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id: shell/revamp-the-menus-toward-an-omarchy-like-shape
title: "Revamp the menus — spotlight, themes — toward an Omarchy-like shape"
theme: shell
status: open
created: 2026-08-22
date_source: stated
order: 5
---

**Revamp the menus — spotlight, themes — toward an Omarchy-like shape.** Flagged 2026-08-22 as a plan
the owner has and has deliberately not worked out yet: *"i have plans… i think some time soon we will
take a more Omarchy like approach but i am too happy right now to think about that."*

**Recorded so it is not lost, not so someone can start it.** The shape is his and does not exist on
paper yet — ask him before designing anything here.

What is already true and will be the raw material: Spotlight exists and opens on `alt-space`
(`Spotlight.tsx`), the dock is full and cannot grow, and all 22 themes are generated from Omarchy's own
palettes by `scripts/generate-themes.ts` — so the borrowing has already started on the colour side and
this is the same borrowing extended to the menus. `shell/dock-effects-and-auto-hide` and the launcher
item are both part of whatever this becomes rather than separate work.

Note the two keyboard items in this theme are probably prerequisites rather than neighbours: an
Omarchy-like shell is keyboard-driven first, and that needs bindings to be configurable and discoverable
before the menus are rebuilt around them.