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dtourolle 0a5eab0487 Wire the develop panels through globals, so a second copy is one line
Every panel in the develop column declared its inputs and its callbacks and
had `app.slint` bind each one to a property or a callback on the window root.
That is fine while a panel is drawn once. N9 draws them a second time, in the
portrait dock, and the wiring is what would have to be copied: `MaskPanel`
alone ran to forty lines of forwarding, and a callback added to one copy and
not the other compiles, renders, and simply does nothing on the layout nobody
was looking at.

So the wiring moved to Slint globals. A panel reads the global and calls the
global; Rust hooks the global instead of the window; and the instantiation in
the column is now the panel's name and a pair of braces — every one of the ten
children of the column, with no property that differs by placement left to
supply.

There is a global per panel family rather than one for all of them, and the
reason is an import cycle. Each panel's model struct — `ParamRow`, `MaskRow`,
`HistogramView` — is declared in the panel's own file, so a single global
holding `[MaskRow]` and `[ParamRow]` would have to live in a file importing
`masks.slint` and `adjust.slint` while both imported the global back, which
Slint rejects. Breaking that needs six model declarations relocated, which is a
change to the data model and not to the plumbing this is about. A global beside
the panel it serves also lets each name drop the prefix it was carrying only
because the window root is one flat namespace: `root.spot-radius` is
`Repair.radius`, and `root.peaking-on` is `Peaking.showing`.

`session.slint` is new and holds the two facts every family needs and none of
them owns: whether there is an open photograph to edit, and which mode the view
is in, with the three readings of the mode derived once instead of at each of
the dozen places that tested one. `ViewMode` moves there from `adjust.slint`,
where it was only ever a lodger.

Nothing on screen changes. What is not here: the tool rail and the status strip
still take their properties at the instantiation, because they are drawn once
and N9 does not copy them; the preset sheet's own state stays on the window,
because the library grid opens the same sheet and a global cannot bind the
window's state — which is why `Transfer.open-presets` is handled in
`presets.rs`, beside the summary it already had to compute.
2026-09-07 20:01:01 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 e22945a62d Tag the colour-independent status that was already built and unrecorded
NFR-A11Y-3 — no status conveyed by hue alone — read as untagged, and
outstanding.md said "no compliance work found". Both were wrong. Five places
already implement it, and four of them name the requirement in a comment
explaining the design; what none of them had was a TRACES line.

- `histogram.rs::percentage` states clipping as a figure and keeps `<0.1%`
  distinct from `0%`, so the text cannot say "none" while the marker beside it
  is lit.
- `histogram.slint`'s ClipReadout is the other half: a marker that appears and
  disappears rather than changing tint, and the figure next to it. Either alone
  reads.
- `library.slint`'s star strip is a solid star against an outline, differing in
  shape and luminance, over an achromatic palette.
- `library.slint`'s FlagMark is a tick against a cross, and a reject also dims
  its whole cell.
- `peaking.slint`'s colour chips say "Red" and "Cyan". A control for choosing
  between hues, presented only as hues, is unusable by exactly the person most
  likely to need it.

The tag is honest about being wider than the evidence, and outstanding.md now
records both gaps. Only the clipping clause has a test that would fail if the
behaviour were removed; the three Slint components are argued rather than
asserted. And the requirement's first named example — catalog colour labels —
has no interface at all: `label` is a nullable column nothing writes or shows.
That clause is untestable rather than satisfied, and closes when the label UI
is built with a shape from the start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 10:19:48 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 ef07e6ca3e Give the canvas tools a rail of their own, and the column one width
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Crop, Local and Repair were chips at the head of the develop column, sharing a
row with the adjustment groups and told apart from them by the shape of their
highlight. Three things followed from that, and only the last is cosmetic: the
column closes, so the way out of a mode went away with the way in — hence the
duplicate "Done Cropping" over the canvas; the chips are generated from the
operation set, so the widest thing in the sidebar was a row nobody had chosen
the contents of; and a mode and a filter are different kinds of state wearing
one control.

They are a fixed 60px rail down the left now, generated from a single table in
toolrail.slint. A tool is one row of it plus a drawing plus a ViewMode variant;
nothing in app.slint is touched to add one. What is left of the strip is the
group filters, so it is GroupStrip.

The column stops measuring itself. Every panel published a content-width and
declared it as min-width, and the column took the largest — which spent the
photograph's pixels on whatever happened to be widest, and moved the image
sideways when switching tools swapped one set of panels for another. It is
panel-width now, one number in style.yaml.

That number is 360 and it is measured, not picked: the contents report a
minimum of 344 in every mode, and they do not compress below it because a Text
that does not elide reports the same minimum as preferred. 320 was tried and
sliced Paste down the middle. The Flickable's viewport is floored at the
layout's minimum rather than its preferred width for the same reason — content
that is never told how much room it has cannot adapt to having less.

