A first pass at making the three clients look like a streaming app rather
than a file browser, with no new data behind it.
- Type: a Hero rung (34) set in Inter Display Bold, the optical size Inter
draws for large text, for the banner's name and a title page's name where
no logo stands in. Desktop `Role::Hero` and `theme::display`; Android and
iOS `displayLarge`, at a tighter 1.1 leading. The font has its private use
mappings stripped like the other two cuts.
- Artwork fades in over its skeleton on Android and iOS, as it already did
on desktop cards; art already decoded draws at once. Desktop episode
stills and logos fade in too.
- Skeletons shimmer: a soft diagonal highlight instead of a pulse.
- Desktop tiles lift towards the viewer under the pointer, capped so a
lifted tile never reaches its neighbour, and keyboard focus gets a ring
of its own.
- Desktop shelves share one `ui::shelf`: edges fade into the page and, under
the pointer, round buttons page the row along.
- Genres are chips on Android and iOS; quality (4K, HDR, 10-bit, Dual audio)
moves out of the facts line into small outlined marks on all three.
- Desktop title page and hero buttons use a tonal style beside the accent
one, and the player's top bar a dark glass style, instead of egui's stock
buttons. Episode numbers leave monospace for the type ramp.
- The phone players' top and bottom bars are gradients rather than flat
bands, and a double-tap seek is felt as well as seen.
A title with no fanart, banner or backdrop drew its poster cropped to the
band's shape across the title page and the library's banner: a blown-up
slice of the middle of it, which read as broken. Now the poster is
squeezed to 64x36 and blurred once when it is fetched, the cache keeps
that wash, and it is stretched across the band. The library's banner
stands the sharp poster at its right over it. Android blurs the poster
it already had (Android 12 and later; older versions decode it tiny),
and iOS likewise.
METADATA.md also records the quality badges of the commit before.
ani.zip sent each series' TVDB clear logo and every episode's running
time from the start, and neither was kept. Enrichment now stores the logo
in title_metadata.logo_url (kept across a refresh of the same entry, like
the fanart) and episode runtimes in episode_metadata.runtime, TVDB's
first and AniDB's length after it. AniList's duration lands in
TitleDetails::runtime; TMDB episode runtimes are kept too.
Schema v13 adds the two columns and marks AniList titles un-enriched
without deleting anything. TitleDetails::revision lets details written
before runtime existed refetch by id while the old ones stay on screen,
instead of blanking them in the migration as v10 did.
Clear logos are padded to a square, so each client crops them to their
visible pixels before drawing. The logo replaces the name on the
library's banner and the title page (not on a light theme's title page,
where lettering made for dark art can vanish). Episode rows show how long
they run, in place of the file size on Android and iOS; a film's runtime
joins its line of facts.
eframe now builds with its accesskit feature, so the widget tree reaches
the platform screen reader. Buttons drawn as an icon glyph were read as
the icon font's private code point, and the hand-painted ones (play,
poster tiles, the watched mark, download rings, the seek bar) as
nothing. A Named trait gives them a name, and hint() makes the existing
hover text that name.
The library filter moves from the desktop into pstr_core::browse and
gains a Downloaded filter: titles with at least one episode kept on the
device. The bridge's arrangement() takes the filter. Android and iOS get
a row of filter chips above the grid. The choice is remembered per
device, and shelves stay hidden under a filter, as on the desktop.
- A link with a password of its own, added without one, now fails as
"This link has a password of its own" instead of the handshake's
refusal. The link's public flags are only asked for after a refusal.
The desktop form turns its password toggle on.
- After the first share is added, all three clients go to the library.
While that share is being listed, the empty library says so instead of
offering to add a share.
- The desktop library offers posters and synopses once there is a
library to put them on. The offer says what is sent, links to
Settings, never turns anything on, and "Not now" is remembered.
The empty library said to add a link "under Shares, then refresh" with
nothing to press on the phones, and on the desktop only switched page.
All three now open the add form from there, the desktop with the caret
in the link field; and adding already crawls, so there is nothing to
refresh.
A share's name was required before the viewer had seen anything to name.
It is optional now: without one, ShareStore::add_verified takes the
shared folder's own name from the link it has just opened. The link
comes first in each form. The desktop form submits on Enter, and the
Android link field has an eye to check what was pasted.
