feat(quickshell): notifications as a NieR message log in a corner drawer

Notifications were still Persona: separate floating cards with an urgency
slash down the leading edge, action chips that filled with the accent on
hover, and a 60px shove in from the right.

NotifCard is now laid out like an entry in NieR's message log: a square
urgency marker and the sender's name running into a hairline, the summary
and body set in from the marker, and hairline action buttons with their
own small marker that lift on hover instead of inverting. It draws no
panel; rest is bare and hover lifts the row onto the surface tone.
Critical entries take the red into the marker and the sender line only.

The toast stack is one hull drawer docked into the opening's top-right
corner — off the bar through one fillet, onto the rail through the other,
the same construction as a corner-docked popout. It grows with its
entries and slides back behind the frame when the last one goes. Each
entry's countdown is a hairline along its foot, and new entries fade in
place. The history popout lists the same entries flush.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

quickshell/components/NotifCard.qml

@@ -5,179 +5,252 @@ import "root:/config"
 import "root:/components"
 import "root:/services"
 
-// One notification, used both in the history list and as a floating toast.
+// One notification, used both in the history list and in the toast drawer.
+//
+// Laid out like an entry in NieR's message log rather than as a card: a square
+// marker and the sender's name running into a hairline, the summary, the body,
+// and hairline buttons for any actions. There is no panel of its own — both
+// places it appears are already hull surfaces — so rest is bare, hover lifts
+// the row onto the surface tone, and entries are divided by the hairline in
+// their own header.
+//
+// Urgency is the marker: the light for normal, grey for low, red for critical.
+// A critical entry also takes the red into its sender line, and nothing else.
 Item {
     id: root
 
     required property var notif
     property bool showActions: true
 
+    readonly property bool critical: root.notif?.urgency === NotificationUrgency.Critical
     readonly property color tone: root.notif
         ? Notifs.urgencyColor(root.notif.urgency)
         : Theme.primary
 
+    // Kept for callers that size things to the card's edges; there is no lean
+    // or chop under the YoRHa theme.
+    readonly property real lean: 0
+    readonly property real chop: 0
+
+    readonly property bool hovered: hover.hovered
+
     signal dismissed()
 
-    // The card's own geometry, published so anything drawn along its edges —
+    implicitHeight: layout.implicitHeight + Theme.padM * 2
-    // the toast countdown rule — can stay inside the chopped corners instead of
-    // running out past them.
-    readonly property real lean: Theme.skew
-    readonly property real chop: Theme.cut
 
-    implicitHeight: panel.height
+    Rectangle {
+        anchors.fill: parent
+        color: root.hovered ? Theme.treatmentHoverFill : "transparent"
 
-    P5Panel {
+        Behavior on color {
-        id: panel
+            ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast }
-        width: parent.width
+        }
-        height: layout.implicitHeight + Theme.padM * 2
+    }
-        lean: root.lean
-        chop: root.chop
-        fill: Theme.surface
-        fillOpacity: 0.97
-        // Urgency lives in the slash, and in the frame only when critical. A
-        // tone-tinted frame on every card drew a pale outline round ordinary
-        // notifications, and the critical halftone was painted in the accent,
-        // so the most urgent card wore the colour that means "live".
-        border: root.notif?.urgency === NotificationUrgency.Critical
-            ? root.tone
-            : (hover.hovered ? Theme.treatmentHoverMark : Theme.surfaceAlt)
-        slash: true
-        slashColor: root.tone
-        slashWidth: 4
-        padding: Theme.padM
 
-        Column {
+    Column {
-            id: layout
+        id: layout
-            anchors.left: parent.left
+        anchors.left: parent.left
-            anchors.right: parent.right
+        anchors.right: parent.right
-            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+        anchors.top: parent.top
-            spacing: 3
+        anchors.margins: Theme.padM
+        spacing: 4
 
-            // App line
+        // Sender: marker, glyph, name, then the hairline to the edge.
-            Row {
+        Item {
-                spacing: Theme.padS
+            width: parent.width
+            height: 16
 
