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dtourolle 12d320cf33 Record what the spec got wrong about the model that exists
docs/segmentation.md §4 priced arm B as costing a C dependency under the
NDK and treated that as most of the difference between the arms. It is not
a cost that has to be paid: `ort`'s `alternative-backend` disables its
linking entirely and `ort-tract` supplies the API from tract, which is pure
Rust. D13's "largest exception the policy would tolerate" turns out not to
be needed, and the answer generalises to the face pipeline — so D13's
runtime half is now answered and only its licensing half is open.

Three findings contradict §4 outright and are recorded as F4-F6 rather than
quietly designed around. There is no ADE20K-trained YOLO, so the shipped
vocabulary selects subjects and not stuff — "select the sky" comes from the
watershed or from nowhere. It is instance segmentation, so it partitions
nothing and two people come back as two instances. And tract cannot parse a
dynamic-shape export, which fixes the input at 640 square and makes tiling
the only route to more semantic resolution.

Arm C ships, but §8's criteria are not what decided it, and saying so
matters more than claiming the process worked. §8 asked for a two-
interaction margin over arm A on a traced corpus. That comparison was never
run: F4 and F5 changed what the arms are, and a model that recognises
subjects but has no word for sky cannot be a selection tool alone, while a
watershed cannot tell a person from the wall behind them. They stopped
being candidates and became complements.

What is *not* done is written down as plainly: the 24-image corpus is
untraced, so M1-M4 have no numbers and "this feels right" has not become
one. M5 is answered on one device only, and region ids now reach the
sidecar — so a cross-vendor divergence would mean a mask written on the
desktop meaning something else on Android. F3 stands.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle 9b4f0815e5 Show the regions, click one, and adjust it
The local panel sits above the adjust panel because it decides what those
sliders act on; below it, a photographer would set an exposure and only
then discover which scope it landed in. Selecting a layer re-scopes the
existing controls to that layer's chain — there is no second set of
sliders, and there must not be, or every operation added to `ops/` would
need a local twin.

The overlay is drawn over the canvas rather than blended into the render,
because it is a diagnostic and not an edit: it must not reach the
histogram, an export, or the texture handed to the compositor. Nearest-
neighbour always — the map's values are *names*, so smoothing between
region 4 and region 9 invents a colour belonging to neither and softens
exactly the edge the overlay exists to show.

Picking gets its own touch area above the pan handler. Panning wants
press-drag-release and picking wants a click; interleaving them in one
handler is how a drag ends up selecting a region the user was scrolling
past. Shift is tracked as window state because a TouchArea's click carries
no modifiers.

Three states a layer can be in are worth distinguishing, and each has a
different remedy: stale needs re-segmenting, "no adjustment yet" needs a
slider moved, and the ordinary case needs nothing said. A bare selection
renders nothing and looks identical to a broken mask, which is the first
thing a new user will hit.

Known rough edge, commented where it happens: segmentation blocks the UI
thread for about half a second. Moving it to a worker needs the develop
session — GPU resources behind a RefCell shared with every callback — to
be reachable from another thread, which is a restructuring rather than a
change to the call. The button says "Finding regions…" first so the stall
is announced rather than looking like a hang.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle 5ecb35864f Put the region map behind the sliders that were already there
A mask layer holds a real develop chain, so the develop panel can edit one
with no new controls: select a layer and the same sliders read and write
its chain instead of the graph's. An operation declared in `ops/` tomorrow
becomes locally adjustable by existing, which is the payoff for making a
layer a chain rather than a handful of special-cased parameters.

`segmentation.rs` joins the two arms into the one thing the view needs.
The model reads the image through a neutral graph rather than the edited
one, so a segmentation survives an exposure change instead of being
invalidated by every slider. Arm B failing is not fatal: a missing or
unreadable model leaves a working watershed map, because refusing to
segment at all would trade a working feature for a strict one.

The overlay colours groups by a golden-angle walk over hue. Deterministic
rather than random, so a region keeps its colour across a level change and
the eye can track it; boundaries drawn black over the fill, because two
adjacent groups landing on near hues read as one region and telling them
apart is the whole reason to look at it.

Clicking the photograph creates the layer if none is selected — that is how
a local adjustment begins, and making the user press "add layer" first
would be a step with no decision in it. Shift-click extends, and clicking a
region already selected removes it, so one gesture both adds and corrects.

`segment-readback` is a new dr-gpu feature and not a loosening of
`readback`. The region-graph transfer is once per image on a worker; the
one AC-8 forbids is per frame in the render loop. Sharing a switch would
have forced a build wanting local masking to unlock the other. F3 still
stands and the feature name says so.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle 94cfea4748 Keep the mask when the app closes, and when two devices disagree
The sidecar is authoritative — the catalog is a disposable index and the
RAW is never written — so a mask that does not round-trip is not a
persistence bug, it is lost work.

Layers get their own `[mask <version> <id>]` blocks rather than being
flattened into dotted keys. A layer is not a scalar: it carries a
selection, a geometry and a chain of its own, and encoding a region set as
`m1.region.0 = 12` would be neither readable nor mergeable. The version
uuid is repeated in the header instead of relying on the block following
its version, because "belongs to whichever version appeared above me" is a
relationship that hand-editing, merging and older builds each break
quietly.

Region ids sort and deduplicate on read rather than being trusted from the
file. The mask's identity is the *set*, so two devices writing the same
selection in different orders must produce the same mask rather than
argue about a difference that is not one.

Masks merge by layer id under FR-NC-9, which is the disjoint-survives rule
the parameters already follow one level up: a layer added on the phone and
one added on the desktop both survive. A layer *both* sides edited resolves
wholesale to the higher revision, because half of one selection plus half
of another's opacity is a layer neither person made. A remote deletion is
honoured, or a mask the user removed returns on every sync.

An unknown mask source is skipped rather than guessed at. Applying a newer
format's mask type as the nearest one this build knows would put a
confidently wrong adjustment on the photograph, which is worse than
applying none.

29 new tests. The interesting ones are about silence: a maskless version
clearing the previous image's layers, a bare selection persisting even
though it renders nothing, and a mask naming a version that is not in the
file being dropped instead of landing on whichever block was open.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle c6a846a1f9 Brighten her face without touching the sky behind her
A mask layer is an ordinary develop chain plus a rule about where it
applies. Nothing in the chain knows it is being masked, so every operation
that works globally now works locally and a newly declared op in `ops/`
arrives with local support already done.

The composer emits each layer after the global chain and before the
conversion out of camera space, which is what a photographer means by "and
*then* lift the shadows on her face". Op fragments write to a `c` they
expect to own, so a layer block shadows it and copies the result back out
through a carrier — assigning the outer one from inside is impossible
precisely because it is shadowed. The fused dispatch survives: three global
adjustments and two masked ones remain one shader, one read, one write.

Masks rasterise on the GPU and never exist in CPU memory (ARCH §5.4). That
is the whole reason darktable's brush masks lag, and it is architectural
rather than tuning, so it is not a thing to inherit and fix later.

The rasteriser is a render pass rather than the compute shader it obviously
wants to be, and the format is why: R8Unorm is not a core storage format,
so a compute path has to widen masks to four bytes per pixel — 768 MB
across eight layers of a 24 MP export, against 192 MB at one byte. A colour
attachment takes R8Unorm happily. The array slice comes from the attached
view, so no slot uniform exists to disagree with where the pass writes.

