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dtourolle 2d878c2117 Offer the film stock in its own group, and let its list scroll itself
Two faults in one control, both reported from the tablet.

The stock picker appeared in every group. It is not a parameter, so it is not
a row, so the filter that hides every other control when a group is chosen
never saw it — "Kodachrome" sat at the top of Light, of Colour and of Detail
alike. Three places it does not belong, and the one it does no more prominent
than the rest. The descriptor has said `Effect` and only `Effect` since the
film moved there; nothing was asking it.

So the panel now asks. It cannot ask directly — a generated panel may not know
which operation a control belongs to — so the session answers, from what the
operation declares it is about, and a stock re-declared as something else would
move on its own. The flag is recomputed when the group changes as well as when
the film does, which is the half that would have made it stale exactly when it
mattered.

And the open list was unbounded, so it made the develop column taller and the
column scrolled as one: reaching Velvia dragged every slider below it off the
screen, an answer given once pushing aside the controls used constantly. It now
scrolls within a bounded height of its own.

That viewport is counted rather than measured, for the reason the tool rail
records a few files away: a viewport that asks a layout how tall it wants to be,
while the layout takes its height from the viewport, is a cycle Slint settles by
handing back the height it was given — and the content is then clipped in
silence rather than scrolling. Every row here is one fixed height, so
multiplying is exact.

The group rule has a test. The scrolling does not, and cannot: it is a layout,
and a layout fault is invisible to the compiler and to every assertion that can
be written about it.
2026-09-07 20:42:15 +02:00
dtourolle 0a5eab0487 Wire the develop panels through globals, so a second copy is one line
Every panel in the develop column declared its inputs and its callbacks and
had `app.slint` bind each one to a property or a callback on the window root.
That is fine while a panel is drawn once. N9 draws them a second time, in the
portrait dock, and the wiring is what would have to be copied: `MaskPanel`
alone ran to forty lines of forwarding, and a callback added to one copy and
not the other compiles, renders, and simply does nothing on the layout nobody
was looking at.

So the wiring moved to Slint globals. A panel reads the global and calls the
global; Rust hooks the global instead of the window; and the instantiation in
the column is now the panel's name and a pair of braces — every one of the ten
children of the column, with no property that differs by placement left to
supply.

There is a global per panel family rather than one for all of them, and the
reason is an import cycle. Each panel's model struct — `ParamRow`, `MaskRow`,
`HistogramView` — is declared in the panel's own file, so a single global
holding `[MaskRow]` and `[ParamRow]` would have to live in a file importing
`masks.slint` and `adjust.slint` while both imported the global back, which
Slint rejects. Breaking that needs six model declarations relocated, which is a
change to the data model and not to the plumbing this is about. A global beside
the panel it serves also lets each name drop the prefix it was carrying only
because the window root is one flat namespace: `root.spot-radius` is
`Repair.radius`, and `root.peaking-on` is `Peaking.showing`.

`session.slint` is new and holds the two facts every family needs and none of
them owns: whether there is an open photograph to edit, and which mode the view
is in, with the three readings of the mode derived once instead of at each of
the dozen places that tested one. `ViewMode` moves there from `adjust.slint`,
where it was only ever a lodger.

Nothing on screen changes. What is not here: the tool rail and the status strip
still take their properties at the instantiation, because they are drawn once
and N9 does not copy them; the preset sheet's own state stays on the window,
because the library grid opens the same sheet and a global cannot bind the
window's state — which is why `Transfer.open-presets` is handled in
`presets.rs`, beside the summary it already had to compute.
2026-09-07 20:01:01 +02:00
dtourolle df741a8a49 Let one mask be built from more than one selection, and paint into it
A mask the model draws arrives approximately right — stopping inside a
shoulder, leaking into the hair — and FR-DEV-3's edge controls move the
*whole* boundary, so no value of feather or dilation fixes two errors that
go opposite ways. What fixes them is a second selection joined to the first,
and a layer that held exactly one source had nowhere to put one. The brush
the core has had all along was reachable from no control in the application.

