dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 fb4b05fb6f Let the date range be opened before there is a date range ...

Pressing "limit to range" did nothing, and the reason was two early returns
that sat above the line which shows the controls. If the catalog was not open,
or nothing in it carried a capture date, the handler returned before
`set_library_range_active`, so no state changed and nothing appeared.

Capture dates are read from EXIF as thumbnails load, so a freshly opened
library has none — the button was inert on exactly the libraries where someone
is most likely to go looking for a date, and it failed by doing nothing at all,
which is the hardest failure to report.

Underneath that was a smaller mistake with the same shape: whether the controls
showed was read from whether a range was set. The fields are how a range gets
set, so requiring one before they appear is a door locked from the inside. The
panel has its own state now, and the timeline span is a seed for the fields
rather than a precondition for them — no span means two empty fields waiting to
be typed into, which is a way to choose a range rather than a refusal to offer
one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-23 14:15:34 +02:00

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Let the date range be opened before there is a date range

2026-08-23 14:15:34 +02:00