Files
ai-app/docs/HANDOFF.md
T
iris-ai 61a2f601bb Move the settled layout vocabulary into LAYOUT.md and prune the handoff
The handoff had grown a chronicle of what each commit renamed. What is
durable about it -- the three names, and the one argument a container uses
to say them -- is design, so it goes to `docs/LAYOUT.md` as its own section
and the handoff keeps a pointer plus where the branch stands.

`docs/PLAN.md`'s "frame/extent experiment" entry described a prototype in
retired words; it becomes a pointer, and the one finding it held that was
not recorded elsewhere -- why the extent-relative child-frame trial was
removed -- joins the failed hypotheses in `docs/LAYOUT.md`.
2026-09-19 18:06:28 -04:00

86 lines
4.4 KiB
Markdown

# Handoff
Where the work in flight stands. The settled layout design, the vocabulary
and the measurement method are in `docs/LAYOUT.md`; what the review of #19
found is in `docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md`.
## The Iris layout repair is submitted
**Iris PR #19** (`layout/one-ask`) replaces closed #18. The tip is `58ce74d`,
and past the reviewed `cadfba0` it is two rounds:
- **The repair.** `add6774` fixes collapsed-share placement, retained mask
ownership and a redraw-on-reparent defect; `84dad21` removes repeated work
in the test harness.
- **The vocabulary and the container API**, `5642f20` through `58ce74d`. What
they settled is described as design in `docs/LAYOUT.md` under "Three names,
and the one argument that says them" -- region, placement and rel_base, and
the single `impl Into<PlaceDesc>` argument that replaced `Place`, `Part`,
`widget_within` and the separate rel-base argument. **Bryan is still
refining this**, so treat the API as current rather than frozen.
The core design remains sound. Round-to-nearest is still unchanged.
Two checkouts share one Git storage: `/home/bob/repos/iris` is the active
`layout/one-ask` worktree, and `ai-app-2/iris` stays on `main` at the app's
`32f6ad8` pin until the integration below is ready.
### How each round was checked
Format, workspace clippy under `-D warnings` with and without
`layout-diagnostics`, the workspace tests both ways, and the three prescribed
seed scans -- 400 at depth 5, 1,000 at depth 6, 2,000 at depth 4.
The gate that matters for anything shaped like a rename or a refactor is the
**cold dump**: `layout_dump` over 400 depth-5 trees is 34,492 boxes, and the
compiler cannot catch two same-typed values being swapped. The repair moved
650 of those boxes, all from the collapsed-share correction. Every commit
since has been byte-identical to `84dad21`, including the whole API rewrite.
## What is next, in order
1. **Bryan's review of #19.** Fixes are themselves unreviewed code: repeat
`pre-submit-review` over each round's changes, and re-run the three
fuzzers and the dump diff for edits to `Span`, `Painter`, or
`render_state`. The ordinary oracle does not replace absolute geometry and
retained-primitive expectations.
2. **Integrate the app's Iris capabilities before changing its pin.**
`32f6ad8` has 45 commits not reachable from the review branch; shared UI
ownership, richer masks, Android support, and app-side performance work
must survive the integration. The app then absorbs the branch's
vocabulary and container API, all of it already upstream: `rest` ->
`leftover`, `SizeRule` beside widgets, alignment properties, the removal
of `OrthoSize`, region/placement/rel_base, and `PlaceDesc`.
3. **Round-to-nearest**, CPU and shader together as one verified change.
Bryan approved it on 2026-09-17 and neither half has landed; the
derivation, the form to use and what to re-check are in `docs/LAYOUT.md`
under "Rendering the grid (pending)".
Wanted but not started, recorded in `iris/TODO`: transforms on a move entry,
so a whole subtree scales or rotates with one buffer write and no redraw.
Compose-style stretch at the end of a scroll area is the use that prompted
it. A move entry only translates today, and composing through one scales the
`rel` part while `px` passes through untouched, so fixed-size content and
glyphs do not follow a shortened entry.
## Smaller layout items, none urgent
- Nested spans pass `leftover` weight up, so three leftover children in one
inner span beside one in another get three quarters to one quarter. No
other layout system does that; confirm it is wanted.
- A span can overflow itself without bound, so boxes of negative length reach
children and nothing states what a widget may assume about one.
- `Fixed::div` by zero answers `MIN`/`MAX` while `ratio` answers `ZERO`; both
are caller bugs under `debug_assert`, but the fallbacks differ.
- `docs/LAYOUT.md` §4, §5 and the density section name `Painter::place`,
`Painter::region()`, `SetSize`, `desired_width`, `apply_rest`, `Len::dp`,
`Aligned` and `MaxSize`, none of which exist. Do not restore
`OnResize::Translate` or `OrthoSize`.
- `LazySpan`, then `SizeRule::{Min, Max, Clamp}`. A cap may not contain
`leftover`; whether `Max` narrows the child's drawing box is a product
decision.
- `Scroll` taking a direction rather than one axis.
Other product work is in `docs/PLAN.md` and the focused documents it links.
Do not mix it into the Iris layout branch.