Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, labwc, and MiracleWM.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell, a QML project with 8,713 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 538,311 lines of code across 1301 source files, recording 118 pattern matches distributed across 10 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.3 (Low pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Payload schema: 1.0.0 · Engine: 2.0.0 · Scoring: heuristic-density-v1 · Scan date: 2026-10-31.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 94 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 13 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 52 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 118 finding(s).
This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.
Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 118 distinct pattern matches across 10 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | quickshell/Modals/DLauncherV2/ItemTransformers.js | 126 | function transformBuiltInLauncherItem(item, pluginId, openLabel) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Modals/DLauncherV2/NavigationHelpers.js | 171 | function calculateNextSectionIndex(flatModel, selectedFlatIndex) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Modals/DLauncherV2/NavigationHelpers.js | 194 | function calculatePrevSectionIndex(flatModel, selectedFlatIndex) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 153 | function hyprlandMonitorWorkspaces(raw, workspaces, screenName) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 217 | function hyprlandPersistentWorkspaces(raw, records, screenName, followFocus, minCount) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 245 | function hyprlandSpecialDisplayName(name) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 258 | function hyprlandSpecialWorkspaces(raw, screenName, followFocus, occupiedOnly) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 291 | function hyprlandWorkspacesForScreen(raw, screenName, followFocus, occupiedOnly, minCount, showSpecial) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 351 | function hyprlandWindowsOnWorkspace(windows, workspace, toplevels) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 360 | function hyprlandWorkspaceOccupied(toplevels, workspace) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 583 | function aqueousWorkspacesForScreen(raw, screenName, occupiedOnly, cache) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 599 | function aqueousWindowsOnWorkspace(windows, workspace) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 623 | function umbrielWorkspacesForScreen(workspaces, screenName, occupiedOnly, cache) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WorkspaceModel.js | 634 | function umbrielWindowsOnWorkspace(windows, workspace) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/KeyUtils.js | 399 | function compositorTextInputSelected(imModules, imModule) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/KeybindActions.js | 3221 | function parseCompositorActionArgs(compositor, action) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | quickshell/Common/PamStack.js | 103 | function hasEnrolledFingerprintOutput(output) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | quickshell/Common/PamStack.js | 113 | function hasMissingFingerprintEnrollmentOutput(output) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | quickshell/Common/PamStack.js | 118 | function hasMissingFingerprintReaderOutput(output) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/OutputModel.js | 50 | function hyprlandProfileOutputIdentifier(output, key, isConnector) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/OutputModel.js | 193 | function parseHyprlandLuaMonitorLine(line) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/OutputModel.js | 593 | function outputsDataFromConfigEntry(configEntry, outputs, displayNameMode, compositor) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/OutputModel.js | 651 | function findConfigEntryByFingerprint(data, outputIdentifiers, autoOnly) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/OutputModel.js | 737 | function configEntryMatchesLiveLayout(configEntry, outputs, displayNameMode, compositor) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/OutputModel.js | 982 | function recalculateAdjacentPositions(outputs, pendingChanges, changedOutput, newScale, compositor) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WindowModel.js | 65 | function niriActiveWorkspaceOccupied(windows, allWorkspaces, screenName) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WindowModel.js | 70 | function niriWindowOnActiveWorkspace(windows, allWorkspaces, screenName, currentOutput, focusedWindow) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WindowModel.js | 142 | function hyprlandWindowOnActiveWorkspace(hyprToplevels, focusedWorkspace, toplevel) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/WindowModel.js | 151 | function hyprlandSpecialWorkspaceName(hyprToplevels, toplevel) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/settings/SettingsStore.js | 102 | function withoutSessionBackedPluginState(pluginSettings) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/settings/SettingsStore.js | 813 | function migrateControlCenterFooter(settings) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/settings/SettingsStore.js | 890 | function migrateScrollColumnBehavior(settings) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/settings/SettingsStore.js | 902 | function migrateIslandReducedMotion(settings) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/settings/SettingsStore.js | 955 | function migrateControlCenterHeader(widgets, fixedHeader, columns) { | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync_plugins.py | 103 | def warn_unresolved_shell_terms(shell_terms): | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync_plugins.py | 142 | def pending_translation_files(checkout): | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync_plugins.py | 258 | def keep_existing_translations(existing, incoming): | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 333 | def collect_rename_translations(api_token, project_id, renames): | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 353 | def apply_rename_translations(api_token, project_id, carry): | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_translations.py | 184 | def create_plugin_poeditor_json(scoped): | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_settings_index.py | 878 | def extract_bar_widget_option_labels(root_dir): | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | quickshell/PLUGINS/README.md | 846 | ### Step 1: Create Plugin Directory | COMMENT |
| LOW | quickshell/PLUGINS/README.md | 853 | ### Step 2: Create Manifest | COMMENT |
| LOW | quickshell/PLUGINS/README.md | 874 | ### Step 3: Create Widget Component | COMMENT |
| LOW | quickshell/PLUGINS/README.md | 924 | ### Step 4: Create Settings Component (Optional) | COMMENT |
