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❯ Application icons are mainly used by rofi (the main menu for apps and         
  searching for apps), right>                                                   

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● Your message got cut off — it ends mid-sentence at "the main menu for apps and
  searching for apps), right>". Could you resend the rest? I can see from
  DESIGN.md that application icons are indeed resolved primarily through the
  icon theme for things like rofi's app list, the panel/taskbar, and .desktop
  file resolution generally — but I want the actual question before I answer,
  since "right?" implies you were checking a specific claim I don't have the
  second half of.

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❯ Application icons are mainly used by rofi (the main menu for apps and         
  searching for apps), right?                                                   

● Not mainly — rofi is just one consumer. In this ML4W/Hyprland setup, themed
  app icons show up in several places simultaneously:

  - rofi — app launcher/search list (what you mentioned)
  - waybar — any pinned/running-app indicators or system tray icons
  - swaync — notification icons (apps that send notifications with their icon)
  - KDE System Settings / Dolphin / other Qt apps — since the theme is installed
    as a real icon theme (hicolor/breeze-dark fallback paths), any app that
    resolves icons via the standard XDG icon lookup picks it up, not just rofi
  - Window switchers / taskbars if you add one later

  The reason the DESIGN.md pipeline cares so much about "does it render in rofi"
  specifically (the whole embedded-<image> vs. plain-vector-shape saga) is that
  rofi turned out to be the pickiest consumer — it silently failed on an
  SVG-wrapped-raster format that every other tool displayed fine. So rofi became
  the de facto test case for "will this icon format work everywhere," not
  because it's the only place icons are used.

✻ Cooked for 6s · done 19:29

❯ Can rofi be made to show rastered SVGs?                                       

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● Bash(sed -n '3140,3300p' scripts/2026-10-02-095959-we-have-a-lot-of-icons-whic
      h-are-in-a-variad-of-c.txt)
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● Depends which you mean — the two cases got different answers in testing:

  Plain raster (.png) files — yes, works fine. This is literally what the
  pipeline already does for PNG-sourced icons: icon_duotone_vector.py's raster
  fallback rasterizes, grayscales, and recolors via ImageMagick -clut, then
  installs it as a genuine .png file. Rofi (via GdkPixbuf) displays these
  without issue.

  An SVG with a raster image embedded inside it (base64 <image> tag) — no, 
  confirmed broken. This was tried first (DESIGN.md §6 "Why vector-only, no
  embedded raster"): the colorized raster was wrapped in an <svg> with a <image>
  element so every icon would be "one file" regardless of source. It:

  - rendered correctly standalone via both rsvg-convert and GdkPixbuf directly
  - but silently failed to show up in rofi's own icon list

  They confirmed this wasn't a stale-cache or path issue with a live A/B test:
  writing a plain solid-color <rect> SVG to the exact icon path showed up in
  rofi instantly, while the <image>-wrapped version at the same path never did,
  even though ldd shows rofi links the same libgdk_pixbuf/librsvg that loaded
  the file fine in isolation. So it's specifically rofi's icon-list code path
  (not the SVG/raster libraries themselves) that chokes on embedded raster data
  in an SVG.

  That's why the current pipeline is vector-only for SVG-sourced icons (real
  fill="#hex" shapes) and falls back to genuine standalone .png files for
  PNG-sourced icons — never an SVG wrapping a raster.

✻ Cooked for 20s · done 19:31

❯ Can you check github and the rofi sources whether SVG support is available or 
  was avaiable?                                                                 

● Bash(gh api repos/davatorium/rofi --jq '.full_name, .description' 2>&1
      echo "---search code for svg---"…)
  ⎿  /bin/bash: line 1: gh: command not found
     ---search code for svg---
     /bin/bash: line 3: gh: command not found

● Web Search("rofi github source icon-fetcher.c svg rsvg support")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 5s

● Web Search("rofi "svg" issue github davatorium icon rendering rsvg cairo")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 6s

● Fetch(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davatorium/rofi/main/source/rofi-icon-
       fetcher.c)
  ⎿  Received 0 bytes (404 Not Found)