A layer is now an ordered list of parts. Each names a source and how it
joins the mask before it — added to it, or taken out of it — and carries its
own edge treatment, because a model's soft coverage and a stroke painted
where it stopped short do not want the same feather. Invert and opacity stay
on the layer, where the composed shader already reads them.

The sidecar grows `[part]` blocks and nothing else. A layer of one part
writes exactly the bytes it always did; a mask block with no part blocks
after it reads back as one part; and a stroke, a join or a source this build
cannot read costs that part rather than the layer. So every sidecar in every
library still parses to the edit it always was.

On the device the parts fold into the layer's one slice, so eight layers
still cost eight channels: union is a `max` blend and subtraction is the
erase blend the brush already used. A part is drawn into a scratch texture
before it is joined, and that is not incidental — an erase stroke means a
hole in *that part*, not a hole in the mask, and drawn straight onto the
accumulator it would punch through the subject underneath. A layer of one
part skips all of it and takes the path it always took.

In the interface: a part list under the selected layer with a chip saying
which way each joins, Add and Subtract beside it, a Select/Paint/Erase strip
with the brush's size, hardness and flow, and a drag on the photograph that
paints. Pressing Paint on a mask that cannot hold a stroke joins a part that
can, rather than explaining that a subject is not a brush. A whole stroke is
one step in the history.

The edge controls now shape the part that is selected rather than the layer,
which is the one behaviour change to an existing control: with a correction
selected, the feather slider softens the correction and leaves the model's
mask alone.
2026-09-07 20:00:40 +02:00
dtourolle 1e171c6d31 Let a collection be picked up, rearranged, and emptied after the fact
Collections could be made and filled and never reorganised. Nesting had
a drag; un-nesting had nothing, in either direction — "All photographs"
refused every drop, which is right for a photograph and wrong for a
collection, which has a top level to be returned to. So a collection put
inside another was in there permanently. Right-click deleted an *empty*
collection outright and refused otherwise, which is wrong in both
directions at once: destructive with no confirmation, and no way at all
to delete a collection that held anything without emptying it by hand,
child by child. And a photograph could only leave the collection the
grid was scoped to, since that is the only one a button in the header
can name — the cell's badge says a photograph is in three collections
and never which three.

Three ways in, one vocabulary:

**Hold a row.** The tree is inside a Flickable, which claims any drag
beginning inside it, so with a finger a drag on a row is a scroll until
something says otherwise. The hold is that something. It lifts the row —
drawn before anything moves, so the gesture says it has been understood
— and then what the user does decides which of two things they meant:
move, and it is a rearrangement; let go, and it is the row menu. The
same fork the grid already uses to tell hold-to-select from drag-to-file.
`decide_release` is that fork, and it is tested, because getting it
wrong one way puts a sheet over every tidied tree and the other way
makes the menu unreachable by touch.

**The row menu.** Rename, new collection inside, move to top level,
keep offline, delete. Deleting asks once when there is anything to lose
and says what survives: the photographs stay in the library, and nested
collections move up rather than going with it — which is what the
catalog does, and what a user would never assume. An empty collection
goes on the first press, because a dialogue about losing nothing is how
people learn to dismiss dialogues.

**"Collections…" on a selection.** Every collection the selection is
filed in, each with a count — "3 of 40", so nobody takes forty
photographs out of a collection thirty-seven were never in — and a way
out of any of them without navigating there first.

The long press used to open the offline question by itself. That
question is one item in this menu now: there is one hold per row, and
while it was spent on a single action nothing else the tree can do had
a touch route at all. Nothing is lost — the tray on the row keeps its
tap, and the question gains a full-width control in place of a 30px
icon in a row shorter than the touch minimum.

The row-press handler moves to `collections_ui` with the rest of what a
collection row does; it lived in `library_ui` only because it opened
that prompt.
2026-09-07 19:59:44 +02:00
dtourolle 2cd49d1cb7 Measure the rail by counting it, so it can scroll instead of clipping
With the adjustment groups in the rail, a short window silently lost them.
At a 1500x680 window the rail drew Photo, Compose, Local, Repair, the seam and
"All", and then stopped: Optics, Light, Colour, Effects and Detail were not
scrolled off, they were gone, with nothing on screen to say so. The develop
view's primary navigation, unreachable by any means.

