The Slint reference is 3,885 lines of .slint across ten files plus 5,514 lines
of Rust glue over the shared qbz-mixtape crate. None of it existed in the Qt
port; the nav flyout carried a "GAP:" comment and two disabled entries.
Rust (flat in src/, per QTBUG-93443): three bridges rather than one God-object
— QbzMyQbz (grids + detail + edit + cover + mix), QbzMyQbzAdd (the app-wide
picker, kept apart so TrackRow, PlayerBar and the Local Library bulk bars
cannot couple to detail state) and QbzDisco (artist-scoped, reached from the
artist page, never coexisting with the MyQBZ views). Twelve controllers behind
them, ported function by function from myqbz{,_detail,_play,_edit,_cover,_mix,
_add,_prefs,_view_prefs,_builder}.rs. src/toast_qt.rs finally gives the port a
toast host.
QML in qml/views/myqbz/ plus four global overlays. Reused rather than forked:
TrackRow, TrackListHeader, QualityBadgeFull, QbzContextMenu, CardMenu,
QbzCheckbox, QbzSkeleton, QbzScrollBar, RoundedImage. LocalSegToggle and
LocalMultiSelectBar are PROMOTED to controls/QbzSegToggle and
controls/QbzMultiSelectBar (they were ports of shared Slint primitives that
MyQBZ needs too) — a move plus an import fix, with the Local metrics kept as
the defaults so the four Local Library toggles are byte-unchanged and the MyQBZ
call sites pass ViewToggle's own numbers.
Every list is windowed at write time: GridView/ListView with reuseItems and a
cacheBuffer, and expanded mode is an outer recycled ListView whose delegate is
a Column + Repeater, because a nested ListView inside a recycled delegate
cannot size itself. Single-row updates patch in place; replacing the array
resets contentY and throws the user to the top.
Shared controls gained the arms the new views need, with the numbers taken from
the .slint and not guessed: SettingsButton (btnHeight / minWidth /
trailingIconName), QbzEmptyState's four metrics, QbzSelect's `sm` variant
(30px, r6, no outline, 12px label, 14px chevron, 40px narrower —
QbzSelect.slint:74-148), QbzContextMenu.openBelowLeft, and QbzLineEdit gains a
distinct `accepted` signal fired on ENTER ONLY: a modal that submits on
`committed` submits TWICE, because closing it removes focus and fires
`committed` again — a rename would have run twice and a create made two
collections. clearSearch() no longer assigns root.text either; that JS write
destroyed the call site's binding permanently, so Rust could never re-seed the
field after one click on the X.
SourceIcon gained the plain "qobuz" arm it was missing, which had every Qobuz
row in a collection drawing itself as a local file.
Two icons (turntable, image) are baked from the Slint masters into the seven
full tint dirs and registered in MASTERS; three more (circle-check-big,
circle-alert, triangle-alert) back the toast. A missing tint dir or glyph
renders nothing and logs nothing, so this class never surfaces in a build.
cc
The two cast buttons in the now-playing bars rendered and did nothing: no
service, no bridge, no picker. This ports crates/qbz/src/cast_service.rs
onto the shared qbz-cast crate (discovery, both device families and the
media server are the crate's, not reimplemented) and hangs a QbzCast
singleton off it.
Discovery is armed only by openPicker() and stopped by closePicker(), so a
user who never opens the picker sends no mDNS/SSDP traffic. Connecting
stops the local backend through its public seam and re-casts the current
track at the streaming preference clamped by the per-renderer cap.
Playback is routed at four seams in playback_qt (new track, toggle, seek,
volume) and the local poll yields while casting — without that the two
polls fight over the bar every second. Logout and exit tear the connection
down, or the renderer keeps playing after the app is gone.
Deliberate gaps, each named in the module header: no offline-cache tier,
no QConnect suspend/restore, no Plex casting (the Slint carries the same
TODO), and lyrics do not follow a remote position yet.
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The Last.fm similar-albums row exists now. The recommendation building was
already frontend-agnostic in qbz-external-reco, so this only adapts QbzCore to
its catalog trait and publishes the result; the row seeds on the album's artist
and excludes what the two Qobuz rows already show, including ids the
pre-resolution dedup misses. Resolved rows cache per album for thirty days in
the same store the Discover tab uses, so re-opening an album makes no Last.fm
or Qobuz calls, and only a non-empty result is cached — a transient failure
must not hide the row until restart. With Last.fm not connected it resolves to
nothing and makes no network call, so the rail simply never appears.
Relationship rows navigate. They carry a name rather than a catalog id, so the
click resolves through MusicBrainz first and only a CONFIRMED match opens an
artist — landing the user on a same-name musician is worse than a row that does
nothing. The role travels with the name so a match in another role is not
mistaken for this one.
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The view had roughly a folder tree and an album grid inside one 1,847-line
file. Slint's is 2,671 lines across five tabs, and the local album detail is a
routed page of its own. This closes that gap and splits the result: the view
becomes a composition root over qml/views/local/ modules, and
local_library_qt.rs becomes a narrow facade over local_* modules by concern.
Plex is wired for real. The port hardcoded the cache path to None, so the union
was local-only and Plex thumbnails were skipped. The settings store binds per
user at session activation, the album and track union includes Plex, thumbnails
resolve through the artwork path, rows carry their source badge, and the manual
re-sync is on the toolbar behind the availability gate — as in Slint.