-                Icon {
+            Rectangle {
-                    anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                id: marker
-                    text: Notifs.appIconFor(root.notif)
+                anchors.left: parent.left
-                    color: root.tone
+                anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fsBody
+                width: Theme.marker
-                }
+                height: Theme.marker
-
+                color: root.tone
-                Text {
-                    anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                    text: (root.notif?.appName || "System").toUpperCase()
-                    color: root.tone
-                    font.family: Theme.fontMono
-                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
-                    font.letterSpacing: 2
-                    renderType: Text.NativeRendering
-                }
             }
 
-            Text {
+            Icon {
-                width: parent.width
+                id: glyph
-                text: root.notif?.summary || ""
-                color: Theme.text
-                elide: Text.ElideRight
-                maximumLineCount: 2
-                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-                font.family: Theme.fontDisplay
-                font.pixelSize: Theme.fsBody
-                font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                renderType: Text.NativeRendering
-            }
-
-            Text {
-                width: parent.width
                 visible: text !== ""
-                text: root.notif?.body || ""
+                anchors.left: marker.right
-                color: Theme.subtext
+                anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padS
-                elide: Text.ElideRight
+                anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                maximumLineCount: 4
+                text: Notifs.appIconFor(root.notif)
-                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+                color: root.critical ? Theme.alarm : Theme.muted
-                textFormat: Text.StyledText
+                font.pixelSize: Theme.fsBody
-                font.family: Theme.fontDisplay
+            }
-                font.pixelSize: Theme.fsSmall
+
+            Text {
+                id: sender
+                anchors.left: glyph.visible ? glyph.right : marker.right
+                anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padS
+                anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                text: (root.notif?.appName || "System").toUpperCase()
+                color: root.critical ? Theme.alarm : Theme.muted
+                font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
+                font.letterSpacing: 2
                 renderType: Text.NativeRendering
             }
 
-            // Inline image, when the sender supplied one.
+            Rectangle {
+                anchors.left: sender.right
+                anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padS
+                anchors.right: close.left
+                anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padS
+                anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                height: 1
+                color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.5)
+            }
+
+            // Close affordance: always there, quiet until the row is hovered.
+            Icon {
+                id: close
+                anchors.right: parent.right
+                anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                text: "󰅖"
+                opacity: root.hovered ? 1 : 0.0
+                color: closeHover.hovered ? Theme.accent : Theme.muted
+                font.pixelSize: Theme.fsBody
+
+                Behavior on opacity {
+                    NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast }
+                }
+
+                HoverHandler {
+                    id: closeHover
+                    cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
+                }
+
+                TapHandler {
+                    onTapped: root.dismissed()
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        Text {
+            width: parent.width
+            leftPadding: Theme.marker + Theme.padS
+            text: root.notif?.summary || ""
+            color: root.hovered ? Theme.accent : Theme.text
+            elide: Text.ElideRight
+            maximumLineCount: 2
+            wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+            font.family: Theme.fontDisplay
+            font.pixelSize: Theme.fsBody
+            font.weight: Theme.weightDisplay
+            renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+
+            Behavior on color {
+                ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast }
+            }
+        }
+
+        Text {
+            width: parent.width
+            leftPadding: Theme.marker + Theme.padS
+            visible: text !== ""
+            text: root.notif?.body || ""
+            color: Theme.subtext
+            elide: Text.ElideRight
+            maximumLineCount: 4
+            wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+            textFormat: Text.StyledText
+            font.family: Theme.fontDisplay
+            font.pixelSize: Theme.fsSmall
+            lineHeight: 1.1
+            renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+        }
+
+        // Inline image, when the sender supplied one, in a hairline frame.
+        Rectangle {
+            x: Theme.marker + Theme.padS
+            visible: inline.source != "" && inline.status === Image.Ready
+            width: inline.width + 2
+            height: inline.height + 2
+            color: "transparent"
+            border.width: 1
+            border.color: Theme.overlay
+
             Image {
-                visible: source != "" && status === Image.Ready
+                id: inline
+                x: 1
+                y: 1
                 source: root.notif?.image || ""
                 sourceSize.height: 90
                 fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectFit
                 asynchronous: true
             }
+        }
 
-            Row {
+        Row {
-                visible: root.showActions && (root.notif?.actions?.length ?? 0) > 0
+            x: Theme.marker + Theme.padS
-                spacing: Theme.padS
+            visible: root.showActions && (root.notif?.actions?.length ?? 0) > 0
-                topPadding: Theme.padS
+            spacing: Theme.padS
+            topPadding: 4
 