Removing the eight content-width declarations repairs three comments an
earlier edit had spliced sentences into. The raw histogram's note on keeping
its hint short is rewritten rather than dropped: an over-long hint no longer
widens the column, it pushes the column's minimum past the width it has and
clips the panel, which makes that constraint sharper rather than obsolete.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 09:59:50 +02:00
dtourolle 4b6c110816 Count the sensor's own numbers, so a cull can see headroom the render hides
FR-CULL-3's remaining two bullets. What existed was a *display* histogram
tagged FR-DSP-7: it binds AdjustPass's Rgba8Unorm output, recovers an 8-bit
code value, and counts clipping as `r == 255`. Its own documentation says a
clipped bin means "a highlight that is actually gone rather than one the
transform might still recover", which is the opposite of what a culling
decision needs. FR-CULL-3 asks for the histogram of the sensor data, on the
explicit grounds that a rendered image "systematically lies about what is
recoverable in the raw", and a readout that measures the render cannot answer
that however it is presented.

So this is a second instrument beside the first rather than a setting on it.
Both are true; they are true about different things; the panel offers both
behind a chip row and the words travel with the numbers, because a raw
saturation figure drawn under a heading saying Highlights would be mislabelled
exactly where the difference matters.

**What is reduced over, and what it cost to decide.** ARCH §5.5 specified the
pre-demosaic CFA samples. This reduces over the demosaiced scene-linear
texture instead, and §5.5 is amended to record the choice rather than let the
specification and the code disagree in silence. The texture is camera-native —
unbalanced, unmatrixed, uncurved — and normalised by the sensor's own black
and white levels, so 1.0 is saturation by construction and the distribution
below it is the headroom question with no calibration to carry. Retaining the
CFA samples would mean keeping the packed u32 buffer Demosaicer::run currently
drops: 48 MB at 24 MP, 120 MB at 60 MP, resident per open photograph whether
or not anyone looks at the histogram, on a platform §6.2 exists because memory
is scarce on.

Three things it therefore cannot say, written into the module docs and into
§5.5 rather than left to be discovered: it counts pixels not photosites, so a
saturated site drags its interpolated neighbours up and per-channel clipping
is smeared by about a demosaic kernel; it cannot see above white, because
demosaic.wgsl clamps each photosite at 1.0 for its own good reasons (a Canon
6D reads to 16383 against a declared 15070) so "at saturation" and "a stop
past it" share a bin; and it is measured after the CFA pattern is gone, so it
can name which colour clipped in the reconstructed image but not which
photosite went first.

The axis is stops below saturation, 16 bins per stop over 256 bins — the same
bin count the display reduction uses, so the fold into drawable columns is
shared and a divergence between the two plots would have to be deliberate. A
linear axis spends half its width on the top stop, which is why nobody has
ever drawn a useful linear raw histogram. The fourth series is the brightest
channel rather than luma: these values are unbalanced, so any weighted sum of
them is a number about nothing, and the brightest channel is the one that
saturates first and so the one the headroom question is actually about.

It is a property of the file and not of the render, which has two
consequences. It is computed once per photograph and cached — nothing
downstream of the demosaic can move a count in it — so a cull does not pay the
display histogram's per-frame cost three thousand times. And it describes the
whole frame rather than the visible region, deliberately opposite to
DevelopSession::histogram: a crop changes what is on screen and changes
nothing about what the sensor recorded.

Tags are on the reduction, the type, its constructor and the presentation
arithmetic, each of which has a test that fails if the behaviour goes. The
Slint panel and the push from lib.rs keep their reasoning as prose: nothing
asserts them, and a tag would claim coverage the assertions are not making.
2026-08-29 23:36:21 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 cafa63ca6f Let the develop column ask how wide it needs to be
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The column was 280px, a number chosen for a tablet, with 380px bolted on
later for a desktop. Both were guesses at how much room the widest row
inside needs, and a guess is what cannot work here: the mode strip is one
chip per attribute the *operation set declares*, so the row is generated
and no constant in app.slint can track it.

When the guess came up short the failure was not a tidy clip. The
Flickable inside the column never had its `viewport-width` set, so the
viewport took its content's preferred width, and a viewport wider than
its Flickable is *centred* in it — the same rule the note on the seam's
`x: 0` already records a few lines below. So the column lost half of each
edge rather than one of them: "HISTOGRAM" read "ISTOGRAM", "Straighten"
read "aighten", Copy sat centred while Paste ran off the far side. It
looked like a rendering fault and it was an alignment one.

So the column asks instead of guessing. Every panel that can appear in it
— image, histogram, geometry, settings transfer, masks, repairs, adjust,
history — now publishes a `content-width`: how wide it has to be before
it starts clipping itself, read off its own layout rather than asserted.
Each declares that as its `min-width` too, and that is what makes the
aggregation automatic: `column` is a layout, so it already reports the
largest minimum among its children, and it does so for the panels that
come and go with the mode as well, which live inside `if`s and cannot be
named from outside. Grep `content-width` in ui/dr-ui/ui to see every
panel with a say in the answer. The mode strip is named explicitly only
because it is pinned outside that layout, so nothing else measures it.

