- New Library… from the menu asks for a name (default prefilled), then the location.
- The open library's name shows under My Photos in the left panel (hover: its path), so it
is visible on macOS too, where the window title isn't.
- Switching also remembers the library being left (e.g. the one opened at launch).
- whats-new entry and parity row LRC-LIB-CATALOG-SWITCH.
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Brings the branch up to date with main (#869 shared docking and the docs it
added); no conflicts.
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Photo > Edit In > Edit in PhotoCraft (Cmd+Shift+E, also on the photo
context menu) renders a copy with the edits as a flat 16-bit PSD, which
PhotoCraft saves back to in place, stacks it on the original and opens
it in PhotoCraft, found where its installers put it. Edit in Other
Editor (Cmd+Alt+E) keeps the configured program. Per-editor format,
colour space and bit depth in Settings > External Editing. Export gains
a flat PSD format.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T4kqvR9KVCPia3SSXyB8WG
View > Export Slideshow... (and Export PDF / JPEG / Video in Settings >
Slideshow) writes the photos in view as their composed slides, between
the intro and ending screens that are on:
- PDF: a page per slide (1024/1920/3840 px long side, JPEG quality),
/Dur and /Trans fades per page, optional /PageMode /FullScreen. The
contact sheet's writer moves to engine/src/pdf.rs and streams to disk.
- JPEG: <name>-001.jpg... in a folder.
- Video: AV1 (rav1e, speed 10, low latency) in MP4 or WebM written by
our own muxers (codecs/src/video.rs); fades rendered as blended frames,
held slides one key-frame sample with a long duration; 720p/1080p,
24/30 fps; no audio; capped at 2 hours.
slideshow.export runs in the background with a row in the activity
stack (activity.cancel stops it); outputs are written as .part and
renamed when complete, so cancel or failure leaves nothing behind. A
photo that can't be rendered is skipped with a warning.
slideshow.exportStatus reports the result.
A slideshow template is the Playback (not "prepare previews"), Layout /
Options / Backdrop, Overlays and Titles settings as one versioned JSON
document (format lightcraft.slideshowTemplate, version 1).
- Engine: slide_template (SlideLook, Template, built-ins, user template
files in <settings>/slideshow-templates read through each section's own
merged() validation; size and count caps; newer versions refused; bad
files reported and skipped; file names sanitised so ids never leave the
folder). Applying replaces the four settings in one step and keeps the
replaced ones as "previous" for the session (prefs have no undo).
- Five built-ins of our own: Plain Black, Gallery Wall, Edge to Edge,
Cinema Wide, Shooting Data (no Lightroom names or designs, no images).
- Commands slideshow.templates.list/apply/save/update/rename/delete/
import/export; slideshow.preview {template} previews without applying.
- UI: Template Browser at the top of Settings > Slideshow (built-in, user,
previous settings; click applies, hover previews on the selected photo,
right-click update / rename / export / delete; save and import), file
dialogs on the desktop; strings in the nine locales.
- Docs: parity row (partial), whats-new, control protocol and MCP.
The CRX 0x200 QP map opens with its first symbol as a 32-bit literal; every
later symbol is Rice coded with a limited-length escape: 23 zeros, the
terminating 1 and the symbol in 8 bits (the ITU-T T.87 layout for a 32-bit
limit and 8-bit symbols, without its minus-one offset). The old rule (an
escape after 16 zeros with a 16-bit literal) matched only the first symbol,
which is all the R8 and R7 maps need. R5 Mark II maps (QP 150-162) jump by up
to 12 where the Rice parameter is 0, giving 18- to 22-zero prefixes that
misparsed ("Canon CRX adaptive QP value -21087"): 174 of 306 sampled files
from a private R5 Mark II library opened as previews. Every QP map of its
33,665 C-RAW files now decodes to the exact end of its entropy stream; the six
oracle fixtures are unchanged. Established by black-box analysis of the
bitstream; no third-party decoder source consulted.
Adds the four CC0 R5 Mark II samples (raw.pixls.us 7881-7884) to the corpus
with pinned sensor hashes (the crop-mode framing is left to #754), bumps
RENDER_CACHE_VERSION to 43, and updates cr3.md, raw-parity (235 verified
models), coverage, gaps, the checklist rows, ROADMAP, target-app-parity and
What's New.
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- Ten minutes plus five seconds a file per import (was one minute): the
first live run timed out while macOS's permission prompt was still up,
and Photos' duplicates question waits for a person too.
- Files go to osascript 200 at a time, all within the import's one time
limit: one run with every path went over macOS's 1 MiB argument limit
at about 10,000 files, and Photos got nothing. A failed later batch says
how many files Photos had added.
- The progress line "Adding to Apple Photos…" is translated on the UI
thread; on the export worker it was always English.
- docs/apple-photos.md: who can add what (the control port is reachable by
any local program, other users' included), batching, the new limit, and
tested end to end (macOS 26.6.2, Photos 11.0, packaged app). The parity
row says so; What's New has an entry.
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Open Library given a Lightroom Classic catalog folder, one of its .lrdata /
.lrcat-data folders, Backups/, the .lrcat or its -wal/-shm/.lock files used to
create an empty LightCraft library inside Lightroom's folder (or, for the
.lrcat file, close the current library and then fail). Now:
- engine: lightroom_folder::lightroom_catalog_at (names only, top-level scan
bounded to 10 000 entries, never fails); Session::open_library refuses those
places with EngineError::LightroomCatalog {path, catalog} before creating
anything. A LightCraft library (catalog.snap / catalog.log) always wins.
- app: app.openLibrary checks before closing the current library, keeps it,
returns {opened: false, lightroomCatalog, path} and shows a dialog with
Import Lightroom Catalog… (file.importLightroom with the catalog found) and
Cancel. The library problem window gets the error instead.
- Lightroom import status keeps the catalog path after the task ends.
- CLI --library explains how to import instead.
Intro and ending title screens (Lightroom Classic's Titles panel): each on
or off, a background colour and, centred, the Overlays identity plate or a
line of text, in the plate's colour or an override colour, at a scale, for
its own duration (default: the slide duration).
- Playback timeline: titles are items (Item::Title) of Playback; the intro
plays once before the first photo, the ending after the last photo when
repeat is off; random order never moves them; arrows step across them;
fades, pause and readiness work as for slides; n of N counts photos only.
- Engine: slide_title (TitleSettings in prefs.json, TitleCompose drawing
through the slide composer and overlay text renderer), slideshow.titles
get/set, slideshow.preview {title}.
- UI: titles composed on a render worker (Renderer::request_title), the
control bar shows Intro / End, Settings > Slideshow > Titles section and
a Photo / Intro / Ending preview choice; strings in the nine locales.
- Docs: parity row (partial), playback note, whats-new, control and MCP.
Readers that don't read the PNG cICP chunk show the PQ samples as if they
were sRGB (flat, washed out): expected for PQ PNG, but it surprises people.
Noted in What's new (with the gain map JPEG as the look-right-everywhere
choice), as the export dialog's HDR PNG hint, and in the option and encoder
docs. Review suggestion on #664.
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Add a What's New entry for keeping the install folder when upgrading from a
pre-0.6 Windows installer, and describe the new Windows MSI job in the
Packaging lint workflow header.
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Jason Baldwin