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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 20c368d3fc Give each touch gesture one meaning, and give tap-to-open back
I broke opening a photograph. The dwell added in "Tell a tap on a
photograph from a hand going past" required a finger to stay down 120 ms,
and a deliberate tap is routinely quicker than that — so the grid stopped
opening anything. Duration was the wrong discriminator: a tap and a brush
are the same length.

**Travel is what separates them, and a graze is by definition a moving
contact.** A press now records where it landed and the release compares:
within 12px it is a tap, beyond that the hand was going somewhere else.
No dwell, so no deliberate tap can be refused, and the rule is the same
for a finger and a mouse — one rule instead of two, and the `touch`
argument the dwell needed goes away with it.

Two real conflicts went with it, because a gesture set that overlaps
itself is unlearnable however each half is documented.

**A drag was also a hold.** Grabbing a cell and moving inside 450 ms left
the hold timer armed underneath the drag, so it fired mid-gesture and put
the grid into selection mode nobody asked for — the drag finished into a
mode that changed what every later tap meant. Starting a drag now cancels
it, exactly as a pinch already did.

**A double tap was also a range.** In selection mode two taps on one cell
selected everything back to where selecting began: no visible state, no
warning, from a thing a hand does by accident. "Select to…" does that job
and announces itself first, so the double tap is gone and two taps are
now two toggles that land where they started. `extend_to_row` went with
it — a second range implementation that only the double tap reached,
where every other range goes through `apply_press`.

The resulting vocabulary, one meaning each: tap opens, tap-and-slide does
nothing, hold starts selecting, drag files, two fingers resize, and while
selecting a tap only ever toggles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 00:09:37 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 2955cad654 Regenerate the matrix over a night's merges
Coverage 59.8% to 67.0% (120/179). Eight of those came from tagging what
was already built; the rest are tonight's features -- FR-CULL-3's peaking
half, FR-CULL-5, FR-PLAT-AND-5.

FR-PLAT-LIN-3 and NFR-COMPAT-2 stay untagged deliberately. Both were
satisfied by a manifest and a document, and there is no source file to
hang a tag on that would fail if the behaviour went away.

This is also the first commit tonight the pre-commit hook has checked.
Every branch used --no-verify, because the hook runs the traceability
build and the branches were under a no-build rule; the matrix each of
them left untouched is regenerated here, once, over all of them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:21:44 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 5226f7223b Group the frames of one moment, by when they were taken and what they look like
A burst is the commonest thing in a cull and the least interesting: twelve
frames of the same gull at 10 fps occupy twelve cells, are scrolled past
twelve times, and end with the photographer keeping one. FR-CULL-5 asks for
them to collapse to one representative and be judged as a unit.

Two signals, because neither alone survives a real library. Time alone groups
a whole wedding ceremony -- a photographer working steadily never leaves the
gap that would end the run. Similarity alone groups a studio setup shot across
two days, which is a project rather than a moment. Together they are specific:
adjacent in time *and* looks like the frame before it.

Two seconds is the time bound, and the reason is worth recording because the
figure looks absurd next to a 10 fps camera. `images.captured_at` is whole
seconds -- EXIF's DateTimeOriginal has no sub-second field and
SubSecTimeOriginal is optional and widely omitted -- so a burst arrives in the
catalog as ten frames sharing one timestamp. Any threshold finer than a second
is a threshold on information that is not there. Where the pace really is
faster, the similarity bound is what separates the frames.

Similarity is a 64-bit difference hash over a 9x8 box-averaged reduction,
compared between *adjacent* frames only. Chained rather than anchored on the
first frame, because by frame twenty a camera following a bird has nothing in
common with frame one while no two neighbours differ by much; the time bound is
what stops the chain running away. There is no all-pairs step and there must
never be one -- that is what turns a grouping pass into something nobody can
afford to run over 50k images.

Nothing here ranks a frame. FR-CULL-5 names the failure it is avoiding, which
is rejecting the only frame of an important moment because somebody blinked, so
there is no sharpness score and no best-of-burst. The representative is the
earliest frame -- a fact about the clock, not a judgement about the photograph
-- and the user's own choice lives in its own table so that rebuilding the
grouping cannot erase it. Same argument `people.ignored` makes one subsystem
over: nothing short of remembering a decision survives re-clustering.

A newly found burst is recorded *open*. Collapsing on discovery would be
tidier, and would also mean a background pass taking photographs off the screen
part way through a cull. The pass marks; the user folds.

It is a pass rather than a job kind for the reason catalog.md 10.2 gives for
face clustering: a burst is a property of a run of frames and has no natural
subject_id, so a per-image job would rebuild the world once per photograph.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:18:46 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d0b671d4db Put the grouping dials where the regrouping is
The merge probability was `dr_face`'s constant and the smallest group was
a bare `< 2` in the clustering pass. Both were tuned on one library —
1,813 faces of one photographer's family — and the quantity they optimise
is a property of the population, not of the model. A household at close
family resemblance and two thousand strangers at a wedding want different
answers, and neither of them is the reference library. The doc comment
already conceded the point and pointed at `face_index --tune`; a
photographer does not have a terminal.

So they are `FaceSettings` now, saved per device beside the cache budgets
and edited from the People screen — beside the Regroup button that
applies them and the rail that shows what they did, because a value
changed three screens away from its effect is one nobody can tune.

Moving them is safe by construction, which is why nothing asks for
confirmation: a regroup writes only the suggested half, and
confirmations, names and ignores enter as anchors and come back
unchanged. The smallest-group rule is applied only to groups the system
invented — a group the user named or set aside survives it whatever its
size, because a display preference does not overrule a judgement.

**Withdrawal, without which the setting does nothing visible.** Raising
the smallest group stops the pass creating small groups; it does not
remove the ones a previous pass made, because those still hold their
suggestions, so they are not empty, so the prune leaves them. The pass
now releases every unanchored face it did not place before pruning.

And a dial you cannot see the effect of is not a dial. "What would this
do?" runs the same population through the clusterer without opening a
transaction and reports groups, faces grouped and largest group — one row
of `--tune`'s table, on the user's own library, on a worker thread. The
line leads with the group count because that is the number that says
which side of the right setting you are on: it climbs as fragments are
gathered into people and falls as separate people start being welded,
while the grouped-face count rises straight through both.

The preview parks its poll timer in a slot of its own. A preview and a
regroup are allowed to be in flight together, and sharing the sweep's
single slot would have the second to start drop the first's timer —
visible as a Regroup that finished on its worker and never said so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:18:46 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f5edd49b6b Let a manual collection be put in the order it is meant to be seen in
`collection_members.position` and `Sort::CollectionPosition` have been in the
catalog since collections were, and nothing above dr-catalog has ever written
or read either: `collections::set_order` had no callers, and the grid ordered
everything by capture time whatever it was scoped to — dr-ui does not construct
a `Query` at all, it has its own `GRID_ORDER` constant. So a manual collection
was a set with an order nobody could see or change.

Three pieces, because it could not be fewer:

`grid_order_for` decides the ordering from the scope, and both readers take it
from there. That is the load-bearing part. An ordinal only names a photograph
relative to an ordering, so the window read and the span read have to agree —
a shift-click resolved through a different ORDER BY than the cells were drawn
with selects a different run than the one on screen, and the user finds out
when the export runs. `read_ids_span` already stated that invariant about
`GRID_ORDER`; this widens it to an ordering that depends on the scope.

Only a single manual collection has one. A set draws its descendants' images
too, and two children's positions are unrelated integers that interleave
arbitrarily; a smart collection has no member rows to carry a position at all.
Both fall back to capture time and refuse the drop rather than pretending.

The drop is on the cell, on whichever half of it the finger landed — the
trailing edge is the only way to name the last place in a collection, since
there is no cell beyond the last one to drop in front of.

`reordered` is pure and the membership is rewritten whole. `set_order` sets the
positions it is given and leaves the rest, so a partial write would interleave
the moved run with rows nobody touched; and it is read unfiltered, so what the
filter is hiding keeps its place relative to what the user can see.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:18:06 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 9d11554c71 Make the range gesture visible, and offer the whole grid at once
Touch has had a range gesture for as long as selection mode has: double-tap the
far end. It is invisible, it is unreliable on a grid that scrolls under the
second tap, and it extends from the anchor *before* the two taps moved it — a
rule subtle enough that the code needs two paragraphs to explain it to itself.
Nobody who was not told about it has ever used it.