Region masks index a compacted label field rather than the watershed's raw
basin roots, because a root is a sparse index into pixel space and
indexing a per-region array by one would need a table the size of the
image. Changing a selection then costs a few kilobytes, not a re-upload.

Stored as region ids, not as pixels: diffable, mergeable per-field under
FR-NC-9, and cheap in a sidecar. The ids only mean anything alongside the
segmentation that produced them, so each layer carries that signature and
is treated as stale rather than applied when it does not match — a
confidently wrong mask being much worse than an absent one.

Seven device tests render actual frames and read them back. The unit tests
either side check halves that would both pass if the two agreed with each
other and were both wrong; a mask sampled with x and y swapped satisfies
them and fails these.
2026-08-22 08:39:16 +02:00
dtourolle 0da8271836 Let the model say what a thing is and the watershed say where it ends
Local masking needs to know where an image's regions are. The watershed
spike (S15 arm A) found the boundaries but had no idea what any of them
enclosed; its coarse levels were geometric accidents. This adds the other
half and the thing that joins them.

`core/dr-segment` is where region reasoning now lives — the hierarchy moves
out of `dr-gpu`, which keeps only the pixel passes that are genuinely
shaders. The new crate is device-free and, without its default features,
model-free too: 20 of its tests need neither an adapter nor 11 MB of
weights.

Arm B runs YOLO26n-seg through `ort`. D13 framed inference as a choice
between `ort`'s C++ runtime and the pure-Rust dependency policy; that was a
false choice. `ort`'s `alternative-backend` feature unlinks the C entirely
and `ort-tract` supplies the API from tract, which is pure Rust. Measured
before committing to it: zero unsupported operators, 420 ms for 640x640,
and correct masks on bus.jpg. No NDK problem to solve, so D13's largest
tolerated exception is not needed.

Arm C is `prior.rs`, and it ships because the two arms fail in opposite
directions. Instance membership re-weights the merge saddles, so region
pairs the model believes share an object merge early and pairs straddling
its edge merge late. No boundary moves — only the order in which they
dissolve — which is how the result stays pixel-accurate at every level
while its coarse levels become named things.

Two things the spec assumed that turned out to be false, both recorded in
models/LICENCE.md: there is no usable ADE20K-trained YOLO, so the shipped
vocabulary is COCO's 80 subjects and *stuff* like sky and foliage must come
from arm A; and tract cannot parse a dynamic-shape export, so the graph's
input is fixed and tiling is the only route to more semantic resolution.

Weights are AGPL-3.0, which GPLv3 §13 permits and which makes the combined
work effectively AGPL. Deliberate, not accidental. They live in Git LFS,
and a build script fails with an instruction rather than embedding a
pointer file when the clone lacks them.
2026-08-22 08:39:16 +02:00
dtourolle ecd6df686c Read the defect map a raw file carries
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Failing after 54s
Build and test / Layer separation (push) Successful in 22s
Traceability / Requirement traces (push) Failing after 59s
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 12m59s
Build and test / android-image (push) Successful in 13m1s
Build and test / Android (aarch64) (push) Failing after 9m42s
First step of dead pixel removal, and the one that decides whether the
rest is worth building: where the map comes from.

`rawler` is no help. It knows `OpcodeList1/2/3` exist — it copies them
through when *writing* a DNG — but it never decodes them, and the
`dng_tags` map it exposes is only ever filled by callers, never by a
decoder. So the bytes are read from the IFD directly, which this module
was already walking for previews, including the SubIFDs where a DNG keeps
its raw IFD.

`OpcodeList1` specifically: lists 2 and 3 run after demosaic and after the
colour transform, so neither can carry a correction that has to happen on
the mosaic. Two opcodes describe defects — `FixBadPixelsList`, which is
explicit coordinates plus whole dead rows and columns, and
`FixBadPixelsConstant`, which names a sentinel value rather than any
coordinates and is left unimplemented until there is a stage to consume
it. A half-implementation that guessed at coordinates would be worse than
the absence, because it would look like it worked.

Two things the tests pin down because both are silent when wrong: a point
is stored (row, column) and reading it the other way round lands the
correction on the wrong photosite — invisibly, on a square crop — and
opcode payloads are big-endian whatever the container's byte order is, so
a little-endian TIFF still writes these the other way round.

An unknown opcode is stepped over using its declared length rather than
abandoning the list, because a camera that corrected its lens as well as
its sensor writes both, and losing the map whenever a warp is present
would be losing it on most files that have one.

Includes `--example defects`, because whether any of this fires is a
question about a particular library rather than about the specification.
2026-08-21 23:00:10 +02:00
dtourolle caf61d41a5 Re-thumbnail a photograph from its own edit
A thumbnail comes from the file's embedded preview, which is the camera's
idea of the photograph and knows nothing about what has been done to it
since. So a frame could be cropped, turned upright and pulled two stops
back, and the grid would go on showing the original — making the library,
where a photographer spends most of their time, the one view in which an
edit is invisible.

The render is the framed output, not the sensor: `output_size` is what a
crop, a quarter turn, a flip and a straighten all act on, so a thumbnail
taken from the raw frame would be the right pixels in the wrong shape and
still the wrong way up. It is the same path an export takes, at a size
the store wants rather than at full resolution, and always sRGB — this is
a JPEG in a shard that syncs between devices and is drawn as a cell, not
a file anyone is finishing.

Both size classes are replaced. The store keys on the class, so
refreshing only the one the grid happens to be drawing leaves the other
holding the unedited preview, and a zoom across the boundary would show
the edit undoing itself. Each is rendered rather than downscaled from the
larger, which would be a second and worse resampler than the GPU has
already applied.

It runs on the way out of develop, after the sidecar write is queued and
never instead of it — the edit is what must not be lost, and a render
that failed must not take the save down with it. Two cases are worth the
work: an edit made in this sitting, which `can-undo` records even when it
ends back at neutral, and an image opened with an edit already in its
sidecar and left untouched, whose cached thumbnail has never shown that
edit at all. A neutral image nobody touched fails both and costs nothing.

Not covered: a batch paste onto a selection, which deliberately never
opens a session — there is no rendered frame to take a thumbnail from,
and downloading forty RAWs to make forty is exactly what that path exists
to avoid.
2026-08-21 22:48:10 +02:00
dtourolle 3085ec4d2e Leave the stars on screen on a touch device
**Hover is not something a finger does, but Slint reports it anyway.**
`has-hover` goes true for any pointer event carrying a position, a touch
press included, and false again on the `Exit` that follows the release.

So the rating strip did appear on a tablet — for exactly the length of a
tap. It flashed on under the finger, vanished as it lifted, and the tap
carried on through to the cell and opened the photograph. An unjudged
frame could not be rated from the grid at all. The previous fix stopped
the strip disappearing when a *pointer* moved onto it; this is the same
symptom with a different cause, and hover was the wrong signal in the
first place.

The strip now stands open where the session is a touch one. That is
seeded from the platform rather than inferred, because inference needs a
press to reach a cell and a quick flick never delivers one — the Flickable
claims the gesture before the delay it would forward after — and a
control that only appears once the finger is down has appeared too late
to aim at. The grid still latches on the first non-zero touch id it sees,
which is what covers a touchscreen on the desktop.