| LOW | quickshell/PLUGINS/README.md | 962 | ### Step 5: Enable Plugin | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 54 | ## Step 1: Determine Plugin Type | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 73 | ## Step 2: Create the Manifest | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 149 | ## Step 3: Create the Main Component | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 367 | ## Step 4: Add Startup Check (Optional) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 411 | ## Step 5: Add Settings (Optional) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 455 | ## Step 6: Use Data Persistence | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 472 | ## Step 7: Theme Integration | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 487 | ## Step 8: Add Popout Content (Widgets Only) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 522 | ## Step 9: Control Center Integration (Widgets Only) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 551 | ## Step 10: External Commands and Clipboard | COMMENT |
| LOW | .agents/skills/dms-plugin-dev/SKILL.md | 613 | ## Step 11: Validate and Test | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | quickshell/tests/run-qml.py | 32 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync_plugins.py | 463 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync_plugins.py | 615 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 481 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_translations.py | 96 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_translations.py | 122 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_settings_index.py | 281 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_settings_index.py | 328 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_settings_index.py | 374 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_settings_index.py | 465 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/extract_settings_index.py | 625 | CODE | |
| LOW | scripts/format-staged.py | 300 | CODE | |
| LOW | scripts/release-notes.py | 71 | CODE | |
| LOW | scripts/release-notes.py | 141 | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | core/install.sh | 16 | # Check if running on Linux | COMMENT |
| LOW | core/cmd/dms/commands_open.go | 31 | dms open file.pdf # Open file (MIME auto-detected) | CODE |
| LOW | distro/scripts/copr-upload.sh | 88 | # Check if copr-cli is installed | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/ppa-build.sh | 280 | # Check if this version already exists in PPA (for stable packages, use exact match) | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/obs-upload.sh | 50 | # Check if last positional argument is a number (rebuild release) | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/obs-upload.sh | 172 | # Check if we got valid spec content | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/obs-upload.sh | 297 | # Check if package exists | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/obs-upload.sh | 411 | # Check if this version already exists in OBS | COMMENT |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/spam-notifications.sh | 180 | # Increment counter | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | core/internal/keybinds/providers/niri_parser.go | 101 | // in double quotes. kdl-go rejects '_' as the first character of a bare | COMMENT |
| LOW | core/internal/highlight/generate.go | 1 | // Package highlight replaces chroma's lexers and styles packages, whose | COMMENT |
| LOW | core/internal/server/wayland/manager.go | 1721 | // releaseIdleControls tears the gamma controls down once nothing needs them, | COMMENT |
| LOW | core/internal/server/wayland/suncalc.go | 81 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | core/internal/icc/parser.go | 541 | return t | COMMENT |
| LOW | core/internal/matugen/sourcecolor.go | 41 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/ppa-upload.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/obs-upload.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | distro/scripts/ppa-status.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | quickshell/Common/suncalc.js | 1 | .pragma library | COMMENT |
| LOW | scripts/notify-issues.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/release.yml | 181 | core/dms-${{ env.ASSET }}.gz.sha256 | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/release.yml | 201 | # uses: actions/checkout@v6 | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | core/cmd/dms/commands_dmenu.go | 77 | dmenuCmd.Flags().StringVar(&dmenuPlaceholder, "placeholder", "", "Input placeholder text") | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/highlight/lexers/caddyfile.go | 146 | Include("placeholder"), | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/highlight/lexers/caddyfile.go | 152 | Include("placeholder"), | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/highlight/lexers/caddyfile.go | 171 | "placeholder": { | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/highlight/lexers/caddyfile.go | 186 | Include("placeholder"), | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/highlight/lexers/caddyfile.go | 242 | Include("placeholder"), | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/server/tailscale/manager_test.go | 113 | Name: "user@example.com", | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/server/tailscale/client_test.go | 22 | Name: "user@example.com", | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/server/tailscale/client_test.go | 60 | LoginName: "user@example.com", | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/server/tailscale/client_test.go | 76 | assert.Equal(t, "user@example.com", state.TailnetName) | CODE |
| LOW | core/internal/server/tailscale/client_test.go | 92 | assert.Equal(t, "user@example.com", peer.Owner) | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 90 | except Exception as e: | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 113 | except Exception as e: | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 249 | except Exception as e: | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 317 | except Exception as e: | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync.py | 514 | except Exception as e: | CODE |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/replace_qstr.py | 42 | except Exception as e: | CODE |
| MEDIUM | quickshell/translations/replace_qstr.py | 43 | print(f"Error processing {qml_file}: {e}") | CODE |
| LOW | scripts/format-staged.py | 220 | except Exception: | CODE |
| MEDIUM | scripts/format-staged.py | 216 | def shutdown(self): | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | scripts/format-staged.py | 220 | except Exception: | CODE |
| HIGH | scripts/format-staged.py | 190 | except OSError: | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/release.yml | 473 | # Create the full package | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | quickshell/scripts/i18nsync_plugins.py | 7 | CODE | |
| LOW | quickshell/translations/replace_qstr.py | 2 | CODE |