"Select to…" is the same operation with state you can see. Press it, the strip
stops reporting and says "Tap the last photograph", and the next cell taken is
the far end. It reaches Rust as shift on `cell-pressed`, so it lands in
`apply_press` as the ctrl+shift it already is, and there is no third selection
policy to keep in step with the other two.

This is deliberately not the sweep gesture. A drag that paints cells can only
reach what is on screen, and the ranges that hurt on a tablet are longer than a
screenful — between the two taps here the user may scroll as far as they like,
and the run is resolved by the catalog rather than by what happened to be
loaded. A sweep is still worth having for short runs; it is not what this
should have rested on.

"Select all" beside it, asked of the catalog for the same reason: a select-all
that quietly meant "the hundred cells that happen to be loaded" is a lie the
user cannot see until the export runs.

The double-tap stays. It is tested, and an accelerator that costs nothing is
worth keeping for whoever has already learnt it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:18:01 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d1f3b97245 Ask for the collection's name where the keyboard can reach it
"New collection from selection" created the collection under a placeholder
name and then opened the rename field in the sidebar tree.

On a tablet the sidebar is not on screen. It is instantiated all the same —
app.slint collapses it to zero width and `visible: false` rather than using an
`if`, because an `if` there is a layout loop Slint panics on — so the rename
field was created, its `init` took focus, and Android raised the on-screen
keyboard over a box nobody could see. Nothing else on the screen is focusable,
so the keyboard had nowhere to go: it stayed, the name could not be typed, and
the collection was already written under the name the user did not want.

Asked in a sheet instead, on the same card as the filing and keywording sheets,
before anything is written. That also fixes what was hiding behind it: an
abandoned rename used to leave a "New collection" in the tree, because the
collection existed before the name did.

`Field` gains `take-focus()` so a sheet whose field is the only thing to do in
it can answer the keyboard for the user — a function rather than a property,
because focus is an event and a bound property would re-take it on every
unrelated re-evaluation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:17:40 +02:00
dtourolle 91fe6cf300 Merge master into partial-preset-scope
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 8s
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# Conflicts:
#	docs/traceability.md
#	ui/dr-ui/ui/app.slint
2026-08-29 22:02:03 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 754ab91347 Bring a Lightroom library across, and start with something in the list
Two halves of the same complaint: a preset sheet that opens on "No
presets yet" is homework, and a photographer with ten years of presets
in Lightroom has no way to bring them.

`dr-preset-xmp` reads Camera Raw `.xmp`. The mapping turned out to be
mostly a rename rather than a conversion, because Adobe and this
pipeline already agree: exposure is in stops in both, and contrast, the
four recovery controls, clarity, texture, vibrance and saturation are
all ±100 in both. That is not imitation, it is the convention raw
developers converged on — `highlights_shadows.yaml` cites it in as many
words. Only sharpening needed arithmetic, Adobe's 0…150 against our
0…100.

The white balance does not come across, and says so rather than
guessing. Adobe writes absolute Kelvin for a raw file where ours is a
relative nudge from what the camera recorded, so converting needs the
*target image's* as-shot white balance — exactly what a preset cannot
carry, since the same preset lands on a frame shot at 3200K and one shot
at 7000K. A guess would be wrong on most images and invisibly so.

A folder is read as readily as a file, nested, because that is the shape
an exported preset folder is in and importing ninety files one at a time
is asking someone not to bother.

`dr_pipeline::starter` is six presets a first run begins with, written
against this pipeline in its units and deliberately mild — a starting
point, not a caricature. They are seeded when the library *file* does
not exist rather than when the library is empty, so deleting all six
does not hand them back on the next launch.

Both of these name operations, and `ui_names_no_operation` was right to
stop them living in `ui/`. That test exists because the failure is
silent and cumulative, and it caught exactly what it was written for: a
preset called "Punch" is a statement about contrast, clarity and
vibrance, and a table mapping Adobe's vocabulary to ours is a statement
about the pipeline. Neither is a fact about an interface. So the starter
set went into `dr-pipeline`, and the importer into its own crate —
between two walls, since `dr-pipeline` depends on nothing on purpose and
XMP is real XML not worth hand-rolling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 22:00:53 +02:00
dtourolle 4a04496c78 Merge: focus peaking, so a frame can be judged without zooming to 100%
FR-CULL-3's peaking half. The raw histogram and raw clipping indicators
remain unbuilt -- what exists is a display histogram tagged FR-DSP-7,
counting AdjustPass's 8-bit output, which reports a highlight as gone
precisely where FR-CULL-3 needs it to report the highlight recoverable.

Verified before merge: fmt clean, clippy --workspace --all-targets
-D warnings green, 11 focus GPU tests, 79 baseline dr-gpu tests, 511
dr-ui tests. The cfg(target_os = "android") arm is unverified -- the
host-target clippy never compiled it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

# Conflicts:
#	ui/dr-ui/src/lib.rs
#	ui/dr-ui/ui/app.slint
2026-08-29 21:43:35 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 2168cdd1c4 Mark what is in focus, so a frame can be judged without zooming to 100%
FR-CULL-3's focus peaking. One compute dispatch measures local contrast
in WGSL and writes an overlay texture; on desktop it reaches Slint
through the same zero-copy wgpu import the canvas uses, so nothing
per-pixel touches the CPU on the frame path.

With peaking off the cost is zero and structurally so: focus_overlay
opens with `let settings = self.peaking?;` before the frame is touched,
and clearing drops both overlay textures, so no VRAM is held either.

NFR-P14 is met by construction rather than by measurement -- one
dispatch, no second render, no pipeline compile after session open, and
a test asserting allocations stay at 2 over eight frames. The budget
test asserts 50ms at 4K rather than a tight bound, deliberately: a tight
bound fails on a loaded machine and gets deleted, which is worse than a
loose one that still catches the regression that matters.

TD-1 is amended rather than joined by a TD-6: on Android the overlay
rides the readback that already exists there, roughly doubling that
transfer while peaking is on, and TD-1's own "Done when" removes both
because both are the same missing capability.

Verified: cargo fmt clean; clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings
green, which also compiles peaking.slint through dr-ui's build.rs; 11
focus GPU tests and 79 baseline dr-gpu tests pass; 511 dr-ui tests pass.
Not verified: the cfg(target_os = "android") arm, which the host-target
clippy never compiled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 21:43:08 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b52be080ff Merge: say which requirements the code already satisfied, and which it does not
Eight requirements were implemented and untagged; tagging them takes
coverage from 59.8% to 64.2% without a line of feature code. Five more
were refused rather than tagged -- R2's own acceptance criterion still
reads '(figure TBD)', R5 has one of three clauses built, FR-RAW-2 meets
the requirement's purpose but not its stated mechanism.

docs/outstanding.md records what is genuinely unbuilt, so the gap reads
as a decision rather than an oversight. It also names four requirements
the matrix reports as covered that are not, including two covered only
by string literals inside the traceability tool's own test fixtures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 20:46:08 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 4d0ad0601c Merge: a Flatpak that asks for no filesystem, and the channels v1 ships through
FR-PLAT-LIN-3 and NFR-COMPAT-2. The manifest grants no filesystem
permission of any kind, which is not an oversight: a folder library is
chosen by typing an absolute path, nothing in the tree calls the
FileChooser portal, and a static --filesystem= grant would have made
that design appear to work by not testing it. docs/distribution.md
records what a portal-based picker would take.

No Flatpak has been built -- flatpak-builder is not installed here --
so the finish-args set is reasoned from what the binary links, not
observed to be sufficient.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 20:46:02 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 bb35665bd2 Let a paste carry some kinds of edit and not others
FR-DEV-6 asks for presets "covering a subset of the edit graph". What
landed with the named presets covered two subsets: everything, and
everything but the crop. "Match the colour but not the sharpening" had
no way to be said.

