The packages now carry the manual, but nothing in the application opened
it: the help sheet listed gestures and stopped there.
The help sheet gains a Manual button beside Done, and Settings a Manual
row under About beside the version. Both go through dr_ui::manual, which
finds the installed page through dr_plat::system_data_dirs (the package's
share directory on Linux, the executable's directory on Windows), and a
development build also in the checkout it was compiled from. A copy with
no manual says so on the status line rather than doing nothing.
On the desktop the page goes to the system browser. A section is a URL
fragment, and xdg-open's generic mode and Windows' FileProtocolHandler
both turn a file: URL into a path and drop the fragment, so a section is
opened through a one-line redirect page written to the data directory:
the opener gets a plain path, which every opener keeps, and the browser
follows the redirect to index.html#section itself. The launcher behind
the sign-in's open_in_browser is split out so both share it; the https
check stays with the sign-in.
Android has no path to give a browser: an asset is not a file, a copy in
private storage is unreadable to other apps, a file: URI across apps is
refused, and a content: URI leaves the browser resolving every picture
against the provider. So ManualActivity, a WebView reading
file:///android_asset/manual/index.html straight out of the APK, shows
it, started by class name with the section as an extra. JavaScript is
off, links off the page go to the browser, and the theme is day-night so
the page's own light and dark follow the system. A test checks that the
manifest, the Java class and dr_ui agree on the name and the extra.
The manual's library section described rating and flagging only, and
the outstanding register still said colour labels were "set and shown
nowhere" and that three NFR-A11Y-3 clauses had no test. Both are now
untrue: the manual gives the keys, the Label button and the chips, and
the register names the test file and what it can and cannot vouch for.
docs/ had 26 developer documents flat beside the manual, and the two
audiences are very differently sized: most readers want the manual and
the gesture reference, a few want the register, the designs and the
measurements. The manual and gestures.md stay at the top; everything for
someone changing the code moves to docs/dev/, and the two documents that
name their own successors — the v0.1 milestone and the UI-refinement plan
— go to docs/dev/archive/ rather than being deleted, since both are still
cited. docs/README.md is the index, users first.
Every reference follows: code comments, Cargo manifests, the workflows,
the pre-commit hook, the bench and traceability tools (which locate the
repo root by docs/dev/requirements.md now), packaging, the Docker READMEs,
CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and the README. The matrix links one level
deeper and is regenerated. Links out of the moved documents into the tree
gain a level; a link checker over every Markdown file finds none broken.
A scene that makes a parent, nests two collections in it by drag and by
the menu, files frames into a child and opens the parent to see it count
both; stills of the tree and of the menu. The collections recording is
re-made now that the bitmap under the cursor is the photograph.
drive.py grows a multi-leg drag: a diagonal with much vertical in it is
taken by the grid's Flickable as a scroll before the DragArea can claim
it, so a drag to the sidebar goes sideways first.
The recording sampled a red brick wall and moved the sliders by three
units, which at GIF size is a click that does nothing. The scene now
drags the frame cold first and picks a white air conditioner, so the
correction is visible and the picker's being absolute - set from the
photograph, not from where the sliders were - is what the picture
shows. The text says so, and says a blown highlight is refused.
docs/manual/README.md is a tour for a photographer opening DarkRoom for
the first time — one picture per thing, moving where movement is the
point. tools/manual/ is how the pictures are made: drive.py puppeteers the
desktop build on a private Xvfb (launch, click, drag, type, screenshot,
record), scenes.py is each picture as a script, and record.sh runs them
all over a folder and writes the results into docs/manual/media/.
The media is in LFS, with the CI pulls excluding it as they exclude the
fixtures; a screenshot changes wholesale when the interface does.
Nothing in the pictures shows a person, by design: the demo library is
seventy urban and alpine frames, chosen from the catalog's rows that face
detection found nobody in.
The traceability matrix is regenerated here after the rebase that
brought this branch up to master.
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