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enricobuehler a14b000c9b feat(apple): the tray gradient blur is back — as a real blur this time
The form screens' pinned title and legend lost their gradient blur when
GamepadTrayScrim went (2590238b): the scrim was `.ultraThinMaterial`, and a
material by definition lifts and tints whatever it blurs — it read grey over
the aurora, and washed with the palette's ground it read coloured. There is
no public way to blur a backdrop without that tint, so the layer was deleted
rather than re-tuned, and the rows have scrolled to a raw edge since.

Glur's GlurView blurs the backdrop through a gradient with NO material stage
on top — the rows soften as they slide under the pinned trays and nothing
carries a colour. Three things about the adoption are deliberate:

  - It is the library's GlurBackdrop product, which uses a private API
    (a variable-blur CAFilter on UIKit/AppKit). The public `.glur()`
    modifier is a Metal shader on a view's OWN content and silently no-ops
    over platform-backed views like ScrollView, so it cannot reach a
    backdrop at all. GlurBackdrop ships as a separate module precisely so
    adopters can weigh the App Store exposure; it disables hit testing
    itself, so the band never eats a touch.

  - The dependency is pinned by REVISION: GlurBackdrop exists only on main —
    no release carries it (the newest tag, `1.1`, predates it and is not
    three-component semver anyway, so `from:` resolution stops at 1.0.4,
    which doesn't have the product). Wired into BOTH manifests — the
    package for `swift build`, and the xcodeproj (remote package reference
    + per-target product deps) for the app targets, which compile these
    sources themselves and know nothing of Package.swift's dependencies.

  - The band takes NO content-side overhang, unlike the scrim it replaces —
    and dropping the scrim's hard-won -44/-72 runway is the point, not an
    oversight. That runway existed because a material carries body at every
    alpha and had to dissolve OUTSIDE the tray; carried over here it blurred
    fully-visible rows at rest (first on-glass verdict). Glur's ramp reaches
    literal zero, so the band ends exactly at the tray's layout edge: open
    content untouched, rows soften only where they actually slide under.
    The 80 pt outer bleed and the pinned shape
    (`transaction { $0.animation = nil }`) are kept — full-bleed by LAYOUT
    rather than `.ignoresSafeArea()`, so a push never shows the band
    growing into place.

Mounted exactly where the scrim was: settings, add-host and pair trays
(top + bottom) and the library title (top). Glur is attributed on the
Acknowledgements screen alongside the bundled font — it is a Swift package,
so the Rust-closure notices generator rightly knows nothing about it.

macOS build, tvOS typecheck; band placement and the blur itself verified on
the iPad on glass.
2026-08-10 12:46:45 +02:00
enricobuehler 2590238b8f fix(apple): the console sub-screens' backdrop, glass and option band
Four things the field reported on glass, all in the console's visual layer.

The tray scrim is GONE, not re-tuned. It laid `.ultraThinMaterial` across the
top and bottom of every form screen, and a material by definition lifts and
tints whatever it blurs — so it read grey, and washing it with the palette's
ground only made it read coloured. There is no public way to blur a backdrop
without that tint, so the layer had to go. The darkening it also provided was
never its to provide: the backdrop's own legibility scrim
(0.38/0.06/0.08/0.40 — the same gradient pf-console-ui bakes into its shader)
has always been one layer down, which is why the console has no tray band.

Pale palettes rendered every row, pill and card as a flat white slab, and
lowering the tint did nothing, because the opacity came from the glass BODY:
`.regular` is a bright, high-body material and a pale palette's `ink.glass` is
literal white. Pale palettes take `Glass.clear` now, with a light wash to keep
dark ink legible.

A focused settings row changed colour in a hard jump, a beat late, while its
scale animated smoothly beside it — the focus tint rode `Glass.tint`, and a
Glass value is opaque to SwiftUI's animation system. It is a plain fill
between the glass and the label now, so the existing animation covers it.

The host cards appeared to be swapped for different ones as their entrance
landed: `CardEntrance` swings each tile in on a rotation3DEffect, and Liquid
Glass samples the backdrop through its own layer, which it cannot do under a
3D transform. Those tiles take the material path (`forceMaterial`).