`Scope` is now a set of `Attribute` — the same six kinds every operation
already declares and the develop panel already builds its tabs from. The
photographer ticking "tone and colour" is naming the groups they
navigate by, and neither this module nor the interface has to name an
operation to do it (FR-DEV-3c).

The pleasing part is what left. Framing used to be excluded by an
explicit test against one operation's id; it is now excluded because
Geometry is not in the default set. The special case dissolved into the
general rule, and the argument for it — a crop is a decision about *this*
photograph, and carrying it across forty destroys forty compositions —
is now a statement about a kind of edit rather than about a node. All
thirty-three existing preset tests pass unchanged, which is the evidence
that the generalisation kept its promises.

One decision that is a field rather than a rule, because the two cases
genuinely differ. An operation this build cannot classify — from a newer
version, arriving over sync — travels under "everything" and "everything
but the crop", because those are claims about the whole edit and an
unrecognised operation is part of it (FR-NC-8). It does not travel under
a hand-picked set, because that is a claim about kinds, and an unknown
kind is not one of the kinds that were ticked.

The settings page's "Copy crop and rotation" checkbox is gone, replaced
by the same chips the preset sheet draws. It asked the right first
question — geometry is the kind whose accidental travel destroys work —
but it was the only question a boolean could ask. The field stays in
`Settings`, read exactly once to seed the new set, so anyone who had
ticked it keeps their behaviour.

The chips are deliberately not in the develop column. Six of them there
would set the width of the whole sidebar, which is the bug `ChipGrid`'s
comment records at length.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 20:38:19 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8d5dc423ea Say that all three of FR-CULL-3's bullets are unbuilt, not one
The first draft got this half right and half wrong. It correctly said the
existing histogram and clipping indicators are not FR-CULL-3's, but it
described them as adjacent — as though the work left were mostly focus
peaking and a relocation.

They are not adjacent. The histogram reads AdjustPass's 8-bit output and
counts clipping as r == 255, so it describes the frame the display is
about to show, after the entire develop chain. FR-CULL-3 asks for the
histogram of the sensor data, and gives its reason in the requirement
itself: a rendered image "systematically lies about what is recoverable in
the raw". A readout taken from the render cannot answer that question
however it is presented, which means two of the three bullets need a new
measurement rather than a new placement.

Found by the agent building focus peaking, who had to go looking at the
counters to find out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 20:36:51 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 0d9f802f88 Regenerate the matrix that this branch is about
Eight requirements gained a tag in this branch's first commit, so the
generated matrix is stale until it is rerun. Coverage moves from 59.8%
(107/179) to 64.2% (115/179), and the untagged list drops from 72 entries
to 64.

Regenerating here rather than leaving it to the pre-commit hook, because
this branch's subject *is* the matrix: a reader comparing the two commits
should see the number move for a stated reason. The eight are R3, R6,
FR-DEV-1, FR-UI-6, FR-NC-6d, NFR-OPS-3, NFR-PORT-2 and NFR-SEC-3, and
none of them is new work — every one was already satisfied by code that
had simply never said so.

Six of the thirteen tag sites were new `TRACES:` lines rather than
additions to existing ones, so the tag count moves 896 → 902 while the
covered count moves by eight. Orphan tags remain at zero.

Run from source with `cargo run -p traceability -- report`, never from a
prebuilt binary, and note that the tool tracks line numbers — the six
prepended module tags shift every subsequent line in their own files,
which accounts for the churn in this diff that is not a coverage change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 20:26:07 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 88ef7148d6 Write down what is not built, so the gap reads as a decision
The traceability matrix reports one number and cannot say what it means.
An untagged requirement is either one nobody built or one somebody built
and did not label, and both look identical in the summary table. Eight of
the second kind were tagged in the previous commit. This is the first
kind, written out with the reasoning, so that the distance between the
register and the binary is something a reader can see rather than
reconstruct from a percentage.

Eleven clusters, each verified against the tree rather than inherited
from a survey. Several turned out to be more interesting than "not done":

Plugins are 21 untagged requirements — nearly a third of the shortfall —
and §7 already lists the Plugin API as out of scope for v1 while §3.10
spends 280 lines specifying it. The two that *are* built, FR-PLG-2 and
FR-PLG-2d, are the declarative operation format, which is a plugin system
that resolves at build time. The fix here is an edit to requirements.md,
not code, and D16 has to be answered before any format is called stable.

FR-DSP-2 is not merely unbuilt; it is under challenge. frame_budget.rs
and TD-4 independently argue that tiling costs more than it saves on the
interactive path, so the open question is whether the requirement should
survive, not when it will be met — and the spike that would settle it, S6,
has not run.

NFR-A11Y-1's hard half is done and its easy half is not. LocalizedKey
already keeps display strings out of core/ and labels::resolve is a single
resolution point; what that point does is a hardcoded English match, so a
translation needs a recompile, which is the one thing the requirement
forbids.

The §4.1 performance targets are unverified rather than unmet. §8 requires
a per-commit benchmark suite whose regressions fail the build; there is no
benches/ directory, no criterion, and no benchmark step in any of the
three CI workflows. The one guard that does live in CI skips itself
without a GPU adapter and asserts its CPU half only in release, while CI
tests in dev. Nothing says the targets are missed. It says nobody would
find out.

And three requirements are reported as covered while not being met: R1 and
NFR-OPS-1 are tagged only by string literals inside the traceability
tool's own tests, which it scans along with everything else, and
FR-CAT-13's single tag sits on keyword storage while no XMP is parsed or
written anywhere. CONTRIBUTING already warns that a tag proves a tag
exists; these are the specific ones.

Focus peaking, burst grouping, Flatpak packaging and the Android platform
integration are being built in parallel and are marked in progress rather
than listed as absent, so those lines can be struck as they land.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 20:24:26 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 95847e3a31 Say which channels v1 ships through, and that the Flatpak cannot reach a library
NFR-COMPAT-2 asks for the v1 channels to be stated, and says why in its own
second sentence: the channel decision and the storage design are coupled. There
was nowhere that statement lived. packaging/ held a PKGBUILD and a desktop
entry, which is a recipe rather than a decision, and the coupling the
requirement points at was therefore invisible.

docs/distribution.md states five channels and, more usefully, which two of them
exist only as promises. It also records what every channel has to get right
independently of format — the one identifier that appears in four places, the
metainfo, Vulkan being a requirement rather than a preference while NFR-R8 is
open, a secrets daemon being optional rather than required, and the LFS pointer
check that stops a package shipping 130 bytes where an 11 MB model should be.

§4 is the part worth reading. Preparing a Flatpak is what surfaced that
FR-PLAT-LIN-3 is not satisfied and cannot be satisfied by packaging alone: a
folder library is chosen by typing an absolute path into an EndpointOnly field
that checks it with std::fs, and nothing in the tree calls the FileChooser
portal. Inside a sandbox that path does not exist, so the launch screen refuses
it. Import fails one step earlier, because a sandboxed process reads its own
mount namespace and a card mounted on the host is not in it.

That is written down rather than fixed with --filesystem=host, and the argument
for not fixing it that way is §2: the Arch package and an AppImage both hand the
application the same unrestricted process the developer runs it in, so Flatpak
is the only Linux channel that tests whether a design assumed unrestricted
access. Granting the permission removes the only reason to ship it.

The reverse coupling on Android is recorded too. NFR-COMPAT-2 says Play
distribution is what makes ARCH §6.9 binding; §6.9 is verified rather than
assumed, so SAF is already unconditional and a sideloaded build would gain
nothing by asking for more. Play is deferred over the GPLv3 question, which is
a licence-reading exercise and blocks nothing in the storage design.

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2026-08-29 20:18:20 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 5a8327824f Keep an edit under a name, not just on the clipboard
FR-DEV-6 asks for three things — named presets, copy/paste between
images, and batch-apply to a selection. The last two have been here for
a while; this is the first.

The format is the sidecar's, deliberately. A preset *is* the non-default
half of a version, so the lines are the same lines keyed the same way,
which makes the two files diffable against each other and lets someone
debugging an edit paste a block from one into the other. One file rather
than one per preset: a preset per file makes the name a path, and every
name then has to survive a filesystem — a `/` becomes a directory, a
name differing only in case collides on one platform and not another,
and renaming becomes two operations that can half-fail. As a key in a
document it is none of those.

