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dtourolle 7421837c8a Let an operation say what it is about, so the panel can group without naming
Tool tabs need a taxonomy, and the taxonomy was the problem: a table in
`ui/` mapping operation to tab breaks FR-DEV-3a, and a `group:` field risks
what `ui-refinement.md` condemned `starts-group` for — the core deciding
where the panel draws things.

`Attribute` threads the needle. It says what an operation *is* — tone,
colour, detail, optics, geometry, effect — which is the same category as
`ParamKind` and squarely on the core's side of ARCH §4.3a's line. What is
drawn, where it sits and whether it is visible stay the frontend's. There is
no attribute for "the third tab", the enum's order is declaration order
rather than screen order, and a frontend may render these as tabs, as
headings, or ignore them.

The payoff is that a tab strip can be *derived*: the groups are the
attributes present in the capability list, so the interface names no
operation and needs no table to keep in step. An operation joins the right
group by declaring what it is, which is the one thing its author is well
placed to say.

Plural, because the tone curve is genuinely both — an RGB curve is tonal and
the per-channel curves are chromatic, and filing it under one would hide it
from half the people looking for it.

Required and non-empty, enforced in `build.rs`, and the failure was checked
by removing the line rather than assumed. An operation with no attribute is
invisible to a panel that groups by them; a build that stops costs ten
seconds, a control nobody can find costs more. The vocabulary is closed for
the same reason: a typo would otherwise invent a category holding exactly one
operation, which looks like a deliberate one until somebody counts.

Six tests over the real chain, including the hand-written operations that
`build.rs` never sees and so cannot check.
2026-08-22 10:10:00 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 23f0c4b76a Let a declared node ask for a widget, and write down how
Two gaps in the control vocabulary, both found by reading back what 0a331c7
actually shipped against what it claimed.

**`kind: enum` worked and was undocumented.** The whole point of that kind is
that a node author can declare a control without touching the interface, and
ops/README.md is where a node author looks. A kind absent from the table is one
nobody will use. It is now in the table, with the property that makes it cheap
spelled out: the value is the chosen index carried as an `f32` like every other
parameter, so a uniform expression can read it, the sidecar stores it
unchanged, and nothing along the way needed a second kind of value.

**A declared node could not ask for a widget at all.** `Presentation` gained an
ordered preference list and a demand, and `tone_curve` and `framing` use them —
but both are hand-written Rust. A YAML node had no way to say that several of
its parameters form one control, so the generated half of the pipeline was
locked out of the half of FR-DEV-3a that makes widgets extensible. Nodes now
take a `presentation:` block:

    presentation:
      widgets: [colour_wheel]
      demand: { two_dimensional: true }
      params: [hue, strength]

`demand` carries exactly two flags and there is deliberately no key for a pixel
width, a breakpoint or a platform name — those are the frontend's to decide,
and ARCH §4.3a is explicit that a core reasoning about them will eventually be
wrong about a display it never saw.

Widget names are spelled in the YAML the way `WidgetKind` spells them, so a
declaration and descriptor.rs cannot drift into two vocabularies for one idea,
and an unknown one is a build error listing the six that exist. `params:` is
checked against the node's own parameters: the widget claims what it names and
the generic path skips what was claimed, so a typo would silently drop a
parameter out of *both* — the one mistake here that produces no error and no
control.

Verified by declaring a presentation on a node, confirming the generated
`fn presentation` matched, and confirming both error paths report the file and
the key; then reverted, since no node in the chain wants a widget yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 23:54:10 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 0a331c717e Give the controls a vocabulary, and let a node ask for one
widgets.slint set the rule — screens consume components, and a bare `Theme.*`
at a call site means a component is missing — and it set it for chrome only.
The controls never got the same treatment, so they were written wherever they
were first needed and copied from there.

**The slider was private to the develop panel.** `SliderTrack`, with the
fifty-line preamble explaining how it wrests a drag away from a Flickable,
lived inside adjust.slint and no other screen could reach it. It shows: export
quality is a 1-to-100 value, and the settings page offered a free-text box for
it, with the range written in a hint and enforced nowhere. `to-float()` answers
0 for anything it cannot parse, so a typo saved a quality of 0 and the page
displayed the 0 back as though it had been asked for.

The tick-box was written twice, in launch.slint and settings.slint, from the
same 18px box and the same handler; the second carried a comment deferring the
lift until a third caller appeared. The label-and-hint header was written three
times inside settings.slint alone.

controls.slint is the input layer beside widgets.slint's chrome layer, and the
constraint that makes it reusable is that **nothing in it knows about
`ParamRow`** — that struct is the develop panel's flattening of the capability
model, and a control that imported it could only ever be used by the develop
panel. The primitives take plain numbers; the ParamRow-shaped wrappers stay in
the panel that owns the model. 658 lines came out of the three screens.

`SliderRow` is the slider-plus-number-box ARCH §4.3 names as the pointer
presentation of a bounded scalar, and quality is its first adopter. It commits
on gesture end rather than on every movement, because the settings page saves
to disk on change and a two-second drag is a couple of hundred writes where a
text field committed once. The develop panel keeps the live stream — that is
what its pipeline is for — so `SliderTrack` now reports both.

