Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, for Wayland and X11
This report summarizes scanner evidence for quickshell-mirror/quickshell, a C++ project with 3,134 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 64,519 lines of code across 537 source files, recording 370 pattern matches distributed across 1 syntactic category. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 5.7 (Moderate 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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 370 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 370 finding(s).
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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 370 distinct pattern matches across 1 syntactic category. 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 | src/core/elapsedtimer.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/region.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/region.hpp | 61 | /// Defaults to 0. Does nothing if @@item is set. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/region.hpp | 81 | /// Defaults to @@radius, and may be reset by assigning `undefined`. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/variants.cpp | 1 | #include "variants.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/popupanchor.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/popupanchor.hpp | 21 | #include "doc.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/popupanchor.hpp | 81 | /// The item to anchor / attach the popup to. Setting this property unsets @@window. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/popupanchor.hpp | 101 | /// | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/toolsupport.cpp | 1 | #include "toolsupport.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/doc.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/colorquantizer.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/transformwatcher.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/transformwatcher.hpp | 21 | class TransformWatcher: public QObject { | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/scan.cpp | 1 | #include "scan.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/logging.cpp | 1 | #include "logging.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/logging.cpp | 21 | #include <qpair.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/boundcomponent.cpp | 1 | #include "boundcomponent.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 81 | }; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 101 | /// The time at which this Quickshell instance was launched. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 121 | /// This creates an instance of your window once on every screen. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 141 | Q_PROPERTY(QString clipboardText READ clipboardText WRITE setClipboardText NOTIFY clipboardTextChanged); | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 181 | /// See @@Reloadable for more information on what can be reloaded and how. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 201 | /// > Additionally, shell scripts must be run by your shell, | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 221 | /// if the icon does not exist, instead of an image showing a missing texture. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlglobal.hpp | 241 | /// The popup can also be blocked by setting `QS_NO_RELOAD_POPUP=1`. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/logging_qtprivate.cpp | 1 | // The logging rule parser from qloggingregistry_p.h and qloggingregistry.cpp. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qsintercept.cpp | 1 | #include "qsintercept.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/scriptmodel.cpp | 1 | #include "scriptmodel.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/incubator.cpp | 1 | #include "incubator.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/retainable.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/retainable.hpp | 41 | /// and it will not be unlocked until the same number of unlocks as locks have occurred. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/retainable.hpp | 101 | bool retaining = false; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/lazyloader.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/lazyloader.hpp | 21 | /// load synchronously so windows can be reused. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/lazyloader.hpp | 41 | /// left: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/lazyloader.hpp | 61 | /// | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/lazyloader.hpp | 81 | /// > | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/lazyloader.hpp | 101 | /// If the component is not loaded, setting this property to true will start | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/desktopentry.cpp | 1 | #include "desktopentry.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/easingcurve.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/model.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/model.hpp | 21 | /// components that act on models. It has a single role named `modelData`, to match the | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/generation.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/platformmenu.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qsmenu.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qsmenu.hpp | 61 | /// | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/debuginfo.cpp | 1 | #include "debuginfo.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/iconprovider.cpp | 1 | #include "iconprovider.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/clock.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/clock.hpp | 21 | /// @@QtQuick.Text { | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/qmlscreen.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/lazyloader.cpp | 1 | #include "lazyloader.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/desktopentry.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/desktopentry.hpp | 61 | /// If true, this application should not be displayed in menus and launchers. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/desktopentry.hpp | 181 | Q_PROPERTY(QString icon READ default WRITE default NOTIFY iconChanged BINDABLE bindableIcon); | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/generation.cpp | 1 | #include "generation.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/platformmenu.cpp | 1 | #include "platformmenu.hpp" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/core/persistentprops.hpp | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
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