One-way on purpose: a tablet with a mouse plugged in keeps the strips
once touched, which is the harmless direction to be wrong in. The
alternative is chrome that comes and goes as the user changes hands.
2026-08-21 22:35:14 +02:00
dtourolle 2fba685e16 Make a pinch zoom the grid and nothing else
Two faults left over from making the gesture reach the grid at all.

**It still opened photographs.** Checking the finger id stops the
synthetic release Slint emits when the *second* finger lands, but not the
other end of the gesture: lifting one finger of two leaves the other one
down, and Slint replays that survivor as a fresh `Pressed` on whatever is
under it — which is how it hands the pointer back to ordinary handling.
Under it is a cell. So the cell was selected, and lifting that last finger
was a complete, well-formed click on the same finger that pressed. No
part of the event stream distinguishes it from a real tap, so the grid now
remembers that a pinch just happened: a latch raised when the gesture
starts and lowered a beat after it ends, during which cells take neither
presses nor clicks.

The press that *opens* a pinch is undone rather than suppressed — it has
already happened by the time a second finger makes it a pinch. Undoing it
has to be exact, or a cancel that restored the selection but left the
anchor moved would make the next shift-click select a run from a cell
nobody pointed at, so capture and restore are a tested pair.

**And it was not smooth.** Two reasons. The pinch was thresholded into ±1
steps of 25%, so the grid lurched and then sat still; it now takes the
ratio since the last update and tracks the fingers, with the drawn cell
still landing on whole column counts because the columns divide the
width. And `zoom-cells` was the one geometry change still reloading
inline — a full catalog re-read, 360-row model rebuild and thumbnail
batch per step, on the thread drawing the frame. It goes through the same
settle timer as the rest now.
2026-08-21 22:03:46 +02:00
dtourolle 6ae0af3f72 Swipe up in develop for the photo roll
Develop opens one photograph. The grid handed over a path and nothing
else, so `index` and `total` were pinned to "1 of 1" on the way in and the
only route to the next frame was back to the library, find your place,
tap again. Fine once; intolerable through a set of forty, which is the
situation the develop view exists for.

The roll is the grid's already-loaded window along the foot of the
canvas. Swipe up to bring it out, swipe down to put it away — the sheet
gesture, already in the hands of anyone who has used a phone — and a
handle is drawn at the edge so the gesture is discoverable rather than
folklore, and so a pointer, which has no swipe to make, has a way in.

`SwipeGestureHandler` wraps the strip rather than sitting over or under
it, which is what it is built for: it delays a press the way a Flickable
does, forwards it to the children if no swipe develops and claims it once
one does, so a tap reaches the thumbnail and a drag does not. It covers
only the band along the bottom — above that, a drag still belongs to the
photograph, for panning and for the crop.

Picking goes through the same path a cell click does, so the outgoing
edit is persisted before the next image loads. The strip marks what is
open and scrolls to keep the mark in view.

The position readout now says where in the *library* the open photograph
sits rather than "1 of 1". Set after the open rather than before, since
the generic open path resets it — and given as the library ordinal, not
the row in the loaded window, which is an artefact of how much has been
paged in and would jump about as the window moves.
2026-08-21 21:10:44 +02:00
dtourolle c72f197880 Stop a row of buttons deciding how wide the grid is
**A Slint layout cannot be narrower than its children's minimums.** Given
less room than they need it lays them out at those minimums, lets the row
run past the edge — and reports the oversized minimum upwards.

That second half is what made this more than cosmetic. The header, the
filter chips and the grid are siblings in one VerticalLayout, so the
widest row's minimum became the whole view's minimum: `LibraryGrid` was
laid out wider than the window. The grid then measured itself against
that inflated box and sized its columns to fill space that was off the
screen, so the right-hand column was cut by the edge no matter what the
tiling arithmetic did. Fourteen filter chips do not fit across 768
logical pixels, so that was every tablet in portrait.

It also explains why opening the collections sidebar did not reflow the
grid. The view was already pinned at a minimum wider than the window, so
taking 232px away for the sidebar could not shrink it — it just clipped
more of it.

Each of those rows is now a horizontal Flickable. A Flickable's own
minimum is nothing, since it exists to be smaller than what it holds, so
none of them can inflate anything — and the controls past the edge became
reachable instead of merely absent. Applied to all four: the library
header, the filter chips, the compact action row disclosed by "More", and
the develop strip.
2026-08-21 21:00:49 +02:00
dtourolle d2c909414c Stop zooming rebuilding the grid twice a frame
A pinch is not one zoom step, it is a stream of them, and every step
changes both the column count and the capacity — two reports. Each report
re-queried the catalog, rebuilt all 360 rows of the model, re-read the
badges and ratings for every one of them and spawned a thumbnail batch,
synchronously, on the thread trying to draw the frame. Twice per step.
That is why zooming juddered while scrolling the same grid is smooth: a
scroll reloads a few times per screenful, a zoom reloaded twice a frame.

None of that work is urgent, because none of it is about which
photographs are on screen. The window holds the same images however they
are laid out — the model already has them, and the cells re-flow from
`columns` and `cell-size` with Rust not involved at all. What the reload
actually recomputes is which cells begin a row, so the month headings
land correctly, and which thumbnail size class to ask for now. Both can
wait for the gesture to finish, so both are now coalesced behind a single
settle timer: replacing the timer drops the previous one, and only the
last report of a run lives long enough to fire.

The anchor is captured on the first report of a run rather than read when
the timer fires. As the grid re-flows the viewport keeps its pixel offset
while the rows move underneath it, so the view drifts and reports the
drift; reading the anchor at the end would faithfully return to wherever
it had wandered. Taking it at the start returns to the photograph the
user was looking at when they started the gesture.
2026-08-21 20:44:56 +02:00
dtourolle 12a457b8d0 Tile the thumbnails to fill the width
The cells were drawn at whatever pixel size the class asked for and the
remainder was left as a bare strip down the right-hand side — up to one
short of a full column of nothing, which on a phone is a quarter of the
screen.

It also had the two quantities depending on each other the wrong way
round. The column count was derived from the fixed cell size, so the two
could disagree about how much room there was and the last column could
start inside the viewport and end outside it.

Solving for the cell removes both at once. Pick how many columns of
roughly the requested size fit — rounded, not floored, because the size
class is a request rather than a measurement and a width nine tenths of
the way to another column should take it — then make those columns share
the width. `columns` cells and the `columns + 1` gaps around them come to
exactly the grid's width, so there is no remainder to strand and nothing
can overhang.

The size class still decides what the user gets, since it is what the
column count is chosen from. It just no longer dictates the pixel, so the
cell flexes a few percent either way to make the row come out even.
2026-08-21 20:44:48 +02:00
dtourolle 90d6e551b3 Give the develop strip room for its controls on a tablet
The render backend, the layout class and the frame rate are developer
readouts, and they were sitting in the middle of the one strip that also
carries the way out of develop, the undo pair, the panel toggle and
export. A HorizontalLayout given less width than its children's minimums
does not shrink them — it runs off the end.

A tablet in portrait is 768 logical pixels, which is not enough, so
everything from the panel toggle rightwards was pushed off the right-hand
edge. Below the breakpoint the develop column is *also* closed by
default, so a toggle that could not be reached meant the column could not
be opened at all — and copy and paste live in that column. That is the
whole of "I have no idea how to copy a setting on Android and apply it to
other images": there was no way to.

