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Decide what the header gives up when it cannot hold everything

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Three faults, all invisible in the source and all found by looking at
the window.

`alignment: start` on the selection bar. Slint only hands space to
`horizontal-stretch` children under the default `stretch` alignment;
under `start` every child takes its preferred width and the stretch is
ignored without complaint. That was harmless while the bar held four
controls. Now that it holds every selection verb it is the difference
between a count that gives way and a row that can only scroll, so the
alignment goes and the stretch does its job.

The title collapsed to "…". An eliding Text has a minimum of nothing,
so once the buttons had taken their own minimums the title was the
cheapest thing in the row to give away — the window stopped saying
which library was open while the byte counts beside it stayed. It gets
a 90px floor.

And the status line does not get one. After the sidebar takes its 232,
a 1100pt window leaves this header about 868, and the buttons want
most of that before a character is drawn — so something must degrade,
and the order is the whole question. A floor here bought a readable
status by pushing Settings off the right edge, reachable only by
knowing to flick-scroll, which is precisely the fault the row's own
Flickable comment warns about. A control you cannot see is worse than
a sentence you cannot finish. The status line is also the most
redundant thing in the header — the sidebar states the library's count
and the filter chips state it again — so it is what gives, and it
grows back the moment there is room.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ This replaced a double tap, which had no visible state and could take forty phot
"Any of them" is a union and "all of them" is an intersection. The tray is where both terms and the choice between them live, because a filter belongs on the filter bar.
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:1902`</sub>
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:1928`</sub>
### Resize the thumbnails
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ This replaced a double tap, which had no visible state and could take forty phot
There is no wheel on a tablet, so without the pinch the cell size could only be changed by a control a finger cannot reach.
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:2528`</sub>
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:2554`</sub>
### File photographs in a collection
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ There is no wheel on a tablet, so without the pinch the cell size could only be
The selection is what the drag carries, which is why selecting several is worth the mode: forty photographs file in one gesture.
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:2691`</sub>
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:2717`</sub>
### Open a photograph
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ The selection is what the drag carries, which is why selecting several is worth
A tap opens; a tap that *moved* does not. Travel is what separates a deliberate tap from a hand brushing past, and it is the only thing that does: the two are the same length. An earlier version required the finger to dwell 120 ms instead, and that rejected ordinary taps — a real tap is often quicker than a brush.
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:2946`</sub>
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:2972`</sub>
### Rate a photograph without opening it
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ A tap opens; a tap that *moved* does not. Travel is what separates a deliberate
A star has to take the press without it also reaching the cell, or every rating throws the user into develop.
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:3058`</sub>
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:3084`</sub>
### Drop the selection but keep selecting
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ A star has to take the press without it also reaching the cell, or every rating
Distinct from Done, which leaves the mode entirely. Clearing keeps it, so the next selection can start straight away.
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:3713`</sub>
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:3747`</sub>
### Select everything the grid is showing
@@ -144,4 +144,4 @@ Distinct from Done, which leaves the mode entirely. Clearing keeps it, so the ne
A scoped grid of two hundred frames is two hundred taps otherwise, and "all of them, except those three" is a far more common shape than the taps it took to say it.
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:3730`</sub>
<sub>`ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint:3764`</sub>