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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d7b851f622 Build the People rail rows you can see, not the ones you cannot
`Flickable { VerticalLayout { for ... } }` instantiates every row. On the
reference library that is 14,268 row subtrees, which measures at 4.2
seconds before a pixel is drawn — and it was paid again on every action,
because every action reloads the model. Roughly half the wait between
clicking "Identity" and the screen appearing was this.

Slint's compiler has a virtualising path for a `for`; it is what makes
`std-widgets`' `ListView` cheap. It keys on the parent element's base
being *named* `ListView` and exposing the five lengths its layouting code
writes back, and a custom base is explicitly allowed. So `widgets.slint`
grows one, and `std-widgets` stays out of the file that establishes our
style. Measured on the real screen: 200,000 rail rows now render in 62ms.

Three things had to be true together, and each was silent on its own.

**The row height must be constant.** The rail hid a set-aside person with
`height: cond ? 52px : 0px`, a height that reads the model — so the
layout cannot place row N without building rows 0..N, and Slint builds
them all. The filtering moves to Rust, where the toggle was already
reloading anyway.

**The list must not be wrapped.** It carries its own stretch and preferred
size, having no natural height to offer; a Rectangle in between hands the
layout that Rectangle's constraints, which are taken from the list and
are therefore nothing.

**The panel must let it fill.** `Panel` lays its children out with
`alignment: start`, which gives each its preferred height — right for a
column of sliders, wrong for anything that scrolls. Hence `Panel.fill`.

Get any of them wrong and the rail renders empty, with no error and a
model full of people. All three were, in turn, before a headless render
of the real screen showed a blank rail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 18:30:16 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8e4befa727 Say what each control is, so a screen reader can use one
The whole interface carried five accessible-* declarations in 14,482 lines of
markup, all of them on a single row of the colour mixer, and nothing said so.
Every other control — every button, every tick-box, every chip, and the slider
the develop panel builds thirty-six of for the mixer alone — reached AT-SPI
and TalkBack as an unnamed rectangle. NFR-A11Y-2 is not a polish item for a
user in that position; it is whether the application can be used at all.

The annotations go on the shared components rather than on the screens, which
is the same argument widgets.slint was written to make one layer down: a
control named where it is used is a control unnamed everywhere it is used
next. Twelve components now declare a role, a name and — where the control
does something — the action assistive technology invokes to do it. Three
screens were touched, and only where the component could not know the answer.

SliderTrack is the one that mattered most and the one that could not be fixed
from inside itself. It is handed four numbers and knows nothing about what
they mean, so it takes a `label` and a formatted `readout` and every wrapper
passes down what it was already drawing. A test asserts that every
instantiation does, because a track added without one announces "slider, 0.35"
and looks perfectly correct in a screenshot.

It also gains increment, decrement and set-value. A slider that can only be
dragged is a slider a pointer is a modifier for, which is the objection
ui-navigation D-N2 makes about hover-only affordances with the argument run
one step further; these three are what a screen reader drives a slider with,
and they commit as well as change — one nudge is a whole gesture, so a caller
that persists on `committed` must hear about it.

Two decisions worth recording because the obvious alternative is wrong:

`active` on Button and IconButton is deliberately not announced from the
component. It says a toggle is on and says nothing about whether a control
that is *off* is a toggle at all, so announcing it would report every button
in the application as an unpressed toggle. The four call sites that mean a
toggle say so themselves, which Slint permits because the role is inherited.

SwatchSlider's row-level role is removed rather than kept. It was the one
control that had a label, and now that the track underneath it has one too the
two would nest — a slider inside a slider, the outer holding the value and the
inner holding the actions that can change it. The row stands down and hands
the same strings to the control that owns the gesture.

The test reads the markup the way darkroom-android's manifest test reads its
XML: there is no accessibility tree without a window, so what it defends is
the failure that actually happens — a role or a name lost in a refactor, which
compiles, renders identically, and is invisible to everyone not using a screen
reader.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 10:22:32 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 e40f2bfee9 Let go of the keyboard when a name is finished
Pressing Enter on a person's name committed it and then kept the field
focused, so on a tablet the on-screen keyboard stayed up over the faces
the user had pressed Enter to get back to. The name looked accepted and
the screen looked stuck.