The three readouts now collapse to zero width below the breakpoint. Width
and not an `if`, because this strip is inside the layout that `expanded`
feeds and a conditional child here is the shape that has already caused
binding loops in this file — and because a `visible: false` child still
takes its slot in a layout, so hiding alone would have freed nothing.
2026-08-21 20:38:48 +02:00
dtourolle 1980fda737 Show the library on launch instead of scanning first
A launch does not have to discover the library. The catalog from the last
run is on disk, complete, with its thumbnails in the shards beside it —
exactly the state offline mode already leans on when the server cannot be
reached.

Every launch that *could* reach the server threw that away. The catalog
handle was only opened when the scan reported Done, so the grid sat on
"Scanning…" over an empty EmptyState for as long as a recursive WebDAV
walk of the whole tree takes. On a real library that walk is essentially
the whole startup time, and it was spent hiding a grid that was ready
before it began.

The catalog is now opened and the first window loaded before the scan
thread is spawned — before, so the schema migration cannot race the
worker opening the same file, and so the first thumbnail batch is already
in flight while the walk runs. The scan still replaces all of it the
moment it lands; it just no longer gates the first paint on the network.

A first run has nothing to open, which stays silent: `Catalog::open`
creates the file, the grid reads an empty catalog, and the empty state
goes on saying "Scanning…" — which is true, and which an error here would
contradict.
2026-08-21 20:35:54 +02:00
dtourolle 80f1a210cc Keep the view pointing at the same photograph when the columns change
Two faults behind "the gallery randomly glitches to blank and needs a
scroll to reset it", and behind the scrolling that skips.

Cells are drawn at their absolute place in the library, so the row a
photograph sits on is `index / columns`. When `columns` changes every
cell moves — and the Flickable's `viewport-y` did not move with them. The
view was left pointing at a row that now holds entirely different
photographs, typically thousands of images from the ones the loaded
window covers, so the grid drew nothing at all. It stayed that way until
a scroll reported a first-visible row and dragged the window back under
the view, which is exactly the reset the user found. None of its triggers
are rare: a resize, the collections sidebar opening, a zoom step, or
turning the tablet over.

The last first-visible ordinal names the photograph being looked at, so
it is now sent back through `scroll-to` and the view lands on that same
photograph at whatever row it now occupies.

The second fault is the window-move test. At either end of a scope the
window is pinned — the first screenful cannot be centred further back
than zero, the last cannot start past the last full screenful — so the
margin test was unsatisfiable there and every row crossed in the first or
last quarter of a window re-read the catalog, rebuilt the model and
issued a thumbnail batch to arrive at the offset it already held. On a
library of twenty-odd thousand that is a stutter at the top and the
bottom of every collection, which is where a cull begins and ends.

The decision is now a rule with tests rather than four lines inside the
scroll handler: both of its ways of being wrong are invisible in the code
and obvious on a tablet.
2026-08-21 20:34:01 +02:00
dtourolle deabac0923 Carry a photograph's thumbnail across a reload
Work in progress found uncommitted in the tree, committed as its own
change so the fixes that follow can be read separately. Not authored in
this session; the description below is written from the diff.

`load_window` rebuilds every row, and a scroll reloads once the view has
travelled a quarter of the loaded window — so three quarters of the cells
being rebuilt are the same photographs already on screen. Rebuilding them
empty blanked the grid to `Theme.ground` and refilled it a beat later,
once a worker had re-read and re-decoded each one from the store. That is
the black flash on every screenful of scrolling, and on a column change,
a zoom step, a filter and a return from develop.

Thumbnails are now held by `image_id` across the swap — a refcount per
cell, no pixels move — along with the "no preview" verdict, which is an
answer about the file worth keeping for the same reason. `requested` is
rebuilt from what the new model actually holds rather than cleared, so a
carried cell is not fetched again while one newly scrolled in still is.
The size class each cell's pixels came from is tracked alongside, so a
grid zoomed past that class still asks for the sharper one.

Also guards the whole `scrolled` and `columns-changed` handlers on
`show-library` rather than just the resume latch: a Flickable being torn
down passes its viewport through zero, which was indistinguishable from a
fling to the top and reloaded the window against the first rows of the
catalog every time an image was opened.
2026-08-21 20:31:48 +02:00
dtourolle 4d8196174c Let the grid be pinched instead of opening an image
Two separate faults, both only reachable with a second finger.

The gesture never arrived. `ScaleRotateGestureHandler` was sized `100%`
inside the Flickable, which is the Flickable's own height, not its
viewport's — so the handler was one screenful tall at the top of a
viewport thousands of rows long. A pinch is delivered to whatever lies
under the midpoint of the two fingers, so it landed on the handler only
while the grid was scrolled to the very top and found nothing anywhere
else. Sized to `viewport-height` now, exactly as `zoom-catcher` above it
already is.

And the attempt opened a photograph. When a second finger lands Slint
closes the first one's gesture by synthesising a `Released` at its
position — that is how a Flickable is persuaded to let go of a scroll it
has already claimed. A TouchArea cannot tell that release from a real one
and fires `clicked`, so every pinch opened whichever image the first
finger was resting on.

The finger id separates them: the synthetic release carries the id of the
finger that *arrived*, never the one that pressed. `clicked` fires before
the pointer event that names the finger, so it now only raises a flag and
the `up` handler decides. A mouse reports 0 for both, leaving the desktop
path exactly as it was.
2026-08-21 20:30:20 +02:00
dtourolle 892da2662a Keep the stars on screen long enough to click one
The rating strip was a sibling of the cell's TouchArea, declared after it
so that hit-testing reached the stars first. That half worked: a star
click set a rating without also opening the image.

The other half did not. Hover is tracked per TouchArea, and Slint sends
`Exit` to any item that drops out of the hit path. The strip taking the
pointer is exactly that — `cell-touch` left the path, `has-hover` went
false, and `show-empty` went with it. On an unrated cell the stars are
drawn *only* on hover, so they vanished as the pointer arrived at them;
the click then landed on the cell behind and opened the image. Reported
as "the star menu disappears when I click on an image", which is
precisely what it does.

Nesting the strip inside `cell-touch` keeps both halves. Children are
hit-tested before the element containing them, so a star still wins the
click and still ends the walk before `cell-clicked` runs. And an ancestor
stays on the item stack: it gets no `Exit`, and while a child holds the
grab it is handed the event filter and never the event. Hover therefore
holds for as long as the pointer is anywhere in the cell.
2026-08-21 20:29:10 +02:00
dtourolle 76a751f125 Measure the grid against the grid, not the whole view
`cell-size`, `columns` and `visible-rows` were all derived from the
LibraryGrid's own width and height. The cells are not drawn in that box:
the capture-time axis is a sibling of the grid, 96px of it, and the
header takes another 44px off the top.

So `columns` counted the timeline as room for thumbnails and fitted one
more column than there was space for. The last column started inside the
Flickable and ended outside it — clipped, with no sideways scroll to
reach it. At the 180px size class on a phone in portrait the timeline is
a quarter of the screen, which is most of a column.

`visible-rows` was wrong the same way and fed `capacity`, so every window
over-fetched by the ratio of the header to the viewport.