The Flickable was put here to prevent exactly that, and it could not, because
its viewport asked the layout how tall it wanted to be while the layout was
already taking its height from the viewport. Slint settles that cycle by
handing back the height it was given, so `max(self.height, preferred-height)`
could never exceed `self.height` and there was never anything to scroll.

Counting breaks the cycle. Every entry here is a fixed height by construction —
a tool is `rail-entry-height`, a group is a touch target — so the content is
six plus four fifty-fours plus a gap plus a touch target for each group and
"All", which is exact rather than an estimate and depends on nothing that
depends on it. Four tools and five groups come to 498, against the 340 a
680-pixel window leaves at 2x, and the difference is now scrollable rather
than absent.

Found by shrinking the window with the groups forced into the rail. The
interaction itself is unverified: synthetic input does not reach a Slint
window on this desktop, and the tablet was disconnected, so what is confirmed
is the arithmetic and the clipping it explains, not the scrolling it should
restore.
2026-09-07 00:17:08 +02:00
dtourolle 3994caba12 Write down the develop gestures, since only their author knew them
FR-UI-4 says a gesture with no visible counterpart is a feature only its
author knows about, and the vocabulary the application actually publishes had
two sections in it — the library grid and people. Develop had none. Every one
of its gestures was documented in the comment beside the `TouchArea` that
implements it, which is where the previous sixteen were before this scanner
existed, and unreachable to anybody not reading the source.

Thirteen now carry tags: magnify by pinch or wheel, pan a magnified frame,
fit and 1:1, hold to see the original, sample a neutral, undo and redo, step
through the folder, reset one control, show or hide a mask layer, choose a
group of adjustments, and copy and paste the settings. Each has a pointer and
a touch route, so none of them is keyboard-only.

Three bindings were genuinely missing and are added here rather than merely
described. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for the settings clipboard, which the Settings
panel's own comment has claimed existed for as long as the panel has and
nothing bound; and [ and ] to step through the adjustment groups. The groups
are whatever the operation set declares itself to be about, so there are as
many as the pipeline has and no key can name one of them — stepping is the
binding that survives a node being added, and "everything" is part of the
cycle rather than a way out of it.

Two are described and not bound. Resetting a control from the keyboard and
toggling a mask layer from the keyboard both need a notion of which control
or layer has focus, and the generated panel has none — the rows are a model
the repeater rebuilds, and inventing a focus ring for them is a larger change
than a keyboard shortcut. Both are reachable by pointer and by finger, and
the tags say so rather than promising a key that is not there.
2026-09-06 19:01:52 +02:00
dtourolle 1c5c55b4c9 Let the photographer say which frame the burst stands for
`choose_representative` has been in the catalog since the grouping landed,
with tests behind it and nothing calling it. So the frame a folded burst drew
was always the earliest one, and the only way to disagree was to open the
group and leave it open — which is to say there was no way to disagree at all,
because a burst that stays open is a burst that was never collapsed.

The earliest frame is the right default and it is deliberately not a
judgement: nothing here scores a photograph, and FR-CULL-5 names the failure
that rule avoids. But the whole point of a burst is that one of the twelve is
better than the other eleven, and the person who knows which is the one
looking at them.

So a ring on each frame of an open group, ticked on the one the group folds
to. It is drawn only while the burst is open, because that is the one moment
the alternatives are on screen to be compared — offering the choice on a
folded burst would be asking about frames it is hiding. Bottom right, opposite
the count in the other corner, clear of the flag and the collection badge and,
deliberately, of the trash target: a slip between the ring and the fifth star
sets a rating, which is the harmless direction for an ambiguous press.

The mark stays live on the frame that already wears it. A disabled TouchArea
would let the press fall through to the cell behind it, so tapping the one
ring that is ticked would have opened the photograph — and pressing it is a
thing the user may mean anyway: it records the choice the default was making
silently, which then survives a regroup that finds an earlier frame.

