steamify-cachyos-live-iso/TODO.md

To do (Steam Machine edition)

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1. Steamify installer page with checkboxes (next, 2026-09-28). Tested in the ISO VM: the current packagechooser page ("Steam Machine", mode optionalmultiple) only lets you select one item, not several. Wanted:
   • a page titled "Steamify" (not "Steam Machine");
   • toggle switches like the Steamify app's (preferred, so the page looks like Steamify itself; checkboxes only as a fallback) (ui/qml in steamify-cachyos: the rows with "now on" and a switch), one per Steamify option, all on by default (opt-out: switch off what you don't want), several at a time; a QML page could reuse the app's look (Theme, its toggle rows) and texts (Texts);
   • the "Start in" page (gaming mode / desktop) can stay. Calamares has no ready checkbox page whose ticks come out as plain ids (netinstall's checkboxes are package installs), so this needs our own page: a QML page (adapt CachyOS's packagechooserq) or a small Calamares module. The page passes the ticked ids to steamify-install, which runs --defaults --options <ids> --boot gamescope|desktop (Steamify 2.7.0: exactly these on; Boot into can be a row under the conversion like in the app, or stay its own page). Rows and texts can come from steamify.sh --backend status (+ the app's Texts.qml). Until then steamify-install turns the current page's "leave out" ids into --options. "Add as non-Steam game" needs a Steam account: not at install. Also still to check with it: that ${gs[...]} reaches shellprocess (the install log shows "Unknown item: ${gs[..." if not).
2. Check the live name (the build tree has it right: build/x86_64/airootfs/etc/os-release) after the next build: Hello's subtitle should say "Steamify CachyOS, based on CachyOS rolling" (steamify-customize.sh, run by mkarchiso after the packages; the airootfs copy of os-release is overwritten by a package).
3. Steamify PR for feat/defaults-options (2.7.0, c4ec755: --options, --boot; also steamify.sh --boot on its own and the HDMI-CEC volume fix): pushed and regression-tested in the VM (--fremont), no PR yet; the user merges (never commit to main). 2.6.0 is released. Until 2.7.0 is, build the ISO with steamify-prepare.sh ~/projects/steamify-cachyos (the branch).
4. Build in the test VM instead of on the Steam Machine (steam-machine-iso skill), and install the result unattended with scripts/vminstall.sh --iso (vm-install skill; the Calamares Steamify step then needs steamify-install run from the live script).
5. Test on the real Steam Machine from a USB stick (gamescope, LEDs, CEC, power-off) before calling the ISO usable.

Done

• Steamify 2.6.0 released (--defaults, install-time mode).
• Live session (VM, --fremont): Vapor look and layout (Steam Deck wallpaper) at the live login; the power-off module is built for both ISO kernels and loaded at boot, in the VM it returns "No such device" (no AMDI0030 GPIO controller), as designed. Whether it keeps the real Steam Machine off is part of the hardware test.
• Regression test 2.6.0 on an existing desktop install (test VM from ssh-ready, --fremont): full first run, re-apply, notifications/CEC/theme off and on again. No errors; user units enabled and running, theme applied and restored live, no first-login autostart with a session.
• ISO name: steamify-cachyos-<date>-x86_64.iso (iso_name in archiso/profiledef.sh); the volume label stays COS_<yyyymm>.
• VM install from the ISO (2026-09-27, f42859a): a VM install from the ISO (Hello's Install, no manual fixes) ran Steamify's step: every component OK, exit: 0, SDDM autologin into gamescope. First desktop login (session switched to plasma in the VM) passed too: Vapor layout, the app opened with everything on. The first-login script runs the newest release, so it only works once 2.6.0 is released (in the test it was pointed at the bundle). The VM's text console doesn't show (virgl): read the installed disk with qemu-nbd -r + mount -o ro,rescue=nologreplay,subvol=@ (logs in @log).

Later

• Branding: the live session's os-release says "Steamify, based on CachyOS" (Hello's subtitle); Hello's window title and the boot menu still say CachyOS. Check with the CachyOS team.
• Release: a CI job that builds the ISO (privileged container, flags from the steam-machine-iso skill) and hosts it (>2 GB, not a GitHub release asset).
• Drop the Boost 1.91 workaround in steamify-prepare.sh once cachyos-calamares-next is rebuilt against the repos' Boost.

Build and test details: the steam-machine-iso skill in steamify-cachyos-dev.