diff --git a/hosts/FredOS-Gaming.nix b/hosts/FredOS-Gaming.nix
index 7d0b050..ab9b220 100644
--- a/hosts/FredOS-Gaming.nix
+++ b/hosts/FredOS-Gaming.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
       protonplus
     ];
 
+    programs.geary.enable = true;
+
     # Nova Pro Wireless base station: open up its vendor HID interface so
     # quickshell's ANC switcher can write to it directly (nova-anc script in
     # settings/quickshell.nix). Single-user desktop, 0666 is fine.
diff --git a/settings/quickshell.nix b/settings/quickshell.nix
index 1a58b3d..d4d731e 100644
--- a/settings/quickshell.nix
+++ b/settings/quickshell.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ let
   wallsJson = builtins.toJSON config.fred.theming.walls;
   defaultWall = config.fred.theming.defaultWall;
   themeApply = config.fred.theming.apply;
-  monoIcons = config.fred.theming.monoIcons;
 in
 {
   config = lib.mkIf (lib.elem config.networking.hostName [ "FredOS-Gaming" "FredOS-Macbook" ]) {
@@ -1313,10 +1312,6 @@ in
                 readonly property string wxFetch: "${wxFetchScript}"
                 readonly property string xdgOpen: "${pkgs.xdg-utils}/bin/xdg-open"
                 readonly property string themeApply: "${themeApply}"
-                // Prefix of the monochrome app-icon tree. AppIcon tests a
-                // resolved icon path against this to decide whether it may
-                // be tinted — see the component for why that is not blanket.
-                readonly property string monoIconDir: "${monoIcons}"
             }
           '';
         };
@@ -1735,53 +1730,6 @@ in
                     // act on. Stroke weight is fixed by the design.
                 }
 
-                // ── AppIcon: an application icon in a square slot, tinted to
-                // the wallpaper's text colour when — and only when — it came
-                // from the monochrome set.
-                //
-                // YAMIS declares FollowsColorScheme=true, which is a KDE key:
-                // only Plasma rewrites the <style> block inside each SVG, so
-                // here every icon would otherwise render at the fixed #d8dee9
-                // baked into the file and sit dead against a themed bar.
-                // Overlaying at draw time follows the palette live and costs
-                // no disk copy (the same hidden-Image trick as the tray).
-                //
-                // The test is deliberately narrow rather than tinting every
-                // icon. A few apps have no YAMIS icon and fall through to
-                // Papirus, whose artwork encodes its detail as colour
-                // separation — Spotify's waves are white-on-green, not cut
-                // out of the shape. Flatten one of those and you get a
-                // featureless blob, so full-colour fallbacks are left alone.
-                component AppIcon: Item {
-                    id: _ai
-                    property string path: ""
-                    property int size: 32
-                    readonly property bool mono:
-                        _ai.path !== "" && _ai.path.indexOf(Commands.monoIconDir) !== -1
-
-                    width: size
-                    height: size
-
-                    Image {
-                        id: _aiImg
-                        anchors.fill: parent
-                        source: _ai.path
-                        sourceSize.width: _ai.size
-                        sourceSize.height: _ai.size
-                        smooth: true
-                        mipmap: true
-                        // Hidden only when the overlay is drawing in its
-                        // place; ColorOverlay reads it as a texture either way.
-                        visible: _ai.path !== "" && !_ai.mono
-                    }
-                    ColorOverlay {
-                        anchors.fill: _aiImg
-                        source: _aiImg
-                        visible: _ai.mono
-                        color: Theme.base05
-                    }
-                }
-
                 // ── BarSep: extra whitespace between widget groups. Groups are
                 // separated by air, not by lines — a drawn rule read as clutter
                 // in a 46px column.
@@ -2033,13 +1981,14 @@ in
                     Row {
                         width: parent.width
                         spacing: 4
-                        visible: _nc.notif && (_nc.notif.appName !== "" || _appIcon.path != "")
-                        AppIcon {
+                        visible: _nc.notif && (_nc.notif.appName !== "" || _appIcon.source != "")
+                        Image {
                             id: _appIcon
-                            size: 14
+                            width: 14; height: 14
+                            sourceSize.width: 14; sourceSize.height: 14
                             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
-                            path: _nc.notif && _nc.notif.appIcon ? Quickshell.iconPath(_nc.notif.appIcon, true) : ""
-                            visible: path != ""
+                            source: _nc.notif && _nc.notif.appIcon ? Quickshell.iconPath(_nc.notif.appIcon, true) : ""
+                            visible: source != ""
                         }
                         SText {
                             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
@@ -3371,10 +3320,14 @@ in
                                                     anchors.centerIn: parent
                                                     spacing: 4
 
-                                                    AppIcon {
+                                                    Image {
                                                         anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
-                                                        path: pinCell.icon
-                                                        size: 28
+                                                        visible: source != ""
+                                                        width: 28
+                                                        height: 28
+                                                        sourceSize.width: 28
+                                                        sourceSize.height: 28
+                                                        source: pinCell.icon
                                                     }
                                                     SText {
                                                         width: pinCell.width - 12
@@ -3537,10 +3490,12 @@ in
                                                 width: 32
                                                 height: 32
 
