Fourteen call sites, one tag name each and nothing else -- which is what
menu-surface's shape buys: the host's panel is slotted into whichever
presentation is up, so no item model, no keyboard model and no styling
moved. The 48px rows come from contextMenuStyles, the one stylesheet
every one of these hosts already includes, because the panel is the
host's own light DOM and only the host's stylesheet can reach it.
Two of the fourteen were found by the source sweep rather than by the
conversion: queue-panel's add-to-playlist popup, which is a real menu.
now-playing's cover preview is allowlisted instead -- it is a hover
affordance in the bottom bar, so a touch device never opens it and
nothing clips it.
The playlist submenu had to come too, and that is the one place this
change made something worse before it made it better. It is a
placement="right-start" flyout anchored to its row, and making the menu
full-width moved that anchor to x=0 -- so the flip put the picker at
x -182 to 0, entirely off-screen, and "Add to Playlist" led nowhere at
all. Before the change the row started at x~245 and the same flip
landed on screen. It is a sheet now and stacks over the first, which
is also why menu-shown does not re-assert focus while it is open.
The three hosts that do not use ContextMenuController -- page-header's
overflow menu, playlist-view's hand-rolled menu, queue-panel's picker
-- bind menu-dismiss themselves, or Escape would close the sheet and
leave their own open flag set.
page-header is included deliberately: the clipping does not bite there,
since it opens downward from the top of a full-height view, but on a
phone every action of an overflowing page lives in that menu at
wa-dropdown-item defaults. One surface, so there is no second answer
to what a menu looks like.
`plus` meant "add to the queue", "add to a playlist", "make a new
playlist" and "you do not own this" -- the first two adjacent in the
same context menu, so two neighbouring items were the same glyph doing
different things. `list` meant the queue (the button that opens it), the
Playlists destination, and adding to the queue in `queue-panel` alone.
Two icons carrying seven meanings is not a vocabulary, and nothing
catches it: a wrong-but-real icon renders perfectly.
`utils/icon-language.ts` is the table, beside `library-status.ts` as the
issue suggested. The rule it is built on is that an icon names the
**noun** it acts on, not the verb: "add to queue" and "add to playlist"
are one verb on two nouns, so the noun is what differs -- which is why
adding to a playlist wears the Playlists destination's own icon, and why
the queue took `bars-staggered` and stopped wearing Playlists'. `plus`
keeps the one meaning it is unambiguous about, making something that is
not there yet, which covers New Playlist and the drop zones.
`bars-staggered` is the only new glyph, vendored through names.txt and
fetch-icons.mjs after confirming it is in Font Awesome **Free** 7.3.1.
Two things this found rather than changed:
- The request toggle's outline/solid pair was already in the app and
already right -- `explore-album-details`'s "Request this" button has
used `regular/bookmark` -> `solid/bookmark` since it was written --
while the badge forty pixels away showed a **plus** for the same
state. That is `utils/library-status.ts`'s fault one layer down: it
made the two surfaces agree on what wanting *means* and left them
disagreeing on what it looks like.
- `explore-artist-details`'s Follow button was `bookmark-check`, which
is Font Awesome **Pro** and has never been bundled, so it has drawn
the missing-icon fallback -- a circled question mark -- for every
followed artist since it was written. `requested-badge.spec.ts` was
written for exactly this bug on the album button and says so in its
docstring; this is the same bug one component over, still live,
because `offline-icons.spec.ts` sweeps `__yjIconMisses` and no spec
had ever followed an artist.
So the test does what reaching the state cannot. `icon-language.test.ts`
reads every `src/**/*.ts` as raw text and fails on a governed name
written outside the table, and separately asserts every `ICON_*` is a
*bundled* name -- which is what makes a Pro name a failing test rather
than a runtime report from a state something has to reach first. Its
first assertion is that it read any source at all, because a sweep over
an empty glob passes.
`chrome.test.ts` asserted `['check', 'bookmark', 'plus']` and so pinned
the badge's glyphs against the vocabulary they were meant to follow; it
names them from the table now, and keeps the assertion that the three
differ, which is the property the states actually need.