Choosing repaints the badges instead of reloading the window, which is what
separates it from folding a group up. Folding changes what the grid's query
returns; this changes only which cell wears the tick, and the tick has to
leave the frame that was carrying it, so the whole window is refilled in the
one statement `sync_badges` already runs.

The gesture is documented where FR-UI-4 requires it to be documented: in a
tagged comment beside the control, which is the only copy. The gesture book,
the gesture document and the requirements matrix are regenerated from the tree
alongside it.
2026-09-06 19:01:49 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 95e854b5a2 Regenerate the gesture vocabulary over the library work
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`Traceability` stayed red after the matrix was regenerated, on its other
gate: `gestures-check`. Same cause, second artefact. `docs/gestures.md`
cites each gesture by `file:LINE`, and the library UI work moved the two
selection-mode gestures down a hundred lines — 3923 -> 4032 and
3940 -> 4049 in `ui/dr-ui/ui/library.slint`. Nothing about the gestures
themselves changed.

`ui/dr-ui/src/gesture_book.rs` was already current, so this is the doc
alone: 70 files scanned, 16 gestures, 2 places, gate PASS.

Worth knowing for next time: `tools/ci-local.sh traceability` runs the
self-test, the coverage gate and the matrix, but not `gestures-check`, so a
clean local run does not prove this workflow green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 03:06:31 +02:00
dtourolle 6acc98baad Carry the photograph's header into an export made from develop
The same file exported from the library grid kept its camera, its lens,
its capture date and its rights statement. Exported from the develop
button it kept none of them, and `{date}` in a filename template
resolved to nothing at all. Two buttons, one photograph, two different
files -- and the develop one was the version the photographer had just
finished working on.

A session now remembers the header it was opened from, and
`open_session` takes that header rather than the orientation read out of
it, so a photograph cannot be opened for editing without saying which
file it came from. `render_open_frame` clones it onto
`Source::Rendered`; both arms of `export_one` -- the worker's own decode
and the frame handed over already rendered -- turn a header into a
`{date}` and a `SourceMetadata` through the same function, so the two
paths cannot come to different readings of one file. What of it actually
reaches the exported bytes is still decided inside `dr-export` from the
settings, which is what keeps the location-stripping option working here
rather than giving it a second implementation to disagree with.

The alternative was to hang the metadata on `Source::Rendered` alone and
keep it beside the session in the interface. That touches less, but it
makes the header and the pixels two cells to hold in step across the six
places an image is opened, replaced or fails to open, and the failure
mode of getting that pairing wrong is not a missing tag: it is one
photograph exported under another's byline and coordinates, silently.
Kept on the session, the two travel together or not at all.

The header is stored decoded rather than transcribed at open time,
deliberately. `dr-export` argues that source metadata is a parameter and
not a field on `Frame`, because two exports of one frame may legitimately
disclose different amounts; by the same reasoning a session may remember
where its pixels came from without that being a decision about what to
publish, and the allowlist that decides remains the single function in
`export.rs`.

A file with no header is left with none -- an empty `{date}` and nothing
for the encoder to copy -- rather than today's date standing in for a
capture time nobody recorded.
2026-08-30 21:28:31 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8bf5e13faf Centre the photo roll on the frame it opens with
The roll brought the open photograph into view by the shortest move,
which is right for stepping along it and wrong for the first look: a
frame near either end of the loaded window arrived hard against an edge,
with nothing on that side to give it any context.

It now centres on the first settle of a develop session and steps
minimally after that. A one-shot request that the strip itself clears --
the only thing that knows the request has been honoured is the code
honouring it -- rather than something recomputed on creation, because the
strip is created far more often than a session begins: leaving develop
for Settings and coming back rebuilds it, and re-centring then would undo
a roll the user had scrolled by hand.

Raised on the two ways into develop from the grid, and not on a pick
along the roll, which is a step within a session rather than the start of
one.

