Accumulated qt-frontend work from the 2026-08-11/12 sessions (cc),
uncommitted until now: the app-wide dynamic background in both modes
(AmbientField with GPU/Canvas arms, AppShell layering, ambient palette
pipeline), the wave-1 clip/batch sweep across the tree (alpha batches
449 -> 327, reproducible), the rounded-cover and icon-tint arms, and
scripts/qt-batches.sh (batches + presents/s sampler).
The GPU behaviour of these pieces was finalized in the follow-up pulse
commits; see qbz-nix-docs/qt-frontend/2026-08-11-scenegraph-batches/
GPU-COST-INVESTIGATION.md for the full campaign.
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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.
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Ports the three sections the tab was missing, against the Slint
implementation rather than invented: the section rails, the cards, and the
mix landing page with its navigation seam so back/forward behave.
The mixes reuse the shared crates for their requests -- the Slint app
already makes them, so nothing new talks to Qobuz here.
Also carries the qt-run.sh portability work needed for the Mac mini:
`free`, `nproc`, `pgrep` and `timeout` all differ or are simply absent on
BSD/macOS. Two of those bit during the first Mac build. `pgrep` exits 1
when it matches nothing -- the normal case -- and under `pipefail` that
killed the script before a single line of output, which reads exactly like
a build that did nothing. And `timeout` does not exist on macOS at all, so
the smoke produced a one-line log over which the grep cheerfully reported
"0 QML complaints": a test that never ran, rendering as a pass. The smoke
now fails outright on a log that short.
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Three views instantiated components the phase-23 directory move had left
unimportable: PlaylistView and SearchView use TrackRow (now in rows/) and
SectionRail uses AlbumCard (now in cards/). QML resolves lazily, so these
survived cargo check, the test suite and the offscreen smoke — they only
failed when the user opened a playlist. Adds a repo-wide audit of every
instantiated component against the importing file's visible directories; the
three above were all of them.
The ambient field and the new dock band froze on lost focus. That is wrong on
any tiling or mosaic desktop, where windows stay fully visible while
unfocused — the field would stop while the user is looking at it. Both now
gate on the window not being minimized or hidden, which is the real "nobody
can see this". Freezing on not-visible stays.
Dock band render cost, in descending order of impact: the drain publishes
only the stream the active mode consumes (Bars mode was marshalling a
512-float waveform QList 30 times a second for nothing); each mode marshals
its QList into JS once per tick instead of once per delegate; one shared
Gradient replaces 28 per-delegate instances; and the per-bar Behaviors are
gone since qbz-audio already smooths and clamps the amplitudes upstream.
18/18 tests; offscreen smoke clean; component-resolution audit clean.
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Two fronts of the modularization, both gated green before this commit.
QML leaves the flat qml/ directory for seven modules: cards, controls,
rows, settings, shell, theme, views. Only Main.qml and LoginScreen.qml
stay at the root. build.rs matches the tree exactly (55 files), relative
imports and asset paths were re-anchored for the new depth.
The QbzBridge God-object starts breaking up: QbzSession, QbzShell,
QbzPlayer, QbzQueue and QbzHome are now their own #[cxx_qt::bridge]
singletons, each with its own OnceLock<CxxQtThread> and ui() hop, booted
in order from Main.qml. Bridge files stay directly under src/ because
cxx-qt-build only accepts rust_files from one directory (QTBUG-93443).
bridge.rs keeps 5.5 domains (library, album/artist, settings,
integrations, search, playlist) and dies once they are split out.
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