Typing in the album track filter lost the keyboard on every keystroke. A
qt.quick.focus trace named the thief: a fresh track delegate took focus
"in scope pageFlick" right after each rebuild. In Qt 6.11 assigning a new
array to ListView.model after completion runs
QQuickItemViewPrivate::connectModel, which forces currentIndex to 0, and
updateCurrent() then focuses delegate 0 — inside the view's focus scope,
where the header's TextInput lives. `currentIndex: -1` does not survive
the assignment.
QbzArrayModel (a DelegateModel) now owns such arrays: a swap reaches the
view as remove+insert changes, which honour currentIndex -1 and keep the
rows. Because ListView re-seats inserted rows around the viewport, the
model re-expresses the viewport relative to the content origin and
restores it after layout; a page replacement calls scrollToTop(). The
album page, the kiosk album and the kiosk playlist swap their rows on it,
their ScrollMemory stores origin-relative offsets, and opening another
album resets the track filter (the box mirrors `trackQuery`).
scripts/test-array-model-qml.sh pins the behaviour (focus kept, viewport
kept, top on request) and joins the runtime gate and CI.
cc
Every search field follows one contract: Escape empties the text AND hands
the keyboard back to the shell root, and a clickable cross clears the text
while keeping the caret in the field. The header search shows the cross
left of the Enter glyph while the cortinilla is open; QbzLineEdit's search
mode and the new QbzSearchField (the album track filter and the playlist
filter) float it at the right edge.
Each field also keeps its focus after an edit unless another text input
took it, and logs when it had to reclaim it.
cc
QbzSelectableText is a Text-shaped label the user can select and copy: a
read-only TextEdit with mouse and keyboard selection, the right-click Copy
menu, and a rich-text link for fields that navigate; its `raised` arm keeps
a plain shadowed Text for hosts on the ambient field. QbzClipboard is the
off-screen TextEdit copy carrier CommandBlock, SandboxSettings and the
lyrics flyout each grew on their own, as one primitive. QbzScrollBar gains
`alwaysShown` for surfaces that must read as scrollable.
cc
The editor gains a Folder row — the same folders the sidebar and the
manager file playlists into, "No folder" for the root — seeded from the
playlist's current folder and applied on Save through the manager's own
move verb, so an existing playlist no longer needs the sidebar's row menu
to be filed (#785). "Delete playlist" joins the sidebar row menu (own and
local playlists; sidebar entries now carry isOwner) and the playlist card
menu (own playlists), behind a shell-level "Delete playlist?" confirmation
that runs the same delete the editor's button runs and leaves the detail
page only when it was the deleted one (#776). Eight catalogs updated.
cc
Offline downloads, the artwork cache, the lyrics cache, the Plex mirror and
the playback cache (memory profile + storage folder) move to a new Storage
section, each row keeping the bridge verb it had. Offline keeps the mode
rows, Playback keeps the behaviour rows, Plex keeps Disconnect.
cc
Add shared playback memory profiles, bounded disk-backed playback and storage
selection for desktop and daemon. Preserve gapless during streaming-only playback
and provide explicit cache eviction with playback confirmation.
Stop watcher read events and unchanged scans from rebuilding the local catalog.
Restore playlist/sidebar updates, folder availability feedback and player layout.
Add appearance presets and a radio-based cache settings panel with translated
trade-offs, plus consistent clipboard menus across visible Qt text editors.
Validate with Rust regressions, QML interaction tests, isolated release startup
and idle-library checks; extend the shared local and CI gates.
cx
Extract the HTTP host and catalog layer into qbz-control, preserve the
existing daemon API, and keep private session credentials out of SSE.
Scope library stores and scan workers to their host. Share bounded source
search and show Local results alongside Qobuz in the Qt search page.
Add the launch-gated Qt Orbit laboratory and persistent remote-context
banner. Let qbzd run --orbit own and administer its file library through
instance-scoped API and CLI operations. Full remote UI control remains
pending.