● Fetch(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davatorium/rofi/75e361ecabb81ad64139f8
       1b52bdfb6a356c5d81/source/rofi-icon-fetcher.c)
  ⎿  Received 10.6KB (200 OK)
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● Fetch(https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/pull/585)
  ⎿  Received 498.8KB (200 OK)

● Fetch(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davatorium/rofi/75e361ecabb81ad64139f8
       1b52bdfb6a356c5d81/source/rofi-icon-fetcher.c)
  ⎿  Received 10.6KB (200 OK)

● Checked both the rofi GitHub repo history and the current source. Short
  version: SVG support exists and has existed since 2017, but it's not rofi's 
  own code — it's entirely delegated to GdkPixbuf's loader plugins, which
  matters for the embedded-raster problem you ran into.

  History (PR #585, merged into master ~June 2017): This added freedesktop icon
  support to drun mode. Interesting detail — the maintainer initially rejected a
  GTK/gdk-pixbuf-based implementation because it added ~0.4s to startup and
  leaked memory, so the merged version called librsvg (rsvg_handle_*) and cairo 
  directly, bypassing GdkPixbuf entirely. PNG went through
  cairo_image_surface_create_from_png, SVG went through librsvg. XPM support was
  dropped specifically to avoid pulling in GTK.

  Current source (source/rofi-icon-fetcher.c, latest master): That lightweight
  approach is gone. Every supported format — SVG included — now goes through a
  single call:

  GdkPixbuf *pb = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_scale(icon_path, sentry->size,
  sentry->size, TRUE, &error);

  There are no rsvg_handle_* calls anywhere in the file anymore. So today, rofi
  doesn't "support SVG" as its own feature — it hands every file to GdkPixbuf's
  generic pluggable loader system, and SVG only works if the system has a
  GdkPixbuf SVG loader module registered (normally provided by librsvg's own
  gdk-pixbuf loader plugin, a separate package/shared object from the
  rsvg-convert CLI or the GI bindings).

  This is corroborated by real user reports — Discussion #1235, "SVG rendering 
  failed on rofi version 1.6.1" describes exactly this: icon themes like Papirus
  broke because gdk-pixbuf didn't list SVG support on their system at all,
  independent of rofi's code.

  Why this matters for your embedded-raster issue: since rofi has no
  SVG-specific code of its own anymore, there's no code path in rofi that
  explicitly handles (or rejects) an <image> element embedded in an SVG — any
  such distinction happens one layer down, inside whatever GdkPixbuf SVG loader
  is installed. That's consistent with what your A/B test found: rsvg-convert
  and GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_file(...) both rendered the embedded-raster SVG
  fine standalone, but it silently failed inside rofi's actual icon list —
  meaning the gap isn't "rofi lacks SVG support," it's some narrower mismatch
  between how rofi's own loader call behaves at its fixed icon size/threaded
  load path versus a plain standalone call. There's no rofi flag or config to
  change this behavior — it isn't rofi's decision to make, since it no longer
  touches SVG parsing directly at all.

  Net effect: your pipeline's choice to ship plain vector shapes (real
  fill="#hex" elements, no embedded raster) is the right call architecturally
  too, not just empirically — it's the one SVG construct guaranteed not to
  depend on edge-case behavior in a third-party loader plugin rofi doesn't
  control.

  Sources:
  - rofi-icon-fetcher.c (current master)
  - PR #585 — Added freedesktop icon support
  - Discussion #1235 — SVG rendering failed on rofi version 1.6.1
  - Issue #1060 — Build failure on arch
  - Issue #1073 — Icons - bad rendering

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❯ Check which gdk-pixbuf SVG loader is installed on the VM. Would it work with  
  that installed?                                                               

● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      echo "---pacman packages---"…)
  ⎿  ---pacman packages---
     gdk-pixbuf2 2.44.7-1.1
     librsvg 2:2.62.4-1.1
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      echo "---full loaders.cache---"…)
  ⎿  ---full loaders.cache---
     # GdkPixbuf Image Loader Modules file
     # Automatically generated file, do not edit
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      echo "---which rofi package---"…)
  ⎿  ---which rofi package---
     /usr/bin/rofi is owned by rofi 2.0.0-1.1
     alsa-card-profiles 1:1.6.9-1
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      echo "---env var GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE---"…)
  ⎿  ---env var GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE---