Downloads keeps the solid bookmark on purpose. That is one word twice,
not two words: the badge says the entity is on your list and the nav
item is that list.
Closes#34
The three card grids -- albums, artists, genres -- laid out with
`justify: 'center'` and a fixed 8px gap and padding, which gives the
row a fixed width and pushes everything left over to the two margins.
Measured on a 1440px window: cards 16px apart inside 78px of nothing
down each side. The outside was five times the inside.
`utils/grid-spacing.ts` computes one number instead, from what the row
could not spend on another card: the same value between two cards,
between two rows, and down each edge. That window now reads 30px
outside against 34px between, and it holds at any width.
The virtualizer has a word for this -- `justify: 'space-evenly'` with
`gap: 'auto'` -- and it cannot be used. It fits `floor(width /
cardWidth)` columns without reserving the gap it is about to need, so a
width one card short of exact leaves seven cards a pixel apart. On the
window above it would fit 7 columns with 1px between them. Deciding the
column count here is what puts a floor under the spacing.
Two consequences. The layout is rebuilt when the container width
changes the spacing rather than only when the cover size changes, so
each grid observes its own scroller -- keyed on the spacing, or every
pixel of a drag rebuilds a layout that comes out the same. And
`cover-grid`'s ScrollManager took `GRID_GAP`/`GRID_PADDING` as
constants, which stopped describing anything the moment the spacing
became elastic: it asks the host for the geometry now, since a scroll
position rebuilt from a stale 8px lands in the wrong row.
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frontend/wailsjs/ is deleted and frontend/bindings/ takes its place —
a real TypeScript module tree nested by Go import path, generated by
wails3's static analyser rather than by building the app and running
it. The @go alias absorbs the constant prefix, so a call site imports
'@go/library/library.js' and the codemod over all 93 sites was a
specifier rewrite plus splitting @go/models' namespaces into one
import per package.
The 12 SetContext bindings and the fake `context` model are gone, as
Phase 2's ServiceStartup port promised: 272 methods across 12
services, none of them plumbing.
@runtime/runtime is now a local shim (src/wails/runtime.ts) over
@wailsio/runtime, so the 22 EventsOn imports are untouched. It
unwraps v3's WailsEvent into v2's callback shape, which is exact here:
nothing in backend/events passes more than one data argument, and v3
only packs arguments into a slice when there is more than one.
v3 tells the truth about two things v2 lied about, and that is most of
the diff. A Go nil slice really does arrive as JSON null, and a Go
named string type really is an enum; v2 typed them as T[] and string.
utils/binding.ts states the app's actual contract — an absent list is
an empty list — once, at the boundary where it is true, and also drops
the CancellablePromise the app never cancels. Four test fixtures
widen an enum field back to its value union.
Not done, and Phase 5's to fix: frontend/test/support/wails-fake.ts
still fakes window.go, which v3 does not have, so `make ui-test` is
broken and harness.test.ts fails to compile on EventsEmit. That test
also asserts v2 ordering that no longer holds — v3's Events.Emit calls
the backend and does not notify in-page listeners at all.
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The album page asked MusicBrainz how many tracks an album has, because
the only total it had was the length of the tracklist it was already
showing — a tautology for a library copy. The denominator was on disk
all along: metadata has read the "5/12" totals off every file since
forever and discarded them. They persist to
release_group_recordings.total_tracks now, and a complete, MBID-matched
album makes no catalog call at all.
Around that:
- AlbumReleasesFailed, so a slow browse is no longer reported as a
failed one. The page inferred failure from a 12s deadline, against a
browse queued behind up to eight prefetches on a 1 req/s limiter.
- Tracks not in the library are dimmed in place rather than the owned
ones carrying a green tick, which is also what let the "loading
catalog" banner go.
- A partly-owned album draws the release, not the part, so the missing
tracks are visible and Play can say "9 of 12" truthfully.
- The version dropdown appears only when tracklists actually differ,
and the version you own is marked by name instead of being replaced
by a synthetic "Your Library" entry.
- A merged cluster shows the running order the most releases agree on,
not whichever pressing the browse returned first — which is what made
a correctly matched album claim it was unlinked from MusicBrainz.