Unknown *parameters* needed no machinery. `Preset` already holds
whatever keys it is given and resolves them against the descriptors only
at apply time, so one written by a newer build survives by being stored.
Only lines that are not `op.param = float` at all are preserved
verbatim, which is the sidecar's version-skew promise made here too.

Applying is the paste path with a different source, so a preset reaches
a selection through the sidecar read-modify-write that was already
there: no graph, no decode, no GPU, forty files or one.

Two smaller decisions worth the record. A library that fails to parse is
held empty in memory and *not* written back over — settings regenerate
themselves and this is work, so a parse failure must not be the moment
it is destroyed. And every save persists immediately and rolls the
in-memory copy back if the write fails, so the sheet never lists a
preset the file does not have.

The grid's "Presets" button is gated on the selection alone, unlike the
"Paste to 40" beside it. That button needs a clipboard armed this
session; the preset list is whatever was saved last month, and hiding it
behind an unrelated action is what makes a feature only its author knows
about.

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2026-08-29 20:07:14 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 5133e53bc8 Give back what a straighten took, when the angle comes back
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The auto-crop only ever shrank. Straighten to 20 degrees and the corners
are cropped away correctly; come back to 3, or all the way to zero, and
the crop stays at the size 20 degrees demanded. Nothing on screen explains
why the photograph is still small, and the only way back was undo.

The cause was that each correction was computed from the previous
correction's output, so it accumulated: every angle the slider rested at
took its cut and none was ever returned. The fix is to stop accumulating
and recompute. The applied crop is now always the user's own rectangle
fitted into the current angle's safe area, so as the angle falls and that
area opens up the crop grows back — and stops, exactly, at the rectangle
they chose. At zero the safe area is the whole frame and the fit is the
identity, which is what carries it the last of the way home. There is
deliberately no early exit for the upright case now: that exit is
precisely what would strand the crop small.

**The intent is remembered as a pair, so it repairs itself.** The session
keeps `(applied, intended)` — what the correction wrote, and what it was
derived from — and trusts the remembered intent only while the graph still
holds `applied`. Every other route to the crop leaves something else
there: a handle dragged, a ratio chosen, a sidecar loaded, a paste, an
undo. That mismatch is the signal the memory is stale, and the current
rectangle becomes the new intent. The alternative was a write into this
field from each of those paths, which is the kind of bookkeeping that is
correct until someone adds a seventh path.

Dragging a handle therefore *is* the user choosing, including at a
non-zero angle: the correction will not later grow the crop past what they
dragged it to.

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2026-08-29 19:16:43 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 ff6c313bab Wrap the chip rows, so one six-choice parameter stops sizing the sidebar
The develop column asked for 482px. Every comment in it, a dozen of them,
describes it as a 280px column — and on a tablet it was taking 40% of the
screen from the photograph it exists to serve.

Measured rather than guessed, because none of it is visible in the source:
the column takes the widest width any panel declares, `AdjustPanel` wanted
482 of it, its rows wanted 458, and after the 44px scroll gutter the
widest single row was 414. That row is `film_sim`'s `format` — six film
formats from 35mm to 8x10, laid out by `Segmented` as six 64px chips in a
`HorizontalLayout` that cannot wrap. 6 x 64 + 5 x 6 = 414, exactly.

Nothing about that is the film simulation's fault. An operation declares
its parameters and the panel decides how to draw them (FR-DEV-3a), so a
node is entitled to offer six choices; it is the drawing that has to cope.
Any future operation with a five-choice enum would have done the same
thing, silently, to every screen in the application.

`ChipGrid` is the general answer: chips placed by index arithmetic inside
a plain `Rectangle`, wrapping at a column count, declaring a width that
depends on the columns rather than on the number of choices. `Segmented`
takes a `columns` property and uses it when asked — zero, one row however
many chips, stays the settings page's behaviour, where the page is
full-width and reading the alternatives side by side is the whole argument
for chips over a dropdown.

The generated enum rows and the curve-channel picker now wrap at three,
and the crop ratio chips use the shared grid instead of the private copy
of it they shipped with last week.

The column measures 351 now, down from 482, and what sets it is the mode
strip rather than a parameter — which is a control the user chose to have
on screen rather than an accident of one node's variant list.

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2026-08-29 19:16:43 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 bd33487054 Say which axis each export dimension is, in the one place that renders
The box modes put two numeric fields one above the other, and on screen
they are two anonymous numbers: `TextRow` draws its label behind the
field rather than above it, so "Width" and "Height" never appear. That
fault is older than this feature — the storage panel's cache sizes have
the same missing labels, and the single "Size value" row always did — and
it belongs in its own change rather than being fixed under cover of this
one.

But one unlabelled number is survivable and two are not, so the axis goes
where the page does render it: the unit. It reads "3840 px wide" above
"2160 px high", which is the sentence the user is trying to write anyway.

The `label` bindings stay correct and stay where they are, so this
becomes redundant rather than wrong the day `TextRow` is fixed.

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2026-08-29 13:49:21 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c38df01bf7 Hang the auto-crop off the slider's commit, not off the pointer passing over
The straighten auto-crop worked once and then stopped. It was keyed on
`PlainSlider::drag-changed`, whose name is a lie inherited from what it
forwards: `SliderTrack` defines `engaged` as `has-hover || claimed`, and
it has to — a `Flickable` withholds the press for 100ms, so hover is the
only signal that arrives in time to stand the scrolling ancestor down.
That is the right definition for the job it was written for and the wrong
one for this.

Keyed on hover, the correction fires when the pointer first crosses the
track — before anything has been dragged — and then does not fire again
for as long as the pointer stays on it, however many times the angle is
changed. Which is exactly what "it only works once" looks like.

`SliderTrack` already publishes the signal this wants. `committed` fires
on release, once per gesture, after the final `changed`, and its doc
comment says so in as many words. It was simply not forwarded through
`PlainSlider`, so it now is, and the geometry panel's callback is a
`committed(float)` rather than a `drag-changed(bool)`.

The angle needs no re-applying here: the track emits its last `changed`
before it commits, so the value is already in the graph by the time this
runs. What is left is the correction that has to happen exactly once.

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2026-08-29 13:49:21 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 2c8768ac29 Lay the ratio chips out by hand, because Slint will not lay them out
The ratio chips shipped inside a `GridLayout` with `row` and `col`
computed from the repeater's index. It compiles. On screen every chip
piles into a single row that runs off the panel, and the terminal fills
with

    Internal error in Slint: RepeatedItemTree::grid_layout_input_data()
    not implemented

once per frame. A `for` inside a `GridLayout` is not supported, and
nothing says so until it is running.

A `HorizontalLayout` is not the answer either: six chips side by side
need over 400px, and this column's width is the largest width any panel
declares — so one row would widen every other panel in the application to
fit a control that is on screen only while cropping.

So the grid is arithmetic over the index inside a plain `Rectangle`. It
costs the layout engine nothing, it wraps a seventh ratio onto a third
row by itself, and — because a bare `Rectangle` declares no preferred
width — it takes the width the column already has instead of setting it.
The Portrait chip gets a container of its own for the same reason: a
`ChoiceChip` dropped straight into a `VerticalLayout` is stretched the
full width of the panel and reads as a button for the section rather than
as one more chip.

The three conditional pieces are also now individually-conditional
children of the one layout rather than a nested layout under a single
`if`, which is the convention `app.slint` and `masks.slint` already carry
notes about: a conditional nested layout under-reports its height here
and the panels below it draw on top of one another.

All of this was invisible in the source and obvious in a screenshot.

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2026-08-29 13:49:20 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 52c655e6cf Turn the ratio lock with the photograph when it is turned
A quarter turn carries the crop with it — that is what makes turning a
photograph keep its composition rather than sliding the selection onto a
different part of the picture. So a rect locked to 16:9 comes out of the
turn at 9:16, of a frame whose axes have also swapped, and the lock was
left claiming landscape over a portrait rect. The next drag would then
snap it back upright and undo what the turn had just done.