-                                                AppIcon {
+                                                Image {
                                                     anchors.fill: parent
-                                                    path: icon
-                                                    size: 32
+                                                    visible: source != ""
+                                                    sourceSize.width: 32
+                                                    sourceSize.height: 32
+                                                    source: icon
                                                 }
                                                 SIcon {
                                                     anchors.centerIn: parent
diff --git a/settings/theming.nix b/settings/theming.nix
index ad9bd83..4f5257e 100644
--- a/settings/theming.nix
+++ b/settings/theming.nix
@@ -293,40 +293,6 @@ let
     ''misc={background_color="rgb(${s.base00})"}''
   ] + "})");
 
-  # ── App icons ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  # YAMIS draws the app icons in the launcher. Picked over the far bigger
-  # monochrome sets because coverage beats library size: it is the only one
-  # still shipping commits, so it has the apps actually installed here
-  # (zen, ghostty, vesktop, bazaar, faugus, protonplus) where the 10k-icon
-  # archives — Suru++ Asprómauros, dead since 2019 — do not.
-  #
-  # Not in nixpkgs. Upstream is a bare icon tree with the theme at its root,
-  # so the "build" is a copy into the directory name the spec resolves by.
-  #
-  # FollowsColorScheme=true is a KDE key: only Plasma rewrites the embedded
-  # <style id="current-color-scheme"> block. Anywhere else the icons render
-  # at that block's literal fallback, #d8dee9, and never track the wallpaper.
-  #
-  # Rewriting that string on disk would mean a copy of all 6101 files per
-  # wallpaper — 75MB across the set, and a 15MB rm -rf + cp inside
-  # theme-apply on every switch, which is the one path that has to stay
-  # quick. quickshell tints these at draw time instead (ColorOverlay against
-  # base05, the same trick the tray uses), so the launcher follows the
-  # palette live and nothing is copied. monoIcons below hands it the prefix
-  # that identifies a YAMIS icon.
-  #
-  # Consequence: GTK apps still see #d8dee9. That is fine on these dark
-  # themes, and it is the only consumer that reads these files directly.
-  yamisIcons = pkgs.runCommand "yamis-icon-theme" { } ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/icons
-    cp -r ${pkgs.fetchgit {
-      url = "https://bitbucket.org/dirn-typo/yet-another-monochrome-icon-set.git";
-      rev = "4294d5d51f896e54de3f01c12ed35a46d9451258";
-      hash = "sha256-oVztgqlGB8qkOlJU7HCWXT8BBZLAHHajdws6FIe33XA=";
-    }} $out/share/icons/yet-another-monochrome-icon-set
-    chmod -R u+w $out/share/icons
-  '';
-
   # A featherweight icon theme that inherits Papirus-Dark and overrides only
   # the folder faces, rather than a recoloured copy of the whole 200MB tree
   # per wallpaper. Papirus-Dark delegates its size dirs to ../Papirus by
@@ -338,12 +304,8 @@ let
       {
         echo "[Icon Theme]"
         echo "Name=Papirus-Fred"
-        echo "Comment=YAMIS app icons with ${color} Papirus folders"
-        # YAMIS first, so every app it covers wins; its own index.theme falls
-        # through to Papirus-Dark for the rest. Papirus is repeated here
-        # anyway — an upstream edit to YAMIS's Inherits must not be able to
-        # break the fallback that the folder overrides below depend on.
-        echo "Inherits=yet-another-monochrome-icon-set,Papirus-Dark,Papirus,hicolor"
+        echo "Comment=Papirus-Dark with ${color} folders"
+        echo "Inherits=Papirus-Dark,Papirus,hicolor"
         printf 'Directories='
         first=1
         for size in $sizes; do
@@ -577,10 +539,6 @@ in
     };
     defaultWall = lib.mkOption { internal = true; type = lib.types.str; };
     apply = lib.mkOption { internal = true; type = lib.types.path; };
-    # The installed YAMIS tree. quickshell needs the prefix to tell a
-    # monochrome icon from a Papirus fallback at draw time — see the tint
-    # note on yamisIcons above.
-    monoIcons = lib.mkOption { internal = true; type = lib.types.str; };
   };
 
   config = lib.mkMerge [{
@@ -615,14 +573,8 @@ in
     fred.theming = {
       inherit walls defaultWall;
       apply = themeApply;
-      monoIcons = "${yamisIcons}/share/icons/yet-another-monochrome-icon-set";
     };
 
-    # Papirus-Fred inherits this by name, so it has to be on the icon search
-    # path for the lookup to resolve — installing the theme is what makes the
-    # Inherits= line above mean anything.
-    environment.systemPackages = [ yamisIcons ];
-
     home-manager.users.fred = { config, lib, pkgs, osConfig, ... }: {
       # These targets write build-time files that theme-apply replaces at
       # runtime; leaving them on means stylix and the switcher fight over the