-                Repeater {
+            Repeater {
-                    model: root.notif?.actions ?? []
+                model: root.notif?.actions ?? []
 
-                    Item {
+                // A hairline button with a marker, the P5Button pattern at a
-                        id: actionChip
+                // smaller size. Hover lifts and lights it; it never inverts.
-                        required property var modelData
+                Item {
+                    id: actionChip
+                    required property var modelData
 
-                        implicitWidth: actionLabel.implicitWidth + Theme.padM
+                    implicitWidth: chipRow.implicitWidth + Theme.padM * 2
-                        implicitHeight: 22
+                    implicitHeight: 24
 
-                        Skew {
+                    Rectangle {
-                            anchors.fill: parent
+                        anchors.fill: parent
-                            color: actionHover.hovered ? Theme.accent : Theme.surfaceAlt
+                        color: actionHover.hovered ? Theme.treatmentHoverFill : "transparent"
-                            borderWidth: 1
+                        border.width: 1
-                            borderColor: actionHover.hovered ? Theme.accent : Theme.overlay
+                        border.color: actionHover.hovered ? Theme.treatmentHoverMark : Theme.overlay
+
+                        Behavior on color {
+                            ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast }
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    Row {
+                        id: chipRow
+                        anchors.centerIn: parent
+                        spacing: Theme.padS
+
+                        Rectangle {
+                            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                            width: 4
+                            height: 4
+                            color: actionLabel.color
+                            opacity: actionHover.hovered ? 1 : 0.4
                         }
 
                         Text {
                             id: actionLabel
-                            anchors.centerIn: parent
+                            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                            text: actionChip.modelData.text
+                            text: actionChip.modelData.text.toUpperCase()
-                            color: actionHover.hovered ? Theme.ink : Theme.text
+                            color: actionHover.hovered ? Theme.accent : Theme.text
                             font.family: Theme.fontDisplay
                             font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
-                            font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+                            font.letterSpacing: Theme.tracking
                             renderType: Text.NativeRendering
                         }
+                    }
 
-                        HoverHandler {
+                    HoverHandler {
-                            id: actionHover
+                        id: actionHover
-                            cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
+                        cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
-                        }
+                    }
 
-                        TapHandler {
+                    TapHandler {
-                            onTapped: {
+                        onTapped: {
-                                actionChip.modelData.invoke();
+                            actionChip.modelData.invoke();
-                                root.dismissed();
+                            root.dismissed();
-                            }
                         }
                     }
                 }
             }
         }
-
-        // Close affordance.
-        Icon {
-            anchors.right: parent.right
-            anchors.top: parent.top
-            visible: hover.hovered
-            text: "󰅖"
-            color: closeHover.hovered ? Theme.accent : Theme.muted
-            font.pixelSize: Theme.fsBody
-
-            HoverHandler {
-                id: closeHover
-                cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
-            }
-
-            TapHandler {
-                onTapped: root.dismissed()
-            }
-        }
     }
 
     HoverHandler {

quickshell/overlays/Toasts.qml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Shapes
 import Quickshell
 import Quickshell.Wayland
 import Quickshell.Services.Notifications
@@ -6,7 +7,14 @@ import "root:/config"
 import "root:/components"
 import "root:/services"
 
-// Floating notification stack under the bar, top right. Replaces dunst.
+// Notification drawer, docked in the top-right corner of the opening.
+// Replaces dunst.
+//
+// Not a stack of floating cards: one hull surface lowered out of the bar and
+// out of the rail at once, the same construction as a corner-docked popout,
+// with each notification an entry in it divided by its own header hairline.
+// The drawer grows and shrinks with the entries and slides back behind the
+// frame when the last one goes.
 PanelWindow {
     id: root
 
@@ -15,23 +23,47 @@ PanelWindow {
 
     // A toast window exists on every screen, but each notification lands only
     // on the monitor that had focus when it arrived. Latched per toast rather
-    // than live, so a card does not hop screens while it is being read.
+    // than live, so an entry does not hop screens while it is being read.
 