And the option band never turned like a cylinder because the band MASKED
itself: a mask rasterises what it covers, flattening `rotation3DEffect`'s
perspective, so the projection was computed and discarded every frame. The
soft edge is folded into each option's own opacity instead. Its ±1 neighbours
stay hidden at rest — showing them reproduced the documented overlap defect
("2752 × 2064" with "280 ×" through it), which is why they were dropped.

Also fixes pale palettes washing out: the calm mix added a plusLighter wash of
a near-white ground on top of a field already mixed toward it, saturating the
form screens to white.

macOS + tvOS typecheck; console UI verified opening Settings in the simulator,
with no tray band.
2026-08-10 07:33:11 +02:00
enricobuehler 49fa344c92 fix(client/apple): the gamepad UI answers its first field test
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Six findings from the on-device pass over #91, all iOS-facing:

- The tray blurs no longer grow into place on a push: the screen layer
  resolves its internal layout (safe-area trays, the scrims' full-bleed)
  in a geometryGroup BEFORE the insertion animates.

- The option band is LINEAR now, not a ring. A ring showed the first
  option waiting to the right of the last one - unreachable, since
  left/right clamps - and on a 2-option ring the unselected item flipped
  sides with every step (the 60/120 Hz row). Positions are fixed, the
  ends are the ends, and A's wrap travels back across the list. Options
  other than the facing one exist only while the drum is moving, so a
  long label never sits under a resting neighbour as overlapping text.

- Toggles (and the pin rows) ride the band too: Off left of On,
  matching the left-off/right-on step semantics.

- The close X is gone from settings, add-host and the library - a
  gamepad UI exits with B. A chromeless cancel button keeps hardware
  Esc and the macOS sheet working, and the library's loading/error/empty
  states gain a zero-size B listener so a controller-only user is never
  trapped where the coverflow (and its B) doesn't exist yet.

- The heading is a real heading: leading-aligned with the 24 pt content
  inset, 24/34 pt (was 20/30), top margin 18/28 (was 10/18) - launcher,
  settings, add-host and library alike. The launcher's hidden-mirror
  chip trick died with the centred title that needed it.

Verified: swift build (macOS), swift build --triple arm64-apple-ios17.0,
swift test 208 passed / 0 failed.
2026-08-07 14:35:47 +02:00
enricobuehler c010139e6e feat(client/apple): the gamepad UI moves and colours like the console it mirrors
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Four reworks from the first palette-era on-glass review, all iOS-facing:

- Surfaces carry the palette now, not just the text on them: ConsoleGlass
  washes every tier (Liquid Glass tint, pre-26 material, tvOS material)
  with ink.glass — the same colour the desktop console fills its panels
  with — and the close buttons move to an ink-aware consoleGlassBackground.
  The pre-26 branch also gains the focus tint it had silently dropped.
  Stray literals follow: ConnectOverlay text rides ink in the console
  takeover, card shadows soften on pale fields, the focused keycap reads
  onAccent. The online pip stays status-green on purpose.

- The header breathes: title top padding 4/10 -> 10/18 plus shared
  header-spacing and title-bottom helpers mapped from the console shell's
  rhythm, applied to the launcher, settings and add-host alike, with the
  add-host close X re-anchored to the title row.

- Settings, Add Host and the Library present IN PLACE on iOS: one
  persistent aurora whose calm is chased (the console's bg_mix), screens
  as transparent layers with the console's 0.26 s ease-out-cubic push/pop,
  an input drop for the transition, and the controller handed off through
  isActive — no more opaque bottom-up covers, no backdrop teardown.
  macOS keeps its sheets, tvOS its focus-engine covers.

- The settings select is a real band: choice rows mount GamepadOptionBand,
  a spring-driven drum (Animatable body, ring-distance wrap, neighbours
  gated by focus and flight) whose retargeting spring accumulates rapid
  steps into one continuous spin. Reduce Motion falls back to a plain
  crossfade; toggles keep the quiet 14 pt slip.

Verified: swift build (macOS), swift build --triple arm64-apple-ios17.0,
swift test 208 passed / 0 failed. On-glass QA still owed: palette sweep on
a pale palette, transition compositing over materials, drum feel on device.
2026-08-07 13:59:40 +02:00