The artist/label/musician links kept the theme accent, which has no
contrast guarantee over the ambient field — over ambient they now use the
AmbientAccent album-palette color. The panel header also reads at a
distance, so its title/album/artist step up to 24/15/20px there; the
desktop modal keeps 16/legal/16.
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The window-controls capsule only offered fullscreen and exit; on
platforms without native traffic lights there was no way to minimize or
maximize from immersive. Non-macOS expands to four slots (minus,
square/copy for maximize/restore, fullscreen, X) with the same
expansion-bool gating; macOS keeps the two-slot capsule since the native
controls already cover the rest.
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The card's waveform, seek fill, elapsed time and Now Playing indicator
now share the AmbientAccent album-palette color (the local complement
derivation is gone). The Now Playing indicator and the quality badge grow
1.5x (EqualizerBars gains a barScale knob), and the metadata stacks three
lines - title, album, artist - with the shared type scale measuring all
three. The lyrics variant dims its karaoke base like the other immersive
lyric surfaces.
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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.
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Immersive surfaces sit directly on the ambient field, where theme tokens
have no contrast guarantee — a light cover washed the split Track Info
panel and the quality badges out completely. QualityBadgeFull,
TrackInfoBody, InfoMetaCell and InfoCreditCell gain an opt-in overAmbient
mode: fixed light text with the restrained native shadow the lyrics
surfaces already use, and the badge swaps the theme surface for its own
translucent dark scrim covering only the chip. Defaults stay off, so the
desktop modal and every themed mount are untouched. The immersive Track
Info panel and song card opt in.
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LyricsLineRow gains inactiveColor (default theme.textSecondary, so the
desktop lyrics panel is unchanged) and LyricsLinesView forwards it. The
immersive lyric surfaces pass 35% white: their active overlay is solid
white and the theme's textSecondary base was barely dimmer, so the timed
karaoke fill read as static text.
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Plain-Item overlays get no modal grab, so a MouseArea that swallows
presses still lets the wheel scroll the page underneath (the rule and
its wording live in DiscoverConfigModal.qml). Every scrim and panel
swallow across the modal set now accepts the wheel; the modal Popups
(TrackInfo, CastPicker, AlbumInfo, QconnectDev, LocalMediaInfo) already
had the Overlay grab, and CoverLightbox — a non-modal Popup — gets its
own.
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Codename becomes 'Rebuild Q (You Can (Not) Redo)'. The contributor list
gains the ten people whose work shipped since the last sweep — merged
PRs (b0bbywan, Ronjar, eldios, herder, PhilipVinc, Mazipani) and the
house rule for adopted work without a merge (pbaart's Dutch locale,
stshow's DLNA strict-renderer handling, RayneGit's Wayland clipboard
feature flag, LuckyTheCoder's Liquid Glass icon from issue #712) — and
the README list is now identical to the modal's.
New Sponsors section: public GitHub sponsors (linked chips) then Ko-fi
supporters by their public display names, in a fixed three-row strip
that scrolls itself, closed by the translated anonymous-sponsors line.
The panel grows to 920x860 and the modal now eats the wheel on scrim
and panel.
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The WindowsDisclaimerModal mechanism on the purchases pref seam: a
purchases_disclaimer_seen key seeded on entry, a disclaimerVisible field
in the list document, and an OK that persists the dismissal for good. The
overlay uses the DiscoverConfigModal wheel-lock shape; the scrim does not
dismiss, so a stray click can never acknowledge it. Body ships as msgids
in all locales with the Star Wars line kept in English everywhere.
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CortRow gains an albumId — the Qobuz album id for catalog tracks, the
album group key for local ones (both are what crate::open_album routes),
empty elsewhere. The track menu gates its new entry on the field, the
action funnels through cortinillaMenuAction like its siblings, and the
new msgid ships in the seven non-English locales.
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QML TextInput has no system edit menu; a RightButton overlay opens a
CardMenu with Cut / Copy / Paste / Select all. Menu cut/paste are
programmatic edits that never emit textEdited, so the live-query hook is
factored out and re-run after them. New scissors/clipboard glyphs baked
across the six tints; Cut and Paste msgids added to the seven non-English
locales.
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Drop the Slint-inherited 4.5s/30s idle auto-close (and its hover-latch
machinery): while the header search field keeps focus the dropdown stays
open, like a combobox. What closes it is explicit — the click-outside
scrims (which now also hand the keyboard to the shell root, the same
duck-walk Escape uses), Escape, activating a row, or a page change. One
timer fewer, per the repaint-pulse doctrine.
