[thenitai]

Problem

With a replacement bar such as Station selected, the Syncthing panel shows no data. Omarchy still runs the plugin's service, but the shell it gives third-party widgets on a replacement bar has no service lookup, so bar.shell.serviceFor(moduleName) returns null.

Fix

• OmarchyService publishes itself in a new hosts/omarchy/Bridge.js and clears itself on destruction.
• OmarchyPanel still prefers serviceFor. Only when that returns null does it poll the bridge once a second, so the built-in bar's path is unchanged.
• The library sits beside the service and panel so both import the same instance.

This is the same pattern as crmne/omatasks#27, SirWizardLizard/omarchy-caldav-calendar#24 and nabdalla-prog/Rimuru-screentime#2.

Testing

• Added tests/replacement-bar.test.sh, which also runs from plugin-ui.test.sh. It covers the bridge fallback, serviceFor taking priority, and a retired service not clearing its replacement. It fails when the service stops publishing.
• architecture and plugin-acceptance-lint pass on this branch.
• folder-overview and dropdown-search fail on my desktop session. On unpatched main they fail with the same errors; I didn't run unpatched dev.
• Live check: the same patch on the installed main build (not this dev branch), on Omarchy 4.0.6 under Station. After a shell restart the panel shows folders, devices and file totals.
• Not tested live under the built-in bar.

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[ilyaZar]

@thenitai nice catch

maybe two questions for me to understand this better

1. are you using the bar regularly, and tested the fix on your machine ?
2. are there other replacement bars you are aware of that might have a similar issue

the first question is bc. then I know how much effort I have to put into testing the station bar myself (testing myself is fine, I just want to have the info)

the second, bc I can build on your fix to make it work across different replacement bars if there are other popular and regularly used candidates

thanks for the PR

[thenitai]

1. are you using the bar regularly, and tested the fix on your machine ?

I've installed Station 2.2.0 and ran into a few plugins that don't support this. I've submitted a PR to each plugin. Apparently, many (including myself) did not know about this. As Station allows you to tweak the bar and uses a replacement bar, the issue became apparent. Again, not all plugins (including my own) have that issue. So not really sure why. I've checked the code with Opus 5.5 and Astra 6 if that helps to make it easier :)

2. are there other replacement bars you are aware of that might have a similar issue

No. Station is also the first and only system that does something to the bar but frankly I love it.

[ilyaZar]

nice, thanks for the reply !