Also carries in-progress work from earlier sessions that shared these
files: the queue source link, autotag mixed-bag grouping, the mix
feature and its schema, and the config general page.
Committed with --no-verify: every pre-commit check was run by hand and
passed, but bindings-check refuses to run while frontend/wailsjs is
dirty and counts *staged* as dirty, so it cannot pass on any commit
that updates the bindings. Verified separately by regenerating and
diffing against the staged content.
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The context menu was the only route to Play, Add to Queue, Play Next,
Add to Playlist, Favourite and Track Details, and it opened on
right-click alone: the panel had no role=menu, so its six menuitems were
orphaned, nothing moved focus into it, and nothing handled arrows or
Escape (a11y.3). Phase 1 deferred this deliberately so it would land
with the dialogs, as one focus-management implementation.
MenuKeyboard is that model. It is standalone rather than part of
ContextMenuController because playlist-view renders a menu without the
controller, and the only thing worse than a menu with no keyboard model
is two menus with two of them. Shift+F10 and the ContextMenu key open it
from a focused row, anchored to that row, and focus returns there.
Three lists had no focused row to open it from, so they gained a roving
tab stop (utils/roving-rows.ts, written once rather than three times).
track-list keeps its own: it predates this, carries selection semantics
the other three do not have, and is pinned by its own tests.
Also the ARIA tail this is one story with: aria-sort on the column
headers (role=columnheader arrived in Phase 1 without it), listbox and
option on the four selectable grids — aria-selected on role=button is
invalid and was being dropped, so the state the whole ctrl/shift
interaction exists to produce was invisible — and live regions on the
four async surfaces that changed in silence.
Two things a reproduction taught that reading could not: the
wa-dropdown-items have not set their role when the host's updateComplete
resolves, so querying by role then finds nothing and the menu opens
without taking focus; and focus() on a popup that has not positioned
itself is a silent no-op.
Four views had a heading and four did not, two had a sort control and
none showed a count, so the app changed shape as you moved through it
and "how many albums have I got" could only be answered by counting.
The reason they disagreed is that each had written its own arrangement:
the sort toolbar existed three times, in track-list, cover-grid and
playlist-view, as the same twenty lines with different bugs.
<page-header> is that arrangement once - title, count, sort, actions -
and nine views adopt it. Artists and Genres gain the sort control they
never had; Artists sorts by name only, because library.Artist carries
nothing countable, so the header renders a label and a direction button
rather than a select with one option in it. The header keeps its place
while a view loads: a heading that appears only once the data does is
the shifting layout this is meant to stop. The count is omitted, not
zero, until the view has an answer.
The header search box keeps its slot on every view instead of vanishing
on the ones it cannot serve - which is what moved the library filter
and the job indicator on every navigation. It is view-scoped by
decision and now says so: "Search albums" in the placeholder, the scope
named in the header ("Showing artists matching 'tide'"), and disabled
with a reason where there is nothing to search or the page has a search
of its own.
Also fixes an e2e trap this uncovered: the view-lifecycle spec toggled
shuffle and never toggled it back, so a second run against the same app
failed playback.spec's shuffle assertion - a failure that reads exactly
like a regression in whatever you are holding.
A list pays per row, and only while scrolling — and none of this is
visible to any test tier: nothing renders differently and nothing
fails, the app is just slower.
- The track list's Art column rendered `CoverArtPath`, the original
artwork, into a 24 px box while `CoverArtSmall` sat unused on the
same model, with no `loading="lazy"`. 26 of 26 image requests asked
for the full-size tier; now 0.
- `artists-view`'s avatar fallback linear-scanned every cached album
per card per frame, lowercasing two strings per comparison, inside
the virtualizer's renderItem — the common case, since a locally
tagged library has no artist images at all. Measured at 5 000 albums
and 24 visible cards: 1.46 ms/frame -> 0.01 ms/frame.
- Five components resolved selected file paths back to tracks with
`tracks.find(...)`; they share `utils/track-index.ts` now. "Select
all -> Edit tags" at 50 000 tracks: 3 051-6 298 ms -> 68 ms.
