UI: Photo Album dialog inserts pictures as slides

Insert › Images opens Photo Album. insert.photoAlbum adds the pictures
and text boxes as slides in the open presentation, one undo step, with
layouts, frames and captions. Omitting pictures opens the dialog.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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# DeckCraft architecture
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-13 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (transition frames: perspective meshes, slide parts, headless compositor; previous: created from the code on main at d556ff9) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** trivial (Photo Album dialog, `insert.photoAlbum`; 227 commands, 28 dialogs; previous: minor, transition frames) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
How DeckCraft is built today. The binding rules (layering, everything is a command, thin UI, never
break wasm, never crash) are in [AGENTS.md](../AGENTS.md) §3–§5; this document describes what
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| L2 | `text`, `anim`, `format`, `media` | Shaping (HarfRust), UAX #9 bidi, UAX #14 line breaking, autofit, caret hit testing; per-shape animation state over time, the show state machine, transition frame layouts, Morph matching; `.deckcraft` (zip + JSON + media) and outline text; media probing, decoding, mixer and clock |
| L3 | `render`, `pptx` | `vello_cpu` raster of slides, masters and layouts (fills, outlines, effects, pictures, tables, charts, Morph frames); PPTX import/export from ECMA-376 |
| L4 | `pdf` | PDF export through krilla |
| L5 | `engine` | Sessions, documents, selection, undo history on shared slide snapshots, the command registry (226 commands in `cmd/*`), pointer tools, keys, AutoRecover, the panic guard (`guard.rs`) |
| L6 | `ui-egui`, `mcp` | The PowerPoint-style interface (ribbon with 10 tabs + contextual tabs, canvas, thumbnails, panes, 27 dialogs, show and presenter windows, the JSON control channel); the MCP server (JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio), headless or connected to a running app |
| L5 | `engine` | Sessions, documents, selection, undo history on shared slide snapshots, the command registry (227 commands in `cmd/*`), pointer tools, keys, AutoRecover, the panic guard (`guard.rs`) |
| L6 | `ui-egui`, `mcp` | The PowerPoint-style interface (ribbon with 10 tabs + contextual tabs, canvas, thumbnails, panes, 28 dialogs, show and presenter windows, the JSON control channel); the MCP server (JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio), headless or connected to a running app |
| apps | `deckcraft` (desktop: eframe/wgpu, cpal audio, logging), `deckcraft-cli` (run, render, convert, mcp, app), `deckcraft-web` (trunk; WebGPU with WebGL2 fallback), `xtask` | Exempt from layering |
The media codecs and containers are clean-room pure Rust, 59k lines, shared in spirit with
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | trivial | Photo Album dialog and `insert.photoAlbum` (227 commands, 28 dialogs) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Transitions: perspective meshes, background/content parts, CPU compositor |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created from the code on main (d556ff9) and AGENTS.md §4 |
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# Where DeckCraft falls short of PowerPoint
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (3-D bevel, camera and face lighting rendered; previous: minor, IME composition and CJK interface text landed, #101; previous: minor, core-workflow alpha gate added; stage stays alpha; before that: major, first itemized gap list; full re-measure against PowerPoint for Mac 16.113.4 and the open GitHub issues) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** trivial (Photo Album is one of 28 dialogs; Font, Bullets, Find, Replace Fonts, Action Settings, Print and Insert Object remain; previous: minor, 3-D bevel, camera and face lighting) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
Every known shortfall, one entry each, ranked by how much it stops someone who presents with
PowerPoint from switching. This is the work list: pick from the top. Numbers are summarized in
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- **Window chrome** (#71 macOS controls misaligned, #26 GNOME title bar, #41 system light/dark).
2–4 h.
- **Icon consistency across Craft apps** (#73, #56). 2–4 h; coordinate in craftrules.
- **Dialogs**: 27 dialogs vs PowerPoint's ~60 (Font, Bullets and Numbering, Find/Replace dialog,
Replace Fonts, Action Settings, Print, Insert Object…). 8–14 h.
- **Dialogs**: 28 dialogs vs PowerPoint's ~60 (Photo Album is one of them). Still missing Font,
Bullets and Numbering, Find/Replace, Replace Fonts, Action Settings, Print, Insert Object…. 8–14 h.
- **Command palette defaults to an Export entry that fails** (#79). 0.5 h.