Validate library/control/daemon suites, Qt search and QML regressions,
two isolated daemon processes, Qt release build and final cargo check.
cx
Copy link failed on GNOME + Flatpak: arboard's Wayland path needs the
wlr/ext-data-control protocol, which Mutter does not implement, so it fell
back to X11 — reachable natively through XWayland, unreachable inside the
sandbox ("clipboard unavailable: X11 server connection timed out"). KWin
has the protocol, which is why the failure never reproduced on Plasma.
Replace it with a C++ shim (cxx/clipboard.cpp) that queues the write onto
the GUI thread and hands it to QClipboard: the base wl_data_device protocol
every compositor implements, no extra sandbox permission, and the offer
lives as long as the application (the #514 lifetime rule, without the
long-lived arboard instance). arboard is dropped from the crate.
Verified on Plasma/Wayland and on an Ubuntu GNOME/Wayland VM with DISPLAY
unset (the sandbox condition), where the copy now lands.
cc
Both panels were fixed-width (240 / 300); playlist names elided on wide
monitors. Each panel's visible edge (the content pane's edge, 8px past the
panel — the bezel between them shares the panel colour) now carries a 5px
grab strip with a 2x28 notch, split cursor, and a one-shot accent pulse when
a drag lands on a snap point.
Rules live in `panel_resize.rs` (pure, unit-tested), the bridge applies them
live and persists on release (`ui_prefs` `sidebar_width` / `queue_panel_width`,
clamped on read):
- sidebar: 240..480 while open; below 200 it snaps to the mini rail, below 24
it closes through the same state the header button uses (with the Large-NPB
fallback); the mini rail reopens at 220 — a 20px hysteresis band so no
pointer x can flip open<->mini on every move (the flapping seen in the
2026-09-11 screencast). The stored width never drops below 240, so
reopening restores the last open width. A state snap during a drag still
animates: the bridge raises `sidebarSnapping` before the state change and
Sidebar's width Behavior honours it while the drag otherwise disables it.
- column: 300..600; below 260 it closes queue and lyrics as their X would.
With the queue in the column and the width parked at 600, the notch shows a
steady larger glow toward the content; pushing 60px further opens the
Listen List (queue-view) and the queue leaves the column, lyrics staying
if open. A lyrics-only column never pushes through.
The Large-NPB dock is untouched: it is mounted with absolute x/width in
AppShell and reads nothing from the sidebar width.
Verified: panel_resize 9/9, qmllint + the six qt-run.sh audits, release
builds v1-v4, four owner smoke rounds.
cc
Opt-in collapsible My QBZ tree in the sidebar (Settings > Navigation): a
branding-titled parent over Mixtapes and Collections sections, each header a
link to its grid with a chevron that only collapses. Header text and icon on
the left, a Playlists-parity toolbar floating right (search, new, sort A-Z/Z-A,
refresh, collapse) with the chevron aligned to the playlist carets. The tree
feed rides QbzShell (QbzMyQbz is not reliably registered in the shell context)
and is published through publish_sidebar, so it lands reliably at startup.
Per-element visibility reuses the mixtape hidden flag (repo::set_hidden): a
row's right-click hides it from the sidebar, and the detail hero menu toggles
"Hide from sidebar" / "Show in sidebar". Collapse state for the playlist tree
and all three My QBZ sections is persisted. The collapsible tree and the flat
My QBZ entry are mutually exclusive — the classic row is suppressed whenever the
tree is on. Settings gains a Navigation section (Navigation + Search moved out
of Appearance). Detail view also gains a discreet, column-aligned sub-header
over the inline track list. Eight locales updated.
cc
Restore tray-aware close and quit confirmation, circular label covers, and missing label artist portraits. Publish artwork progressively, preload two grid rows, and skip redundant motion reports while preserving data refreshes.
Include regression tests and isolated artwork benchmarks. Verified Linux build, QML checks, and scrolling smoke tests.
cx
Keep search, settings and link shortcuts usable while editing, dismiss focus on outside clicks and navigation, and guard deferred focus against hidden inputs. Add Qt Quick regression coverage.