- "Play this artist", "play these albums" and the album drag cache
resolve paths in one call instead of one per album.
- The column-resize drag registers its document listeners on mousedown.
Two things here are load-bearing and read as sloppiness. The per-render
arrow functions in `artists-view` and `genres-view` are the *only*
thing changing a property of their virtualizer on a host update, and
therefore the only thing repainting the cards: hoisting them to stable
fields takes a selection from 1 highlighted card to 0. And a row inside
a virtualizer needs `width: 100%`, because the virtualizer positions
its children absolutely and a grid row otherwise shrinks to fit its
content and stops lining up with the header above it.
Views with contain:layout in shadow DOM need explicit height:100%
on :host so their internal flex layout fills the parent's flex
space. Without it, the component doesn't know its height and the
internal content doesn't stretch to fill the panel.
Added height:100% to: cover-grid, artists-view, genres-view,
playlist-view, track-list, config-page (also box-sizing).
explore-view and detail views already had it.
Targeted optimizations for the DMABuf-disabled rendering path where
every frame is software-composited:
- Replace infinite CSS scroll-text animation with transition-based
cycle that only repaints during active scroll, not during pauses
- Remove CSS mask-image on scrolling text (mask + animation was the
single most expensive continuous repaint)
- Replace wa-icon in track rows with inline SVG — eliminates 30-50
shadow DOM trees (each with SVG fetch/parse) during scroll
- Remove hover transitions on album cards, artist cards, genre cards,
fav icons, queue remove buttons — each transition was causing
per-frame software repaints
- Use visibility:hidden instead of opacity:0 for queue remove button
(binary switch vs per-frame alpha blend)
- Add decoding=async to now-playing cover art images (prevents
main-thread blocking during image decode on track change)
- Add contain:strict to fixed-height track rows (33px) and queue
items (49px) — browser skips size contribution calculations
Root causes addressed:
- track-list had no _itemSize hint for flow layout — virtualizer
defaulted to 100px, measured actual ~33px rows, then called
_correctScrollError/scrollTo on every scroll causing visible jumps
- will-change:transform on virtualizer elements caused nested GPU
layers (virtualizer positions children with transforms internally)
adding compositor overhead instead of helping
- content-visibility:auto on album cards conflicted with virtualizer's
own DOM recycling, causing redundant layout recalculation
- track-list visibilityChanged handler wrote to store synchronously
on every event (per-item during scroll) without any throttling
- IIFE closure in renderTrackRow created a new function per row per render
Fixes applied:
- Add _itemSize:{height:33} + fixed height:33px on .track-row (matches
queue-panel pattern that already worked smoothly)
- Add overflow-anchor:none on track-list virtualizer
- Remove will-change:transform from all 6 scroll containers
- Remove content-visibility:auto from album cards
- RAF-throttle visibilityChanged scroll position saves
- Replace IIFE with direct cols.map() in template
- contain: layout style on :host of all 6 scroll-heavy components
- contain: paint + will-change: transform on all scroll containers for GPU compositing
- content-visibility: auto + contain-intrinsic-size on .album-card for off-screen skip
- cover-grid, track-list, queue-panel, artists-view, genres-view, playlist-view
Move search indicator from absolute-positioned overlay into sort toolbar
(or dedicated search-bar-row for artists/genres views). Shows indicator
on empty-state screens. Fix cover art not displaying for expanded album
tracks by checking expandedAlbumId before the albumName guard. Add
ScanWarning model bindings.
repeat() as child content of lit-virtualizer bypasses virtualization,
rendering ALL items instead of only visible ones. This caused 2+ minute
loading times and UI freezing with large libraries.
The correct approach: use lit-virtualizer's native .renderItem and
.keyFunction properties which integrate with its scroll-based viewport
management.
- cover-grid: all 3 virtualizers (single, before-split, after-split) use repeat() with album.ID key
- artists-view uses repeat() with artist.ID key
- genres-view uses repeat() with genre.name key
- Removed gridKeyFunction (now inlined in repeat calls)
- Removed .renderItem and .keyFunction properties from all virtualizers
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