`Field` grows `release-focus()`, the other half of the `take-focus()` it
already had, and the Identity screen calls it from `accepted`. A function
rather than a property for the reason the existing one gives: focus is an
event, and bound to a property it would fight anything else that took it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:18:07 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d1f3b97245 Ask for the collection's name where the keyboard can reach it
"New collection from selection" created the collection under a placeholder
name and then opened the rename field in the sidebar tree.

On a tablet the sidebar is not on screen. It is instantiated all the same —
app.slint collapses it to zero width and `visible: false` rather than using an
`if`, because an `if` there is a layout loop Slint panics on — so the rename
field was created, its `init` took focus, and Android raised the on-screen
keyboard over a box nobody could see. Nothing else on the screen is focusable,
so the keyboard had nowhere to go: it stayed, the name could not be typed, and
the collection was already written under the name the user did not want.

Asked in a sheet instead, on the same card as the filing and keywording sheets,
before anything is written. That also fixes what was hiding behind it: an
abandoned rename used to leave a "New collection" in the tree, because the
collection existed before the name did.

`Field` gains `take-focus()` so a sheet whose field is the only thing to do in
it can answer the keyboard for the user — a function rather than a property,
because focus is an event and a bound property would re-take it on every
unrelated re-evaluation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 23:17:40 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 ab0ef6a26d Say which requirements the code was already satisfying
Thirteen requirements were surveyed as built but untagged. Eight of them
were: R3, R6, FR-DEV-1, FR-UI-6, FR-NC-6d, NFR-OPS-3, NFR-PORT-2 and
NFR-SEC-3. Each was read against its full text in requirements.md and
against the code before the tag was added, because a tag that is wrong is
worse than an absent one — it turns a visible gap into an invisible one.

The five that were refused, and why, because the reasoning is the part
worth keeping:

R2 carries "(figure TBD)" in its own acceptance criterion and asks for a
stated prefetch margin and cache-hit rate; neither figure exists anywhere
in the tree and neither quantity is measured, while TD-2 and TD-3 both
describe the thumbnail path falling short of it.

R5 asks for three things and the code does one. The display pipeline does
run at viewport resolution, but "only visible tiles are computed" and
"panning recomputes only newly exposed tiles" need a tile scheduler that
does not exist — and frame_budget.rs currently argues for striking tiled
computation from the interactive path rather than building it.

FR-RAW-2 asks for a trait taking a SourceRef, so that a second decoder can
be added without changing callers. What exists is free functions over
&[u8]. That meets the requirement's stated *purpose* — the same decoder
serves a local file, a SAF document and a byte range, which is exactly why
it takes bytes — but there is no trait and no second implementation seam,
so the requirement should probably be amended rather than tagged.

NFR-ARCH-1 asks for named executors with stated thread counts.
architecture.md §7.1 states the table; nothing implements it. Workers are
twenty-odd ad-hoc std::thread::spawn sites, each building its own
one-worker tokio runtime, with no decode pool, no GPU-submit executor and
no I/O pool. The requirement's own text says R4 and NFR-P9 "assert an
outcome with no stated means", and that is still true.

NFR-SEC-4 is satisfied by absence — there is no telemetry — and absence
has no module to tag. A tag would point at nothing.

NFR-OPS-3 was the closest call of the eight taken. The store is single,
separate from the catalog, survives a catalog rebuild and does not sync
between devices; it has no version *field*, deliberately, and
settings.rs argues why and names the condition that would need one. The
substance is met and the reasoning is recorded where it belongs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 20:23:16 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 57c0cc0d35 Keep the name typed into a cluster when the next one is opened
Naming a cluster and moving straight to the next is the gesture this screen
exists for, and it discarded the name every time. Two causes, both in the same
four lines.

`Field.text` is two-way bound to its `TextInput`. Binding it to `selected-name`
therefore works exactly once: the first keystroke writes through the `<=>` and
**replaces** the declarative binding, after which the field follows nothing.
Switching clusters left the previous cluster's half-typed text on screen,
attached to the new person.

And `Field` only reported `accepted`, which is Enter. A name typed and then
abandoned by clicking the next face never reached Rust at all.

So `Field` gains an `edited` callback, the screen keeps the draft with the
person it was typed for, and the draft is written when the selection moves or
the screen closes. The field is then reset from a revision counter the screen
watches.