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Add to mixtape opens the MyQBZ picker with the call-site payload idiom
(trackCount omitted: the card contract has no member count and the store
persists the value); Make available offline runs the shared playlist
cache preflight. The card only mounts on Qobuz playlist rows, so neither
entry needs a gate.
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Add to mixtape and Make available offline (label swaps to Refresh offline
copy on a fully cached aggregate), gated on catalogAffordances — the
catalog-id guarantee both by-id invokables need — and refused for pulled
albums, matching the PopularTrackRow refusals.
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The section-level menu offered Play all next and Add all to queue with no
block-tail option; enqueue_track_list_mode already carries the "later"
arm, so only the entry was missing. New msgid translated in the seven
non-English locales.
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AlbumView's album menu gains the row and stops mapping its append action
to mode "later" (that aliasing only worked while the backend collapsed
the two). AlbumQuickView drops the local-only gate on Play later now that
catalog albums own a real block-tail insert.
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QualityBadge has always owned a hover tooltip, but every AlbumCard host
passed only the tier, so the tip had nothing to say. The card gains a
qualityDetail input feeding the badge's label, and all fifteen mounts
now pass their model's detail (HomeCard rides its qualityLabel twin).
Un-hydrated Plex/remote rows surface their bare filetype — the known
honest fallback; an empty detail still shows no tooltip at all. The
Scene panel's own card already wired this and is untouched.
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The PopularTrackRow fork rendered a lone tier word (HI-RES/CD) in a
plain Text while the document has carried qualityDetail all along; it
now mounts the same bare QualityBadgeFull as the shared TrackRow's
quality cell — tier label over the exact bit-depth/rate line. Audit:
every other popular/track list already goes through rows/TrackRow.qml,
so this fork was the only divergent quality cell.
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The picker and its duplicate sub-modal eat the wheel on scrim and card
(the DiscoverConfigModal contract) so the page behind no longer
scrolls. The card widens to 735px, and Already in moves from an in-flow
horizontal strip to a right-hand column that exists only when there are
containments to show — the playlist dropdown overlays the main column
only, so the answer stays readable while the list is open.
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The shared drag gains a LOCAL payload arm: a Local Library / Explorer
row enters via dragStartLocal carrying its ROW ID, resolved to
source-aware refs at drop time — a library row id can never be read as
a catalog id, the same invariant the picker's Payload enum enforces.
TrackRow's localDragSource reuses every existing guardrail (horizontal
arming, select-mode/dead-row/playBlocked gates, preventStealing,
cancel teardown) without touching catalogRow's meaning. Drops route
through the picker's own add matrix: refs onto a local playlist or the
Qobuz sidecar, and Qobuz ids onto a local playlist (previously a
documented POC gap); queue drops land at the exact slot through the
same insert path as Qobuz drags. Native-catalog tracks rows keep the
gesture off until their identity can ride it.
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The dropdown pins the session's last successful target above the
results (clock glyph, de-duplicated by Rust, retained under a search
only when it matches). The body gains the collapsible Already in strip:
one card per writable playlist already holding carried tracks, with an
N-of-M badge on partial multi-track containment; clicking a card
selects that playlist so completing a partial add is one click plus the
duplicate-confirm's only-new answer. The strip renders only when the
index can back the claim — complete with matches, or updating under an
explicit caveat — and an empty answer from an incomplete index renders
nothing. Four new strings in all eight locales.
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The Library Explorer caret now says what it does on hover (Show/Hide
filter panels, all eight locales). While the panels are collapsed with
filters applied, a single-line strip of removable chips stays visible
next to the caret (top of the results area for the left/right rail
layouts), so hiding the panels never hides what is filtering the
results. The chip is the empty-state delegate extracted into a shared
component; removal reuses clearFilterChip verbatim.
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Add capability-aware enablement, exact control selection, diagnostics, live volume synchronization, and translated unsupported-state feedback to the Qt settings surface.
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A double-click on a clickPlays row fired playRequested three times
(two releases plus doubleClicked) and restarted the track three times
within 230 ms. Debounce the release and skip the doubleClicked arm on
clickPlays rows.
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Settings > Integrations > PRIVACY: a Listening history toggle (default
ON; the state lives in the per-user listen_meta, so it follows the
account) and a confirmed Clear (DELETE + VACUUM). Strings in all eight
catalogs; README names where the data lives.
