The write existed — `dismissArtist` persisted to the reco-dismissal store
and toasted — but nothing READ it: `reco_dismiss_qt::ids_snapshot()` had no
consumer outside its own module, so the artist came back on the next
rebuild. The card's comment promising it would "leave the rails on the next
publish" was false, because nothing filtered on publish either.
The dismissal ids now join the exclusion set fed to `compose_artist_rails`,
so the composition choke point can backfill the freed slot from the pool
instead of leaving a hole, and `apply_dismissal` drops the card from the
cached rails on the CLICK — no optimistic flip in QML.
Scope is deliberate and recorded on the card: RECOMMENDATIONS only. The
same card is mounted by Search, Label, Artist Scene, Home and the Library
grid; dismissing from one of those persists and takes effect in
Recommendations, but the card you clicked stays where it is. Hiding an
artist app-wide is the blacklist — a different store and a different row.
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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 port had a 67-line settings row showing two counters and a header saying
the Manage chevron was "NOT shipped — this port has no Blacklist Manager view
for it to open". The Slint has 1,114 lines of manager plus the consumer surfaces
that make the feature mean anything.
- src/artist_blacklist.rs is a 1:1 port of the reference's per-user lifecycle,
including the fail-open asymmetry (is_enabled reads TRUE when there is no
session, everything else false/empty) and the byte-identical NO_SESSION_ERR.
src/reco_dismiss_qt.rs carries the reco-dismissal store. Both are bound in
ALL THREE session-activation paths — the offline one included, because the
reference records that Tauri never bound it offline and blacklisted artists
leaked into offline surfaces — and torn down on logout, or the next account
inherits them.
- The manager view: three tabs (bordered, ADR-008 — no pills), search, sort,
the enable toggle, the disabled warning banner, the four body branches per
tab in their load-bearing order, windowed lists, and the clear-all confirm.
Reached from Settings only, exactly like the Slint; no sidebar entry.
- Every one of the ten store mutations publishes TWICE — its own document and
publish_settings() — because the Settings counters live in a different
document and nav_qt::back() re-runs no per-view load. Without it,
Manage -> unblock -> Back showed pre-mutation counters. The Slint gets this
free from a shared global.
- The search field is driven imperatively, not by a binding: QbzLineEdit's X
used to destroy the binding, after which the box went blank while the list
stayed filtered.
- Consumer surfaces, which is where the feature actually lives: the album card
and album list row gained "Block this album", the artist card gained the
3-arg "Not interested", the album header menu gained Block/Unblock swapping
on state, and the artist page gained the Show/Blacklist flip plus the amber
hidden banner with its "Show artist" button. album_qt and artist_qt now seed
isAlbumBlocked / isBlacklisted at document build time — without the seed an
already-blocked album offered "Block this album" and the first click
UN-blocked it, the same lie the pin glyph told before isPinned existed.
- search_qt passed &Default::default() for both blacklist snapshots, so nothing
was filtered anywhere and a greyed row still played. It now passes the real
snapshots at both call sites.
- The 17 toasts the spec had dropped for want of a toast host are wired: that
premise stopped being true when toast_qt landed, and a Clear All that failed
with NO_SESSION_ERR was completely silent. Their msgids are in all eight
catalogues; the five album-axis ones existed only in es and nl.
Also fixed in passing, pre-existing on this branch and unrelated to the
blacklist: ArtistView's library tab read `libTracks` unqualified from a child
of the object that declares it, which QML resolves against the component root,
not the enclosing object — so the "Tracks" heading threw a ReferenceError and
never rendered. Found by forcing the artist route in the offscreen smoke, which
no earlier gate did.
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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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Two defects with one cause: a tint name that means a frozen hex.
"primary" is the legacy alias of literal #ffffff, not Theme.text-primary,
so every control passing it drew a white glyph. On the eleven light
themes that is white-on-light -- the header back/forward chevrons, the
sidebar toggle and the carousel arrows the owner marked. They now pass
the theme-following names, which icon_tint_qt bakes at runtime.
The stale `hslLightness > 0.5 ? "primary" : "black"` workarounds that
predate the runtime tinter collapse into those names, and the qrc floor
underneath them becomes polarity-aware: dir_for() returns "" whenever
the cache dir is unavailable, a bake fails or the theme document has not
been published, and that path used to resolve textPrimary straight back
to the white bake -- reproducing the bug it was fixing, app-wide, in the
degraded state.
On accent fills the fix is a deviation from Slint, approved by the owner
after measurement. A fixed white glyph on Theme.accent falls under 2.6:1
on 16 of the 35 shipped palettes, including high-contrast at 1.70:1 and
wcag-dark at 1.82:1 -- the two themes whose reason to exist is contrast.
Slint hardcodes #ffffff there (CircleAction.slint:72 and three others),
so the bug is upstream. accentText alone is not the answer either: it is
picked for the theme's text ramp and gives 2.56:1 on Rose Pine Dawn,
worse than the black it replaces. So QbzTheme picks the best-contrast
tint by real sRGB luminance against the live accent, and the labels
beside those glyphs use its colour twin -- BrowseGenreButton and
LibraryView were drawing a white glyph next to an accentText label
inside the same pill.
