Smoke round 5 (owner feedback). Checkpoint.
- Preferred GPU selector (Settings > Renderer, Linux/wgpu): lists each detected
GPU by name ("Auto" + e.g. "NVIDIA … (discrete)" / "Intel … (integrated)"),
persisted (ui_prefs.gpu_power by device name), applied at startup via the wgpu
adapter PowerPreference (WGPU_POWER_PREF env still wins). Fixes the iGPU running
hot under the shader background on hybrid laptops — pick the discrete GPU.
New gpu_adapters() enumerates+dedups adapters; gpu_power_from_prefs /
_options / _seed_index / _value_for_index.
- Ambient metaball added to the IMMERSIVE scene picker (mode 7, wgpu-only opt-in);
the non-shader atmosphere stays the fallback for GL/software tiers.
- Glass treatment on the surfaces that were still opaque: carousel < > nav
buttons (6 carousels), "Filter by category" pill, "Filter by genre" buttons,
and the PlaylistBrowseView (View-all) header band + category radio row.
- i18n: "Preferred GPU" + description + discrete/integrated + restart toast (8
locales).
Base: 76ea5a82. Prior checkpoint: a0f5cf2b.
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Smoke rounds 3-4 (owner feedback). Checkpoint during iteration.
Ambient (the big one): rewrote ambient.wgsl from translating gaussian blobs to a
METABALL field (r²/d² summed + smoothstep iso-surface) with 2-octave domain warp
— lobes fuse/stretch/split like an amoeba / lava lamp (the Cider motion that was
missing), faster clock, more contrast.
Surfaces made background-aware (translucent when the dynamic background is on):
- Search results view (root + toolbar), artist Network panel + its tab-row
header (transparent to avoid double-translucent compounding), JUMP TO bar
(JumpNavBar bar-bg passed in — can't import ShellState without a cycle).
- Discover toolbars + tab pill + BrowseHeaderTools; SearchResultsView toolbar.
- CircleAction (shared: playlist/album/artist/etc. action buttons) on-surface
secondary fill goes glass; playlist Sort dropdown; QbzSelect closed control.
- New app-background-bar-alpha knob (0.3, env QBZ_BG_BAR_ALPHA): thin bars go
MORE transparent than panels (surface-alpha 0.5).
- Content well: frosted tint (0.22) + 1px hairline border → distinct panel.
- Album/Artist header gradient auto-suppressed under the dynamic background
(they clashed); header text stays light on the dynamic backdrop.
- Discover carousel edge-fade "shadows" hidden when active (Carousel /
PlaylistCarousel / ArtistCarousel / PinnedCarousel).
Base: 76ea5a82. Prior checkpoint: 4e405338.
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Adds a compact dropdown in the Library Albums (favoriteAlbums) row header, left of the page chevrons: Recently added (default), First added (reverse), Random (shuffle). Reorders the cached base list in Rust with no re-fetch and re-fires artwork by the new index. Also corrects the stale HomeView comment that claimed the recently-played refresh lives in the toolbar (it is a row-header button). 8 locales updated.
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Home's recently-played albums/tracks only populated on a full home load, so
tracks played mid-session never appeared until restart. Re-read the LOCAL
store into the rails when a track is recorded while Home is visible, and on
Home re-mount if it went dirty — event-driven, no polling, cheap (small JSON
read + cached artwork). Also add a manual refresh button in each recently-
played row header next to the page chevrons (moved off the top toolbar, where
it crowded the discovery tab bar).
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Third and final hit of the 'Recursion detected' panic class
(i-slint-core properties.rs:583), this time crashing DiscoverBrowse on
startup view-restore (and crash-looping via persistence). Root cause
symbolized from the field backtrace: every .slint 'changed x =>'
compiles to a ChangeTracker whose watched expression evaluates
SYNCHRONOUSLY at component instantiation, and conditional/repeated
components instantiate from ensure_updated INSIDE whatever property
evaluation triggered them — so a windowing band that reads layout
results (viewport-y, flick.height, self.width, absolute-position) can
re-enter a property mid-evaluation. Timing-sensitive: needs the model
filling in the same pass that instantiates the grid, which startup
view-restore hits deterministically.