Refs #753
cx
Integrate the Kiosk profile hardening round: 12 dedicated Kiosk views plus
22 shared opt-in hosts, shared navigation history with Back/Forward, Albums
as the default library tab, native paged Local Library (artists/tracks),
lightweight MyQBZ grid and detail, Ephemeral lifecycle, bounded lists and
artwork sized to the physical frame, static skeletons, 64px transport bar,
Settings touch reflow and a persistent Immersive exit.
Desktop keeps its prior behavior: every shared component defaults to the
desktop path and only opts into Kiosk behavior through explicit properties
(origin-relative ScrollMemory, viewport-bounded artwork requests).
Regression coverage: kiosk navigation and artwork Node tests added to the
runtime gate, scroll-origin fixtures for fixed and grouped rows, i18n
strings for all eight locales.
Verified by 750 release tests, six QML audits, Kiosk smokes at 800x480 and
1280x800 and a Desktop A/B with seven pixel-identical captures.
cc
Correct dead platform declarations, stale rustdoc and test warnings; validate complete gettext headers. Install LLD in the Qt job and explicitly validate committed shader packs without rebaking them. Keep the independent shader bake gate and add three build-policy tests.
The full local gate passed 2398 workspace tests and 715 Qt tests, QML audits, shader baking and the isolated offscreen smoke without compiler, rustdoc or gettext warnings.
cx
The "In library" Albums section gains the release buckets' sort select
(same five keys, persisted by artist_prefs under the pseudo release type
"library"; rows sorted in QML off the document's seed). Every album
section — each catalog bucket and the library grid — gains a split
button right of its sort (controls/QbzSplitButton.qml, sized like the
sm select): the body plays the whole section in its sort order as one
queue replacing the current one (`QbzPlayer.playAlbums` ->
`playback_qt::play_albums`, each album resolved through the single-album
path, failures skipped), the chevron offers Play random (one album of
the section) and Play selected, which arms a per-section select mode:
the cards show their check bottom-right inside the art
(`AlbumCard.selectMarkBottom`), the button reads "Play selected (n)" and
plays the checked albums in sort order, and the menu swaps that row for
Cancel selection. One section is armed at a time; changing artist or
tab disarms. No queue options on purpose.
cc
Apply interface scaling through Qt at startup, complete keyboard navigation, move account migration into setup and progress modals, and defer Subsonic sync while the server scans.
cx
A new top-level Settings section, Import / Export, gathers everything that
moves data in or out of this install:
- SETTINGS PORTABILITY: the settings bundle export moves here from
Developer, with a note on what the bundle does not hold (favorites,
playlists, blacklist, purchases).
- BLACKLIST: export the blocked artists and albums as a JSON one user can
hand to another; import merges additively and never touches the enabled
flag (qbz_app::settings::blacklist_portable, frontend-agnostic).
- ACCOUNT MIGRATION: create a snapshot while signed in with the old
account, then migrate it into the account signed in now, with the local
profile copy and its three opt-in toggles (media servers, scrobblers,
listening history, all on). The disclaimer states that subscriptions and
purchases do not move. Progress and results are status lines in the
settings document; the favorites cache re-warms and the sidebar reloads
after a run, the local half asks for a restart.
Also: the header shows a translated "Member" for accounts without a
subscription, and the login screen says what a member can and cannot do.
50 new strings in all eight catalogs.
cc
The Downloads section leaves the nav flyout. With the sidebar open, the
purchases downloading now sit under the Purchases entry, one row per
album with a thin progress bar, each reopening its detail. With the
sidebar collapsed, and in the compact header nav when it is closed, they
fold into one progress ring whose hover bubble lists every album with
its count and percentage. The ring is a Canvas that repaints only when a
publish moves the value — no timer, per the repaint-pulse rule. The
active set now carries done/total/percent per album.
cc
The list printed the purchase date as "9/1/26" and nothing else, so a
row said neither when the record came out nor, at a glance, what the
number meant. Rows now carry the catalog's original release date next to
the purchase date, both as "Sep 1, 2026", under a column-label strip
like the album list's, and the toolbar sorts by release date (`released`)
beside the four existing keys.
cc
Preserve local playback when it is authoritative, make renderer conflicts explicit and persist the selected policy. Filter unsupported queue rows, restore portable Qobuz identities after disconnect, and fence takeover commands to avoid stale queue and playback loops.
cx
New theme/AmbientAccent helper: reads ambientPrimary (the album's own
dominant hue) and lifts its lightness into a legible band. The shell's
ambientAccent is the +180-degree complement, which is how a deep-blue
cover ended up with orange chrome; accents now stay in the album palette.
