shortcuts.ts is data with no component around it, so it carries catalog keys and
ShortcutsModal resolves them -- same shape as the settings sections.
gen-platform-skill.ts also reads this registry to generate the agent-facing SKILL.md,
which docs:check validates. That doc stays in one language, so the generator resolves
against en-GB directly and throws if a key is missing rather than emitting a dot-path
into a file an agent will quote at somebody. The regenerated skill is byte-identical,
which is the check that keying the registry changed nothing an agent reads.
Layout reaches zero. The dock, header, user menu, theme switcher, spotlight,
shortcuts modal, screen-error fallback, rescan and bug report.
Three things worth knowing:
CORE_DOCK_ITEMS now carries labelKey instead of label, and one useDockItems() hook
resolves the composed list. DashboardLayout, Spotlight and DockSettings each spread
the same two sources before, so each would have had to resolve labels itself.
Plugin tiles keep the name from their own manifest — a plugin's strings are not ours.
Spotlight resolves labels INSIDE the hook, so rank() still matches what the reader
can see rather than a dot-path. Its to: '/settings/...' literals are untouched, which
is what docs:check parses — verified still 20 offered, 0 missing.
The rescan toast said 'N skill(s)'. That is English giving up on a plural, so it is
now a real plural entry per noun and reads correctly at 0, 1 and 2 in both locales.
ThemeSwitcher used t as its theme loop variable; renamed to entry.
Fourth chord for the launcher, and the last move is a return: ctrl-space → shift-space → alt-space →
ctrl-space. Every one was the owner naming a real collision, and this one is the interesting direction —
alt-space is the GNOME window menu, he rebound the desktop to keep it, disliked what he rebound it to, and
would rather move the app than the window manager.
ctrl-space was ruled out on 2026-08-20 as "focuses the address bar in Brave". That observation was made
before anything preventDefault'ed it, and the trade has changed: rebinding a browser is cheaper than
rebinding a desktop. Written down in the file, because if the address bar still wins the key never reaches
the handler and nothing in this repository can help — the fix would be in Brave.
`!ev.shiftKey && !ev.altKey` matters: ctrl+SHIFT+space is the theme browser, and one chord opening both is
the bug that needed a capture-phase listener to fix on the theme side. Verified in the built bundle that the
two conditions are disjoint.
CTRL+? renders every shortcut from a registry, ported in shape from vimazing's gameInfo.ts — controls
declared as data, help screen renders them. Its renderer was a recursive `any` walk, right for a game whose
help also carries rules and scoring; here the content is one shape, so the renderer is typed and boring and
the value is in state/shortcuts.ts.
The registry is deliberately NOT authoritative yet, and says so: the handlers still hold their own
conditions, so changing a chord here does not move it. Each entry names the file that implements it, so the
pair is one search apart. Making it the source of truth is the configurable-shortcuts work, and doing it now
would rewrite three handlers for nothing visible.
Also removed a line I put in the theme dropdown yesterday promising "alt+space to search every theme by
name". Themes are not Spotlight items — that was an instruction for a feature nobody built, sitting in the
UI as though it worked. It now points at ctrl+?, which exists. Two comments naming ctrl+alt+space for the
theme browser were corrected to ctrl+shift+space with the older chord noted as still accepted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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