Class-kill, uniform on every windowed surface (owner mandate — no
survivor exceptions): band state is now plain properties written ONLY
by an 80ms sampler Timer (event-loop context, nothing on the property
stack) in the shared AlbumGrid, the horizontal Carousel and the search
grid. No changed handlers, no init-time reads; the ±1-viewport margin
absorbs the sampling cadence; consumers' declarative wiring unchanged
(inputs are polled, never observed — contract documented in-file).
Startup crash-chain watchdog ('perro policía'): a counter file armed
before risky init and cleared by the same liveness signals as the
renderer sentinel. One pre-liveness death -> next boot resets exactly
ui_prefs last_nav/last_view (the field-verified surgical bypass) with
a recovery toast; two -> additionally bypasses the session-persist
queue restore for that boot, and the exit save keeps the preserved
snapshot instead of clobbering it with the empty queue. Recovers this
incident and the #558 loop automatically. One msgid x8.
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Column band from viewport-x (visible plus one viewport of margin each
side) with the same contract hysteresis as AlbumGrid; off-band cards
are same-footprint placeholder tiles. Element-count only, always on —
section loaders dispatch artwork for the whole strip up front, so a
card mounting later picks its cover from the model instantly. Covers
every Home/ForYou/Discover/Search strip through one component.
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Owner-directed polish after testing the Recommendations tab.
- Full albums only: drop singles/EPs/boxsets/compilations from every album row
(Recommended Albums, Fresh Releases, Deep cuts). Qobuz's `release_type` is the
source of truth ("album" | "single" | "boxset" | "compilation"); when absent,
fall back to tracks_count >= 5. Kills the karaoke single that showed up under
Fresh Releases.
- Slop second layer: reject karaoke / tribute / "made famous by" / "in the style
of" / instrumental-version releases by artist-or-title keyword, applied both
pre-resolution (candidates) and post-resolution (the Qobuz album), so AI-slop
that still wears a full-album shape gets filtered.
- Taller rows in this view only: AlbumCard/ArtistCard/Carousel/ArtistCarousel
grow an overridable `card-height` (defaults unchanged, so Home/Search are
untouched); ExternalRecoView passes 266 to album rows and 256 to artist rows,
whose cards carry the "Similar to…" subtitle (~250px) and were clipping the
Follow chip at the old fixed 220.
cargo check -p qbz green.
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Slint cannot split the .slint compilation across crates, but a Slint LIBRARY
crate exposes its generated Rust types to dependent crates (verified with a
minimal proof). So:
- NEW crate `qbz-ui` (lib): owns the whole .slint tree + build.rs + bundled
translations; `slint::include_modules!()` + the generated types (AppWindow,
MiniPlayerWindow, all globals/structs) are re-exported. Translation domain is
now `qbz-ui` (the .po files renamed accordingly).
- `qbz-slint` (bin) -> renamed to `qbz` (package + `[[bin]] name = "qbz"`),
reclaiming the binary name from the retired Tauri app. It depends on `qbz-ui`
and does `pub use qbz_ui::*;` so existing `crate::AppWindow` / `crate::*State`
references resolve unchanged.
This splits the single ~20 GB rustc into two crates (UI/codegen vs the 75k LOC
of logic) — the foundation for lower build peak, incremental caching, and the
upcoming per-feature crate extraction.
Also fixed for the move: qbz-i18n bundled-.po include paths, the font/WGSL
`include_bytes!`/`include_str!` paths (-> ../../qbz-ui/ui/), workspace members,
dev scripts (`-p qbz`), and the CI workflows. `cargo check -p qbz` is green.
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