The artifact is now `target/<profile>/qbz` (owner, 2026-08-04). The package
stays `qbz-qt`, so `cargo build -p qbz-qt` is unchanged.
⚠ `crates/qbz` — the Slint binary — declares the SAME bin name and shares
this workspace's target dir, so both write `target/<profile>/qbz` and the
last build wins. Survivable only because the Slint binary is never built in
this worktree (the qbz-ui 20-30 GB wall); if it ever is, a smoke against
"the wrong qbz" is silent. Written into Cargo.toml beside the name.
The MPRIS line exists because "Plasma sees nothing" has two very different
causes — the player never registered, or it registered and no metadata was
ever pushed — and the log could not tell them apart. It settled that
question the same day: the owner's log shows `[mpris] metadata pushed:
Holy Diver — Dio (350s)`, so the port's half works and what remains is
desktop-side.
cc
The release-section "Load more" fetched a page and appended it to a structure
no view ever re-read. The handler pushed IN PLACE into the object behind
`readonly property var artist: JSON.parse(QbzArtist.artistJson)`, and the
releaseSections projection returned that same array on the unfiltered arm, so
both Repeaters were re-handed the identical reference and nothing was dirty.
The tree's own rule, written in cards/PlaylistCollage.qml: rebind requires a
NEW object reference. A second bug sat on the same path - the artist document
republishes progressively (stories, then each MusicBrainz section as it
resolves) and every republish re-runs the parse, wiping anything appended, so
fixing only the first would have left a bug that looks random. Both
pre-existing; the in-flight placeholder added earlier is what made an
always-silent no-op visible.
Appended pages now live in an overlay keyed by release type. It survives a
republish, emits new arrays so the Repeaters rebuild, dedupes by album id,
carries the reference's 4-page cap per bucket (artist.rs:718-720, which hands
off to the discography page beyond it), and is guarded against a page
requested on one artist landing on another's grid - releaseSectionReady
carries no artist id and every artist has an "album" bucket.
"See discography" was a pointer-cursor MouseArea with no onClicked under a
POC-NOTE saying the page was out of scope. ArtistReleasesView.qml +
artist_releases_qt.rs port ArtistReleasesView.slint: infinite scroll rather
than a button, plus the loading, error-with-retry, empty and offline arms.
The album page's "More from <artist>" view-all is a second door to the same
page. Its paging offset counts what the SERVER returned rather than the
rendered row count the reference uses: blacklist filtering and id dedupe make
the rendered count smaller, so the reference re-requests seen rows and skips
the tail whenever the blacklist is non-empty.
The per-section sort was a dimmed Rectangle with no MouseArea, under a
comment asserting no seam existed. It is now a real QbzSelect with the
reference's five options and index mapping, persisted per release type in
artist_prefs. Choosing "Default" after a sort does not restore the server
order until the page reloads - that is the reference's behaviour
(album_map.rs:262 is a bare no-op arm and resort sorts the live model), kept
deliberately rather than diverged.
Also, two visual fixes from the same round that share these files: Popular
Tracks drew its cover at radius 8 where the shared rows/TrackRow.qml uses 4,
and the album page's rail mounts said `width: parent.width` inside a Column
with 32px padding - QML padding shifts children without narrowing
parent.width, so the rails hung 32px off the right and the right page chevron
landed outside the window.
Carries scripts/qt-diag.sh, which has been sitting untracked since the
rendering round: it answers "which backend is this actually running on" from
a real graphical session, refusing ssh and refusing offscreen because either
would answer the wrong question. That refusal is the point - the doctrine it
disproved ("shader effects render nothing on this port's software path") came
from an offscreen observation, and offscreen forces software by definition.
cc
vicrodh