From 996ad0ca8aa337051aca955a149be063396f732c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Danilo M." <danix@danix.xyz>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:39:09 +0200
Subject: fix(presentation): read a missing state file as off, not a warning

statusctl no longer emits a down class, so the CSS rule for it and the dialog-warning entry in the icon check are dead. A missing file is the normal pre-write state, not a failure.
---
 bin/wb-icon                       |  1 -
 modules/custom/presentation.jsonc | 14 +++++++-------
 styles/modules.css                | 12 +++---------
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/wb-icon b/bin/wb-icon
index 1d76369..b8bb098 100755
--- a/bin/wb-icon
+++ b/bin/wb-icon
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ def selftest():
     presentation_icons = [
         "preferences-desktop-screensaver",  # off
         "x-office-presentation",            # on
-        "dialog-warning",                   # no state file
     ]
     mail_icons = ["mail-unread"]
 
diff --git a/modules/custom/presentation.jsonc b/modules/custom/presentation.jsonc
index 3843cb5..8544b26 100644
--- a/modules/custom/presentation.jsonc
+++ b/modules/custom/presentation.jsonc
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 // Presentation mode, the same module the DP-1 bar runs.
 //
 // `statusctl presentation watch` streams waybar JSON on every change: it
-// already emits an empty text and a class of activated, deactivated or down,
-// so the icon is chosen in CSS from that class and no format is needed here.
-// Dropping format-icons is the whole difference from the DP-1 copy, which
-// draws the same two states as Nerd Font glyphs.
+// already emits an empty text and a class of activated or deactivated, so the
+// icon is chosen in CSS from that class and no format is needed here. Dropping
+// format-icons is the whole difference from the DP-1 copy, which draws the
+// same two states as Nerd Font glyphs.
 //
-// `down` means the state file is missing, which is not the same as off: the
-// mode cannot be read at all. It gets its own icon rather than borrowing the
-// off one, so a broken watcher does not read as a working bar.
+// A missing state file reads as deactivated, not as a warning: that is the
+// normal state before anything has written one, and a file cannot report
+// whether a watcher is alive anyway.
 //
 // statusctl talks to files under XDG_RUNTIME_DIR rather than to quickshell,
 // so this keeps working while the shell is down.
diff --git a/styles/modules.css b/styles/modules.css
index b6fd38d..3aa55c6 100644
--- a/styles/modules.css
+++ b/styles/modules.css
@@ -227,11 +227,9 @@
 }
 
 /* Presentation mode. statusctl emits the state as a class and an empty text,
- * so the icon is chosen here rather than by a format string.
- *
- * `down` is not `off`: the state file is missing, so the mode cannot be read
- * at all. It draws a warning rather than the off icon, because a watcher that
- * has died should not look like a mode that is simply not on. */
+ * so the icon is chosen here rather than by a format string. A missing state
+ * file reads as deactivated: it is the normal state before anything has
+ * written one, not a failure. */
 #custom-presentation {
 	background-repeat: no-repeat;
 	background-position: center;
@@ -248,7 +246,3 @@
 #custom-presentation.activated {
 	background-image: url("@ICON:x-office-presentation@");
 }
-
-#custom-presentation.down {
-	background-image: url("@ICON:dialog-warning@");
-}
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