ScrobblerSettings::history_read_allowed(service) = *_active(): the
scrobbling switch now governs reading a service's history for
Recommendations as well as sending to it, and its Settings text says
so. recommendations_qt uses it instead of *_is_authed().
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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.
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focusSearch() force-focuses the search input and nothing in HeaderBar ever
released it: the Escape arm only fired while the cortinilla was open, and
even then it dismissed the dropdown and left focus in the field. Since the
central dispatcher refuses every binding while a text input holds focus
(AppShell.qml:133-139), the field was a keyboard dead end whose only way out
was a mouse click.
Escape now always dismisses the dropdown if open, accepts, and hands focus
to the shell root via the same isQbzShellRoot duck-walk the modals use.
Clearing focus alone would not do: a null activeFocusItem passes the gate
but leaves AppShell's Keys handler receiving nothing at all.
Reachable from Ctrl+f since the port; the Vim keymap's `/` puts it one
keystroke from the reflex that expects Escape to work, which is how it
surfaced.
The preset swaps the BASE shortcut table underneath the user's overrides
instead of rewriting them, so Default <-> Vim is lossless. Vim binds single
modifier-free keys: n/p, h/l, Shift+J/K, /, and Ctrl+o / Ctrl+i for the jump
list; rows with no vim idiom keep their defaults.
j and k are deliberately left UNBOUND. They belong to a per-list cursor,
which QBZ has no notion of yet, and a global action bound there now would
have to be taken back the day one lands. A test holds them free.
Where an override has already claimed a shortcut the new base wants, that
action goes unbound rather than double-binding a combo that
action_for_shortcut would otherwise resolve by BTreeMap id order.
Seven new tests, including a gate that fails if any preset ever binds one
shortcut to two actions.
Eight Playback actions the table never had, on Spotify's desktop defaults:
volume up/down (Ctrl+Up/Down), mute (M), shuffle (Ctrl+S), repeat (Ctrl+R),
like (Alt+Shift+B), and a surface-independent seek (Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right).
Each reuses an existing transport seam, and the immersive bare-arrow seek
rows are untouched. Volume honours the player bars' volLocked predicate, so
the hotkey cannot move the slider on an ALSA-Direct hw path where the engine
documents the write as a no-op. Like rides a QML seam, as nav.search does,
because the track id is a QbzPlayer property rather than part of the Rust
now-playing model.
Two new tests; labels added to all eight catalogs.
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.
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Three requirements -- no title bar, working clicks, and window tiling -- and no
combination of public Qt flags delivers all three. Each attempt was measured on
the box rather than reasoned about, and each one taught something the plan had
wrong.
FramelessWindowHint, the previous arm, removes WS_THICKFRAME. THAT is what the
shell keys tiling on -- not WS_CAPTION, which this window never has in any
arrangement -- so Win+Arrow and Aero Snap were dead, along with the DWM shadow
and the Win11 rounded corners. "Hide title bar" was not making the app refuse
the shortcuts; it had stopped being a window the shell could tile.
Adding CustomizeWindowHint restored tiling and stopped Qt painting its own
minimise/maximise/close cluster over the QBZ header. It also made Qt answer
WM_NCHITTEST with HTNOWHERE for EVERY pixel -- centre, header, player bar and
sidebar all returned 0 -- and Windows delivers no mouse input to HTNOWHERE, so
the whole app became unclickable while still running: the tray menu still drove
playback. Dropping the hint fixed clicks and brought the drawn buttons back,
duplicated on top of the ones QBZ already draws itself.
So the hint stays and cxx/win_shell.cpp answers the hit test instead. The
filter defers to DefWindowProcW, which is what an ordinary sizable caption-less
window would return: the eight edge codes near the frame, HTCLIENT everywhere
else. It invents no geometry. Its guard is narrow on purpose -- sizable AND
caption-less, which is exactly the custom-chrome main window -- so menus,
tooltips, popups and any window showing the system title bar keep Qt's own
answer.
Measured after: HTCLIENT at the centre, in the title band, at the edges and in
the corner; Win+Left resized the window to 1720 px, exactly half of a 3440 px
display.
Dragging is unaffected and stays with QML's startSystemMove(): with no caption
there is no HTCAPTION band to inherit, which is the arrangement HeaderBar was
already written for.
NOT restored, and not restorable from flags: the Win11 Snap Layouts hover
flyout. Windows asks for it by hit-testing the maximise button as HTMAXBUTTON,
and QBZ's is a QML item inside the client area. Reporting HTMAXBUTTON over that
one rect from this filter would do it -- named as future work rather than
claimed.
