Use a concrete wallpaper image in generated shell config. Disable KSycoca watches when preview opts out, and keep the convergent window connection target nullable.
openSUSE Tumbleweed's plasma6-nm 6.6.4 does not ship the org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement.cellular QML submodule that SignalStrengthInfo.qml imports unconditionally. Without it the MobileShell QML namespace fails to load and preview boots to a black screen.
Keep a minimal fallback module under tools/preview-stubs and install it only for local .prefix preview installs by default, with SHIFT_INSTALL_PREVIEW_QML_STUBS=AUTO/ON/OFF for explicit control. Add a CTest guard so qmldir entries stay backed by real files and the fallback remains tied to the QML import tree.
Kirigami.Icon { isMask: true } flattens an SVG to its alpha, so when a quick-setting tile resolves to a colored preferences/scalable glyph the whole rounded background collapses into a solid square. Append -symbolic to the five icon names that collided with colored tiles and add symlink aliases where no real symbolic variant exists yet. Guard the regression with a check in tests/check-shift-icon-theme.sh.
Keep Breeze QQC2 as an intentional dependency until Shift ships a real QQC2 or widget style. Extend the theme identity test to reject fake Shift style selectors and require the fallback to stay documented in launch paths.
Provide the first real Shift Plasma desktop theme SVGs for panel and widget frames used directly by the shell. Cover dark and light modes, including solid panel backgrounds for opaque panel states.
Extend the theme identity test so the desktop themes cannot regress to metadata-only packages.
Mirror the runtime launcher and preview comments in HACKING.md so the remaining org.kde.breeze QQC2 style reference is documented as an explicit dependency, not a Shift theme selector.
BusyBox find does not support GNU find's -xtype predicate, which
caused shift-icon-theme-coverage to fail in CI. Iterate symlinks with
portable find -type l -print0 and let Bash check whether each target
exists instead.
Replace the flat per-screen tiling order with a persistent layout
tree so split orientation and window relationships survive retiles.
Derive the per-screen tile cache from the tree when applying
geometries.
Make drag insertion deterministic by mapping the cursor position
over a target tile to the nearest split direction and previewing
the exact half that will be assigned.
Retile on Workspace.onScreensChanged so screen rotation and output
changes recompute tiled window geometry from the updated work area,
and reconcile tiled windows that KWin moved to another output.
Rewrite the main project docs to present SHIFT as the product and Plasma Mobile as the upstream base. Keep compatibility-sensitive runtime identifiers such as org.kde.plasma.mobileshell and ~/.config/plasma-mobile explicit in the hacking guide instead of treating them as product identity.
Point the mobile shell, navigation, and Waydroid KCM metadata at the Shift repository. Brand the KDED startup and APN autodetect module names and descriptions as SHIFT while keeping existing plasma-mobile plugin/library identifiers stable.
Add a guard for these metadata surfaces so upstream project URLs and translated Plasma Mobile overrides are not reintroduced.
Point homescreen and panel containment metadata at the Shift repository. Update the panel and task-panel descriptions from Plasma Mobile to SHIFT, and remove translated descriptions that would override the corrected base metadata.
Add a containment metadata guard while preserving the existing org.kde.plasma.mobile.* applet target IDs.
Update quick setting package metadata to use SHIFT-facing descriptions and repository links while preserving org.kde.plasma.quicksetting.* package IDs. Drop translated Description entries that could override the corrected base descriptions, update the Caffeine inhibition reason, and add a guard for future regressions.
Update first-run KPackage descriptions and websites so package-visible metadata points at SHIFT while keeping the existing mobileinitialstart package IDs stable. Remove localized Description entries that could override the new SHIFT-facing base descriptions. Add a CTest guard for the first-run module metadata.
Update session, AppStream, service, shell metadata, and initial setup about/defaults to use SHIFT-facing product metadata while keeping runtime package IDs and executable names stable. Install Shift AppStream metadata and remove stale upstream metainfo from existing prefixes. Add a guard for product metadata branding.
Use masked Kirigami icons with explicit theme colors for shell controls so the Shift icon theme renders reliably across light and dark surfaces. Replace the status-bar battery helper with theme icon names so battery glyphs also come from org.shift.icons.
Give the app-thumbnail close affordance a symbolic white X on a dark circular backing so it remains visible over previews.
Install org.shift.icons as the look-and-feel icon theme while keeping the Plasma style on breeze-dark. Add the icon-theme coverage guard and CTest registration so shell, System Settings, KCM, and installed Plasma icon names do not silently fall back to missing Breeze-only assets.
Document the theme rules and add scoped REUSE metadata for the Phosphor-derived SVG glyphs.
The package shipped no overrides and only inherited the system
default theme, so it had no visible effect. Authoring a correct
FrameSvg override needs a separate, designed effort.
Keep the selected timezone visible in the wizard and update it before applying the system timezone.
Filter by city or zone name and report timedatectl failures without discarding the staged choice.
Detect the device class, stage the selected experience, and write the resulting setup choices through SetupState.
Load the new device and experience modules before the existing setup pages, and use the Shift icon on the finished page.
Use edge insert zones for drag-and-drop reordering, keep drag signal
connections stable across window creation, and consume task-menu tiling
requests through the script settings bridge.
Expose activity placement controls for running tasks in
convergence mode. The dock menu can now move a window to the
current activity, all activities, or a specific activity.
Place a desktop toggle next to Home in the convergence dock and
shift the pager and task focus flow around it. This brings the
upstream show-desktop affordance into SHIFT without adding a new
panel surface.
Surface installed desktop settings modules from the Shell KCM
so convergence users can reach display, networking, sound,
locking, virtual keyboard, and KWin workspace controls from
one place.
Reshape the convergence quick settings into a compact
promoted grid and add Clipboard, Disks & Devices, and a
drawer-hosted System Tray popup.
Retry applet popups when their full representation becomes
ready so the desktop utilities open reliably.
Place a Search button next to Overview and rebalance the dock
center so pager, trash, favourites, and running tasks keep
their spacing in convergence mode.