Continue watching listed only part-watched episodes, so finishing one -
the most ordinary moment to want the next - dropped the show from the
shelf. Title::continue_with now reads the episode touched last: a
part-watched one is resumed, a finished one offers the episode after it
("Next: S01E04"), and one reset to the start (what leaving the shelf
does) keeps the title off. A few seconds of an episode are passed over.
The phones computed their own shelf from episode records. The bridge now
exports the engine's choice as TitleRecord.continue_index, and Play on a
title lands there on every client.
Undo on the phones re-saved a watch state with a fresh time, which both
reordered the shelf and could not express "never played". A new
restore_watch_state puts the state back as it was read.
The AniList query now keeps the start date, season, banner, popularity,
status, next airing episode, tags, main studios, director and story
relations, as TitleDetails in one JSON column (schema v10). Matches
stored without them are fetched again by id, never searched, so
hand-picked matches stay; refreshing the same entry keeps its episodes
and fanart. Enrichment records the entries it walked. node_first_seen
remembers when each file appeared, across recrawls.
pstr_core::franchise groups titles that share a provider id. The grid
folds each franchise into its lead with a +N badge, and the title page
lists the whole franchise in release order. pstr_core::shelves picks
rows by airing status, director, studio and genre. A row needs three
franchises, so one franchise's titles never make a row on their own.
Desktop:
- Covers are the default grid (Settings > Appearance > Library tiles).
- The hero and title band use fanart or banner decoded at 1920 px.
- New sorts: recently added, newest, highest rated, most popular.
- Titles can show the share's, English or romaji name; search matches
all of them.
Android carries TitleDetails through a hand-picked match; its screens
are unchanged.
theme::space, theme::radius and theme::motion name the steps the UI is
drawn with. Literal gaps, corner radii and animation durations across ui/
now come from them, which folds a few near-misses onto the scale (10 and 14
point gaps onto 12, 10 point radii onto 12, 0.10 s hovers onto 0.12 s).
Page fades and toasts share one ease_out curve.
Headings are set in Inter SemiBold, everything else in Inter Regular, so a
title sets the same on every desktop. Media and navigation glyphs (⏭, 🔊, ⛶,
★) come from the Phosphor icon font instead of whichever fallback font had
them. The CJK fallback still loads on its own thread and now joins the
bundled fonts instead of replacing them. The window carries the app icon
on X11 and Windows.
A toast can carry a button. Marking a whole title watched or unwatched
from its tile menu, and taking it off Continue watching, both lose
state the viewer may have wanted; each now says what it did with an
Undo that puts every changed watch state back as it was.
The title watched last, or with nothing part-watched one of the titles a
provider has a backdrop for, turning over once a day. Large art behind
the name, rating, genres, three lines of overview, and Resume / More
info.
- right-click a library tile to play or resume it, mark it watched or
unwatched, download it, change its match, or take it off Continue
watching
- mpv's demuxer-cache-time is shaded on the seek bar, so it shows
whether a jump lands in what is already read ahead
- paused-for-cache shows a spinner over the picture and in the controls
- toasts replace the status line; keyboard shortcuts with a ? overlay
- library: filters, sort, row virtualisation, cached search, skeleton
tiles until the catalog loads, gradient placeholder art
- title page: season pills, episode rows with stills and one download
glyph, portrait poster, clamped overview, resume time in the button
- player: fading chrome, smooth scrims, subtitles lifted over the
controls, drag-following seek knob, OSD, speed menu, auto-skip
- settings as grouped cards with toggles and palette previews
- shares: confirm before removing, inline link validation, form kept
until the add succeeds; downloads scroll and show rate and ETA
- downloads pipeline four blocks; the next episode is warmed near the end
- a film behind another page repaints at 4 Hz, not its frame rate
Fixes B55-B60.
Type/shape/motion tokens live in theme.rs and every ui/ module reads them
instead of scattering literal sizes and radii. Appearance and playback
preferences move out of the shares page into their own Settings page and
nav tab.
The title backdrop's veil and fades were painted after the header was laid
out, so they covered the name and overview as well as the still — the text
was being dimmed by the thing meant to make it readable. All band layers
now go into the shape slot reserved before the header, behind the text.
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