ImmersiveTrackMeta tints its Now Playing indicator with it instead of the
theme accent (no contrast guarantee over ambient), opts its badge into
overAmbient and shadows its text rows for light covers.
cc
Add bounded native library models, complete grouping rails and scan progress. Bring source-aware metadata editing, media information and collection offline preflight to Qt, and repair inherited Plex album artwork without overriding healthy tokens.
cx
A startup modal carrying the release notes' "Windows -- yes, but read this
first" section verbatim: Windows is not a supported QBZ platform, the build is
as-is, and the port is open for adoption.
Persisted as two fields, hidden plus the acknowledged version, written in ONE
transaction and read from ONE parsed document. Two separate whole-document
read-modify-writes could leave a torn pair after a crash or a failed rename,
and either half alone re-opens the modal -- the user would tick the box and see
it again. ui_prefs.json is shared with the shipping Slint app, so the discipline
lives in settings_qt with the rest of that file's writers.
A version rather than a bool alone is what makes "reset it on every update"
need no reset step: a build whose version differs simply does not match. A
reinstall of the SAME version does not bring it back, which is accepted -- the
prefs file outlives the installer, and the MSI is where that would be cleared.
Focus is taken in Component.onCompleted, not onVisibleChanged. Item.visible
defaults to true and the Loader only creates this when it should already be
shown, so there is no false->true transition to observe: the handler would
never have run, Escape would never have reached it, and ordinary hotkeys would
have kept working behind the modal. Focus is handed back to the shell root on
destruction, because Qt strands activeFocus on an item being destroyed and that
kills AppShell's key dispatcher until the next click -- the failure
QbzConfirmModal already documents.
Mounted through a Loader gated on isWindows. `visible: false` still constructs
the whole subtree, and Linux and macOS have no reason to build a panel, a
Flickable and fourteen delegates for a modal they can never show.
The body is NOT translated, deliberately: it is the author's statement of
policy and the wording is the point. The chrome around it goes through tr.
cc
The third sibling of the Linux ksni item and the macOS NSStatusItem, wired into
the same `tray_qt` seams and dispatchers, so a tray action behaves identically
on all three. Close-to-tray needs no QML change: `Main.qml:786` already keys on
`trayLive`, which both arms of `init` publish.
The menu is the SAME menu. The plan's C ABI carried no labels, which would have
shipped an English-only menu in an app with eight locales; Linux and macOS
already share five `qbz_i18n` keys, so the translated strings are passed in
from Rust and no new string is introduced.
Win32 details that are load-bearing rather than incidental:
- NIF_SHOWTIP. Version 4 SUPPRESSES the standard tooltip unless asked, so
without it the icon appears, every track sets the tooltip, and nothing ever
shows on hover.
- The NIM_SETVERSION result is checked and creation fails if it is refused.
The window procedure decodes callbacks as version 4 and nothing else, so a
silent negotiation failure would leave a live icon whose clicks and menu do
nothing -- worse than no icon, because close-to-tray would then hide the
window behind it.
- WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW, not HWND_MESSAGE. A message-only window never receives the
broadcast TaskbarCreated, so the icon would never come back after an Explorer
restart. The window is on the GUI thread, so Qt's own loop dispatches it.
- LoadImageW without LR_SHARED returns an icon this process OWNS; it is
destroyed on teardown, while the LoadIconW system fallback is not.
- Failed creation gives back the window and the icon instead of parking them
for the process lifetime, and create is idempotent.
- NIM_SETFOCUS after the menu closes, which the Shell asks for and matters most
when it was dismissed with Escape.