**The other half is the descriptor.** FR-DEV-3a and ARCH §4.3a already specify
more than was built: an ordered preference list of widgets rather than one, the
demands a widget makes, and kinds beyond scalar and bool.

- `Presentation.widgets` is now a list, walked by `choose`, falling back to
  plain sliders. Falling off the end is not an error, and there is a test
  asserting an operation asking only for an unimplemented widget still yields
  one control per parameter.
- `WidgetDemand` carries what a widget inherently needs — two-dimensional
  dragging, precise pointing — and no pixels, breakpoints or platform names.
- `WidgetKind` grows to the specified set. There is deliberately no `Colour`
  *kind*: a colour is three numbers, and a value type that is not an `f32`
  would reach through the graph, the uniform block and the sidecar format to
  buy what `ColourWheel` over three scalars already describes. Every widget
  here is a hint over ordinary scalars, which is what keeps the fallback
  honest.
- `ParamKind::Enum` is the one new shape, and it fits because a variant index
  is exact in binary32. `kind: enum` with a `variants:` list works in
  `ops/*.yaml`, so a node declaring one gets a segmented control with no UI
  file edited — which is the promise ops/mod.rs already makes.

The panel's dispatch was duplicated: a lone parameter and a grouped one each
wrote out their own list of kinds, so `enum` would have had to be added twice
and a kind added to one would appear or vanish depending on how many parameters
its operation happened to declare. `ParamControl` is now the only such chain.

`rows_from` is free-standing rather than a method, which is what lets the
FR-DEV-3c acceptance test requirements.md asks for actually be written: an
operation the frontend has never heard of, appearing in a generated panel, with
no GPU in sight.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 23:21:35 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 7c57f490fe Declare a develop operation in YAML, and generate the rest
An operation was, in the overwhelming majority of cases, four facts: what
its parameters are, what uniforms they compute, what WGSL those uniforms
drive, and where it sits in the chain. Written in Rust those four facts
arrived wrapped in ninety lines of trait implementation — a match on
parameter id to a struct field, another match back, an is_active comparing
each field to its default, a Vec<Uniform> built by hand. All mechanical,
and each one a place to make a silent mistake: a param() arm returning the
wrong field reads perfectly and breaks the sidecar round-trip.

So the four facts are the file now. core/dr-pipeline/ops/<id>.yaml is a
node, build.rs compiles it into the same Operation impl as before, and the
result lands in OUT_DIR — the same reasoning as style.yaml -> theme.slint,
including why it does not land beside the sources it would look exactly
like. Nothing downstream can tell a declared node from a hand-written one:
same &'static OpDescriptor, same fused-shader composition, same sidecar.

Nine nodes moved: exposure, white_balance, contrast, highlights_shadows,
blacks_whites, brilliance, vibrance, saturation, and the shared WGSL
helper registry. Their prose came with them, and so did their tests —
set/expect/expect_active/expect_wgsl in the declaration compile to real
#[test]s, so a node file carries its own proof rather than leaving it
behind in a file that no longer exists.

Two stayed in Rust and say so with `rust:`. The tone curve's neutral is a
relationship between five interpolated points rather than a set of values;
the colour mixer generates thirty-six faceted parameters from twelve
computed hue bands. A schema stretched to cover either would be a worse
language than Rust aimed at one caller. They still declare their position
here, because the chain's *order* is the one thing a reader comes to this
directory to learn, and an order written half in YAML and half in Rust
would be worse than either alone. default_chain() is generated from it.

Uniforms are derived by a small expression language — exp2(exposure),
blacks / 100 * 0.02 — compiled to Rust rather than interpreted, so an
unknown name or a wrong arity is a build error naming the file and the key
and the arithmetic costs nothing at runtime. The build script refuses a
duplicate order, a filename disagreeing with its id, a default outside its
own range, a test value the graph would clamp before the node saw it, a
helper that does not define the function it names, and a declared node
colliding with a file in src/ops.

Verified by adding a scratch node and removing it again: one file, no
other edit, and it joined the chain at its declared order with its test
running. 237 tests pass in dr-pipeline, clippy and fmt clean.

.yaml joins the traceability tool's scanned suffixes, because a node's
Rust now lives in OUT_DIR where a tag could never be linked from the
report. Coverage 47.7% -> 48.3%.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:08:16 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 65e6a96a65 Say what the application is doing, in one bar and one list
Every background job reported into a window property of its own —
library-thumbs-done, library-pin-total, library-syncing — which only the
grid ever read. A pin download that outlived the view it was started from
drew nothing at all once the user opened an image, and there was no answer
anywhere to "what is this busy with", because the answer was spread across
eight properties nothing collected.

They report to one register now (ui/dr-ui/src/activity.rs). It publishes an
aggregate, which draws a three-pixel bar across the top of the shell in
every view, and a row per job, which the settings page lists: scans,
thumbnail batches, pin and open downloads, sidecar uploads, the sync and
the trash. Failures stay on the list until they are cleared; routine
successes do not, or a scroll would bury them.

The handle removes a still-running job when it drops, so a worker that dies
mid-transfer takes its row with it rather than leaving the bar sweeping for
the rest of the session.

Also carries in-flight work from a parallel session — the drawn icon set
and the dr-pipeline ops split. dr-pipeline's build script does not compile
at this commit; ui/dr-ui does, with clippy clean and its tests passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 18:32:09 +02:00