NibrasShell development roadmap

Smart Capsule and AI

The Smart Capsule is one of NibrasShell’s most distinctive features, and several AI-related improvements are in the pipeline:

Smart Capsule color customization — independent controls for capsule background, border, and text colors, separate from the main theme palette.
Fuzzy Clock AI — a fuzzy clock that labels time blocks (“Work Time”, “Rest”) and connects those states to contextual AI responses.
AI reactions to CPU/RAM spikes — the capsule will use AI to explain high resource usage in a humorous, readable way (the reaction trigger is already implemented; the AI integration is pending).
Clipboard AI summarization — automatically summarize copied text using your configured AI provider.

UI and theming

Visual polish and customization options planned for the shell:

Game Mode — a toggle that switches to a high-performance profile, hiding non-essential UI elements and adjusting compositor settings.
Bar and menu customization — controls for bar shadow intensity and left menu panel width.
Advanced depth effects — automatic depth-effect generation for each wallpaper in a dynamic folder, plus Cava audio visualizer integration with the depth layer.
New themes — Solarized, Rosé Pine, and Oxocarbon theme presets.
Stop dynamic wallpaper rotation — a toggle to pause automatic wallpaper cycling while keeping the dynamic folder configured.

Widgets and productivity

New panels and applets to extend the shell’s utility:

Quick notes widget — a lightweight note-taking panel accessible from the left bar.
Favorite apps — a pinned applications section for fast launching.
AI assistant list — a dedicated menu for switching between different configured AI assistants.
Flexible menu open logic — an option to choose between “reserve space” (pushes windows aside) and “floating” (overlays windows) panel open styles.

System and hardware

Deeper system integration and hardware controls:

Full Bluetooth manager — a complete UI for discovering, pairing, and managing Bluetooth devices.
Display settings — monitor selection, resolution, refresh rate, and arrangement controls.
VPN indicator — a status icon in the bar showing VPN connection state.
Quick toggles — one-tap buttons for Wi-Fi, Airplane Mode, and Gammastep (blue-light filter).
Keyboard layout indicator — shows the current input language, planned as an extension of the existing Smart Capsule keyboard indicator.

Code quality and refactoring

Internal improvements that make the codebase cleaner and easier to extend:

Replace LeftMenuStatus with EventBus — the older LeftMenuStatus singleton is being phased out in favour of the more flexible EventBus signal bus. This change decouples components that currently hold direct references to each other.
Reorganize components — move components such as SettingSwitch out of shared directories and into the feature-specific directories where they belong.

Planned features