Every mutation is marshalled through `tray_bridge::ui`, exactly as the macOS
theme arm is. The publishers run on whatever thread playback pushed from -- the
1 Hz poll lives in `crate::spawn` -- while this tray keeps process-global C++
state and talks to a GUI-thread window; calling straight through was a data
race, not merely a documentation mismatch. Linux needs no hop because ksni's
handle is a thread-safe channel.
Strings are truncated on the Rust side by UTF-16 CODE UNITS, not by `chars()`.
The buffers are sized in `wchar_t`, an astral character costs two, and
`wcsncpy_s` with `_TRUNCATE` would happily keep a high surrogate whose partner
was cut -- malformed UTF-16 handed to the shell.
The tray-icon-variant row is hidden on Windows: the notification area draws the
executable's own icon and Windows owns light/dark, so the four choices would
render, persist and change nothing.
cc
Windows media keys never worked because SMTC never started. souvlaki's Windows
backend does `config.hwnd.expect(..)`, which PANICS rather than degrading, and
`MediaControls::new` runs inside a tokio task, so a missing handle aborted the
task instead of returning the Err the caller was written for. Phase A bowed out
before reaching it and logged "SMTC disabled: no window handle wired yet".
`spawn` now takes a `NativeWindow`, and `cxx/win_shell.cpp` supplies the
top-level HWND through `QGuiApplication::topLevelWindows()`. The guard stays:
a missing integration is a missing feature, a panic in a tokio task is a dead
session.
Windows reads the handle from a bounded retry on the GUI thread. Both things it
waits for -- the tray bridge's Qt thread and a shown window -- are "not yet",
never "not ever": `tray_bridge::ui` is a no-op until `QbzTray::boot` registers
the thread, and `QbzSession.boot()` runs first (Main.qml:254 vs :380).
NON-WINDOWS IS UNCHANGED, deliberately. An earlier draft routed every platform
through that hop and it was a Linux/macOS regression three ways: initialization
could be dropped outright before boot, MPRIS would start only when the Qt queue
drained (losing the first metadata push), and `main_window_hwnd` calls
`QWindow::winId()`, which CREATES the platform window as a side effect on
platforms with no reason to.
Cover art needed its own fix. souvlaki 0.8.3 branches on
`url.starts_with("file://")`, then trims exactly that prefix and hands the rest
to `GetFileFromPathAsync`. So `file:///C:/x.jpg` arrives as `/C:/x.jpg` -- a
slash before a drive letter, which never opens -- while a bare `C:\x.jpg` no
longer matches the prefix and takes the remote-URI branch instead. The value
that works is the hybrid `file://C:\x.jpg`. UNC is handled too: `file://nas/m/a`
is a real Windows path and was being passed through as the relative `nas/m/a`.
The percent-decode is full and applied once: `art_url` arrives from
`url::Url::from_file_path` (space as %20) and from `fs_url::file_url` (only
% # ? escaped), and one full decode reads both -- `%2520` gives back a literal
`%20` rather than a space. `fs_url::local_path` is deliberately not used here;
its three-escape decode would leave the other producer's %20 intact.
Eight tests cover the matrix. Reviewed adversarially before commit, which is
where the inverted cover conversion and the non-Windows regression were caught;
the souvlaki branch was then read at the source to confirm.
cc
winresource, not winres: winres has been unmaintained since 2021 and this
is its maintained fork. Gated to cfg(windows) as a target build-dependency,
so no other platform resolves it at all.
The manifest declares longPathAware and NOTHING else. Qt 6 sets
PerMonitorV2 itself at startup and a manifest DPI declaration is immutable,
so the two together either log a permanent COM error 0x5 or degrade
scaling - Qt owns DPI awareness.
The .ico carries 256/128/64/48/32. The four small entries are BMP and only
256 is PNG: measured on this box, System.Drawing.Icon (GDI+) throws
ArgumentOutOfRangeException in ToBitmap() on a PNG-payload entry, while WIC
decodes it. 256 has to be PNG because the directory encodes its size as 0.
Pixels verified against the source PNG at four points including an
asymmetric one, which is what proves the BGRA order and the bottom-up flip.
cc
Neither cc-rs nor cxx-qt-build passes them, and without both nothing that
includes a Qt header compiles on Windows.
