v1.0.0

[1.0.0] — 2026-09-06

First stable release. Verified by removing the plugin entirely and
reinstalling from GitHub the way a new user would, then exercising every
control against the hardware.

Added

• Per-instance settings from shell.json: defaultOnLevel,
  refreshMinutes and showBattery, read through the base panel's
  setting() exactly as first-party widgets do, and clamped rather than
  trusted.

Fixed

• A single degraded read could make the widget announce "no
  backlight-capable keyboard" while the keyboard was working. The device
  answers contention with a well-formed frame that omits the BACKLIGHT2
  block, so a truncated read and a keyboard without a backlight look
  identical. A loss now requires three consecutive confirmations, with a
  fast re-read between them.

Verified for this release

• Clean omarchy plugin add from GitHub, with the bundled helper arriving
  executable
• Backlight toggle, brightness, and effect changes reaching the device
• Panel refresh on open, and live following of the keyboard's own keys with
  the optional Solaar rule
• Vertical (right-side) bar
• 33 unit and functional tests, and both CI checks

Still true, and deliberately so

• Roughly two seconds per action: this shells out to solaar rather than
  holding a connection, and that startup cost is the floor for anything
  that refuses to run a daemon.
• Only an MX Mechanical Mini and a Signature M650 on a Bolt receiver have
  ever been tested. Everything else — other backlit keyboards, Bluetooth
  pairing, multiple keyboards — is expected to work rather than known to.
  Reports are welcome, especially negative ones.