**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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The port had reinvented this badge: an icon-only replica with no MP3 tier, no
full or compact form, and none of the playback states. QualityBadge.svelte and
QualityBadgeStatic.svelte in the archived Tauri tree are the reference, and
every number here comes from their CSS.
Four modes, the union of both originals: full (the 136x36 pill with tier row
and bit-rate), compact (the narrow-bar "24/96" form from issue #303), bare
(full's content without the pill chrome, for toolbars) and iconOnly (the
Hi-Res brand mark alone, or a framed 30px square for CD/MP3 so both line up in
a grid). Tier resolution follows the original's order, MP3 first so it can
never come out as CD.
The four playback states come with it: system resampling, ALSA plughw
fallback, deliberate quality adjustment and confirmed bit-perfect, each with
its own border hue and indicator glyph, plus the rich hover tooltip carrying
source, output, the reason and the fix. Rows that only advertise stored
quality leave the flags false, which is exactly what QualityBadgeStatic was.
QualityMini becomes an alias over iconOnly mode rather than a second drawing
of the same thing, so the six existing call sites keep working while there is
one badge again.
Brings the assets the port was missing: cd.svg, mp3.svg and the LINE Seed JP
face the badge is set in. Their tint is baked to #b3b3b3 because Tauri applied
it with a CSS filter and QML has none on the software path. Adds theme.alphaTier(pct)
so the badge names the alpha ramp the design specifies instead of a raw index.
build.rs now collects the whole asset tree recursively — the hand-written root
list meant a new asset compiled clean and failed at runtime with "Cannot open".
18/18 tests; offscreen smoke clean.
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HeaderBar (42px, sidebar cycle, back/forward, centered search replica,
offline badge + flyout, app menu), three-state Sidebar (open 240 / mini
64 / closed 0, 160ms animation, nav rows with exact msgids), NowPlaying
bar SMALL (3px three-color seekbar, art+title+time left, transport
center, quality/volume/queue-toggle right, exact empty state), Queue
panel (300px animated column, Queue/History tabs, exact empty states).
Nav history stack + NowPlayingModel with empty-state defaults behind
new bridge properties/invokables (transport log-and-noop until
playback lands). Icons as pre-baked tinted SVG variants (ColorOverlay
is broken on the software path); Inter fonts bundled; full dark theme
tokens ported from the Slint foundation files.
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