/Zc:__cplusplus: MSVC reports __cplusplus as 199711L whatever /std: says,
and qcompilerdetection.h:1317 rejects that value outright on every
translation unit, ours and moc's alike.
/permissive-: measured on Qt 6.9.3, the headers do not parse in MSVC's
default mode - qtmochelpers.h:262 C2065 'result', qcomparehelpers.h:1348
C2968 recursive alias, and C2737 on every moc staticMetaObject.
Applied to both cc builders: this crate's own, which compiles the nine RHI
items, and cxx-qt's. Patching only the latter changed nothing, because the
failure came from the former. Gated on the target env, so the Linux and
macOS builds cannot see either flag.
cc
qt-build-utils writes the collected path verbatim as the qrc alias, and
read_dir joins with a backslash on Windows, so none of the 1469 aliases
resolved: 1106 icons, 9 fonts and 21 shaders would each fail with
"Cannot open". Normalise only when the build host is Windows, since a
backslash is a legal filename character on Unix.
Also probe qsb.exe and QT_ROOT_DIR/bin, because Path::is_file never
appends .exe, and fix the SpectrumBand hand-bake comment, whose command
lacked --hlsl 50 and the GLES variants that build.rs actually passes.
cc
Add the chained genre, artist, and album browser with persistent layout and tab ordering. Reuse the shared album semantics for grouped versions and disc-aware details, enforce active source filters, and bound foreground detail work so chained searches stay responsive.
cx
Analyze audible tracks into a progressive 512-bin RMS document, cache complete results, and preserve gapless track boundaries. Render the waveform through a scenegraph item in both player bars behind a default-off preference.\n\ncx
Add a theme-aware goniometer and pitch-locked oscilloscope to the large dock and immersive focus modes.
Gate scope DSP and scenegraph updates by actual panel visibility so hidden modes remain idle, including while shader scenes cover immersive panels.
cx
Give track editing a dense spreadsheet pane, move album tags to an independent sidebar, and isolate remote metadata and artwork lookup in a loading-aware popup.
cx
Restore the selected-version editor with sidecar-safe defaults, inspected tag layers, guarded MusicBrainz and Discogs lookup, and confirmed verified direct writes. Keep paths Rust-owned and reject stale or injected drafts.
cx
Materialize source-scoped artist aggregates and FTS, then expose exact keyset pages and bounded A-Z metadata for the existing Artists rail.
Query the selected artist's albums through the indexed credit relationship with an independent bounded model, generation cancellation, artwork updates, and per-surface legacy fallback.
cx
Materialize album browse fields and FTS in the derived catalog, then expose exact counts and stable keyset queries for the current filters, sort, grouping, and enabled sources.
Bind the existing Albums layout to a bounded native Qt model with asynchronous page misses, anchors, selection ranges, generation cancellation, artwork updates, and per-surface fallback. Resolve Plex native edition keys directly and retain the metadata-mode legacy reader.
cx
Add an opt-in QAbstractListModel backed by keyset pages from the derived catalog, with bounded residency, global query semantics, source-aware actions, and per-session fallback to the existing reader.
Wire profile-scoped bootstrap locations and refresh the native surface only after a complete catalog is active.
cx
Selection existed but had no keyboard: every click was a single toggle,
so picking 40 tracks meant 40 clicks. Slint and Tauri have had ranges
since 2026-06; this is that port.
NINE surfaces, not the five the track views suggested: Album, Artist,
Playlist, Label, Local Album, plus Library's tracks and albums and Local
Library's tracks and albums. Each carried its own hand-copied `selected`
map and its own `toggleSelected`, so the rule went into
controls/SelectionModel.qml and the maps stayed where they were — the
smallest change that stops it being copied a tenth time.
The rules are Tauri's `applyShiftRange`, unchanged: a plain click
toggles one row without clearing the rest, Shift fills the range from
the anchor ADDITIVELY (so re-dragging a range cannot eat the set) and
leaves the anchor where it is, and Ctrl/Cmd is the same as a plain click
— not a shortcut, but the behaviour both references already have,
because an accumulating click is what "add without disturbing" means.