The orientation switch now turns with it, on odd numbers of quarters.

`Original` is deliberately excluded, and getting that wrong flips it
twice: it is resolved against the framed size every time it is asked
for, and the turn has already swapped that frame's axes — so it has
turned by the time anything asks. `turns_with_the_frame` is the one
predicate that separates the two cases, with a test that pins both.

`CropAspect` arrived without tests of its own; it has them now, including
the round trip this fixes.

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2026-08-29 13:49:20 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 3bb68cff69 Export at an exact resolution, and offer the panels worth naming
Export sizing could bound an image but not fix it. Long edge, short edge
and percentage all preserve the aspect ratio by letting one dimension
fall where it may, which is right for most work and useless against a
display that accepts one resolution and rejects everything else — a
television's art mode, a digital frame, a wallpaper slot.

FR-EXP-3 has always listed both halves of the answer, and this adds them.
**Fit box** scales to fit inside a width and height, so nothing is thrown
away and the result is smaller than the box on one axis unless the crop
already matches it. **Fill box** scales to cover the box and cuts the
overhang off the middle, so the file is exactly the pixels asked for.

Fill is the only mode in the file that discards image data, so two things
about it are worth stating. The overhang comes off symmetrically: the
crop tool is where a photographer decides which part of a frame survives,
and this stage having an opinion of its own would fight it. And locking
the crop to the same ratio leaves nothing here to cut, which is the
workflow the two features are meant to be used in.

With upscaling off and a source too small to cover, a fill box keeps its
*shape* rather than falling back to the source's: exporting a 3:2 file
where 16:9 was asked for is silently wrong in exactly the way the mode
exists to prevent, so the box shrinks instead. The existing rule — clamp,
never fail — is otherwise unchanged.

Four panel sizes are offered as buttons beside the fields. Getting 3840 x
2160 by typing four digits twice is a step at which the mistake is
discovered after the upload rather than before it. They fill in the
numbers and nothing else, in particular not the fit/fill choice: both are
legitimate against a screen, and guessing would discard the edges of a
photograph for a user who wanted them. The list is panels rather than
platforms, because a screen has one exact pixel count for ever where
"what a photo site wants" would rot in the file.

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2026-08-29 13:49:20 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d9eb8faffd Crop away the corners a straighten exposed, once the slider is let go
Turning a rectangle inside its own bounds exposes its corners: there is no
source pixel out there, and the shader renders it black. Nothing in the
render prevents that, deliberately — a free angle does not change the
output size, which is what leaves the frame where the user put it while
the slider moves. Correct during the drag; four black wedges on the
finished photograph.

Letting go of the slider now pulls the crop inside the area the angle
leaves defined. `Framing::max_inscribed_crop` already computed that
bound and had no caller; this is the caller its doc comment described.

**Once, at the end of the gesture.** Applied per frame it would shrink
the crop on every step of the slider and never grow it back, so a user
who overshot to 20° and came back to 3° would be left with a crop
ratcheted down by the excursion rather than by the angle they settled on.
Per gesture it is bounded by the angles actually rested at, and undo steps
back through them.

**The crop is fitted into the bound, not replaced by it.** A crop placed
deliberately off-centre is a decision, and an automatic correction that
recentred it would undo the user's work to fix a problem they did not
have. `CropRect::fitted_into` scales only as far as the bound demands and
then slides the rect the shortest distance needed to be inside — so a
ratio locked in the crop panel survives the straighten too, since the
shape is never touched.

It returns the rect unchanged, bit for bit, when nothing needed to move.
That matters more than it looks: this runs on every release of the
slider, including releases at zero, and a rect that drifted by a rounding
error each time would be an edit recorded for no reason.

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2026-08-29 13:49:19 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 e6ad906bc1 Let the crop be held to a ratio while it is dragged
A photographer cropping for a print, a phone wallpaper or a 16:9 frame is
not choosing four edges — they are choosing one edge and a known shape.
Free-dragging every corner made them do that arithmetic by eye on every
drag, and get it slightly wrong.

The panel now offers Free, Original, 1:1, 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9, with a
Portrait switch for the ones that have two orientations. Original follows
the frame rather than naming a number, so it stays right on the next
photograph from another body and after a quarter turn.

**The ratio is of output pixels, and the rect is not.** `CropRect` is
stored in fractions of a frame that is not itself square, so holding a
shape needs the frame's size — `ratio * height / width` of the frame.
Skipping that gives a "1:1" crop that is square only on a square
photograph, which is the one case nobody would test on, so the conversion
lives in `CropRect::with_aspect` where it is explained and pinned by a
test that asserts the fractions are *not* equal.

Two decisions worth recording:

The reshaped rect **grows** onto the ratio rather than shrinking onto it,
then scales down only as far as the frame's edge demands. Fitting inside
instead makes a one-axis drag do nothing at all — the other axis clamps
the first straight back, and the handle simply refuses to move.

The overlay now reports **which corner the drag is holding**, because
reshaping onto a ratio has to know which corner is nailed down and only
the handle that took the press knows that. A move reports no corner and
keeps its shape: reshaping about a centre would pull an over-moved rect
smaller instead of sliding it along the edge.

The lock lives with the window rather than the session. A `DevelopSession`
is per image, and cropping a set of frames to one shape is exactly when
the lock earns its place. It is not an edit and reaches no sidecar — what
is saved is the rectangle it produced.

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2026-08-29 13:48:51 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 480c46c41a Quote the percentile the measurement can actually support
The before/after published a p99 ratio of 6.0x at 4K. It is not supported and
the correction is worth more than the number was.

The baseline run's `fit` rows spread 2.3x between median and 99th percentile
while every row of the after run spreads about 1.1x. A stage costing
`radius x pixels` has no reason to be bimodal, and `fit` is the memory-bound
configuration — it walks the whole 482 MB source on a stride where `1:1` reads
a contiguous window. Something else had the machine.

The merge brings in the cross-check that settles it: "Try every GPU, not only
the fastest one" measured the same baseline code on the same card and reports
4.67 ms p99 for M3 clarity fit at 2560x1600, against 10.40 ms here. Two
measurements of one thing differing by 2.2x mean the noisier one is wrong.

So both percentiles are now published and the p50 column is the claim: 2.8x at
4K rather than 6.0x. The p99 improvement is real and larger; this run cannot
say by how much, and says so.

What the caveat does not touch: every after figure is inside the 16 ms budget
with a p99 within 26% of its median at every size and both views, and clarity
against all-four is a within-run comparison.

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2026-08-29 13:28:41 +02:00
dtourolle 30162e80df Merge branch 'master' into clarity-reduced-base
# Conflicts:
#	docs/traceability.md
2026-08-29 13:27:04 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8b251b84a0 Record what the reduced base actually bought
TD-4 asked for the measurement as well as the change, and this is it: 25.05 ms
to 4.17 ms at 3840 x 2160, six times faster, with clarity no longer dominating
the neighbourhood stage it used to be 97% of.

Measured before and after on the same machine and the same adapter minutes
apart, baseline at the branch's merge-base, so the only variable is the change.
That adapter is not the RTX 3050 the rest of this document was measured on, so
the new table says to read it on its own rather than against the ones above —
the before/after is comparable, the absolute figures are not, and quietly
replacing the existing tables would have changed the instrument.

Also recorded: the declared halo is now quantised to multiples of the output
scale, because the 2-sigma truncation rounds on the reduced grid. 29 px becomes
28 at 1920x1200 and 38 becomes 40 at 2560x1600. It is inside what the cross-form
test holds — 0.03 stops of peak, 2% of reach — but it is a change in reach and
not only in cost, and a tile scheduler would be handed it. Better written down
now than found later as a seam.

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2026-08-29 13:18:37 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 bff95e25ad Let clarity's base be computed where it is still fully determined
Clarity's Gaussian sigma is 1.2% of the frame's shorter edge, so its radius
is a property of the viewport: 52 render pixels at 4K, two separable passes
of 105 taps each over 8.3 M pixels. That measured 33.9 ms — seven times the
entire fused point chain, for one slider — and is docs/technical-debt.md TD-4.