Tabs: Albums with its quality/format/source filter popup, Tracks paginated,
Folders in both flat and two-pane tree modes, Artists as an A-Z master/detail.
Every list is windowed from the start, artwork id-keyed and evicted, because
16k tracks is exactly where the Slint build freezes.
The tree grows a real select mode with its bulk bar, the ad-hoc "ephemeral
folder" pane plays music that was never indexed, and the album page gets its
version picker — a local album with two physical copies now switches between
them without a database round-trip.
Two agents built the QML and the Rust halves in parallel and the QML called
thirty QbzLocal members that did not exist. QML resolves lazily, so each would
have been a control that renders and does nothing; a static cross-reference
caught them before a build ever ran, and they are implemented here.
Deliberately logged seams, not half-paths: add-to-playlist, add-to-mixtape and
the tag editor have no picker or modal in this port yet, and local favourites
are not wired, so those actions log rather than route a local id into the Qobuz
API. Plex playback downloads the part instead of range-streaming it, which is
Slint's own documented fallback.
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Theme system as data: qbz_theme registry (36 themes + auto/custom)
resolved from the shared ui_prefs slug into a themeJson document;
QbzTheme rebound to it so the whole app repaints live (OLED->Light
probe-verified). Full subnav (8 sections + Share logs footer);
Appearance 1:1 (theme dropdown with dark/light filter, ambient/titlebar
rows in their real home, typography, library visuals, window chrome,
tray via tray_settings.db, renderer); Integrations 1:1 (MusicBrainz,
Last.fm 2-step browser connect + authed state, ListenBrainz token
validate, Discord toggle -> live DiscordRpc.set_enabled). Offline/Local
Library/Blacklist/Developer render honest placeholders.
km
Port of the spec's palette derivation (16x16 downscale, coverage-
weighted 24-bin hue histogram, genuine secondary cluster or deeper
same-hue, +180 accent, B/W defaults) driven by the now-playing artwork
on track change. QPainter AmbientField with the WGSL scene's exact
four blob orbits, dim scrim, 30fps cap paused when inactive; chrome
surfaces translucent per the AppShell alpha tokens (content frame
surface-main @ 0.22 frosted). Same shared app_background pref (owner
has it 'ambient'), app-menu toggle applying live, QBZ_BG_* env knobs.
4 new unit tests (14/14 total).
km
settings_qt.rs controller over the shared stores (AudioSettingsState,
PlaybackPreferencesState, ui_prefs.json, qconnect_settings.db) with the
upstream cascades (dac-passthrough->skip-sink-switch, streaming-only->
gapless, backend switch resets routing) and live apply through public
player APIs (reload_settings/reinit_device/clear_audio_cache). ALSA
device regrouping (Defaults/Bit-perfect/Plugin/Other + BP badges),
searchable QbzSelect, QbzToggle/QbzSlider/SettingRow replicas, exact
row order and gating. Persistence probe verified (gapless +
streaming-quality round-trip, original values restored).
km
Queue panel 1:1: History tab (click replays per queue.rs semantics),
#442 'Next in queue'/'Next up' section markers from manual_next_count,
40-row pagination + live search + page clamp, row actions (play,
remove, remove-all-after, heart), press-drag reorder via move_track,
clear queue, plural-aware footer count, exact empty states. New Lyrics
panel: qbz-lyrics service + per-user cache wired, Qobuz-first chain
with LRCLIB fallback, synced line view with line-level highlight +
centered auto-follow + click-to-seek, exact status bodies. Both panels
stack Feishin-style in the right column; NPB lyrics button wired.
km
Six live tabs (All/Tracks/Albums/Artists/Playlists/Labels) with real
count badges, paged favorites/playlists/purchases loaders, library_all
merge semantics, heart routing (Qobuz API vs local store —
LocalFavoritesService now initialized at session entry), sort popup
with direction carets, grid/list toggle with natively windowed
GridView/ListView delegates, id-keyed artwork via signal with hand-
rolled eviction. Perf marks on the owner's account: 344 items, fetch
wall 2.7-3.4s (97% network, sequential), map+merge ~11ms, JSON
serialize 10ms, QML parse 7ms (~20us/item => ~140ms at the 2200-item
reference scale), RSS +29MB after publish.
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QbzBridge QML singleton (12 properties, 8 invokables) driven by tokio
tasks via CxxQtThread. Port of auth.rs (browser OAuth loopback listener
with qbzd-style nonce, 180s timeout, cancel via JoinHandle abort,
scoped offline-gate lift for cold bundle init, D1 token-keep on network
failure / clear on explicit rejection, D4 subscription grace marks).
OfflineModeEngine + ConnectivityActor started at boot with live watch
forwarding (connectivity/captive portal/recovery banner/has-previous-
session). Boot: splash -> silent token restore -> shell | login.
Start-offline enters the guest profile. LoginScreen.qml is a faithful
port with exact msgids routed through qbz-i18n. 5 unit tests green.
km
New qbz-qt bin crate (cxx-qt 0.7 + QML) as the only default workspace
member in this worktree, so plain cargo build produces just the Qt
binary. Gate verified against system Qt 6.11.1 (codegen, moc,
qmltyperegistrar, qrc load, offscreen run all green).
km
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