Address the owner's kiosk feedback on top of the release hardening:
- Chrome: the back bar is a drag surface and shrank to 44px with one shared
button form for Back/Forward/Connect/Cast; Qobuz Connect and Cast are a
permanent cluster in the bar; the dead Share-logs button left the kiosk
Settings header.
- Transport bar: the hidden overflow menu is gone; Volume is always visible
with a vertical sheet, and Desktop mode has its own button.
- Now Playing: one centred transport row (New-bar order); lyrics are centred
(shared LyricsLinesView gains an opt-in centered, desktop default false).
- Local Library: the media funnel and an Open (ephemeral) entry point reach
the kiosk; Artists is its own multi-column round-card grid (kiosk-only, the
desktop LocalArtistsTab is untouched); the Artists drill-down query no
longer hangs off a stale derived guard.
- Search: the All-tab dashboard shelves render again — they were mounted in a
Loader Component that read the delegate id under reuse and bound an empty
model; they are direct children now.
- Album detail: icon actions the height of the quality badge plus play next /
later / queue, an inline floating quality badge, and zebra rows; both album
headers show a quality badge.
- Immersive: a quiet auto-hiding kiosk exit moved to the bottom, clear of the
window controls.
Regression coverage in scripts/test_qt_kiosk_feedback.mjs (wired into the
runtime gate). Verified on a private authenticated Xvfb; QML audits 6/6,
Node gate 5/5, release build 0 warnings.
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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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**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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