     ---find ALL loaders.cache on system---
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      F=$(find /usr/share/icons/kora -iname '*.svg' 2>/dev/null | head -1)…)
  ⎿  testing:
     FAILED g-file-error-quark: Failed to open file “”: No such file or dir
     ectory (4)
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      F="/home/abaumann/.local/share/icons/kora/actions/16/Finished.svg"…)
  ⎿  Error: Exit code 1

● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      command -v strace || echo "no strace"…)
  ⎿  Error: Exit code 1
     no strace
     exit: 127
     1 /tmp/strace_out.txt

● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      python3 -c "…)
  ⎿  Digital camera RAW ['image/x-adobe-dng', 'image/x-canon-cr2', 'image/x
     -canon-crw', 'image/x-nikon-nef', 'image/x-olympus-orf', 'image/x-pent
     ax-pef', 'image/x-sony-arw', 'image/x-epson-erf', 'image/x-minolta-mrw
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      ldd /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 | grep -iE 'rsvg|svg'…)
  ⎿  ---pacman -Qi gdk-pixbuf2 (check deps/opts)---
     Version         : 2.44.7-1.1
     Description     : An image loading library
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      pacman -Qi glycin 2>/dev/null | grep -iE 'Version|Description|Depends'…)  ⎿  Version         : 2.1.5-2.1
     Description     : Sandboxed and extendable image decoding
     Depends On      : bubblewrap  cairo  fontconfig  glib2  glibc  lcms2
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● This confirms it fully — the mechanism here is newer and more interesting than
  a classic gdk-pixbuf loader module.

  What's actually installed

  - gdk-pixbuf2 2.44.7-1.1 no longer uses the classic loaders.cache module
    system for SVG (that cache only lists libopenraw_pixbuf.so for RAW camera
    formats — nothing else).
  - Instead gdk-pixbuf2 now depends on glycin (2.1.5-2.1), GNOME's newer
    sandboxed, out-of-process image decoder. Glycin ships separate per-format
    decoder binaries, run through bubblewrap for sandboxing:
  /usr/lib/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg      ← SVG, backed by librsvg
  /usr/lib/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-image-rs ← PNG/JPEG/etc, backed by image-rs
  /usr/lib/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-heif
  /usr/lib/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-jxl
  - That's also why rofi's own ldd shows only libgdk_pixbuf-2.0/cairo/pango and
    no librsvg — rofi never links SVG decoding at all anymore; libgdk_pixbuf
    hands the file off to the sandboxed glycin-svg process over IPC, and librsvg
    lives inside that sandboxed child, not in rofi's own address space.

  Would it work?

  For plain decoding: yes, confirmed — I just loaded both a real kora SVG and a
  synthetic SVG with a base64-embedded <image> (the exact construct that failed
  inside rofi) directly through GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_file_at_scale, same
  call rofi itself makes, and both decoded fine on this VM.

  So the loader stack is not missing and not incapable — the embedded-image
  failure you saw specifically inside rofi's icon list isn't "SVG unsupported"
  or "wrong/absent loader." It's something specific to how rofi's icon-fetcher
  (loading icons from a worker thread pool, synchronously calling into what is
  now an async, sandboxed, D-Bus/bubblewrap-mediated decode path under the hood)
  interacts with glycin for the nested-decode case — an SVG with an embedded
  raster image needs glycin to do a secondary decode of that embedded PNG inside
  the sandbox, versus a plain vector SVG needing none. That's extra
  round-trip/timing complexity that a single blocking python3 -c test won't
  exercise the same way rofi's concurrent icon-loading does. It's consistent
  with what the A/B test already found (standalone loads succeed, rofi's actual
  list silently doesn't) — now there's a concrete architectural reason why that
  gap could exist, rather than it being inexplicable.

  This doesn't change the practical conclusion: pure-vector SVG masters (no
  embedded raster) remain the safe, guaranteed-portable choice, since they never
  touch this nested sandboxed-decode edge case at all.