     WlrLayershell.layer: WlrLayer.Overlay
     WlrLayershell.namespace: "takemi-toasts"
     WlrLayershell.keyboardFocus: WlrKeyboardFocus.None
+    exclusionMode: ExclusionMode.Ignore
 
+    // One pixel over the bar and the rail, so the drawer covers the rim the
+    // hull draws along both edges instead of sitting inside it.
     anchors { top: true; right: true }
     margins {
-        top: Theme.barHeight + Theme.frame
+        top: Theme.barHeight - 1
-        right: Theme.railWidth + Theme.frame
+        right: Theme.railWidth - 1
     }
 
-    implicitWidth: 400
+    readonly property real fillet: Theme.frameRadius
-    implicitHeight: Math.max(1, stack.implicitHeight)
+    readonly property real corner: Theme.frameRadius
+    readonly property real seam: 1
+    readonly property real drawerWidth: 400
+
+    // Height of the entries, eased, so the drawer grows rather than jumps.
+    property real bodyHeight: stack.implicitHeight
+    Behavior on bodyHeight {
+        NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durBase; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic }
+    }
+
+    // 0 = behind the frame, 1 = out. Follows whether anything is live.
+    property real reveal: root.live.length > 0 ? 1 : 0
+    Behavior on reveal {
+        NumberAnimation {
+            duration: Theme.durSlow
+            easing.type: root.live.length > 0 ? Easing.OutCubic : Easing.InCubic
+        }
+    }
+
+    implicitWidth: root.drawerWidth + root.fillet + root.seam
+    implicitHeight: Math.max(1, root.bodyHeight + root.fillet + root.seam)
     color: "transparent"
-    exclusionMode: ExclusionMode.Ignore
+    visible: root.live.length > 0 || root.reveal > 0
-    visible: root.live.length > 0
+
+    mask: Region { item: stack }
 
     // Toasts currently on screen, newest first.
     property list<Notification> live: []
@@ -53,101 +85,130 @@ PanelWindow {
         root.live = next;
     }
 
-    Column {
+    Item {
-        id: stack
+        anchors.fill: parent
-        anchors.right: parent.right
+        clip: true
-        anchors.top: parent.top
-        width: parent.width
-        spacing: Theme.padS
 
-        Repeater {
+        Item {
-            model: root.live
+            id: sheet
+            width: parent.width
+            height: parent.height
+            y: -height * (1 - root.reveal)
 
-            Item {
+            // Off the bar through the left fillet, round the one free corner,
-                id: toast
+            // onto the rail through the bottom fillet — Popout's "topRight".
-                required property var modelData
+            Shape {
+                id: silhouette
+                anchors.fill: parent
+                preferredRendererType: Shape.CurveRenderer
 
-                width: stack.width
+                readonly property real w: width
-                height: card.implicitHeight
+                readonly property real h: height
+                readonly property real f: root.fillet
+                readonly property real r: Math.min(root.corner, Math.max(0, (h - f) / 2))
+                readonly property string edge:
+                    `M 0 0 A ${f} ${f} 0 0 1 ${f} ${f}`
+                    + ` V ${h - f - r} A ${r} ${r} 0 0 0 ${f + r} ${h - f}`
+                    + ` H ${w - f} A ${f} ${f} 0 0 1 ${w} ${h}`
 