A detail pass may now declare `output_scale`, and clarity's base is computed
on a grid a quarter the size on each axis.

The pass that combines needs the blur *and* the full-resolution colour, and a
colour that has been through a quarter-scale target is no longer full
resolution. So a scaled pass cannot simply join the ping-pong: there are two
chains now. The full-resolution one carries the colour and no scaled pass
touches it; the reduced one carries the base and reaches the combining pass
through a second binding as `reduced_at()`.

The reduce is a dispatch of its own rather than something the first blur half
does on the way past, and that is the whole difference between this and the
strided kernel the module documentation rules out. A stride samples an image
that is not band-limited and aliases high-frequency content down into the
base, which is then subtracted, and arrives in the output as mottling across
smooth gradients. This band-limits first and samples after. What is discarded
is content the base could not represent at any resolution, because a Gaussian
at sigma = 26 px holds nothing above one cycle per 26 px and the quarter-scale
grid carries one per 8 — so the reduced base is not an approximation of the
full-resolution one, it is the same function sampled where it is still
determined.

Which is also why the scale belongs to the band rather than to the stage.
Texture's sigma is a decade finer, so the reduce pass's own box would be wider
than the Gaussian it was prefiltering; texture never reduces. And clarity
steps 4 -> 2 -> 1 as sigma falls, because a quarter of a small sigma is not a
Gaussian either — the case that gives up is the one that was already cheap.

`radius` stays in each pass's own pixels and `ComposedDetail::radius` multiplies
it back up, so 13 reduced pixels at scale 4 still report the 52 render pixels a
tile would have to be grown by. The halo a scheduler sees does not move.

The halo tests pass unchanged, which was TD-4's stated bar; they render at
1024 px and so exercise the reduced path rather than stepping around it. Added
`crossing_the_reduction_threshold_does_not_change_the_picture`, because
nothing yet compared the reduced form against a *less* reduced one — every
other test measures one form against itself. It renders the same edit either
side of the 4 -> 2 step-down and holds the peak excursion to 0.03 stops and
the reach to 2% of the frame.

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2026-08-29 13:12:29 +02:00
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`request_adapter` with `HighPerformance` returns one adapter and no
second chance. That is right on a healthy machine and wrong on one with
a sick GPU, which is not rare: observed 2026-08-29 on a laptop whose
discrete card had hit an NVRM assertion failure and a fullchip reset.
The driver still advertised it, wgpu dutifully picked it as the highest
performing, and the process died on it — while a working integrated GPU
and a working external card sat unused in the same enumeration. A photo
editor that will not start because the *fastest* GPU is broken, on a
machine holding two that are not, is worse than a slow one.

So: enumerate, order by preference, take the first that yields a device.
The ordering reproduces what `HighPerformance` meant, so a healthy
machine picks what it always picked and pays one enumeration for it. A
CPU adapter sorts last rather than being excluded — software rendering
is a poor experience and a working one.

Which GPU to prefer is now a policy rather than an assumption, because
the fastest is not obviously the right one. A 24 MP frame is ~96 MB of
RGBA and every upload and export readback crosses PCIe on a discrete
card, where an integrated GPU shares memory and crosses nothing — and
does not empty a battery.

Measured before choosing a default, on this machine's Iris Xe against
its RX 5700 XT. The fused colour pass is within 1.5x, which is the
shape shared memory suits. The neighbourhood stage is 5-8x slower, and
that decides it: clarity at 1920x1200 costs 20 ms on the iGPU, over the
budget on its own at the smallest size tested. So `Performance` stays
the default and `Efficiency` is offered rather than chosen
(`DARKROOM_GPU=integrated`).

docs/frame-budget.md carries the table, and says what it does *not*
show: the harness renders from a resident texture and never uploads or
reads back, so the transfer cost an iGPU avoids appears in none of it.
Import, export and the thumbnail sweeps may well go the other way.

What this cannot fix: a GPU sick enough to accept `request_device` and
segfault afterwards, which arrives as a driver crash rather than an
error. It moves the boundary from "the preferred adapter is unusable" to
"unusable and dishonest about it".
2026-08-29 12:43:10 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 39c34d4e44 Say what actually counts as a rival, now that a name anchors too
assign's denominator is the identities the user has ruled on, and it
reads Cluster::person to find them. Master's "Let a name hold a group
together" widened what sets that field: a confirmation, a name, or an
ignore, where before it was a confirmation alone.

The behaviour is right either way — a named person is exactly the
identity a suggestion should be discounted against — but the module note
and faces.md §9.1 both said "a confirmation", which is now too narrow.

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2026-08-29 12:32:31 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 da20d42d33 Merge master: pluggable storage, and a name that anchors
Conflicts were docs/traceability.md alone, and it is generated — so it
was regenerated rather than hand-merged. dr-face was untouched on the
other side; ui/dr-ui/src/faces.rs and identity_ui.rs auto-merged, the
first around recluster's anchoring and the second around load_faces.

Worth recording because the two branches met on the same problem from
different ends. Master's "Let a name hold a group together" is the fix
for the sixteen Catherines — fourteen of them empty — that this branch
found while measuring the library and reported without fixing.

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2026-08-29 12:30:01 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b2250cc460 Measure a regroup on the tablet, not just on the desktop
The GPU question needed a number nobody had: how a regroup divides on
the hardware whose CPU is weakest. dr-face carries no weights and
touches no display, and dr-catalog's example needs only a catalog file,
so both run under adb shell against a copy of a real library.

On the same 18,143 faces — desktop against the tablet — scan 0.96s /
2.61s, agglomerate 1.69s / 2.16s, score 0.26s / 0.40s. The scan is half
the pass on the tablet and under a third on the desktop, because twenty
cores of AVX2 pull ahead of NEON much further than the merge engine's
single-threaded hashing does. So a GPU GEMM is worth roughly 2× a
regroup on the tablet and 1.5× here, and it is the tablet that should
decide whether it is built.

The two architectures agree exactly: the same 1,531,969 evidence pairs,
the same 2,518 groups holding the same 16,246 faces, the same
reliability table. That is a better check on the NEON kernel than the
unit test can be.

Two instruments, both read-only: the example now prints its phases, and
dr-face gains scan_bench, which needs no library at all and so can
answer "how fast is this machine" on a device with nothing on it.

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2026-08-29 12:16:48 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f4395bd17c Run the face tests on the tablet, where the NEON kernel actually runs
The similarity scan picks its dot product per machine, and the NEON one
is the kernel that ships to the phone and the tablet — and the one a
desktop cargo test never executes. A wrong lane index or a mishandled
tail there is a silent wrong answer on exactly the devices nobody runs
the suite on, which is a poor place for the only untested code path.

dr-face carries no weights and touches no display, so its tests are a
plain ARM64 binary that runs under adb shell with nothing installed.
The script builds it against the SDK's newest NDK, pushes it, runs it
and cleans up. It checks for the device first, so a tablet that is not
plugged in costs a second rather than the two minutes it takes to
compile for it.

Not wired into CI, which has no device attached.

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2026-08-29 12:02:03 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8f596262b8 Record where a regroup's time actually goes
The §9 note said the scan was half a regroup and implied the
agglomeration was an irreducible sequential walk. Both halves of that
are now wrong, and the numbers are the point of the section.

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2026-08-29 11:59:01 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 e596eb0657 Give the similarity scan the machine's SIMD, and its cache
The scan is O(n²) dot products and nothing else, so its speed is the
face subsystem's speed — and it was running at 0.7 flops per cycle.

Two separate faults, both measured over the reference 18,143-face
library on twenty cores. It walked the whole embedding array once per
row, ~336 GB of traffic, where a column tile that fits in L2 is read
once per tile of rows: 4.64s → 2.81s. And the workspace builds for
baseline x86-64 — SSE2, no FMA — into which the portable loop was not
being vectorised at all: 2.81s → 0.86s, 195 GFLOP/s.

