## What happened

Cloning the built-in `bar`-kind plugin with `omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar` produces a plugin that `omarchy plugin list --json` reports as `enabled: true, active: true`, but the bar's layer-shell surface is never actually created — no bar renders, no screen space is reserved, and the cloned plugin's QML root shows spurious "Required property ... was not initialized" warnings in the journal on every load.

This reproduces with a **byte-for-byte unmodified copy** of the stock `Bar.qml` placed at the cloned path — it is not specific to any edits made after cloning.

## Expected

Cloning `omarchy.bar` (a first-party `bar`-kind plugin) and switching to it should produce a working bar identical to the stock one, the same way cloning a `bar-widget`-kind plugin (e.g. `omarchy.workspaces`, `omarchy.menu`) works correctly.

## Steps to reproduce

```bash
omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar
# -> "Cloned omarchy.bar to <user>.bar and switched to <user>.bar"
omarchy plugin list --json | jq '.[] | select(.id=="<user>.bar" or .id=="omarchy.bar")'
# -> <user>.bar reports enabled:true, active:true
omarchy restart shell
hyprctl layers -j | jq '[.[].levels[][].namespace]'
# -> only ["omarchy-background"], "omarchy-bar" namespace is missing entirely
hyprctl monitors -j | jq '.[].reserved'
# -> [0,0,0,0], no exclusion zone reserved (stock bar reserves e.g. [0,26,0,0])
```

Journal (`journalctl -t omarchy-shell`) shows, on every load of the cloned plugin (even fully unedited):

```
WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[22:3]: Required property barConfig was not initialized
WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[17:3]: Required property barWidgetRegistry was not initialized
WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[15:3]: Required property omarchyPath was not initialized
WARN scene: @shell.qml[256:-1]: ReferenceError: errorString is not defined
```

Switching back with `omarchy plugin enable omarchy.bar` immediately restores the working stock bar, confirming the break is specific to loading a `bar`-kind plugin from the cloned/user plugin path rather than the first-party path.

## System details

- Omarchy version: 4.0.1-1
- Kernel: `Linux 7.1.9-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 21 Aug 2026`
- GPU: Intel Meteor Lake-P (Intel Arc Graphics, integrated)
- Compositor: Hyprland, shell: Quickshell (`omarchy-shell`)

## Notes

- `omarchy debug --no-sudo --print` is not a recognized command on this install (`omarchy commands --all` has no `debug` entry), so I couldn't attach that report — happy to provide anything else needed.
- I could not find the actual underlying QML compile/runtime error, since the shell's own error-reporting path for this case throws (`ReferenceError: errorString is not defined` in `shell.qml`), which looks like a secondary bug masking the real diagnostic.

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