Rounds out the two parity items the same files owe: QbzNavButton gains
the ambient arm from Carousel.slint (wired at the six carousel sites,
not left dead), and QbzCircleAction rounds its glyph to whole pixels the
way CircleAction.slint does.
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**Deferred external rows.** The album page awaited the Last.fm row before
publishing anything, so the tracklist waited on an external service plus
MusicBrainz. It publishes in stages now — header and tracks first, then each
Qobuz rail as it lands, then Last.fm — with every patch merged under a
generation counter so a late reply for album A cannot paint onto album B. The
artist page was already staged this way; its views were the part still showing
bare "Loading…" text.
**Skeletons as the standard.** One control, new variants rather than new
components, mounted across the views. Its second job is the one the owner
named: cleanup. A cover that never resolves settles the placeholder once and
reveals the card's own empty state instead of shimmering forever — local albums
with no embedded art produce no artwork entry at all, so a placeholder gated
only on "not arrived yet" would never stop.
**Local artwork streams.** Fifteen seconds to first cover on a 1274-album grid
was one batch emitted after the whole window resolved. Each cover emits as it
resolves now, visible band before prefetch margin.
**Lyrics migrated.** Smooth sync instead of a 1 Hz tick, word-level karaoke
where the document carries it, the surrounding-line dimming, the controls
flyout and the translation layer the v10 backend already supported. Exactly one
row subscribes to the 30 Hz output; the timer drops to 250ms when paused or
hidden.
**Navigation by mouse and touchpad.** Side buttons and a two-finger horizontal
swipe, matching #653 — including the part that matters, which is that a swipe
over a carousel scrolls the carousel. The layer is declared first in the shell
so everything else gets first refusal.
**Context menus.** Brought to the Slint inventory, Play later included, with
right-click opening the same menu as the button everywhere. Entries whose seam
does not exist are hidden rather than shipped inert.
Two controls that rendered and no-opped are now honestly disabled: the My QBZ
nav row, which routes to a view the shell has no case for, and three sidebar
menu entries with no backing call.
The sidebar caret was never a condition bug. The row is a positioner and the
name cell's width ignored the count label, so a folder WITH content pushed the
chevron past the clip — which is why it vanished exactly when it mattered.
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Two singletons rather than one merged object, per the owner: each maps to the
view it backs. Registering them and deleting the duplicates from bridge.rs is
one change, because wiring one without removing the other compiles fine and
leaves two independent states with the view frozen and nothing in the log.
view_param_id goes with them. It had no consumer in QML, verified, and none in
Rust once the two opens stopped writing it — so it is deleted rather than
carried into a new bridge for symmetry's sake.
bridge.rs is down to three domains: settings, search and playlist.
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library_bridge.rs has sat in the tree unreferenced since the phase-23 work
stopped: no mod declaration, not in build.rs, zero call sites, and duplicating
members that were still live in bridge.rs. It could not have been wired as it
stood — its module was named qbz_library, which is ambiguous with the
qbz-library crate this binary depends on, so it never compiled. The module is
now qbz_library_bridge; the QML type name comes from the QObject, so QML is
unaffected.
Registering it and deleting the duplicates had to happen together. Wiring it
alone would have compiled cleanly and produced two independent Library states —
QML reading one object while Rust published to the other — with the view simply
frozen and nothing in the log.
Moved with it: four properties, five invokables, three signals, the seven
library-only ui() hops in main.rs, and thirty-four QML references. The
Connections blocks in LibraryView, Sidebar, QueuePanel, AlbumView and
PlaylistCollage retarget wholesale because every handler in them is a library
signal. ArtistView's does not: it mixes onLibraryArtworkReady with
onReleaseSectionReady, so it becomes two blocks — retargeting it whole would
have orphaned the releases pager, and QML resolves handlers lazily enough that
the discography would just have stopped loading with nothing in the log.
bridge.rs is down to 389 lines and five domains.
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All four card families hand-rolled the same overlay row and all four were
misaligned, each differently. They centred the group with a manual spacer
Item computed as (cardWidth - 44 - 2*36 - 2*12) / 2 — the leftover once you
account for the primary disc, the two ghost discs and the gaps between them.
AlbumCard set spacing: 12 AND kept the spacer, so the spacer itself took a
12px gap and the group sat 12px right of centre. ArtistCard, PlaylistCard and
TrackCard never set spacing at all, so the gaps the formula had already
subtracted never materialised: the discs touched each other and the group sat
12px left of centre. ArtistCard also measured against 190px while its art is
200 wide.
The arithmetic was never needed. CardOverlayRow centres a Row on its parent,
which computes its own width from whatever children it has — so a card that
hides a button (artists without the follow action) stays centred for free,
where the old formula needed a conditional term to keep up.
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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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