So the dot product is now chosen per machine. AVX2 + FMA where
is_x86_feature_detected! finds it; NEON unconditionally on aarch64,
since Advanced SIMD is in that baseline and every Android device the app
builds for has it — with the explicit vfmaq, because LLVM will not fuse
a multiply and an add without being told to. The portable loop stays as
the definition the others are tested against, and
the_fastest_kernel_agrees_with_the_portable_one is the only check the
NEON path gets on a machine that is not aarch64.

Faces::embeddings is one flat buffer rather than a Vec per face: the
pointer chase defeated both the prefetcher and the tiling, and it is
also the layout a GPU pass would want.

Behaviour is unchanged and that is checked rather than asserted — the
same 1,531,969 pairs from all three kernels, and on the real library the
same 2,518 groups holding the same 16,246 faces with the same confidence
distribution. A full regroup there goes from 10.0s to 5.9s; the rest is
the agglomeration, which is a sequential heap walk and is where the next
look should go.

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2026-08-29 11:33:15 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 ebb7d3cf5c Score a suggestion against the people the user has named
The number beside a suggestion was the mean calibrated probability
between the face and the rest of its group, which measures the wrong
thing twice. It punishes coverage: a person with two hundred faces over
fifteen years is *meant* to have members a given photograph is
orthogonal to, so a correct suggestion onto a well-photographed person
scored low for being well photographed. And it never asked who else the
face might be — a face matching Anna at 0.95 and nobody else, and one
matching Anna at 0.95 and her sister at 0.93, came out identical, when
the second is the only one worth the user's attention.

dr_face::assign answers both, and multiplies them: the mean of the best
ten calibrated matches into the identity (the old mean, capped, which is
what stops coverage counting against it), times that identity's share of
the evidence against every *named* rival.

Only named people compete, and per person rather than per group. Both
halves of that had to be measured on a real 18,000-face library rather
than reasoned about. Normalising across every group made the number
useless — median suggestion 21%, four in five under half — because
clustering leaves one person spread over many groups, so a face competed
against itself; and keying rivals by group left Catherine competing with
Catherine, median 39%. Per named person: median 99.5%.

Rivals are gathered below the merge threshold, down to even odds: a
named person matching at 0.6 will never be merged into but is exactly
the competition to discount for. That would be a second similarity scan,
the expensive half of regrouping a library, so cluster_scored scans once
at the looser floor and hands the merge engine the subset at or above
the threshold — pair for pair what it would have scanned for itself,
held to that by a test.

Leave-one-out over that library's 2,702 confirmations across 54 named
people: 99.33% of faces placed on the right person against the old
mean's 99.15%, and the number shown for the right person moves from a
median of 90.4% to 99.3%. It errs low — 100% correct wherever it states
80% or more — which is the safe direction, and docs/faces.md §9.1 says
plainly that the low bands are not calibrated.

The example that measures it comes too: this is a claim about a
library's numbers, and nobody should have to take it on faith.

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2026-08-29 10:44:01 +02:00
dtourolle 4168d67cfa Do not push a catalog over one we could not read
`sync_catalog` is a read-modify-write over a file another device also
writes: take theirs, merge, push the union. It was shaped

    if let Ok(bytes) = backend.get(&RemoteId::Path(target), None).await {

which folds *every* failure into "there is no remote catalog" and carries
straight on to the upload. On a placeholder library the snapshot in
`.darkroom-derived/` is dehydrated like anything else, so the read failed
every time and each sync pushed our catalog over theirs unmerged —
taking the other device's collections and their members with it.

The same shape as the sidecar bug, and the same fix: a read that fails
for anything other than `NotFound` stops the upload and says why. An
unreadable or unopenable snapshot stops it too — "will not parse" is not
"is not there". This is what `NotFound` and `NotMaterialised` being
separate errors is *for*: one means ours is the whole truth, the other
means do not dare.

Shard downloads go through the same fetch-on-demand read. They logged
and skipped before, which on a library the client keeps dehydrated is
every shard, every pass, and a peer's thumbnails and faces silently
never arriving.

And `put` over a placeholder now replaces it rather than refusing.
Refusing was over-cautious of me: derived state lives inside the library
folder, so a folder the client had dehydrated could never be written to
again. An unconditional write replaces the whole file, so there is
nothing in the stub to keep — content first, then the placeholder, since
in a synced tree an absence is a deletion that propagates. `IfMatch`
still refuses, because a stub's validator describes the stub; `IfAbsent`
fails, because the file is there and only its content is not.
2026-08-29 10:36:26 +02:00
dtourolle 702d83c218 Measure the borrow, rather than asserting it bounds the disk
The claim that hydration-as-a-borrow makes peak disk the working set
rather than the library was so far an argument. `--example vfs_cycle`
runs it: 100 photographs of 25 MB, 90 dehydrated, a pass over all of
them through the real engine.

Peak 275 MB — the resting set plus one photograph — against 2,500 MB
had the pass simply fetched everything. Back to 250 MB afterwards, and
all ten files the user already kept still there, which is the half of
the contract that matters more.

Recorded in docs/storage.md §6.3 and ARCH §9.0a, because a bound argued
from a number nobody measured is one that gets quietly lost.
2026-08-29 09:57:53 +02:00
dtourolle 5768100816 Borrow the library to index it, and give it back
The passes that need every photograph's bytes — thumbnails, face
indexing — now borrow each one and release it at the end. On a
placeholder library that is the difference between peak disk being the
working set and being the whole library.

Including on cancellation, which was nearly missed: the face sweep
returns mid-loop when the user presses Stop, and without releasing there
the disk is spent and nothing is delivered for it.

`materialise` now answers whether *it* fetched the content. The pool used
to work that out by listing a file's parent directory — one listing per
file across a library — when the backend already had to `stat` it to
decide whether to ask. One syscall instead of a directory walk, and it
removes the bug class the tests found earlier: a file at the library root
has no `parent()`, so every one of them read as already-downloaded.

**Pinning is the retention control**, and it drives the model the catalog
already had rather than a second one. `tier_desired` is what the user
asked to keep hydrated, `pending_pins` is the resumable work list, and a
pinned collection is never dehydrated for the same reason it was never
evicted. It was in fact *broken* here before: `get` on a stub failed, and
the pin worker logged "one unreadable file must not abandon the whole
pin" and silently did nothing.

Pinned originals on such a library are recorded with `path = NULL`
(`Cache::record_in_place`) rather than copied under `originals/`. Two
reasons, and the second is the important one. A copy would hold every
pinned photograph twice, with the budget able to evict the half that was
not costing the disk. And `release` deletes the file a row names — so a
row that names none cannot delete anything, which puts the one
catastrophic operation out of reach by construction rather than by
remembering not to call it. Deleting a materialised file inside a synced
tree removes the photograph from the server and every other device.

Handing disk back is `spawn_dehydrate`, which asks the client.

Two gaps written down rather than papered over (docs/storage.md §7): a
hydrating pass cannot yet quote its cost, because a stub reports no size;
and the two sweeps hold separate pools, so a library indexed for both
fetches twice.
2026-08-29 09:57:53 +02:00
dtourolle c102ba9df2 Treat a placeholder as the photograph, not as a one-byte file
The folder connector was pointed at a Nextcloud VFS tree and got three
things wrong, the first of which loses work.

**A dehydrated sidecar read as absent.** `a.drsc` does not exist when the
client has dehydrated it — only `a.drsc.nextcloud` does — so `get` missed,
`.ok()` swallowed the `NotFound`, and the sidecar writer took that for
"there is no sidecar yet" and wrote a fresh document over the existing
one. Every edit another device had put there went with it. That function's
own doc comment calls this the exact loss the format's unknown-key
preservation exists to prevent.

**A stub was catalogued as a 1-byte image**, and ARCH §9.0 measured this
machine at 121,785 placeholders against 10,267 real files — so a folder
library on a synced tree was ~92% broken rows.

**Identity changed on hydration**, so downloading a photograph looked like
a delete and an add, orphaning its thumbnail and its face rows.

Entries now carry the photograph's own name and a `materialised` flag;
`get` on a stub returns the new `RemoteError::NotMaterialised`, which is
distinct from `NotFound` precisely because the sidecar writer must treat
them differently — it fetches the sidecar and merges, or leaves the entry
queued.

