Crop, Local and Repair were chips at the head of the develop column, sharing a
row with the adjustment groups and told apart from them by the shape of their
highlight. Three things followed from that, and only the last is cosmetic: the
column closes, so the way out of a mode went away with the way in — hence the
duplicate "Done Cropping" over the canvas; the chips are generated from the
operation set, so the widest thing in the sidebar was a row nobody had chosen
the contents of; and a mode and a filter are different kinds of state wearing
one control.
They are a fixed 60px rail down the left now, generated from a single table in
toolrail.slint. A tool is one row of it plus a drawing plus a ViewMode variant;
nothing in app.slint is touched to add one. What is left of the strip is the
group filters, so it is GroupStrip.
The column stops measuring itself. Every panel published a content-width and
declared it as min-width, and the column took the largest — which spent the
photograph's pixels on whatever happened to be widest, and moved the image
sideways when switching tools swapped one set of panels for another. It is
panel-width now, one number in style.yaml.
That number is 360 and it is measured, not picked: the contents report a
minimum of 344 in every mode, and they do not compress below it because a Text
that does not elide reports the same minimum as preferred. 320 was tried and
sliced Paste down the middle. The Flickable's viewport is floored at the
layout's minimum rather than its preferred width for the same reason — content
that is never told how much room it has cannot adapt to having less.
Removing the eight content-width declarations repairs three comments an
earlier edit had spliced sentences into. The raw histogram's note on keeping
its hint short is rewritten rather than dropped: an over-long hint no longer
widens the column, it pushes the column's minimum past the width it has and
clips the panel, which makes that constraint sharper rather than obsolete.
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A third chip beside Crop and Local, and the mode strip's own comment
predicted the shape: a mode that arms a gesture on the canvas and scopes
the column. Click a mark to cover it, drag the disc to move the repair,
drag the source circle to say where the patch comes from, Delete to remove
it. The source starts two and a half radii towards the middle of the
frame, which is FR-DEV-8's automatic placement in its cheap form — dust
sits on skies and skies are smooth, so it is usually right and always one
drag from fixed.
Two things are drawn deliberately. The circles are the size the repairs
actually are, because whether a disc covers a speck is the whole judgement
being made and a fixed-size dot would say nothing about it; the reach
around them is padded to a touch target so a spot on a dust mark can still
be picked up on a phone. And only the selected repair shows its source: a
dusty sky carries a dozen, and two dozen circles with nothing saying which
belongs to which is less information rather than more.
The panel edits what is stored while the canvas draws what is mapped, and
the two are pushed separately for that reason — a slider deriving its
value from the drawn radius would move differently at different zoom
levels. It is also the one panel built from SliderRow rather than a live
track: a repair has no OpId to coalesce a drag under, so a row that fires
once per gesture is what keeps undo one step per decision.
Verified as far as this environment allows: the strip renders and the
column re-scopes, photographed under XWayland. Synthetic clicks do not
reach this application, so the gestures are as-written rather than
as-felt, and docs/spot-removal.md says so.
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A clone gets the texture right and the level wrong. Dust on a gradient sky
is copied from a patch a little lighter than the hole it fills, and the
repair reads as a disc even though every grain in it is correct — which is
why FR-DEV-8 asks for heal and not only for clone.
Heal adds the membrane: the difference between the two neighbourhoods,
sampled at twenty-four points around the rim and interpolated across the
disc by inverse square distance. Solving the Poisson problem properly is
tens of Jacobi iterations, and an iteration here is a dispatch — sixty
dispatches to remove a dust spot is not a frame budget. The closed form
costs one loop over the rim, no state, and no second pass.
The spec called for mean-value weights; inverse squares are two
transcendentals per sample cheaper and agree wherever the boundary
difference varies smoothly, which is every repair anyone makes. What
decides whether that trade holds is the measurement, so the measurement is
the test: on a ramp steep enough to leave a clone wrong by 38 levels out
of 255, the heal is wrong by 0. docs/spot-removal.md §6.1 records what
shipped and what it would take to go back.
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A spot is a disc, a source offset and four numbers, and it lives beside
`ops` for the reason `masks` and `film` do: the operation trait is
ParamId -> f32, and a list of repairs is neither scalar nor fixed.
Two decisions here are not obvious. The id is derived from the position
rather than counted, because two devices editing offline would each mint
`spot3` for different marks and the sidecar merge would then treat two
repairs as one — from the position, two devices that removed the same
piece of dust agree, and two that removed different ones do not. And
every length is in the frame's isotropic units, not a mixture of those
and shorter-edge fractions: one unit for the radius, the feather and the
offset agrees on a landscape frame and on a portrait one, where a mixture
only agrees on the first.
`rounds` is the arithmetic that keeps a source from reading a
destination. Every spot in one pass reads the photograph as it stood
before that pass, so a spot sourcing from an earlier spot's destination
would copy the mark that spot was removing. Grouping is not a pass per
spot — that is sixty-four dispatches for a case that almost never arises
— it is a new round only when the sources actually collide.
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FR-DEV-8 is the last develop requirement with nothing behind it. The
pipeline it lands on already has most of the parts — the neighbourhood
stage, the mask crate's normalised coordinates, the gradient handles'
canvas drags, the merge-by-id rule — so the spec is mostly about the four
things that are genuinely new, and about the two places where the obvious
implementation is the wrong one: a Poisson solve is sixty dispatches per
spot, and a per-frame readback to find out what colour a sky is would undo
ARCH §6.1.
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