# Verdict

For milestone 4's defined bar, the first-run surface now reads as complete.
A new X11 user can tell what Aman is, how to install it, what success looks
like, how to validate the install, and where to go when the first run fails.
This review is documentation-and-artifact based plus CLI help inspection; I
did not launch the GTK daemon in a live X11 session.

# What A New User Would Experience

A new user now lands on a README that leads with the supported X11 path instead
of maintainer internals. The first-run flow is clear: install runtime
dependencies, verify the portable bundle, run `install.sh`, save the required
settings window, dictate a known phrase, and compare the result against an
explicit tray-state and injected-text expectation. The linked install,
recovery, config, and developer docs are separated cleanly enough that the
first user path stays intact. `python3 -m aman --help` also now exposes the
main command surface directly, which makes the support story match the docs.

# Top Blockers

No blocking first-run issues remained after the quickstart hotkey clarification.
For the milestone 4 scope, the public docs and visual proof are now coherent
enough to understand the product without guessing.

Residual non-blocking gaps:

- The repo still does not point users at a real release download location.
- Legal/project metadata is still incomplete for a public GA trust surface.

Those are real project gaps, but they belong to milestone 5 rather than the
first-run UX/docs milestone.

# Quick Wins

- Keep the README quickstart and `docs/media/` assets in sync whenever tray
  labels, settings copy, or the default hotkey change.
- Preserve the split between end-user docs and maintainer docs; that is the
  biggest quality improvement in this milestone.
- When milestone 5 tackles public release trust, add the real release download
  surface without reintroducing maintainer detail near the top of the README.

# What Would Make It Distribution-Ready

Milestone 4 does not make Aman GA by itself. Before broader X11 distribution,
the project still needs:

- a real release download/publication surface
- license, maintainer, and project metadata completion
- representative distro validation evidence
- the remaining runtime and portable-install manual validation rows required by
  milestones 2 and 3