Hydration is a **borrow**. `BorrowPool` records what was on disk before it
asked, so `release_all` dehydrates only what a pass brought and leaves
what the user already had. Reference counted: the thumbnail pass and the
face pass meet on the same RAW, and without counting the first to finish
dehydrates the file the second is reading. A borrow against a plain folder
or a server does nothing, so a pass written for VFS runs everywhere.

Releasing means asking the client to dehydrate and never deleting: a
deletion inside a synced tree propagates to the server and removes the
photograph from every device.

Not a second backend — the capability is per *connection*, not per type,
since the same folder hydrates only while the client runs. The convention
arrives through a detector the registry supplies, so `dr-sync-folder`
still knows nothing about any client's protocol.

ARCH §9.0a records this as an amendment: finding 3 rejected hydration
because it costs 100× a range read, and that comparison assumed a
connector was available. A folder library has none.
2026-08-29 09:57:52 +02:00
dtourolle 64462e9fd3 Test the folder sign-in instead of trusting it
The whole of a folder library's sign-in lived inside a Slint callback,
which cannot run without a display server — so the one path that decides
whether a mistyped folder becomes a *stored* account had no test at all.
That failure is quiet and lasting: an account for a directory that is
not there skips the launch screen on the next start and reads as a
library that has lost its photographs.

`open_folder_library` is that logic, lifted out whole. Four tests: it
stores an account with no credential and reaches the keyring for
nothing, a typo is refused before anything is written, the messages read
as instructions because they go straight to the screen's error line, and
a file is not a library.
2026-08-29 09:57:52 +02:00
dtourolle cbe5c4fcde Measure the folder walk against a real tree, not a claim
The folder connector declares `LocalEtags`, which means the engine walks
the whole library on every scan with no pruning. That is the honest
capability, and the argument for it being affordable was so far an
assertion about `stat` versus `PROPFIND`.

`--example scan` runs the real path — `dr_sync::scan` over the connector,
then a ranged read of the kind the thumbnail worker makes. Read-only; it
never writes into the folder it is pointed at.

2,299 images across 233 directories in 137 ms, and 380 across 13 in
29 ms. Against 34.1 s for 17,185 RAWs over WebDAV *with* pruning
available. Recorded in docs/storage.md §5.2 and ARCH §8.4a, because a
capability trade-off argued from a number nobody measured is the kind
that gets quietly reversed later.
2026-08-29 09:57:52 +02:00
dtourolle f12aece07e Make storage pluggable, and prove it with a folder backend
`RemoteBackend` existed from the first release and bought nothing it was
designed for. Seven files in `dr-ui` constructed a `NextcloudBackend`
directly, an account *was* a server URL beside a DAV user id, the local
cache directory was named after a hostname, and the launch screen knew
that signing in meant a browser handshake. The trait was real; the seam
was documentation.

A trait over operations is only a quarter of it. Pluggable storage needs
four things, and this adds the other three:

- **Capabilities** — already there, and the reason the engine can drive
  two backends at the speed each actually runs at.
- **Configuration** — `dr_sync::Account`: where a library lives, in
  whatever form its connector addresses, with no server in it. Loads
  every existing config unchanged (`backend` defaults to `nextcloud`,
  `endpoint` is stored under its historical `server` key), and
  `Account::namespace()` reproduces the old catalog directory byte for
  byte, because changing it would abandon a catalog, its thumbnail
  shards, and the sidecars holding unsynced offline work.
- **Registration** — `BackendProvider` and `BackendRegistry`.
  `ui/dr-ui/src/remote.rs` is now the only file above `dr-sync` that
  names a connector.

`Connection` (an account plus an optional `Secret`) replaces the
credentials-and-user-id pair that was threaded through fifteen
signatures in an order that could be swapped. `Secret`'s inner string is
reachable only through `expose()` and its `Debug` prints `Secret(***)`,
so the indirect leak — a `{:?}` on anything holding one — no longer
compiles into a leak.

Nextcloud is unchanged and keeps every peculiarity: propagating ETags,
chunked upload v2, `oc:fileid`, the `oc:permissions` probe on a refused
PUT, the 423 retry classification, Login Flow v2. Those are what the
capability model exists to serve, not something to hide.

`dr-sync-folder` is the second connector: a local disk, a network mount,
an external drive, or a folder a Nextcloud client already syncs. No
account, no credential — the route that works where no secrets daemon
does. It declares `LocalEtags` rather than claiming propagation a POSIX
directory cannot provide, which costs nothing because 50k `stat` calls
are not 50k PROPFINDs. Identity is a path hash, not an inode: an inode
survives a rename but differs between devices and is reused after a
delete, so two machines would disagree about which photograph a
thumbnail belonged to. Re-deriving a thumbnail is a cost; showing the
wrong one is a bug.

docs/storage.md is the contract — the traits, the four steps to add a
backend, and what each connector declares. ARCH §8.0 and §8.4a, and
FR-NC-13, say why.
2026-08-29 09:57:52 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c8e05831f4 Show the confidence, and say which curve it came from
FR-CULL-9 was read as "no fit, no number", so every library without 200
confirmed positive pairs showed "Confidence unavailable" on every
suggestion — which is every library, until enough confirmations exist to
fit one. The confirmations are made on this screen, ranked by the number
it was withholding, so the degraded state was also the permanent one.

There has always been a curve: Calibration::default is the reference
implementation's fitted MBF sigmoid, which is what clustering already
operates at. It is a published operating point, not an invention, and
what the requirement forbids is presenting it *as though it were
measured on this library*. So the percentage is shown, and the screen
says once, above the grid, where the curve came from.

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2026-08-29 09:57:38 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f41b3f6e8e Answer "what would the other device end up with" without the other device
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Successful in 2h7m52s
Build and test / Layer separation (push) Successful in 59s
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 3s
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Build and test / Android (aarch64) (push) Successful in 22m22s
A tablet showed 200 of a person's 611 faces after syncing, and the obvious
suspects — that suggestions deliberately do not travel, that the cross-device
face match was too strict — were both wrong. Finding that out meant reading a
catalog on a release-signed Android build, which cannot be done.

So this stands the second device up locally: an empty catalog, given the images
a scan would have found, the shards adopted into it exactly as a sync does, and
the real catalog merged in as the remote. Then it counts, per person, against
what the source holds.

    person                     source     here
    Catherine                     611      611
    Me                            242      242
    Ian                           219      219

Which settled it: the merge carries everything, and the shortfall was transfer —
shards that never finished arriving. Worth keeping, because "did the sync lose
this or has it not got here yet" is a question that will come up again, and
guessing at it cost most of an evening.

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2026-08-28 23:09:28 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 2c84aa1224 Write face shards the way the rest of the catalog writes
The face store was the one part of the catalog still on SQLite's default
rollback journal at `synchronous = FULL`. The catalog itself runs WAL at
`NORMAL` (`schema::configure`) and so does the thumbnail store; nothing decided
this one should differ, it was simply never set.

Measured on this project's own filesystem, that is **21.3 ms per commit against
0.05 ms** — four hundred times. And an export commits four times per
photograph: the shard's transaction, then three separate autocommitting writes
to the index. Ten thousand images is on the order of fourteen minutes spent
doing nothing but waiting for fsync, before a byte goes to the server. That is
the "checking faces…" that appeared to hang.

So: WAL and `synchronous = NORMAL`, matching the rest, and the three index
writes fold into one transaction. `NORMAL` is the same trade the catalog makes —
a shard is derived data, and losing the last commit to a power cut costs one
image re-exported.

WAL brings an obligation with it, because **a shard is uploaded by reading its
file**: the newest commits live in a `-wal` sidecar that no upload sends, so
without a checkpoint the server would receive a database missing exactly the
faces just written, and a peer would adopt it and see nothing wrong. `checkpoint`
folds the logs back in, with `TRUNCATE` rather than the default passive mode,
which gives up when a reader holds the log and would leave the same gap while
reporting success.

Two tests: that the store is in WAL like everything else, and — the one that
matters — that a checkpointed shard copied *without* its `-wal` still holds
every face. That second one fails without the checkpoint, which is how it was
confirmed to be testing something.

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2026-08-28 23:08:10 +02:00