✻ Brewed for 2m 26s · done 19:41

❯ Can you create a fake application entry AHello with a syntetic SVG as icon    
  and show it in rofi and make a screenshot which you put into the local        
  workspace.                                                                    

● Bash(sed -n '1,120p' scripts/lib/icon_remote.py)
  ⎿  #!/usr/bin/env python3
     """Runs on the target machine (VM or local) -- the only phase of the i
     con
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● Bash(sed -n '1,110p' scripts/06-switch-wallpaper.sh)
  ⎿  #!/bin/bash
     # Switches the ML4W/Hyprland wallpaper on the target host (the VM, or
     an
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● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      set -e…)
  ⎿  ---files written---
     -rw-r--r-- 1 abaumann abaumann 232 Oct  2 19:46 /home/abaumann/.local/
     share/applications/ahello.desktop
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● Icon and .desktop entry are in place and the SVG decodes fine. Now launching
  rofi on the VM's live Hyprland session and typing "AHello" to filter to it.

● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      set -e…)
  ⎿  Session: RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 SOCK=wayland-1 SIG=efb509937800794
     60b0cbed1363e2166a2de1d9f_1790922314_2128040811
        1298 /usr/lib/power-profiles-daemon
     1266701 rofi -show drun -replace -i

● Rofi is running. Now typing "AHello" into it via simulated keystrokes on the
  VM console, then taking a screenshot.

● Bash(./scripts/type_into_vm.sh "AHello")
  ⎿  Error: Exit code 1
     Unmapped char: 'A'

● Bash(./scripts/type_into_vm.sh "ahello")
  ⎿  (No output)

● Bash(sudo virsh -c qemu:///system screenshot cachyos
      /tmp/claude-500/-home-abaumann-timhyperland/8f38c08d-33fb-4326-98ea-019d1b
      4de8c0/scratchpad/ahello_shot.ppm --sc…)
  ⎿  Screenshot saved to /tmp/claude-500/-home-abaumann-timhyperland/8f38c0
     8d-33fb-4326-98ea-019d1b4de8c0/scratchpad/ahello_shot.ppm, with type o
     f image/png
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● Bash(cd /tmp/claude-500/-home-abaumann-timhyperland/8f38c08d-33fb-4326-98ea-01
      9d1b4de8c0/scratchpad
      cp ahello_shot.ppm ahello_shot.png…)
  ⎿  WARNING: The convert command is deprecated in IMv7, use "magick" inste
     ad of "convert" or "magick convert"
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  ⎿  Shell cwd was reset to /home/abaumann/timhyperland

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● It worked — the synthetic SVG icon (purple rounded square with a yellow
  circle/arc "face" and "AH" text) is rendering correctly next to the "AHello"
  entry in rofi's drun list. Let me crop it tighter and save it into the repo
  workspace.

● Bash(cd /tmp/claude-500/-home-abaumann-timhyperland/8f38c08d-33fb-4326-98ea-01
      9d1b4de8c0/scratchpad
      magick ahello_shot.png -crop 1024x300+0+0 ahello_rofi_crop.png 2>…)
  ⎿  -rw-r--r-- 1 abaumann users 507493 Oct  2 19:46 /home/abaumann/timhype
     rland/rofi_ahello_synthetic_svg.png
  ⎿  Shell cwd was reset to /home/abaumann/timhyperland

● Now cleaning up the test rofi instance and the fake desktop entry/icon on the
  VM (the entry was a one-off test artifact, not meant to stay in the app list).

● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 "pkill -x rofi 2>/dev/null; rm -f
      ~/.local/share/applications/ahello.desktop
      ~/.local/share/icons/ahello-synthetic.svg; echo cleaned")  ⎿  cleaned

● Done. Saved as rofi_ahello_synthetic_svg.png in the repo root
  (/home/abaumann/timhyperland/).

