count that the bar's update indicator reads.
+prints the pending count that the bar's update indicator reads. The indicator
+rechecks every six hours and a few seconds after any pacman transaction, so it
+clears as soon as an update, from `blob update` or by hand, finishes.
 
 This replaces 27 upstream scripts of channel, migration, and version-pinning
 machinery. There are no release channels: there is one repository set, which is

docs/themes.md

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ sources `session/env-bootstrap` so `blob` is on `PATH` in any interactive shell.
 
 | Command | Does |
 | --- | --- |
-| `blob theme menu` | pick from the bundled and local sets |
+| `blob theme menu` | pick from the bundled and local sets, each row previewing the theme's background, foreground, accent and six palette colours as swatches |
 | `blob theme set <name>` | apply one by name |
 | `blob wallpaper set <image>` | extract a palette from a wallpaper with pywal, fix flat palettes with `blob-theme-contrast`, and apply it as `blob-dynamic` |
 | `blob theme share <link>` | fetch a shared palette and apply it as `blob-dynamic` |

docs/widgets.md

@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ falling back to `accent` for themes that define neither. `color0` is
 Both new bar click actions are already in `shell.json`. The system monitor had no
 bar entry point in the AGS setup either, so the keybinding is how it is reached.
 
+## Quick settings
+
+The control centre is centred on the screen, with the weather card to its left.
+Its tiles fill the card width in three columns, and every tile and card button
+draws a JetBrainsMono Nerd Font glyph over a light foreground fill with a thin
+border, so they read against the panel in any theme. An active tile takes the
+accent colour. The Wallpaper tile opens `blob.displays`, the Theme tile opens
+`blob theme menu`.
+
 ## Deliberately not ported
 
 The tiles still poll shell commands the way the GTK widgets did - `pamixer` for
@@ -83,10 +92,12 @@ correctly, but nothing in the widget sets it.
 
 ## Wallpapers
 
-`blob.displays` picks wallpapers. Opened with `Super + Alt + W` or the Blob
+`blob.displays` picks wallpapers. Opened with `Super + Alt + W`, the quick
-menu's Wallpaper row.
+settings Wallpaper tile, or the Blob menu's Wallpaper row.
 
-A thumbnail grid of `~/wallpapers`, with a row of chips selecting the target:
+A thumbnail grid of `~/wallpapers` that fits as many columns of at least 120px
+as the panel allows and stretches them to its full width, with a row of chips
+selecting the target:
 "All monitors" sets the global wallpaper through `blob-bg-set`, and a specific
 output assigns just that monitor through `blob-bg-monitor`, which symlinks the
 image under `~/.local/state/blob/backgrounds/<output>`. An output with its own

shell/plugins/bar/README.md

@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ Example `shell.json` (bar subtree only shown):
 
 | Name | What it does | Interactions |
 |---|---|---|
-| `blob.menu` | Blob menu launcher | left = menu · right = terminal |
+| `blob.menu` | Blob menu launcher, drawn from `branding/chai.svg` in the bar colour | left = menu · right = terminal |
 | `blob.workspaces` | Hyprland workspace switcher | left = focus workspace |
 | `blob.clock` | Date/time label + popup with a month grid, ISO week numbers, and month stepping | left = popup · right = cycle label format · middle = timezone selector |
 | `blob.media` | MPRIS now-playing — scrolling track + artist, cover-art popup | left = play/pause · middle = next · scroll = prev/next · right = popup |
 | `blob.indicators` | Manual state indicators | left = indicator action |
-| `blob.system-update` | Available update indicator | left = update |
+| `blob.system-update` | Available update indicator, rechecked after every pacman transaction | left = update |
 | `blob.tray` | System tray | hover = reveal drawer · right on chevron = manage |
 | `blob.weather` | Weather icon + popup with forecast | left = popup · right = full notification |
 | `blob.microphone` | Mic icon + scroll volume | left = mute toggle · middle = audio panel · scroll = source volume |