Both now read `grid-area`, the layout the cells actually live in. That is
a descendant, and reading a descendant's geometry is the shape that
causes binding loops elsewhere in this UI — but not here: nothing derived
from these feeds back into the layout. The cells are placed absolutely
inside the Flickable and a Flickable's layout constraints are a bare
`stretch: 1` that its viewport cannot influence.
2026-08-21 20:28:12 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 3cfa78cde2 Give the app a face and a name on the launcher
There was no icon anywhere, and on Android that was not a missing line in the
manifest. `aapt2 link` was being handed a manifest and nothing else, so the
APK carried no res/ and no resources.arsc — there was no table for an
`@mipmap/...` reference to resolve against even if one had been written.
Packaging now compiles the resource tree first and links the result in, which
is the two steps aapt2 insists on: link reads compiled input only, never a
directory.

That absent table is also why the launcher caption was blank, which had
looked like a second, separate bug. `android:label="DarkRoom"` was there and
correct the whole time, and Settings' App info read it fine; the launcher
could not, because resolving a label goes through the package's Resources and
there were none to open. Nothing about the label changed here. It came back
with the table under it.

`android:icon` then names one drawable for both icon generations, because the
`anydpi-v26` qualifier is what separates them. API 26 and up take the adaptive
icon and its three layers; the third of those, monochrome, is what lets
Android 13 recolour it rather than drop the app out of the themed set. Below
26 the same name lands on a density-matched PNG. `roundIcon` is deliberately
absent — a launcher old enough to read it is one that would ignore the
adaptive XML, and minSdk is 28.

The desktop icon is one `@image-url` on the window, and the only raster asset
in a UI that is otherwise entirely Path. The reasoning at the top of
icons.slint does not reach it: that is about glyphs a font might not carry,
and this image is never drawn by us at all. It goes to the window manager,
which wants pixels and composites them unmasked, so it is pre-shaped with
rounded corners rather than square the way the Android layers are.

Which exposed Slint's resource default. An `@image-url` compiles down to the
absolute path it had on the build machine, to be opened at runtime — already
wrong for Android, where the build happens under /work inside a container and
no such directory exists on the device, and wrong silently, as an image that
loads empty. `EmbedFiles` puts the bytes in the binary instead. It reaches
nothing else, since every glyph is a Path.

Verified on a device: the APK installs and the home screen draws both the
icon and "DarkRoom" under it, where before it had neither. In the link step
the adaptive icon resolves at all six densities and resources.arsc lands
uncompressed, which API 30 requires and the existing zipalign preserves. On
the desktop by reading _NET_WM_ICON off the running window — 256x256, as
handed over. Where that actually shows is narrower than it sounds, and the
comment says so: Wayland ignores the property in favour of matching app_id
against an installed .desktop file, which this repo does not install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 20:25:22 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 ca833b6d2b Give every colour band its own compiled shader
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The colour mixer emits a code block and a uniform only for the bands that
are set, so which bands are adjusted is part of the shader's structure. The
pipeline cache key was not: it hashed the set of *active operations*, which
is "colour_mixer" whichever band that is.

So a red adjustment and a blue one hashed alike. The second render was handed
the first's compiled pipeline while its uniform was uploaded into a slot that
shader had assigned to another band — whichever band compiled first kept
acting on every subsequent move, and every other slider did nothing at all.
Red is the first band declared, and the one reported as the only one working.

The hash is now taken over the generated WGSL, because the source is what
gets compiled and therefore is the structure. A summary of what went into it
has to be kept in step with every operation's code generation by hand, and
this one had fallen out of step. Values still do not enter it: no operation
writes a parameter value into its source, so a slider drag regenerates
identical text and reuses the pipeline, and one that did inline a value would
have to recompile to be correct anyway.

`each_colour_band_gets_its_own_pipeline` in dr-gpu renders a blue pixel
through one pass with red set first and then blue, and fails on the old hash
with the reported symptom — the blue slider returning the pixel unchanged to
the byte.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 15:23:04 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f76e024f41 Straighten a portrait frame in the frame the user is looking at
The framing prologue built the centred position `p` by scaling with the
source's aspect, then straightened, then permuted the quarter turns. On a
landscape frame those are one space and it worked. Once a turn has swapped
the axes — the rotate button, or a file whose EXIF tag says the camera was
held sideways — they are not: `p` was measured with the source's ruler on a
frame that is no longer that shape, stretching one axis against the other by
(w/h)², which is 2.25 on a 3:2 photograph.

The quarter-turn permutation happened to undo that stretch, so rotation alone
looked right, which is how this survived. The straighten in between did not,
and a rotation in a space whose axes carry different scales is a shear.

`p` is now built in `frame_aspect` — the frame as the user sees it — and the
permutation becomes the one place the two rulers meet: each axis divided by
the aspect it is read from, multiplied by the aspect it is written to.

Asserted on pixels rather than on the generated WGSL, because reading the
shader and reasoning about which space `p` lives in is how the wrong formula
got written in the first place: a disc, straightened by 20° on a turned 3:2
frame, must come back circular by every route to a swapped frame — the
button, the tag, and the two composed.

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2026-08-18 15:17:54 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f1cd6ed5b3 Make the drop decision a rule that can be tested
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The gesture is Slint's and cannot be driven from a test — synthetic drags
do not reach a DragArea at all — but the decision it leads to is where
this can actually go wrong, and it was buried in a callback.

`decide_drop` names the three outcomes and the order that separates them:
an image drag always fills the payload, so photographs pressed after a
row was clicked are still filed rather than read as a rearrangement. A row
dropped on itself is a no-op here rather than a cycle error from the
catalog, and an empty drag with nothing remembered — a file from another
application — leaves the tree alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 23:12:11 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 6acc73a9fa Drag a collection onto another to nest it
The tree could be built nested but never rearranged: `set_parent` existed,
with its cycle check and its tests, and nothing in the UI called it. A
collection created in the wrong place stayed there.

Each row is already a drop target, so it becomes a `DragArea` too —
wrapped at the instantiation site the way the grid's cells are, which
keeps the row's own TouchArea nested underneath and a click still
selecting. `allow-move`, not copy: a collection has one parent, unlike a
photograph, which is filed in as many collections as you like.

The drop is handed only the target's id, so the source is remembered from
the press that precedes the drag — Slint builds the payload through a
`pure` binding, which must not have side effects. An image drag always
fills `dragging`, so an empty payload with a remembered row is
unambiguously a rearrangement; the row is taken rather than read, or a
later empty drop would move a collection nobody touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 22:54:50 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 edcaf42ded Show only the photographs taken in the period you are looking at
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The library could be narrowed by rating, flag and availability, but not
by when a photograph was taken — so finding a fortnight meant scrolling
to it and holding position.

The range rides on `RatingFilter` for the reason `local_only` already
does: every query path threads that one struct, so the count in the
header cannot claim a total the grid does not draw. Undated images are
excluded whenever either end is set — they cannot be inside or outside a
span, and drawing them made the range look as though it had not applied.

Taken from the timeline rather than typed into two date fields. Finding
the period is what the histogram is for, and having found it the user
should not have to read the dates off the axis and key them back in.
The histogram keeps drawing the full extent while the range is on, or
there would be nowhere to widen back out from.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 22:38:26 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d2d5d6f22b Keep the selection visible when the grid scrolls under it
Scrolling rebuilds every cell, and a fresh cell carries `selected: false`.
`sync_badges` and `sync_ratings` refilled what the rebuild cleared;
nothing refilled the selection, so the ticks vanished on every scroll.