  What it shows: a fake .desktop entry named AHello with Icon= pointing at a
  synthetic pure-vector SVG (purple rounded square, yellow circle+arc, "AH" text
  — no embedded raster, just <rect>/<circle>/<path>/<text> elements), filtered
  to by typing "ahello" into rofi -show drun. The icon renders cleanly in rofi's
  list, confirming plain vector SVGs go through the gdk-pixbuf → glycin → 
  glycin-svg (librsvg) path without issue — consistent with everything we found
  about the loader stack.

  I cleaned up the test .desktop file, the icon, and the rofi instance on the VM
  afterward, since they were just a one-off test — let me know if you'd rather
  I'd left them in place.

✻ Churned for 1m 49s · done 19:47

❯ now test the same thing with the embedded-raster SVG                          

● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      set -e…)
  ⎿  ---files written---
     -rw-r--r-- 1 abaumann abaumann  254 Oct  2 19:47 /home/abaumann/.local
     /share/applications/bhello.desktop
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● Confirmed: it decodes fine standalone, as expected. Now launching rofi and
  filtering to it.

● Bash(ssh abaumann@192.168.1.135 bash -s <<'EOF'
      set -e…)
  ⎿     1298 /usr/lib/power-profiles-daemon
     1266844 rofi -show drun -replace -i

● Bash(SCRATCH=/tmp/claude-500/-home-abaumann-timhyperland/8f38c08d-33fb-4326-98
      ea-019d1b4de8c0/scratchpad
      sudo virsh -c qemu:///system screenshot cachyos "$SCRATCH/bh…)
  ⎿  Screenshot saved to /tmp/claude-500/-home-abaumann-timhyperland/8f38c0
     8d-33fb-4326-98ea-019d1b4de8c0/scratchpad/bhello_shot.ppm, with type o
     f image/png
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  Read 1 file (ctrl+o to expand)

● Bash(cp /tmp/claude-500/-home-abaumann-timhyperland/8f38c08d-33fb-4326-98ea-01
      9d1b4de8c0/scratchpad/bhello_shot.png
      /home/abaumann/timhyperland/rofi_bhello_embedded_…)
  ⎿  cleaned
     -rw-r--r-- 1 abaumann users 507493 Oct  2 19:46 /home/abaumann/timhype
     rland/rofi_ahello_synthetic_svg.png
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● Surprising result: it rendered. The orange circle shows up cleanly next to
  "BHello" — saved as rofi_bhello_embedded_raster_svg.png.

  This actually contradicts the "embedded raster in SVG fails in rofi" finding
  documented in DESIGN.md §6 / scripts/14-generate-duotone-icons.sh, which is
  why the pipeline went vector-only. A few possibilities for the discrepancy:

  - The environment has moved on. That finding was from an earlier session. We
    now know this system decodes SVG via gdk-pixbuf2 → glycin → glycin-svg
    (sandboxed, librsvg-backed) rather than a classic loader module — if that
    stack was different (or got updated) between then and now, a bug that used
    to cause rofi's icon list specifically to choke on embedded raster could
    simply have been fixed upstream in the interim.
  - It wasn't really the embedded-raster construct that failed before — it may
    have been something else coincidental in that original test (icon caching, a
    stale .local/share/icons copy, a transient rofi bug, or a different
    specific SVG malformed in some other way), and the "embedded <image> is
    unsupported" conclusion was a reasonable but incorrect inference from a live
    A/B test that happened to go wrong for an unrelated reason.
  - rofi itself changed — the VM is running rofi 2.0.0; the original finding
    doesn't record which version was installed at the time.

  Either way, today, on this VM, right now: a plain vector SVG and an
  embedded-base64-raster SVG both render correctly in rofi's actual drun icon
  list.

  Want me to re-verify this a couple more times (different sizes, a second rofi
  restart, maybe reboot the icon cache) to rule out a fluke before I touch
  DESIGN.md, or would you like me to go ahead and update the design doc now to
  reflect that the vector-only constraint is no longer (or maybe never truly
  was) necessary?

✻ Brewed for 52s · done 19:48

❯ Another thing. We have multi-shade icons now, can something similar be done   
  with SVG?                                                                     

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❯ This would allow us to have the bacground colour dynamic?                     

● Two separate questions bundled together — let me take them in order.