-                NotifCard {
+                ShapePath {
-                    id: card
+                    fillColor: Theme.hull
-                    width: parent.width
+                    strokeColor: "transparent"
-                    notif: toast.modelData
+                    PathSvg { path: silhouette.edge + ` L ${silhouette.w} 0 Z` }
-                    onDismissed: {
+                }
-                        Notifs.dismiss(toast.modelData);
+
-                        root.retire(toast.modelData);
+                ShapePath {
+                    fillColor: "transparent"
+                    strokeColor: Theme.rim
+                    strokeWidth: 1
+                    PathSvg { path: silhouette.edge }
+                }
+            }
+
+            Column {
+                id: stack
+                x: root.fillet
+                y: root.seam
+                width: root.drawerWidth
+                bottomPadding: Theme.padS
+
+                Repeater {
+                    model: root.live
+
+                    Item {
+                        id: toast
+                        required property var modelData
+
+                        width: stack.width
+                        height: card.implicitHeight
+
+                        NotifCard {
+                            id: card
+                            width: parent.width
+                            notif: toast.modelData
+                            onDismissed: {
+                                Notifs.dismiss(toast.modelData);
+                                root.retire(toast.modelData);
+                            }
+                        }
+
+                        // Countdown: a hairline draining along the entry's
+                        // foot, inset to the text column.
+                        Rectangle {
+                            id: fuse
+                            anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
+                            x: Theme.padM + Theme.marker + Theme.padS
+                            height: 1
+                            width: 0
+                            color: Theme.alpha(card.tone, 0.5)
+                            visible: life.running
+                        }
+
+                        readonly property real fuseSpan:
+                            width - Theme.padM * 2 - Theme.marker - Theme.padS
+
+                        NumberAnimation {
+                            id: life
+                            target: fuse
+                            property: "width"
+                            from: toast.fuseSpan
+                            to: 0
+                            running: false
+                            duration: Notifs.timeoutFor(toast.modelData)
+                            easing.type: Easing.Linear
+                            onFinished: root.retire(toast.modelData)
+                        }
+
+                        // A new entry resolves in place: a fade, no shove.
+                        opacity: 0
+
+                        Component.onCompleted: {
+                            enter.start();
+                            const ms = Notifs.timeoutFor(toast.modelData);
+                            if (ms > 0) life.start();
+                        }
+
+                        NumberAnimation {
+                            id: enter
+                            target: toast; property: "opacity"
+                            to: 1; duration: Theme.durSlow; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic
+                        }
+
+                        // Hovering an entry pauses its fuse.
+                        HoverHandler {
+                            onHoveredChanged: {
+                                if (!life.duration) return;
+                                if (hovered) life.pause();
+                                else if (life.paused) life.resume();
+                            }
+                        }
+
+                        TapHandler {
+                            acceptedButtons: Qt.LeftButton
+                            onTapped: root.retire(toast.modelData)
+                        }
                     }
                 }
-
-                // Countdown hairline that drains along the bottom edge. The
-                // chop and lean terms are zero under the YoRHa theme; they are
-                // kept so the fuse still fits if a shape is brought back.
-                readonly property real fuseSpan: Math.max(0,
-                    width - card.chop - card.implicitHeight * card.lean)
-
-                Skew {
-                    id: fuse
-                    anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
-                    anchors.bottomMargin: 1
-                    x: card.chop
-                    height: 1
-                    width: toast.fuseSpan
-                    lean: card.lean
-                    color: Theme.alpha(card.tone, 0.7)
-                    visible: life.running
-                }
-
-                NumberAnimation {
-                    id: life
-                    target: fuse
-                    property: "width"
-                    from: toast.fuseSpan
-                    to: 0
-                    running: false
-                    duration: Notifs.timeoutFor(toast.modelData)
-                    easing.type: Easing.Linear
-                    onFinished: root.retire(toast.modelData)
-                }
-
-                // Slide in from the right.
-                opacity: 0
-                transform: Translate { id: shove; x: 60 }
-
-                Component.onCompleted: {
-                    enter.start();
-                    const ms = Notifs.timeoutFor(toast.modelData);
-                    if (ms > 0) life.start();
-                }
-
-                ParallelAnimation {
-                    id: enter
-                    NumberAnimation {
-                        target: toast; property: "opacity"
-                        to: 1; duration: Theme.durBase
-                    }
-                    NumberAnimation {
-                        target: shove; property: "x"
-                        from: 60; to: 0
-                        duration: Theme.durSlow
-                        easing.type: Easing.OutCubic
-                    }
-                }
-
-                // Hovering a toast pauses its fuse.
-                HoverHandler {
-                    id: toastHover
-                    onHoveredChanged: {
-                        if (!life.duration) return;
-                        if (hovered) life.pause();
-                        else if (life.paused) life.resume();
-                    }
-                }
-
-                TapHandler {
-                    acceptedButtons: Qt.LeftButton
-                    onTapped: root.retire(toast.modelData)
-                }
             }
         }
     }

quickshell/popouts/NotifPopout.qml

@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ Popout {
             anchors.right: parent.right
             anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
             clip: true
-            spacing: Theme.padS
+            // Entries carry their own header hairline, so they sit flush.
+            spacing: 0
             model: Notifs.history
 
             delegate: NotifCard {
@@ -79,12 +80,6 @@ Popout {
             }
 
             add: Transition {
-                NumberAnimation {
-                    properties: "x"
-                    from: 40
-                    duration: Theme.durSlow
-                    easing.type: Easing.OutCubic
-                }
                 NumberAnimation {
                     property: "opacity"
                     from: 0; to: 1