A hint now spawns a translucent copy of the hinted card that glides to
the suggested destination twice (0.7s per pass, SmoothSnap easing, tail
fade so the loop reads as a repeat), alongside the existing static
source/destination highlights. Auto-disabled under reduce-motion — the
static highlights remain the whole story. The ghost despawns on timer,
on a fresh hint, or the moment the board changes (a preview of a stale
board is worse than none).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The live catalog has advertised preview_url per theme since the store
shipped, but the client never fetched it — rows were text-only. The
modal now downloads each advertised preview PNG off the main thread
(same AsyncComputeTaskPool + Tokio pattern as the catalog fetch and
avatar image), decodes it into an Image asset, and renders a thumbnail
sized by the theme's own card_aspect at the head of the row. Previews
pop in as they arrive and are cached for the session, so reopening the
store is instant. Failures log and leave the row text-only; the decode
path is skipped entirely under MinimalPlugins (no Assets<Image>).
solitaire_data grows ThemeStoreClient::fetch_preview with a 512 KB cap
(previews carry no checksum — decorative only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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