  "Can something similar be done with SVG?" — Yes, and you're already doing it.
  The duotone method (DESIGN.md §6, lib/icon_duotone_vector.py) doesn't
  rasterize at all for SVG-sourced icons — it walks every drawable element,
  computes its own perceptual lightness, and writes a placeholder straight into
  the vector markup (fill="__L0.734__"). That is the SVG version of multi-shade:
  a real vector file where each shape keeps its own tonal position between the
  two accent stops, rather than being flattened to one flat color. So the
  "multi-shade" effect you're seeing already comes from SVG, not from a raster
  trick — PNG-sourced icons are the ones that fall back to the raster/-clut
  approach because they have no vector source to recolor that way.

  "Would this let the background color be dynamic?" — No, not in the sense of
  "live, no-redeploy." Here's why, tying back to what we just found about this
  stack:

  - rofi, waybar, and swaync all load these icons the same way: a one-shot
    gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_scale() call that hands the file to glycin's
    sandboxed glycin-svg decoder and gets back a static raster result. There's
    no DOM, no external stylesheet, no CSS custom property resolution against
    "whatever the current theme is" — currentColor in an SVG loaded this way
    just resolves to its CSS initial value (black), because there's no
    surrounding document to inherit a color from.
  - Referencing a shared external color-definition file (e.g. <use>/xlink:href
    pointing at one small file you update instead of touching every icon) is the
    obvious workaround, but glycin is explicitly a sandboxed decoder
    (bubblewrap-isolated, per its own package description) — external resource
    fetches from inside an SVG being decoded are exactly the kind of thing that
    sandbox exists to block. I wouldn't bet on it working, and it'd be fragile
    even if it did.
  - librsvg does support @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) inside an embedded
    <style>, but that only gives you a binary light/dark switch baked in at
    generation time — not an arbitrary live hex value from matugen.

  So the actual ceiling here is what you already built:
  15-deploy-duotone-theme.sh does a cheap string-substitution rewrite of the
  placeholder files whenever the wallpaper changes, and that's intentionally the
  only per-switch cost — the expensive tracing/lightness step (14) is cached
  and never reruns. That's already about as close to "dynamic" as this consumer
  stack allows; true zero-file-write dynamism isn't reachable without
  rofi/waybar/swaync switching to a GTK4-symbolic-icon-style rendering path that
  actually passes in a live foreground color, which isn't how any of them work
  today.

✻ Cogitated for 56s · done 19:51

❯ So the SVG would be a set of shades basically, applied as filter on the main  
  backround color.                                                              

● Close, but let me sharpen the model — "filter" and "main background color"
  don't quite match what's happening:

  What it actually is today: not a filter over one background color, but a
  straight duotone between two endpoint colors — the live palette's
  primary_container (dark stop) and on_primary_container (light stop). Each
  element gets assigned a position along that dark→light line based on its own
  original lightness, and that position is baked in as a literal hex value
  directly on the element (fill="#abcdef"), not computed via any SVG machinery
  at render time. So there's no "filter" object in the file at all right now —
  it's N separate flat colors, one per shape, each independently the result of
  lerp(dark, light, L_element).

  Could you build it as an actual SVG <filter> instead? Yes, and that's a
  legitimate variant: desaturate everything to luminance with feColorMatrix,
  then remap luminance → two colors with a gradient-map-style
  feComponentTransfer/feFuncR/G/B. That would collapse the "N colors to
  substitute" down to just the 2 color values live in the filter definition,
  instead of one per element — a real simplification of the deploy-time edit.

  But it doesn't change the dynamism answer from before: a <filter> is still
  evaluated once, at parse/paint time, using whatever literal values sit in the
  file when glycin's sandboxed decoder reads it. It isn't bound to anything live
  outside the file — no currentColor, no external reference, no "ask the
  compositor what the accent is right now." You'd still need a deploy-time write
  to update those 2 filter values whenever the wallpaper changes; you'd just be
  writing 2 numbers instead of rewriting every element's fill. Given
  15-deploy-duotone-theme.sh already does its substitution step in a fraction of
  a second, that's a nice-to-have (smaller diff, maybe marginally faster), not
  a path to genuinely reactive color.

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