The selection itself was never lost — it is a set of image ids and
survives untouched — which made this worse than losing it: the header
buttons still acted on forty photographs the user could no longer see
were held.

`load_window` reaches the selection through a `Weak` handle set at
wiring. Weak because the two controllers are joined only through the
window, and an `Rc` each way would leak both; absent, the grid draws
nothing selected, which is what it did before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 22:30:37 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 02d629922f Draw the date histogram over the collection you are looking at
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The timeline counted the whole library whatever the grid was showing, so
opening a collection left a fortnight in Arosa as one column of a
fifteen-year axis — an axis describing photographs that were not on
screen.

Scope the buckets and the span to the same collection and rating filter
the grid uses. `timeline_range` counts `images` alone and cannot express
the membership join, so the scoped query lives beside the other scoped
readers in the UI and shares their descendants-of-scope rule.

`catalog_span` now delegates to the same scoped reader. Zoom and scrub
measured the full library while the bars were scoped, so a scrub could
land on an instant the collection did not contain and send the view
somewhere the user had not asked to go.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 22:15:59 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b0206cbc7a Let a sub-collection stay under its parent through a sync
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The merge inserted every incoming collection with `parent_id = NULL` and
never set it on update, so the hierarchy flattened on each round trip: a
collection nested on one device came back from the server at the top
level. `r.parent_id` was selected and then not read.

The id could not be copied — row ids are local, and the remote's integer
names a different collection here, or none. So carry the parent's uuid
and resolve it locally, in a second pass: rows arrive in whatever order
the query returns, and a child can precede its parent.

Guard the resolution against cycles. Each tree is acyclic alone, but the
union need not be — we may hold A above B while the remote holds B above
A — and closing that loop would make every tree walk spin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 21:55:09 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 5700c37016 Look before overwriting the file we are asking about
The probe PUT its bytes first and read the outcome, which answers the
question by destroying the evidence: pointed at a real sidecar it would
replace an edit with the word "probe", and on success delete it outright.

PROPFIND first. Permissions and status usually settle create-versus-update
on their own, and a path that already exists is now reported and left
alone. `--write` still forces the update test for a file worth losing, and
the cleanup DELETE fires only for a path the probe itself created.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 20:40:36 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 18f20170b3 Ask the file, not its folder, why the write was refused
The 403 probe read `oc:permissions` off the parent collection and warned
when `W` was missing. But Nextcloud reports `W` on files and `CK` on
collections, so a directory legitimately lacks `W`: the warning fired on
a healthy share and pointed at a mount that was fine.

Probe the file itself. Its permissions answer the question that matters,
and the status distinguishes the two cases the parent could not: a 404
means the sidecar does not exist and the refusal was about creating it,
while a 200 without `W` means it exists and cannot be updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 20:38:48 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 6621c11ad6 Diagnose the refused sidecar: the library mount is create-only
Ratings and edits made on the tablet queue and are then refused on reconnect,
on a credential that pushes the catalog to the same library root in the same
sync pass. Chased on the device, since that is where the account lives.

A failed PUT now logs the server's own words, and on a 403 asks the parent
what rights it reports. The answer:

    PUT .../PhotosRaw/2026/2026-08-03/_MG_9221.drsc -> 403
      <s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\Forbidden</s:exception>
      parent permissions: MGNVCK

`M` mounted, `G` readable, `N` renameable, `V` moveable, `CK` create files and
folders. Absent: `W`, update an existing file, and `D`, delete. So `PhotosRaw`
is a mounted share that accepts a file once and refuses every change to it
afterwards.

That is the whole bug, and it is not one this side can retry its way out of. A
sidecar is rewritten on every rating and every edit, so the first judgement on
a photograph is written and every later one is refused — which reads as sync
being broken rather than as a share missing one permission. **The fix is to
grant update, and ideally delete, on that mount.**

`PermissionDenied` now says so, rather than "not allowed to write here", which
sent the reader to re-check a login that was working. Its test asserts the
intent — points at the folder, never at the credential — rather than a
phrase, so saying it better cannot read as a regression.

Also adds a `put_probe` example that makes the same request from a stored
session, for diagnosing this from a desktop when one is signed in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 20:19:27 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 71554714e7 Log why the server refused a write, in its own words
A queued sidecar fails to upload with 403 on a credential that pushes the
catalog to the same library root in the same pass. `map_status` reduces every
non-success to a typed error, which is right for the application and leaves
nothing to work from: a read-only share, a file access control rule and a lock
all arrive as `PermissionDenied`.

Sabre says which in the response body. It is now logged on any failed PUT —
the URL, the status, and the first line naming the exception or message,
capped at 300 characters because an error page can be a whole document. Only
on failure; a success has no body worth reading.

Also adds a `put_probe` example that makes the same request from a stored
session and prints the reason, for diagnosing this from a desktop rather than
from a tablet's logcat. It needs a session on the machine it runs on, which is
why the log line above exists as well.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 20:08:07 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 09f6cf8c0f Name the sidecar the drain could not deliver
The write path learned to say which file the server refused; the drain path —
the one that runs for work queued while offline — still reported only a count.
That is the path that matters most, because everything it carries was made
with no connection and exists on one device.

With it named, the failure on the tablet is:

    draining PhotosRaw/2026/2026-08-03/_MG_9221.drsc:
    permission denied

on a credential that pushes the catalog to the same library root in the same
pass. So this is not the account and not the app password: one path is
writable and another is not, which points at the server — a read-only share
over that folder, or a file access control rule on the extension — rather than
at anything this side can retry its way out of.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 14:21:00 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 6a7ed37aed Say which sidecar the server refused, and where
A queued sidecar failing to upload was reported as a count and a reason —
"1 queued sidecar(s) still undelivered: permission denied" — with the path
only at debug level, which the app filters out by default.

That is unsynced user work: a rating or an edit that exists on one device and
nowhere else. Which photograph it belongs to, and which path the server
refused, is the whole of what makes the failure actionable, and without it a
403 on a single file reads the same as a whole library failing to sync.

Observed on the tablet, where writes to the derived folder succeed on the same
credential — the catalog pushes fine — while one sidecar beside its image is
refused. That combination says the path matters and the account does not, so
the path is the thing worth printing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 14:11:30 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 dea826811e Render a blown highlight white instead of magenta
Every clipped sky came out bright pink. Measured, not guessed: developing
_MG_8596.CR2 and looking at the export, the subject renders correctly and only
the saturated region is wrong.

A fully clipped pixel reaches the shader as (1, 1, 1) — three photosites that
stopped counting, carrying no colour at all. The as-shot multipliers are not
neutral, so balancing sends it to (1.93, 1.00, 1.68) on this body, and the
camera matrix turns that into R 2.88, G 0.51, B 2.03. Red and blue clip at
one; green, whose matrix row is far less positive-heavy, does not. Red and
blue high with green low is magenta.

Nothing upstream was at fault, which is why the two previous attempts missed
it: the white balance is correct, the matrix is correct, and the sensor
normalisation is correct. The input simply was not a colour, and correct
arithmetic on a non-colour produces a confident wrong answer.

So saturation is detected before the balance is applied — the last 1.5% of
range, smoothstepped rather than switched, because a hard threshold draws a
visible rim around every highlight and a backlit edge on skin is where that
shows. Above it the pixel is pulled to the neutral of its own brightness, so
it keeps its luminance and loses only the cast.