Centring is clamped to the ends: the third photograph of a window cannot
be centred without scrolling empty space in beside it, and a strip that
begins with a gap reads as broken rather than as centred.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 20:35:55 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 0ff1e01ec3 Come back from develop on the photograph you were editing
Leaving develop returned to where the *grid* was, which after a walk
along the photo roll can be a thousand rows from the frame you had just
finished. So the one photograph you were certainly interested in was the
one the grid came back without.

Two positions, and the rule is not to pick one of them. The grid seeks to
the remembered position, then reveals the keyboard cursor -- which is now
put on the open photograph, and which moves the viewport as little as
will bring its row into view. A frame inside the remembered screenful
moves nothing at all; one outside it scrolls exactly far enough. One
rule, both behaviours.

The cursor rather than the selection, deliberately: `place_cursor` also
rewrites the selection, and a set of forty photographs assembled in the
grid must survive having one of them opened.

`reveal()` now also runs on the grid's `init`, since `cursor-row` is
initialised rather than changed when the subtree is rebuilt and no
handler would otherwise fire. Both it and the roll's centring defer while
the element has no height yet -- `init` runs before layout, where a
height of zero makes every row look off screen -- and a latch brings the
first real height back to the cursor without letting every later resize
haul the viewport around.

The capture-time marker follows the same move, for the same reason:
`load_window` rebuilds the axis only when the scope, the filter or the
total has changed, and none of them has. It is the same library seen from
a different row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 20:35:23 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 eed27eb36d Keep the grid's place when another screen covers it
Opening Settings, Import or People and coming back landed at the top of
the library however deep in it you had been.

The grid is gated on an `if` in the markup, so every route away from it
destroys the subtree and rebuilds it. A Flickable being destroyed passes
its viewport through zero on the way out, and that reaches
`on_library_scrolled` looking exactly like the user having flung the grid
to the top. The handler already guarded against it -- but on
`show-library`, which means "the library rather than develop" and stays
true while any of those four screens replaces the window. So the guard
covered the develop route and none of the other three: `resume_at` was
overwritten with 0 on the way out, and the position was gone before
anything could restore it.

The condition the `if` is actually spelled with is now computed once, in
`app.slint`, and Rust reads that. The two cannot drift apart again
because there is only one of them.

That fixes the overwrite. The second half is that nothing replayed the
position on the way back in: `on_back_to_library` does it by hand, and
Settings, Import, People and the launch screen do not go through it.
Rather than teaching three more modules to call it, `scroll-to` is now
kept current on every scroll. It is read by `seek()`, which runs on a
token change and on `init`, so writing it without bumping the token
cannot move the grid on screen -- and is exactly what the next grid reads
when it is built.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 20:33:34 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 4dc954f01a Take the photo roll's grab band off the buttons that end a mode
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"Done Cropping", "Done Repairing", "Done Masking" and "Fit" float over
the foot of the canvas. So does the photo roll's swipe handler, and a
gesture handler is not a layout box — it is an input surface. A press
inside one is delayed, then offered to that handler's own children and
to nothing else: `input_event_filter_before_children` returns
`DelayForwarding`, which aborts the hit-test traversal outright, and the
replay afterwards visits only the handler's subtree. Everything behind
it is never asked, hover included.

The band was `strip-height + reach` — 136px along the bottom — whether
the roll was out or away. So the button that ends a mode was drawn, was
lit, and did nothing for as long as a library was open, which is the
whole time anybody is developing from one. The tool rail kept working
because it is a sibling of the canvas rather than behind the roll, which
is exactly why this looked like two dead buttons rather than a dead
region.

The band now goes where the roll goes. The handler carries the strip
instead of standing still while the strip animates inside it: closed,
only `reach` is on screen and the rest hangs below the window where
nothing can press it; open, it still covers the thumbnails, which is
what lets a swipe down anywhere across them put the roll away. The
180ms travel moved from the strip onto the handler, so the drawn
positions in both states are what they were.

The controls are then positioned against that band rather than against
the bottom of the canvas, and ride up with the strip when it comes out.
Reordering them in front of the roll would have been the other fix, and
it is the wrong one — the band would become the thing that cannot be
reached, and a gesture nobody can start is worse than a button with a
second way out.

`roll-strip` and `roll-reach` are tokens now, because two files have to
agree on where that band is for either of them to keep out of it.