## Hardware
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | trivial | Photo Album dialog counted (28 vs ~60). Font, Bullets, Find, Replace Fonts, Action Settings, Print and Insert Object remain |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Shape, picture and table rendering checked against PowerPoint on ~150 synthetic edge-case slides; 3-D bevels, cameras and face lighting now render approximately (gap narrowed to extrusion, rigs and the 3-D pane) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | IME composition in slide text and notes, and CJK interface text with real glyphs (#101): the IME gap is now Korean on the web and table-cell underlines |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | EMF/WMF text, pattern and hatch brushes drawn; legacy OLE and ActiveX previews shown; the SVG gap keeps only EMF clip regions |
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# DeckCraft vs Microsoft PowerPoint: parity assessment
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (hours to ~95% per audience added; ready recomputed from written weights, 56% → 55%; stage stays alpha; previous: major, full re-measure against PowerPoint for Mac 16.113.4; replaces the parity sections of ROADMAP.md) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** trivial (automation 227 commands; breadth stays 79%, ready ~55%; previous: minor, hours to ~95% per audience) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
The authoritative answer to "how close is DeckCraft to PowerPoint, and how much work is left?".
[ROADMAP.md](../ROADMAP.md) summarizes it; [gaps.md](gaps.md) itemizes every shortfall;
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- **Files:** `.deckcraft` (zip + JSON), PPTX import/export (also opens `.potx`/`.ppsx`), PDF
export (slides, notes, handouts 1–9 per page, text layer, links, bookmarks), PNG/JPEG, outline
text, AutoRecover.
- **Automation:** 226 commands, every one reachable from `deckcraft-cli`, the JSON control channel
- **Automation:** 227 commands, every one reachable from `deckcraft-cli`, the JSON control channel
and MCP.
- **Platforms:** signed releases for macOS (universal), Windows x64/x86/arm64, Linux
(AppImage/deb/rpm/tar.gz/Flatpak, x86_64 and aarch64), FreeBSD and the web (v0.4.0, 2026-10-09).
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | trivial | Working today: 227 commands. Breadth stays 79%, ready ~55%. The d556ff9 snapshot (226 commands, 27 dialogs) is unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added the readiness-by-audience table: each number gets its own hours to ~95% (full 340–600, mainstream 150–250, essentials 50–90). The full number stays an additive weighted sum; no change to the percentages |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added the mainstream practitioner (~53%) and essentials user (~62%) numbers with written weights, discounts and user evidence. Features dimension recomputed from written area weights (66% judgement → 62.4% weighted mean), which moves ready for real work from ~56% to ~55%; stage unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage checked against the core-workflow gate (all six pass); stays alpha |
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# UI parity with PowerPoint
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (File tab / Backstage, #76; previous: off-slide objects in Normal view, #270) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** trivial (Photo Album dialog; 28 dialogs; breadth stays 79%, UI ~60%; previous: minor, File tab / Backstage, #76) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (text editing keys observed in PowerPoint for Windows, #268) · **Target:** Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
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| Animation Pane | list + advanced timeline | list, reorder, timing; no timeline |
| Comments pane (threads) | yes | yes |
| Design Ideas (Designer) | yes (cloud) | no |
| Dialogs | ~60 (Font, Paragraph, Bullets and Numbering, Find, Replace, Replace Fonts, Hyperlink, Action Settings, Header and Footer, Slide Size, Set Up Show, Custom Shows, Print, Page Setup, Insert Object, Symbol, Equation, Chart data sheet, SmartArt chooser, Preferences…) | 27 (`crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs`): Table, Slide Size, Header and Footer, Hyperlink, Set Up Show, Zoom, Comment, Alt Text, Outline, Rename (section, shape, layout), Paragraph, About, Preferences, Export, Symbol, Equation (placeholder), Spelling, Accessibility, Language, Custom Shows, Chart Data, Trim Media, SmartArt chooser, Quit, Notes Pages |
| Dialogs | ~60 (Font, Paragraph, Bullets and Numbering, Find, Replace, Replace Fonts, Hyperlink, Action Settings, Header and Footer, Slide Size, Set Up Show, Custom Shows, Print, Page Setup, Insert Object, Symbol, Photo Album, Equation, Chart data sheet, SmartArt chooser, Preferences…) | 28 (`crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs`): Table, Slide Size, Header and Footer, Hyperlink, Set Up Show, Zoom, Comment, Alt Text, Outline, Rename (section, shape, layout), Paragraph, About, Preferences, Export, Symbol, Photo Album, Equation (placeholder), Spelling, Accessibility, Language, Custom Shows, Chart Data, Trim Media, SmartArt chooser, Quit, Notes Pages |
## Direct manipulation
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | trivial | Photo Album dialog (28 dialogs). Breadth stays 79%, UI ~60% |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File tab (Backstage) observed in PowerPoint for Windows and matched (#76); the start screen is File › Home |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Off-slide objects drawn and editable around the slide in Normal view (#270) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Selection Pane matched to PowerPoint (#133): drag and drop, arrows, groups, eye, Lock |