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A deliberate per-platform divergence, not a revert of ruling K1. That ruling
removed always-on-top because the owner smoked it on real Plasma Wayland and
the hint did nothing: a Wayland client cannot raise itself above other clients,
there is no such request in the core protocol, and Qt had nothing to send. On
Windows the same hint IS HWND_TOPMOST and does exactly what it says, so the pin
exists where the window manager can honour it and stays absent where it cannot.
Owner decision D8. `Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint` is applied by SetWindowPos on the
existing HWND, so toggling it does not recreate the native window and costs
neither the geometry nor the transparent surface. The capsule already reserved
the slot, and Qt Rows omit invisible children, so the Linux and macOS layouts
are byte-identical.
Session-scoped by design: the pin does not survive a restart.
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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.
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Three settings and menu entries offered Windows something no code behind them
could do.
DSD playback was opened to WASAPI in fc0d35e29, written before the phase B
spike. The spike then measured this DAC refusing 176400, the DSD64 DoP
carrier, so DoP over exclusive mode lost its target; and both non-convert
modes are cfg(target_os = "linux") in the audio thread and answer "DoP
playback is Linux-only" with a stream error. The row could only offer two ways
to fail. Back to ALSA-only. DSD still plays on Windows, converted to PCM.
Exclusive mode became visible the moment phase B published backendIsWasapi,
but the selection arm keys on backend_type == WasapiExclusive and never reads
exclusive_mode. A live toggle that changes nothing, directly under the
BIT-PERFECT header and directly above the thing being measured.
Open audio CD is dropped on Windows: the CDDA backend is mod unsupported there
and answers NoDrive to everything. Open SACD image stays on every platform --
it opens a file, not a drive, and hiding it would have been a bug.
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Window.topPadding..rightPadding and the SafeArea attached type are Qt
6.9; on the Linux pin (6.8 LTS) declaring them on the ApplicationWindow
refuses the whole component at Main.qml:173 ("Cannot assign to
non-existent property"), measured on the CI VM 2026-08-25 and on a Pi 4
with Debian 13's Qt 6.8.2. The paddings are now set imperatively from a
Loader active only on macOS, and HeaderBar reads SafeArea.margins.left
through a macOS-only Loader into a plain property, so no binding names
the type on other platforms. Behaviour on macOS is unchanged.
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The mode LED is derived from SETTINGS (output_labels.rs reads
audio.exclusive_mode and the ALSA plugin), so it reports what was ASKED FOR.
Nothing reported what the opened stream actually negotiated, which means
"exclusive worked" and "we asked for exclusive" were indistinguishable - and
that distinction is what phase B's acceptance turns on.
PlaybackEvent already carries bit_perfect_mode, so this is a publish, not new
plumbing: the poll tick maps it to direct | plugin | disabled | unknown and
set_effective_stream dedupes on it alongside the delivered params, so a
steady stream still costs no Qt-thread hop. The quality tooltip appends
"stream: <mode>" on both of its paths; unknown and empty print nothing.
Four technical tokens, so no new translatable string.
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Adds isWindows, traySupported, systemNotificationsSupported and
rendererSelectable to the settings document, so Settings QML keeps reading
ONE document the way it already does for isMacos. The two any(...) lists
flip to include Windows when plan A-2 T3/T5 land; they point at that line.
Then the Audio tab, measured on the box with the tab open:
HiFi Wizard was live on Windows. qbz-dac-wizard-core generates a
PipeWire/WirePlumber config and knows no other stack, so the wizard cannot
finish anywhere but Linux. Hidden, not disabled - a disabled row invites a
bug report. This is not the reference's backend-is-pipewire gate returning:
inside Linux every backend still sees it, per the 2026-08-11 ruling in that
file's own comment.
Reserve DAC is D-Bus org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1, Linux only. On Windows
exclusive mode IS the reservation; on macOS it is Hog Mode.
Exclusive mode was visible with no backend able to honour it. It now follows
the backend: Linux unchanged (always visible, enabled only on ALSA), hidden
on macOS, and on Windows it appears when Phase B publishes backendIsWasapi.
QML reads an absent doc property as undefined and undefined === true is
false, so this is correct today and correct again the day the field lands.
The DSD row follows the same pair.
Main.qml no longer boots the wizard off Linux, where its row is hidden and
the audio-stack probe would reach nothing.
Linux sees no change: every gate is isLinux-true or an added || on a field
that is undefined there. Five QML audits pass.
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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.
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