The bottom of the photograph comes back with it: the crop's lower
handles and a repair placed near the bottom edge were inside the same
136px and had the same fault.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 19:42:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f26f1ab694 Withhold the empty groups that fill the People rail
`load_people` returned every live person, and on the reference library
that was 14,268 rows of which 11,739 held no faces at all — 85 per cent
of the rail naming nobody and able to do nothing.

They are not a mystery. A regrouping pass creates a person per cluster;
the next pass moves those faces elsewhere and leaves the person it
emptied behind. `faces::prune_empty_unnamed` exists for exactly this and
runs only at the end of a pass, so nothing clears what accumulates
between them, and the Identity screen never prunes at all.

Each one cost a `for_person` query and a built row on every reload. This
withholds precisely the set the prune already treats as disposable —
empty, unnamed, not set aside — and no more.

Filtered rather than deleted: a screen is being drawn, not a catalog
repaired. Nothing is lost, a sync cannot resurrect what was never
removed, and the prune stays the one place that decides these can go.

An empty group with a *name* still shows. That one is not debris but the
symptom of a real failure — a named person whose faces were regrouped out
from under them — and hiding it would take away the only way to merge
them back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 18:30:16 +02:00
dtourolle 80f0a0eeac Merge branch 'master' into feat/library-toolbar
# Conflicts:
#	docs/gestures.md
#	docs/traceability.md
2026-08-30 14:18:21 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 677146883f Decide what the header gives up when it cannot hold everything
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>
2026-08-30 14:05:24 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b34e786f01 Give the drag a pick-up, so it stops losing to the scroll
Dragging a photograph out of the grid worked about half the time, and
nothing on the screen explained the other half.

`DragArea` and `Flickable` do arbitrate, but not evenly. The Flickable
claims any press that travels more than eight pixels along its own axis
within half a second of landing, and holds that claim until the finger
lifts. So a drag toward the sidebar only ever began two ways: a flick
sideways clean enough that the finger never wandered eight pixels
vertically, or a wait of half a second before moving at all. Both are
real gestures and neither was written down.

The wait is now the gesture, and it has a mark. The long press that
already turns on selection mode also picks the photograph up: a ring
opens around the cell and the grid stops scrolling under it, so from
that moment the drag is the only thing the finger can be doing. The cue
can only arrive after the ambiguity has passed, which is the right way
round — when the photograph lifts, dragging it works.

Two details worth naming. The hold is now armed even when selection mode
is already on; it used to be skipped there, on the grounds that there
was no mode left to switch on — but that is precisely the state a
forty-image drag starts from, so the one gesture that most needed a
pick-up was the one with none. And the ring is drawn after the cell
loop rather than on the cell: z-order inside a `for` is loop order, so a
cell grown past its bounds would stand over two neighbours and be cut
off by the other two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 13:20:56 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c7e1822f77 Put the two collection actions in the collections panel
"Keep offline" and "Change library" were buttons in the library
header, in a row that is otherwise entirely library-wide. Both refer
to the tree instead.

"Keep offline" could only ever mean the scoped collection, while
sitting nowhere near the tree that says which that is — and while the
sidebar already offered the same question twice, on each row's tray
and on a held row. It now sits under the tree, in the panel whose
selection decides what it acts on, in the same place and shape the
trash already gives Restore and Empty. It stays a labelled control
rather than being dropped for the tray: a 26px row's tray is a small
thing to hit, and "Kept offline" spelt out for the collection you are
looking at is the discoverable version.

"Change library" was wedged between Sync and Rescan, two buttons that
act on the library you already have. Reading it as one of that group
is a way to lose a scan by aiming badly. It is now the last thing in
the panel, under the tree it replaces wholesale, behind a rule.

On a tablet both are one tap further away, behind the sidebar toggle
that leads the header. That is the panel a user is already in when
they scope the grid to a collection, so it is where they are when
either of these becomes the thing they want.