Verified end to end on the file itself: the sky is white, the skin, the black
dresses and the stone are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:17:15 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 31e20399c8 Read the true white level, and clamp the sensor stage at both ends
Two corrections to the sensor stage, found while chasing magenta highlights.
Neither is the cause of that — see below — but both are wrong on their own
terms.

`white_level` took the *first* of rawler's per-channel saturation points. On a
Canon 6D that reports 15070 while the data reaches 16383, so every sample
above it was treated as brighter than white. It takes the maximum now.

The normalisation clamped its floor and not its ceiling, so those over-white
samples passed through as values above 1.0. Clamped at both ends.

**This does not fix the pink.** Measured on _MG_8596.CR2, exported and looked
at: the subject renders correctly and only the blown sky is magenta. A fully
clipped pixel is (1,1,1) in raw, the as-shot balance multiplies it to
(1.93, 1.00, 1.68), and the camera matrix turns that into R 2.88, G 0.51,
B 2.03 — red and blue clip at one, green does not, and the result is magenta.
It is correct white balance applied to already-saturated data, which is the
classic highlight-clipping cast and needs highlight desaturation to fix: a
pixel at saturation carries no colour information and must be rendered
neutral, not balanced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:13:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 7d0fb710a6 Bound a readback by time, so a full-resolution export can finish
Exporting a real 20 MP CR2 failed every time with "readback did not
complete", while the copy itself was perfectly healthy.

The bound was 100,000 non-blocking polls. That sounds generous and is not: a
`Poll` that finds nothing returns immediately, so the loop spent its entire
budget in a few milliseconds. Small transfers — the histogram's 4 KB, a
viewport-sized frame — happened to land inside it. An 80 MB frame never could.

It is a deadline now, thirty seconds, which is the only thing the bound was
ever for: catching a lost device that will never deliver the callback. A
one-millisecond pause after the first sixty-four spins stops the loop
saturating a core for the length of the copy, while keeping a small transfer
as immediate as it was.

Found by developing /home/dtourolle/Downloads/_MG_8596.CR2 through the export
example: 5472×3648 renders in 127 ms and writes all five formats.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:13:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f1f528fc42 Stop rendering a missing white balance as neutral, which came out pink
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`sane_wb` replaced any coefficient it could not use with 1.0. That reads as a
safe default and is not one. A Bayer sensor's green photosites collect roughly
twice the signal of its red and blue, so unbalanced data is strongly green —
and the camera matrix is built assuming the data reaching it has already been
balanced. Fed green-heavy input it subtracts green as designed, overshoots,
and the frame lands in magenta. Bodies whose as-shot coefficients rawler does
not report came out pink, and nothing anywhere said why.

The fallback is now the camera's own response to daylight, which
`cam_to_srgb_from` was already computing on its way to balancing the matrix
and then discarding. `daylight_wb` exposes it, and both callers read the same
matrix through the same illuminant preference — so the multipliers neutralise
exactly the white the matrix expects to be neutral, by construction rather
than by coincidence. With no matrix either, the body is unknown and neutral is
the honest answer: uncalibrated beats wrong in a specific direction.

A test caught me returning the response rather than its reciprocal, which
inverts the correction — a sensor is *least* sensitive to the channel needing
the largest multiplier, so that version boosted precisely the wrong one. The
doc comment now says which of the two it returns, because they differ by an
inversion and look alike.

Four tests, on a real matrix (Canon 6D, D65) rather than a contrived one: the
fallback is nowhere near neutral, lifts both red and blue against green, stays
green-normalised, and — the property that makes it consistent rather than
merely plausible — balancing by it and then applying the matrix maps the
camera's white to a neutral sRGB.

`daylight_wb` is also the anchor the white-balance presets need: a preset in
kelvin requires an absolute illuminant to be a preset *of*, and the temperature
control is currently a relative offset from whatever the camera chose.

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2026-08-17 13:03:03 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d2024da368 Scroll the develop column as one, histogram and all
Only the sliders scrolled. The capture metadata, the histogram, the geometry
controls and copy-and-paste all sat above them in a fixed layout, so on a
280px column in portrait they took the height the sliders needed — and the
histogram, which is the instrument the sliders are judged against, could
neither be scrolled to nor scrolled past.

The Flickable moves out of `AdjustPanel` and around the whole column. Nesting
one inside the other was not an option: a slider drag already has to be won
against one scroller, and a second would give it a third thing to be lost to.

`slider-dragging` becomes an `out` property for the same reason. The
arbitration is unchanged and still necessary — a track stands the scroller
down as soon as a finger touches it, or every attempt to drag a slider would
scroll the column instead — but the scroller obeying it now lives a level up.
The scroll gutter stays where it is, as padding inside the content: it is what
guarantees somewhere to put a thumb that means "scroll" and nothing else, and
it matters more now that it serves the entire column.

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2026-08-17 12:53:04 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 654c11300e Pin the framing geometry on pixels, not on the generated shader
Chasing a reported shear on rotate and straighten. Two tests, and what they
prove is that the pipeline is not where it comes from.

A circle is the shape that makes anisotropy unmissable: any transform scaling
the axes unequally returns an ellipse, and the ratio of its axes is the error.
Both a quarter turn and a 20° straighten, on a 3:2 frame, return a circle
within 8%.

Worth recording because I had a confident and wrong hypothesis first. The
quarter turn carries `* aspect.x` on one component and `/ aspect.x` on the
other, which reads like an anisotropy of a-squared, and the reasoning that
`p` is already isotropic is plausible enough that I changed it. The existing
`a_quarter_turn_corrects_for_aspect_across_the_swap` caught that immediately,
and these tests then showed the original was right all along: the crop rect is
expressed in the *turned* frame and the output axes swap with it, so the
factors are the conversion between those spaces rather than a mistake.

Reading the shader and reasoning about which space `p` lives in is exactly how
a plausible formula gets written twice. These assert on real pixels off a real
adapter instead, so the next person to suspect this transform can rule it out
in one command.

The shear is therefore in the display path — the fit from the framed size to
the viewport, or the crop overlay's uncropped render — and not in the geometry
the pipeline computes. Not yet fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:46:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 02ae92ba0d Tidy what the seven-branch merge left behind
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Failing after 57m16s
Build and test / Layer separation (push) Successful in 34s
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 3s
Build and test / android-image (push) Successful in 3s
Traceability / Requirement traces (push) Successful in 1m7s
Build and test / Android (aarch64) (push) Failing after 9m41s
Three lints, all from merged work rather than from any one branch:
`terrace` and `disc` were steps on the way to the ramp the plateau test now
uses, and the reasoning that discarded them lives in docs/segmentation.md §12
rather than needing the code; two mechanical clippy suggestions in segment and
cache.

1176 tests pass, clippy and fmt clean, traceability regenerated.

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2026-08-17 12:36:15 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c9c5c43aa1 Carry the library across when its home moves
The previous commit moved durable data out of Android's cache directory, and
on its own that would have been an upgrade that quietly discarded work. The
app looks in the new location, finds nothing, and rescans a library of tens of
thousands of images over the network — while the old copy, including every
offline rating and edit that had not yet synced, sits in a directory the
system is free to delete.

So the account's directory is moved once at startup, before anything opens a
store. A rename rather than a copy: both are inside the app's own data on one
filesystem, so it is atomic and cannot half-finish. An existing destination
wins and the move is skipped — that covers a second run and a fresh install,
and in neither case may this overwrite live data.

