From 7ded1ab6bcbcdaa30f733de7ea73f4e091ee8b09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skyler Grey <minion@freshlybakedca.ke>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:32:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat(minion): use vivaldi browser
Change-Id: qssoynxlttvnprqntwzmoqtunquyknlx

I've gotten fed up of Firefox's AI/user unfriendliness and Thunderbird's
broken calendaring, specifically
- Thunderbird, despite being a mail client, cannot seem to send calendar
  invites to people. Shockingly, Android's builtin calendar (which is not
  a mail client) seems to do a better job at this(!!)
- Firefox seems to be adding more and more AI features which are annoying
  to opt out of. I can't be bothered to write the nix config to disable
  these as a matter of policy (and I really shouldn't have to). In my
  opinion, investing in these features shows that FF is out-of-touch with
  its userbase and no longer cares about making a good browsing
  experience
- Firefox is behind on important web standards, in my case particularly
  WebUSB and Bluetooth (used for some hardware I have)
- Firefox makes decisions which give webmasters the final say rather than
  me, the user. Specifically, Firefox has no way to override HSTS
  (Chromium lets 'thisisunsafe' override HSTS). This is not only a bad
  move on part of user freedom, it's also *really annoying* for
  development
  - Chromium also makes some of these decisions, *cough ManifestV3*, and
    Google attempts to make more, *cough Web Environment Integrity*, but
    Vivaldi comes with a built-in Adblocker and I can - more or less -
    get everything I need on a Chromium based browser

Vivaldi fixes both of these, at the cost of being proprietary. That means
- We can't build it in CI
- We definitely can't make it default (perhaps it could be an ingredient)

We can't remove the other browsers we have since as we commonly need them
for testing

If anyone has any good FOSS alternatives that I've missed, I'd love to
hear about them... For my purposes, LibreWolf is not a *good* FOSS
alternative (it makes various decisions that break websites), neither is
base Chromium.
---
 packetmix/homes/minion/vivaldi.nix | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 packetmix/homes/minion/xdg.nix     | 17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 packetmix/homes/minion/vivaldi.nix
 delete mode 100644 packetmix/homes/minion/xdg.nix

diff --git a/packetmix/homes/minion/vivaldi.nix b/packetmix/homes/minion/vivaldi.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b89a563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packetmix/homes/minion/vivaldi.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 FreshlyBakedCake
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+{ project, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+lib.mkIf (!project.lib.ci) {
+  home.packages = [
+    pkgs.vivaldi
+  ];
+
+  xdg.mimeApps = {
+    enable = true;
+    defaultApplications = {
+      "default-web-browser" = [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+      "text/html" = [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+      "x-scheme-handler/http" = [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+      "x-scheme-handler/https" = [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+      "x-scheme-handler/about" = [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+      "x-scheme-handler/unknown" = [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+      "message/rfc822" = lib.mkForce [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+      "x-scheme-handler/mailto" = lib.mkForce [ "vivaldi-stable.desktop" ];
+    };
+  };
+
+  clicks.storage.impermanence.persist.directories = [
+    ".config/vivaldi"
+  ];
+}
diff --git a/packetmix/homes/minion/xdg.nix b/packetmix/homes/minion/xdg.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7157acf1..00000000
--- a/packetmix/homes/minion/xdg.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 FreshlyBakedCake
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-
-{
-  xdg.mimeApps = {
-    enable = true;
-    defaultApplications = {
-      "default-web-browser" = [ "firefox.desktop" ];
-      "text/html" = [ "firefox.desktop" ];
-      "x-scheme-handler/http" = [ "firefox.desktop" ];
-      "x-scheme-handler/https" = [ "firefox.desktop" ];
-      "x-scheme-handler/about" = [ "firefox.desktop" ];
-      "x-scheme-handler/unknown" = [ "firefox.desktop" ];
-    };
-  };
-}
-- 
2.43.0