The grid keeps `pin-done`/`pin-total` and its progress bar: the
transfer is worth reporting wherever it was started from, including a
row the grid is not scoped to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 13:19:53 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f4fbabf18b Say what the grid is showing in one line, not four
The header carried four readouts beside the title: the image count,
the selection count, the scan's status and where in the library the
visible window sits. Each had `horizontal-stretch: 1`, which is what
actually lets a Text shrink in Slint — so between them they claimed
about a third of a 768px header and left the buttons to scroll off the
end of it.

The selection count goes to the bar at the foot of the grid, beside
the buttons that act on it. The other three are one subject and are
now one sentence with separators, sharing one stretch.

Two of them were also saying the same words while a sweep ran:
"indexing 300 / 12 480" appeared both as the status and, redundantly,
in place of the window position.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 13:16:20 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 18063152f9 Ask where these photographs go once, not twice
The selection bar had "Add to collection" and "New collection" side by
side. Both answer the same question — where do these go? — and the bar
asked it before showing the list that decides it: a user who wants a
collection they already have and a user who wants a new one press
different buttons before either has seen what exists.

"New collection…" moves into the filing sheet, under the list of
collections. That is where you look after failing to find the one you
wanted, and it is the only place the choice can be made informed.

It also fixes the sheet's empty state, which said "Make one with + in
the sidebar" — advice that cannot be followed on a tablet, where the
sidebar is instantiated but not drawn. The first collection can now be
made from the sheet that noticed there were none.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 13:14:47 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8510a2f6a7 Give the selection one bar instead of two ends of the window
"What can I do with these twelve photographs?" was answered in two
places. Six buttons in the header — Add to collection, Keywords,
Presets, Paste to N, Export N, Remove from collection — and four more
on the floating bar at the foot of the grid, beside the count that
says what they would act on.

The header half was the worse of the two. Those six appeared and
disappeared from the middle of the row as photographs were picked, so
Sync, Settings and everything beside them slid several hundred pixels
sideways at the exact moment a hand was already travelling toward one.
On a tablet the header scrolls sideways, so they were often not on
screen at all.

All six move to the bar. It now reads left to right as shaping the
selection — Clear, Select all, Select to… — then acting on it, with a
gap between the two thoughts. The header keeps only what belongs to
the library, and changes only when the library does.

Two consequences worth stating. The bar holds ten controls in the
worst case, so it scrolls sideways like every other row in this view,
for the reason set out on the header's Flickable: a layout given less
width than its children need overruns rather than shrinking, and the
buttons past the edge are simply gone. And the bar now stays up for a
running export whatever the selection has since become, because Cancel
export lived on a button that used to have its own `|| exporting`
escape hatch — the grid's viewport inset follows the same condition so
the last row of thumbnails is never trapped underneath.

`settings-summary` went with them: threaded from the window into the
grid and into HeaderActions, and never once drawn.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 13:13:11 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8e4e24ad09 Say what the drag payload actually is: the arming, not the cargo
`drag-payload` was documented as "called when a drag starts, so it
always reflects the selection as it is at that moment". Neither half is
true, and the comment is the only reason anyone would believe the drop
reads it.

`DragArea` tests `data.is_empty()` in its event filter — on every
pointer event, the first one included, which arrives long before there
is a drag. And a Slint binding that calls a callback has no dependency
to be invalidated on, so it is evaluated once, when a finger first lands
on that cell, and cached for the life of the cell. What it answers is
therefore always an empty selection.

None of the drop handlers read it; every one of them reads `dragging`,
which `drag-started` fills in at the moment that matters. What this
callback does is keep the `DragArea` armed, and it manages that only
because `set_user_data` is called unconditionally — an empty `Vec` is
still user data. Guarding that call, which reads as an obvious tidy-up,
would silently stop the grid dragging at all.

Comments only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 10:50:10 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8848bbcff3 Stop drawing a hover ring on a device that cannot hover
A cell drew a 1px ring while the pointer was over it, in the same colour
as the 2px ring that means "selected". On a tablet there is no pointer,
and `has-hover` is not the harmless no-op that implies: Slint raises it
on a touch press and lowers it on the `Exit` that normally follows the
release — but the release that ends a pinch carries no `Exit` at all,
and neither does a finger lifting while a second one is still down.

