Under the ambient field some controls still painted the opaque theme
token while their neighbours used the half-alpha one: the album track
filter and its select toggle, the Library tab strip's host, the Local
Library icon selects, the header's active nav items and open playlists
button, the queue sidebar's now-playing card and artwork placeholders,
the Listen list's floating actions, and the shared SettingsButton,
IconTextButton, multi-select bar, text area, load-more pill, tree row
selection, sidebar count chips, Purchases tab strip, play-history filter
box and Orbit banner. Each now takes the ambient-aware fill the header
search and QbzTabBar already use (theme.ambientOn ? …A50 : …).
Tooltips, popups and modals stay opaque on purpose: they are read over
content, not chrome.
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Add shared playback memory profiles, bounded disk-backed playback and storage
selection for desktop and daemon. Preserve gapless during streaming-only playback
and provide explicit cache eviction with playback confirmation.
Stop watcher read events and unchanged scans from rebuilding the local catalog.
Restore playlist/sidebar updates, folder availability feedback and player layout.
Add appearance presets and a radio-based cache settings panel with translated
trade-offs, plus consistent clipboard menus across visible Qt text editors.
Validate with Rust regressions, QML interaction tests, isolated release startup
and idle-library checks; extend the shared local and CI gates.
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Integrate the Kiosk profile hardening round: 12 dedicated Kiosk views plus
22 shared opt-in hosts, shared navigation history with Back/Forward, Albums
as the default library tab, native paged Local Library (artists/tracks),
lightweight MyQBZ grid and detail, Ephemeral lifecycle, bounded lists and
artwork sized to the physical frame, static skeletons, 64px transport bar,
Settings touch reflow and a persistent Immersive exit.
Desktop keeps its prior behavior: every shared component defaults to the
desktop path and only opts into Kiosk behavior through explicit properties
(origin-relative ScrollMemory, viewport-bounded artwork requests).
Regression coverage: kiosk navigation and artwork Node tests added to the
runtime gate, scroll-origin fixtures for fixed and grouped rows, i18n
strings for all eight locales.
Verified by 750 release tests, six QML audits, Kiosk smokes at 800x480 and
1280x800 and a Desktop A/B with seven pixel-identical captures.
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The port of the block Slint repeats in 27 views (NavState.restore-scope /
scroll-restore / report-scroll). A .slint file cannot hand a component a
reference to a Flickable, which is why the reference inlines it; QML can, so
controls/ScrollMemory.qml exists once and 31 containers mount it.
Two divergences from the reference, both forced by the same fact — tabs are not
history entries in this port:
1. THE SCOPE IS NAMED BY THE VIEW, not derived from the entry by a scope_for
table. Slint can derive it because its entries carry the tab
(Favorites { tab }); here an entry is a bare route id, so a derived scope
would read "library" for all five Library tabs and pour the Albums grid's
offset into whatever tab mounted. Letting the reporter name its own scope
buys tab granularity for free, and the mismatch case degrades the right way:
an unmatched scope restores NOTHING instead of restoring the wrong thing.
2. THE RESTORE RE-ASSERTS instead of firing once. A Qt item view resets
contentY to 0 whenever its model is replaced, and several pages assign their
model from a binding whose inputs arrive over the network after the mount —
the album page rebuilds listCells from three deferred rails, so it hands its
ListView a new array up to four times in its first seconds and snaps back to
the top over a restore that already ran correctly. The offset is held and
re-applied until a 2.5 s deadline, or until the user takes over (a wheel, a
drag or a flick raises `moving`, and from then the position is theirs).
Diagnostics are off by default: QT_LOGGING_RULES="qbz.nav.scroll.info=true" for
the QML half, RUST_LOG=qbz=debug for the stamp/arm half.
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AppShell hides its BezelCorner nubs while the field is meant to show
through the pane's corners, and Qt's clip is a rectangular scissor that
ignores radius — so any full-bleed child at y=0 squares the pane. The
doctrine was already written in AppShell.qml ("a full-bleed pane child
must round itself; there is no mask that can do it for it here"); these
eight surfaces predated it or, in the two thin bars added with the
ambient port, ignored it.
- The seven fixed 56px headers (Home, Search, DiscoverBrowse,
ArtistReleases, PlaylistBrowse, PlaylistManager, PlayHistory) take
topLeftRadius/topRightRadius. Invisible with the background off, where
the view root paints the same colour beneath. PlaylistBrowse's SECOND
bar is the category strip at mid-page and keeps square corners;
PlayHistory keeps its unconditional opaque fill, which is reference
parity (:43/:34) and a separate question from the corner.
- LocalAlbumView's neutral header band is now gated on the background,
1:1 with the Qobuz page's atmosphere (AlbumView headerAtmoOn,
AlbumPageView.slint:168): the two dark backdrops clash and the field
already provides one. That band had been square since it was written;
the nubs had been hiding it, and they only stand down when the field
is showing. Header text there is theme.textPrimary, not the Qobuz
page's light-on-dark hdrStrong, so it does not depend on the band to
stay readable — checked before removing the backdrop from under it.
Gate: cargo build -p qbz-qt, both QML audits, offscreen smoke 0
complaints.
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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 scaled-cover fix from the last round produced nothing.** The seam ran —
462 requests in one offscreen smoke — and wrote zero files, so the owner was
right that nothing improved. The artwork cache stores files as `.img`, and
`image::open` picks its decoder from the EXTENSION, so every call failed
silently. Sniffing the content instead yields 101 derivatives on the same run.
The header atmosphere had the identical bug and had therefore never produced an
image either, which is why the flat fallback was all anyone ever saw.
Reported as fixed last round without checking that it ran. Verified by effect
this time, not by reading the diff.
The rest came through an analyse / refute / implement / verify pipeline, and the
adversarial passes earned their keep:
- The sidebar mini rail: icons sat left of centre because their slot kept its
fixed 24px width while the rail collapsed, so the hit target was rectangular
and off-axis. The rail narrows, rows are square, and the mini state gains the
folder flyout and tooltips it never had. The reviewer caught a comment
claiming the width change was a one-token revert when it is two — corrected
rather than left to mislead the next reader.
- Playback context now travels from every producer, not the handful that
happened to stamp it.
- Collapsible per-tab search in Library, and label artwork.
- Every View-all destination Home offers, plus the label page and its releases.
- Collapsing the sidebar drops a Large bar back to New, live, without
overwriting the user's persisted preference.
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