Tool tabs need a taxonomy, and the taxonomy was the problem: a table in
`ui/` mapping operation to tab breaks FR-DEV-3a, and a `group:` field risks
what `ui-refinement.md` condemned `starts-group` for — the core deciding
where the panel draws things.
`Attribute` threads the needle. It says what an operation *is* — tone,
colour, detail, optics, geometry, effect — which is the same category as
`ParamKind` and squarely on the core's side of ARCH §4.3a's line. What is
drawn, where it sits and whether it is visible stay the frontend's. There is
no attribute for "the third tab", the enum's order is declaration order
rather than screen order, and a frontend may render these as tabs, as
headings, or ignore them.
The payoff is that a tab strip can be *derived*: the groups are the
attributes present in the capability list, so the interface names no
operation and needs no table to keep in step. An operation joins the right
group by declaring what it is, which is the one thing its author is well
placed to say.
Plural, because the tone curve is genuinely both — an RGB curve is tonal and
the per-channel curves are chromatic, and filing it under one would hide it
from half the people looking for it.
Required and non-empty, enforced in `build.rs`, and the failure was checked
by removing the line rather than assumed. An operation with no attribute is
invisible to a panel that groups by them; a build that stops costs ten
seconds, a control nobody can find costs more. The vocabulary is closed for
the same reason: a typo would otherwise invent a category holding exactly one
operation, which looks like a deliberate one until somebody counts.
Six tests over the real chain, including the hand-written operations that
`build.rs` never sees and so cannot check.
Every background job reported into a window property of its own —
library-thumbs-done, library-pin-total, library-syncing — which only the
grid ever read. A pin download that outlived the view it was started from
drew nothing at all once the user opened an image, and there was no answer
anywhere to "what is this busy with", because the answer was spread across
eight properties nothing collected.
They report to one register now (ui/dr-ui/src/activity.rs). It publishes an
aggregate, which draws a three-pixel bar across the top of the shell in
every view, and a row per job, which the settings page lists: scans,
thumbnail batches, pin and open downloads, sidecar uploads, the sync and
the trash. Failures stay on the list until they are cleared; routine
successes do not, or a scroll would bury them.
The handle removes a still-running job when it drops, so a worker that dies
mid-transfer takes its row with it rather than leaving the bar sweeping for
the rest of the session.
Also carries in-flight work from a parallel session — the drawn icon set
and the dr-pipeline ops split. dr-pipeline's build script does not compile
at this commit; ui/dr-ui does, with clippy clean and its tests passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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