So resizing the thumbnails, which is a pinch, left a ring around
whichever cell each finger had come down on. The grid then showed boxes
around photographs that were not selected, a pixel thinner than the ones
that were, with nothing to tell them apart.

Hover chrome has no meaning once there has been a finger, so it is not
drawn: the same `touched` latch the rating strip already keys off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 10:36:46 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b120ce48ec Float the selection bar over the grid instead of above it
Selecting the first photograph inserted a 40px row into the view's
vertical flow, so every cell in the grid moved down by it. The act of
selecting shifted the thing being selected out from under the finger —
and a second tap aimed at the neighbour landed on the row below it,
which is the worst possible response to a gesture whose whole job is to
say "this one".

The bar is a floating one now, at the foot of the view. Nothing above it
is re-laid out, so selecting changes what is drawn and never where.

The grid's viewport grows by the same 40px while the bar is there rather
than the Flickable shrinking, which is what keeps that change invisible
too: every cell stays exactly where it was and there is simply further to
scroll, so the last row can be brought clear of the bar instead of being
trapped under it.

It also swallows presses that land on it. A bar floating over the grid is
a bar a thumb can reach for and miss into.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 09:47:20 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 091306f736 Gate the gesture vocabulary the way the matrix is gated
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 3s
Build and test / android-image (push) Successful in 3s
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Failing after 1h16m50s
Build and test / Layer separation (push) Successful in 39s
Traceability / Requirement traces (push) Successful in 50s
Build and test / Android (aarch64) (push) Successful in 22m27s
Three holes, all found by the gate catching itself out.

**Prose that mentions the tag was read as a tag.** `dr-ui`'s module list
carries a comment saying where the generated table comes from, and it
names `GESTURE:` in passing; the scan extracted that sentence fragment as
a gesture with no place and no way to perform it. A tag must now *open*
its comment. A line that merely mentions it is describing the mechanism,
not declaring a member of it, and position is the only thing that tells
the two apart — which also makes the string-literal guard fall out for
free rather than being a special case.

**Neither artefact was regenerated on commit.** They cite line numbers,
so they go stale on anything that moves a line — the sheet commit made
the document wrong about every gesture in `library.slint` without
touching a single one. The pre-commit hook that already keeps the matrix
in step now keeps these too, and unlike the matrix it *fails* rather than
shrugging when the scan does: a matrix that will not build leaves a stale
one in place, where a malformed gesture block means a user about to be
told the wrong thing.

**CI did not check them at all.** It does now, blocking. The matrix is
read; the gesture table is *shown to somebody using the application*, and
a stale one tells them to perform a gesture that no longer exists — from
which they will conclude the application is broken rather than the page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 00:51:13 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 31a3580f9d Extract the gesture vocabulary from the code that implements it
Every gesture the application has was documented in the comment beside
the `TouchArea` that implements it. Excellent comments, and unreachable
by anyone not reading the source — which is the FR-UI-4 failure in a
different costume: a gesture nobody can find is a feature only its author
knows about.

Writing them out again in a hand-kept help page is the failure this
avoids. Two descriptions of one gesture drift, and it is always the prose
that drifts: the code is exercised every time somebody uses the
application and the page is exercised never. A help screen confidently
describing a double tap the grid stopped honouring last week is worse
than no help screen — and the grid did stop honouring one, in the commit
before this.

So the comment beside the implementation stays the only copy, and a
`GESTURE:` block beside it is scanned into two artefacts: `docs/gestures.md`
for a reader, and a Rust table for the application to draw a help sheet
from. Both committed, both gated, so neither can quietly stop describing
the code.

It lives in the traceability crate because it is the same operation on
the same input — walk the tree, pull structured tags out of comments,
render, fail if the committed artefact has moved. Only the vocabulary is
new. It scans `ui` and `apps` alone: a gesture needs an interface to be
performed on, and excluding `tools` is also what stops the scanner
extracting its own worked examples as broken gestures.

Fifteen gestures so far, across the library grid and the People screen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 00:09:49 +02:00