A counter rather than `changed selected-name`, because the name is not a key:
naming six clusters "Anna" in a row never changes `selected-name`, and the field
would keep the half-typed text from the cluster before. Nor `changed
selected-person`, since accepting a namesake merge lands the user back on a
person they may already have been on.

The draft carries its `PersonId`. A reload can move the selection out from under
a half-typed name — a merge arriving through a sync, a deletion — and applying
it to whoever is selected now would rename a stranger. If the person is gone
when the draft lands, it is dropped rather than resurrecting a row the rail no
longer shows.

`None` and `Some("")` are kept distinct. A user who cleared the field means to
clear the name; a user who never touched it means to leave it alone. Collapsing
those two erases names by walking past them.

An implicit commit does not raise the namesake merge offer. That question is
about a screen the user has already left, and answering it on their behalf while
they look at the next cluster is not a question at all — the offer stays on the
explicit submit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 18:32:00 +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
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 9b2ee0d0eb Show the colour mixer as three runs of twelve, each row a colour
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Successful in 17m20s
Build and test / Layer separation (push) Successful in 33s
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 2s
Build and test / android-image (push) Successful in 2s
Traceability / Requirement traces (push) Failing after 26s
Build and test / Android (aarch64) (push) Failing after 8m59s
The mixer was thirty-six sliders reading "Hue / Sat / Lum" twelve times
over with nothing saying which band any row belonged to. The identity was
there all along — the descriptor declares param.mixer.orange.sat and BANDS
carries orange at 30° — and was discarded on the way out: labels.rs had no
mixer entries, so every key fell through to a derived label that yields the
bare channel name.

A parameter can now say which aspect it adjusts and which subject it
adjusts it on, with the subject's hue where the subject is a colour
(descriptor::Facet). That is data about what the operation does, not a
layout: the mixer genuinely weights pixels around 30°. What to draw from
30°, and in what order to stack the runs, stay in dr-ui (ARCH §4.3a) —
develop.rs brings rows sharing an aspect together and marks the first of
each, and adjust.slint names the run once and draws a swatch, a track and a
readout on one line.

Grouped by channel rather than by band because an edit is almost never
"everything about orange"; it is the saturation of the greens, made by
comparing one channel across neighbouring bands. Twelve band sections put
those twelve rows in twelve different places.

The swatch is the label, which is what makes twelve rows fit where four
did. The band name is not lost: it is the row's accessible label, so the
control is not colour-only, and labels.rs is where the mapping is written
down — including chartreuse as "Yellow-Green" and spring as "Blue-Green",
since nobody hunting foliage scans a list for "Spring".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 16:14:13 +02:00
dtourolle 4d78041d1d Many imorovments
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Failing after 1m8s
Build and test / Android (aarch64) (push) Failing after 2s
Build and test / Layer separation (push) Canceled after 23s
Traceability / Requirement traces (push) Failing after 59s
2026-08-12 22:16:15 +02:00
dtourolle 8ad5c86ff9 Add the library, collections, and trash views; theme from style.yaml
The UI gains the views the catalog work was building toward: a windowed
library grid with ratings and flags, the collection tree with drag-to-add,
and trash with restore. derived_sync pushes thumbnail shards and the catalog
snapshot to the server's derived folder.

Tokens now have one source of truth. build.rs reads style.yaml and generates
theme.slint into OUT_DIR, which answers every existing
`import { Theme } from "theme.slint"` unchanged, because Slint resolves
imports against the importing file's directory first and the include paths
after. Generating into OUT_DIR rather than beside the hand-written Slint is
the point: a generated file sitting in ui/ looks exactly like the files
around it that are meant to be edited, and an edit to it would survive until
the next touch of style.yaml — a bug that hides for weeks. build.rs fails
loudly if a stale ui/theme.slint exists, which would otherwise shadow the
generated one silently and make every palette change vanish with no error.

The palette moves to near-neutral dark with achromatic signalling, so the
accent means "modified" or "active" rather than "heading". Shared components
land in widgets.slint: a token that binds several values into one concept is
a component, not a row in a YAML file.

Adds an optional live-style feature that makes the tokens in-out so they can
be written at startup — a feature rather than the default because it stops
the properties being constant-folded.

serde_norway is the YAML crate: serde_yaml and serde_yml are both deprecated,
and its mappings preserve insertion order, which is what lets the generated
Slint keep the token ordering the author chose.

Assisted-by: LLM
2026-08-09 21:11:38 +02:00