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1	# Marquee apps: retired
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3	This document is retired. The 2026-07-17 pivot dropped the egui marquee-app pipeline. Alloy authors one surface now: the `alloy` console on the `alloy_tui` ratatui design system. See [CONSOLE.md](CONSOLE.md) and [COMPONENT-LIBRARY.md](COMPONENT-LIBRARY.md).
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5	The marquee pipeline was a set of user-facing apps Alloy would author in egui to anchor the design system (a lockscreen, a package GUI, a wallpaper picker, a small text editor, a notification daemon, a bar). With egui dropped, each is either adopted from upstream or folded into the console.
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7	## What each intended app became
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9	\| Intended egui marquee app \| Now \|
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11	\| Lockscreen \| Adopted: swaylock (a Wayland lock surface is graphical; adopt, don't author). See [STACK.md](STACK.md#lock). \|
12	\| Package GUI \| A TUI view in the `alloy` console (`alloy update` fronts rpm-ostree; the three-surface install model is taught there). See [CONSOLE.md](CONSOLE.md). \|
13	\| Wallpaper picker \| A future `alloy` console verb over swww; no authored GUI. See [STACK.md](STACK.md#wallpapers). \|
14	\| TextEdit-equivalent \| Dropped: the editor is a TUI (helix, then deox). \|
15	\| Notification daemon \| Adopted: mako. See [STACK.md](STACK.md#notification-daemon). \|
16	\| Bar \| Adopted: swaybar (sway built-in). See [STACK.md](STACK.md#bar). \|
17	\| File manager \| Adopted: yazi (TUI, no GUI fallback shipped). See [STACK.md](STACK.md#file-manager). \|
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19	## What carried over
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21	The design-system commitment survived the pivot intact: Alloy authors one design-system crate that everything authored pulls from. It is now `alloy_tui` (ratatui) instead of `alloy_ui` (egui), and its first and central consumer is the `alloy` console rather than a lockscreen. The immediate-mode discipline is unchanged, because ratatui is immediate-mode too. See [MANIFESTO.md](MANIFESTO.md) principle 3 and [COMPONENT-LIBRARY.md](COMPONENT-LIBRARY.md).
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