A failed move is logged, not fatal. The cost is a rescan, which is
recoverable; refusing to start is not.

Two tests, against ordinary directories rather than the platform's idea of a
cache: one puts an unsynced sidecar in the old location and asserts it is
readable in the new one afterwards, the other pins that live data is never
overwritten.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:32:20 +02:00
dtourolle 4e62b89d17 Merge branch 'android-collections'
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Failing after 18m53s
Build and test / Layer separation (push) Successful in 41s
Traceability / Requirement traces (push) Failing after 1m4s
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 6s
Build and test / android-image (push) Successful in 5s
Build and test / Android (aarch64) (push) Failing after 9m40s
Touch multi-selection in the grid, filing a selection into a collection
without a drag, and taking a collection offline from a held row.
2026-08-17 12:27:49 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d913e50948 Select photographs with a finger, and take a collection with you
Two things a tablet could not do. Both existed for a pointer and had no
touch form at all, which on Android meant the collection sidebar was
somewhere to look at rather than somewhere to file into.

**Selecting more than one.** Ctrl-click and shift-click are the only ways
into a multi-selection, and touch has neither. Holding a cell now enters
selection mode, where a tap toggles — reported to Rust as a ctrl-press, so
it goes through the same `apply_press` as everything else rather than
growing a second copy of the selection rules. A double tap takes the run
between where selecting began and there: the touch form of shift-click,
and the reason the anchor from *before* the double tap has to be
remembered, since both of its taps move the anchor onto the cell being
tapped. A "Select" button does the same thing where a gesture would go
undiscovered (FR-UI-4).

**Filing without a drag.** A one-finger drag beginning in the grid belongs
to the Flickable that scrolls it — that is the arbitration working, not a
bug to route around — so the selection can now be filed from a sheet
listing the sidebar's own rows. Copy by default, as the drag has always
been; moving out of the collection being shown is a switch, because it is
the one that takes something away.

**Taking a collection offline.** The machinery was there and reachable only
by scoping the grid to a collection and finding a button behind a
disclosure. Holding a collection's name now asks the question directly, and
the tray on a row and the header button ask the same one — three
affordances doing two different things is how a user comes to avoid all
three. The question is asked rather than a toggle flipped because both
answers are expensive: one downloads gigabytes, the other deletes them, and
the counts and sizes go in the buttons where they are read before the tap.

`Cache::release` is new and is the destructive half `unpin` deliberately is
not. "Remove the local copies" is asked by someone whose device is full,
and withdrawing a promise while leaving the bytes for a future eviction to
notice is not an answer to it. It unpins before forgetting, or the next pin
fetch would dutifully download everything it just deleted.

The sidebar's trays read `tier_actual`, never `tier_desired`: the question
is whether these will open on the aeroplane, and a pin whose download has
not run yet answers no.

TRACES: FR-CAT-7 | FR-NC-6a | FR-NC-6b | FR-NC-6c | FR-UI-2 | FR-UI-3 | FR-UI-4

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:27:29 +02:00
dtourolle 76bb6b2847 Merge branch 'worktree-watershed-plateaux' 2026-08-17 12:25:41 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 0b20436445 Prove the plateau pass does nothing, and stop paying for it
Picks up the lower-completion work a crashed session left mid-debug, with one
failing test and no diagnosis.

The diagnosis is that the pass is a no-op. Not "does not reduce basin count" —
it changes *no pixel's basin at all*, zero of 9216, comparing one plateau
iteration against sixty-four. That assertion is the substance of this commit:
the original test asserted a consequence (fewer basins) which a working pass
need not produce, so it could have been satisfied by weakening it. A no-op
check cannot pass vacuously, and it is what turned an opinion into a fact.

Three candidate causes were tried and none was it. Exact float equality is
genuinely wrong and is fixed regardless — a gradient computed from 8-bit
samples is never exactly equal across a region the eye calls flat, so `==`
never fires and `<` fires everywhere; `LEVEL_EPS` now sits behind all three
comparisons. The test image is not it either: a flat disc, a terraced disc and
a constant-slope ramp all behave the same.

The finding worth keeping is about the domain rather than the code. On a
gradient-magnitude watershed every flat region of the picture is at gradient
zero, the global minimum, and a plateau with no descending exit is a minimum —
one basin already, nothing to resolve. The plateaux lower-completion is defined
for are regions of constant non-zero gradient, which are rarer in a photograph
than F1's phrasing implies. That may be the whole answer, or it may be hiding
a fourth cause; I could not close it.

So `plateau_iterations` defaults to 0. The implementation stays, correct as
far as it goes and costing nothing until someone finishes it; the test stays,
ignored with its reason; docs/segmentation.md §12 records what was ruled out so
the next attempt starts further along than this one did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:25:28 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b8e9793908 Keep offline work out of a directory Android empties
The catalog, the sidecar cache and the export outbox were all landing in the
app's cache directory on Android, where the system deletes them without asking
under storage pressure.

`catalog_path` derived its base from `XDG_DATA_HOME` or `HOME`, and neither is
set on Android, so it fell through to `temp_dir()` — which resolves there to
`/data/user/0/<pkg>/cache`. Confirmed on the tablet: the app logs its catalog
under `cache/darkroom/...`.

What sits beside that catalog is not disposable. `sidecars/` is the commit
point for every rating and edit made with no connection — the whole mechanism
that makes offline culling safe — and `outbox/` holds exports the user has
already been told succeeded. A day of sorting on a train, evicted by an OS
housekeeping pass before it ever reached the server, is the worst failure this
application can have, and it would leave no error and no trace.

The fallback is now `SessionStore::data_dir()`, the persistent per-app
directory the Android entry point establishes before any store opens — the
same one credentials and sessions already use. Desktop is untouched: the XDG
data location is still preferred, so nobody's catalog moves.

Two tests. One asserts no durable path contains `/cache/` or `/tmp/`; the
other pins the outbox to the catalog's parent, because three call sites derive
their location that way and a change here moves all of them at once.

Found while verifying that offline browsing works on the tablet with wifi
disabled — which it does: the app cold-starts with no network, reports the
scan failure without crashing, and serves its grid from the local store.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:23:18 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 44f0a4971b Show the folder picker on the platform that needs it most, and upload at once
Two faults, both of my own making, reported from the tablet as "I cannot
select a location" and "it does not upload".

**The picker button was gated on `target-selected == 1`.** That index was
Remote's position while both targets were offered. Making the target list
platform-aware narrowed Android's to Remote alone, so Remote became index 0
and the button disappeared — on the one platform where the picker is the
*only* way to set a destination, since a device folder is not reachable there
at all. It is gated on a boolean derived from the target now. An index into a
list whose length varies is not a fact about the target, and writing it as one
is what made a correct change break the thing it was meant to fix.

**A queued export waited for a sync pass.** Staging first is deliberate — an
export is finished on disk the moment it is written, and offline is then just
a longer queue — but nothing drained the outbox until the next sync, so
"Queued for Exports" sat unchanged and read, fairly, as an upload that never
happened. A finished batch that wrote anything now drains immediately. The
sync-pass drain stays: the first makes an upload feel immediate, the second is
what eventually delivers the exports made in a tunnel.

Committed without the parallel session's in-flight collection work, which is
mid-save and does not compile; verified by stashing it and building this tree
alone. 281 dr-ui tests pass, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:01:12 +02:00