Qt makes this CHEAPER than Slint, and the difference is worth recording:
Slint had no modifiers at click time and had to read a thread-local set
from a ModifiersChanged handler, with a documented stale-read edge case
when the window lost focus mid-chord. A QML MouseArea delivers
`mouse.modifiers` on the event itself, so the modifier and the click can
never disagree and no such seam exists here.
Three judgement calls, stated because they are not forced:
- Library gets TWO models, one per kind. Its rows are mixed, and one
anchor would let a Shift-click on a track sweep up the albums drawn
between it and the anchor.
- Ranges run over the VISIBLE rows. Local Library's search box is a
view filter, and a range over rows the user cannot see is not the
range they asked for — the same call `select-all` already made.
- The Local Library tree rail keeps plain toggles. Its selection lives
in Rust (QbzLocal.treeToggle*Select), so there is no QML map to hang
an anchor off; teaching the Rust side about an anchor is its own
change, and the file says so where a reader would expect otherwise.
The anchor is an ID, not an index, because every one of these views can
re-sort or filter under a live selection — an index anchor silently
points at a different track the moment the order changes. Slint's
selection.rs made the same call for the same reason.
Verified by driving the app: in Abbey Road, click row 1 then Shift-click
row 5 selects exactly rows 1-5 and leaves 6-8 untouched, with the bar
reading "5 selected"; the same in a playlist, additively over a row that
was already selected.
cc
It shipped doing nothing. Measured on the built binary: picking a face
persisted the pref and changed ZERO of 600600 pixels in the settings
label column. The row was a control that lied.
Two measurements say why, and both were run against this Qt build rather
than reasoned about:
- `ApplicationWindow.font.family` propagates through Qt Quick CONTROLS
only. In a standalone scene with a family set on the window, a
`Label` resolved to it and a sibling `Text` stayed on the
APPLICATION font. This tree is 1082 plain `Text` items against 13
that name a family, so the app's typeface IS the application font.
- The application font is read when an item is CONSTRUCTED. Driving
PySide6 against the same Qt, `QGuiApplication::setFont` updated
`QGuiApplication::font()` and left an already-built `Text` on its old
family.
Together those close the door on changing it live, so the ordering in
main() is the feature: FontPreload.qml registers the bundled faces (a
family does not exist until its file is loaded, and `load()` returns
with its FontLoaders already in the database), the application font is
set from the persisted choice, and only then does Main.qml build the UI.
Swap any two of those and the setting silently does nothing again.
The row now says "(requires restart)", the same wording Interface size
two rows above already uses, in all eight catalogues.
"System" resolves to "" and takes no branch, so anyone who never opens
the row gets exactly the font this app rendered before — verified by
capturing the window on both settings: 0 log lines and an untouched
frame for System, 27065 changed pixels for Montserrat.
NOT ADDRESSED, and worth its own decision: those 1082 Text items have
never used the bundled Inter either. `Main.qml` has always named it, but
that only ever reached the Controls, so the app renders in whatever Qt
picks. Making "System" mean Inter is a one-line change and a visible
one, so it is left alone here.
cc
The folder block — toolbar, add-path row, filter, the row-per-folder
table and the scan progress — is the tallest thing in Settings and it
sat at the TOP of Local Library, pushing Albums view, Library > All,
Maintenance, Danger zone and the three media servers off the first
screen. Behind a Manage row, the whole panel fits one screen again.
The shape is the one Blacklist already uses for its manager, and this
view is deliberately its twin: same 64px summary row, same metrics, same
route-recorded-by-the-caller contract.
Nothing about the table changed. LibraryFolderTable.qml is mounted
verbatim, still driven by the settings document and still acting through
the settingsString action keys.
Two things had to travel with it, because SettingsView used to supply
them and a routed page has no access to that:
- LibFolderEditModal, or the per-folder pencil would open nothing,
silently.
- the refresh on entry. A view reached by Back runs no per-view load,
so it asks for its own, where BlacklistManagerView puts its reload.
Verified in a running window: the route mounts, the seven folders render
with their per-row actions, and Back returns to Local Library with the
section intact.
cc
vicrodh