There is no floor left. A floor is one more guess and the panels state
their own minimums now. The only thing still above the measurement is
`panel-max-width`, which is not a size but a policy — a column may not
take the window from the photograph it exists to serve — and it comes
from Rust beside `layout-class` because a width read from `root.width`
inside the layout that `root.width` depends on is a binding loop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 21:23:44 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 0233df4bf2 See what the highlights are doing: a live histogram (FR-DSP-7)
Exposure, blacks and whites were set by eye. Nothing said a highlight had
blown — the canvas shows white where a channel is at 250 and white where it is
at 255, and the difference is the whole question.

**Counted on the GPU, not on the readback.** There is a full frame sitting in
CPU memory on every canvas update right now — `AdjustPass::read_output`, the
bridge spike S1 removes — and walking it would have been thirty lines and no
shader. FR-DSP-7 states the mechanism and not just the feature: "these derive
from a GPU-side reduction into a small buffer. Per-frame CPU readback of image
data is prohibited." A histogram founded on the bridge would be correct today
and deleted by S1, and would meanwhile be the reason the bridge could not go.
What crosses the bus here is 4104 bytes whatever the image size.

The reduction tallies into workgroup memory first and merges once per
workgroup. A photograph is not noise: a clear sky puts tens of thousands of
adjacent pixels in one bin, and contending for that single global atomic
serialises the dispatch.

**On the settled frame only.** `render_now` already knows whether a gesture is
still moving — `draft` is the flag `redraw` derives from `was_coalesced` — so
the dispatch and its transfer happen once when the slider stops rather than on
each of the forty frames a drag emits. Nothing is lost: a histogram flickering
past under a finger is not a reading anyone takes. FR-DSP-7 requires exactly
this, that it not extend the FR-DSP-3 frame budget.

Luma is weighted in 8.8 fixed point — 54, 183, 19, summing to 256 exactly —
rather than in floats. Not thrift: it makes the shader's arithmetic
reproducible bit for bit, which is what lets the test below be an `assert_eq`
against a CPU count rather than a tolerance. ARCH §6.13's line about integer
state, applied where it happens to also be free.

**What the numbers were checked against.** A flat frame must put all 4096
pixels in one bin and one only. A 256-wide ramp must occupy every level with
exactly the same count, which is what catches an off-by-one in the
quantisation — a `floor` where a rounding was needed shifts the whole
photograph one bin left and looks like nothing at all. And a 101x37 frame of
seeded pseudo-random pixels — deliberately not a multiple of the 16x16
workgroup, so the edge tiles run off the image — is compared slot for slot
against a second, obvious CPU implementation. Exact equality, no tolerance.
The CPU version is a deliberate reimplementation rather than shared code: the
bugs worth catching here are ones shared code would commit identically on both
sides.

Above that, the presentation arithmetic is unit-tested headless, because it is
where a wrong answer is invisible. A histogram of the wrong shape looks exactly
as plausible as one of the right shape. So: 64 columns because it divides 256
and an uneven fold draws an even ramp as a comb; the peak excludes the end
columns, or a night scene scaled against its own black spike is a flat line
with no information in it; heights are clamped into the plot; and "0%" is kept
distinct from "<0.1%" and from "—", since an indicator reading "clipped" over
a figure reading "none" is a panel contradicting itself.

Clipping counts a *pixel* with any channel at an extreme, not a channel. Any,
because a blown red has no gradation left in it however much green and blue
still hold — and it is the saturated highlight, the sunset and the red jersey,
that clips first and recovers worst. Per pixel, because counting channels can
report 200% of a frame clipped, and a percentage above 100 is a readout nobody
trusts again.

Two affordances for it, which NFR-A11Y-3 asks for: a bar standing at the end
of the plot the tones are piling against, and a figure saying how much. Either
alone reads.

The panel sits directly under the capture metadata and above every control,
because it is what the controls are judged against. It is hand-built rather
than generated, and ARCH §4.3a is untroubled: a histogram is not an operation
— no parameters, changes nothing, answers a question rather than asking one —
and nothing in it reads a parameter out of a descriptor.

Three plot colours and a neutral luma trace join the palette. That is the
swatch's exception rather than a second one: a per-channel histogram has to
say which channel, and no achromatic treatment distinguishes red from blue, so
the hue is data exactly as the image beside it is. Held well back from full
strength for the reason the theme preamble gives.

The bounded, non-parking map wait moves out of `AdjustPass` into
`readback::await_mapping`, shared with the histogram's transfer. Thirty lines
of load-bearing reasoning about frozen interfaces and lost devices, and two
copies of it would have drifted.

The histogram describes the frame on the canvas, so it is in the output colour
space FR-DSP-7 asks for, and when zoomed it describes the visible region — a
photographer inspecting a highlight at 4x is asking about that highlight. A
device that cannot build the reduction loses the histogram and keeps the
photograph.

Still to do for FR-DSP-7: the pixel colour readout under the cursor.

324 tests pass, clippy and fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 09:55:40 +02:00