Ferrous-Solitaire/SESSION_HANDOFF.md

Solitaire Quest — UX Overhaul Session Handoff

Last updated: 2026-05-01 — Phases 3, 4, 5 + the seven CARD_PLAN phases all shipped. v0.1.0 tagged locally. Bundled card art + runtime SVG theme system + in-Settings theme picker all live. Remaining work is desktop packaging and a player-side smoke test of the new theme.

Status at pause

• HEAD: 924a1e2. v0.1.0 tag created locally (push pending interactive credentials).
• Working tree: clean after the post-Phase cleanup pass.
• Build: cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.
• Tests: 960 passed / 0 failed / 9 ignored across the workspace.

Where we are

Phase 3 (design tokens + modal scaffold) and Phase 4 (release polish) shipped earlier. Phase 5 — running the binary end-to-end and fixing what broke — landed nine more commits today: a layout fit fix so tableau columns stop spilling off-screen, a three-pronged resize-lag fix, persisted window geometry, splash skip on subsequent launches, achievement tooltips, a code-quality sweep, client-side sync round-trip tests, and a hit-test fix so dragging a card no longer requires aiming for the bottom strip.

Polish is essentially complete; the remaining work is tagging v0.1.0 and desktop packaging.

Design direction (unchanged)

• Tone: Balatro — chunky readable type, theatrical hierarchy, satisfying micro-interactions.
• Palette: Midnight Purple base + Balatro yellow primary + warm magenta secondary.
• See memory/project_ux_overhaul_2026-04.md for full direction.

Phase 3 (shipped)

• solitaire_engine/src/ui_theme.rs — every design token: colours, type scale, spacing scale, radius rungs, z-index hierarchy, motion durations.
• solitaire_engine/src/ui_modal.rs — spawn_modal scaffold + button-variant helpers + paint_modal_buttons system.
• All 12 overlays migrated to the modal scaffold with real Primary/Secondary/Tertiary buttons (no more Y/N debug prompts).
• HUD restructured into a 4-tier vertical stack with progressive disclosure.
• Animation upgrades: SmoothSnap slide curves, scoped settle bounce, deal jitter, win-cascade rotation.

Phase 4 (shipped 2026-04-30)

Area	Commit	What landed
Workspace lint	9bfca92	Test-only clippy warnings under --all-targets resolved.
App / window	5f5aba8	WM_CLASS, centered-on-primary window, panic hook → crash.log.
Modal animation	71999e1	ModalEntering + ease-out scrim fade and 0.96→1.0 card scale.
Score feedback	dcfa976	ScorePulse triangular 1.0→1.1→1.0; floating "+N" for jumps ≥ threshold.
Hit targets	b082bd6	ICON_BUTTON_PX 28 → 32; sync status reads "local only".
Microcopy	abeb4e5	Help "Close" → "Done"; final onboarding CTA → "Let's play".
Empty states	65d595a	First-launch em-dash zero-stats grid + welcome line on Profile.
Leaderboard	1384365	Idle/Loaded/Error enum; local-only guard.
Credits	fd7fb7b, f866299	CREDITS.md added; README links it.
Home	c1bde18	Home repurposed as Mode Launcher with level-5 lock state.
Focus rings (Phase 1)	1278952	Tab/Shift-Tab/Enter on every modal button; auto-focus primary.
Focus rings (Phase 2)	51d3454	HUD action bar (hover-gated) and Home mode cards.
Focus rings (Phase 3)	b78a493	Settings: icon buttons, swatches, toggles; arrow-key FocusRow; auto-scroll.
Achievement tests	2e080d0	Integration coverage for draw_three_master and zen_winner.
Microcopy	0c86cac	"New game" / "Forfeit" replace "Yes, abandon" / "Yes, forfeit".
Tooltip infra	54d3497	Tooltip(Cow<'static, str>) component + hover-delay overlay.
HUD tooltips	220e3f0	10 readouts + 6 action buttons.
Settings tooltips	74597a8	Volume, toggles, swatches, Sync Now.
Popover tooltips	dbe6c60	Modes and Menu rows.
Splash	5d57b67	Branded splash overlay (300ms fade-in / ~1s hold / 300ms fade-out).
Doc-rot	73e210b	ARCHITECTURE.md bevy_kira_audio references → kira.
Doc	de52c8a, 60a8036	Mid-session and end-of-Phase-4 SESSION_HANDOFF refreshes.

Phase 5 (shipped 2026-05-01)

Smoke test surfaced three issues: window-resize lag, tableau columns clipped below viewport, hit-target offset on cards. All fixed, plus four bonus polish items.

Area	Commit	What landed
Layout fit	8dda954	card_height constrained by vertical budget; worst-case 13-card column always fits.
Resize perf	1719fda	In-place sprite/text mutation + 50ms ResizeThrottle (was full re-spawn per pixel).
Resize stall	59316de	PresentMode::AutoNoVsync eliminates the X11/Wayland vsync stall during drag.
Window geometry	6e7705b	WindowGeometry persisted to settings.json; debounced save on resize/move.
Achievements	7448225	Tooltips on rows: reward shown when unlocked, condition + reward when locked, secrets stay cryptic.
Lint sweep	4b9d008	33 pedantic warnings cleared (map_unwrap_or, uninlined_format_args, match_same_arms).
Sync tests	3ef4ecb	Five client-side round-trip integration tests via in-process axum + mock keyring.
Splash	912b08c	Splash skipped on subsequent launches via existing first_run_complete flag.
Hit test	902560c	card_position mirrors face-down fan step (0.12) for accurate AABB on tableau columns.

Open punch list for v1

1. Player smoke-test of the new theme system. Launch cargo run -p solitaire_app --features bevy/dynamic_linking and confirm: (a) hayeah card faces render correctly, (b) the midnight-purple back.svg shows on face-down cards, (c) the "Card Theme" picker appears in Settings → Cosmetic with at least the "Default" chip, (d) clicking the chip is a no-op (already selected) without errors.
2. Push the v0.1.0 tag — git push origin v0.1.0 once you're happy with the smoke-test outcome. Tag exists locally; not yet on origin.
3. Desktop packaging per ARCHITECTURE.md §17. The Arch PKGBUILD exists in /home/manage/solitaire-quest-pkgbuild/ (separate repo, no remote yet — git remote add origin <URL> and push to your gitea / AUR when ready). Still pending: app icon, macOS .icns + notarisation cert, Windows .ico + Authenticode cert, AppImage recipe.

Optional, deferred

• Animated focus ring (currently a static overlay; could pulse on focus change).
• Achievement onboarding pass — show first-time players the achievement panel after their first win.
• Mode-switch keyboard shortcut from inside the Mode Launcher (today only mouse opens it).
• Runtime aspect-ratio fidelity for the bundled hayeah cards: the SVG source is ~1.45 height/width while the engine layout assumes 1.4. Cards display ~3% squashed vertically; either widen the layout or letterbox the SVGs to match. Cosmetic-only; not blocking.

Card-theme system (CARD_PLAN.md, fully shipped)

Seven phases landed across b8fb3fb → 924a1e2. End-to-end flow:

• Bundled default theme ships in the binary via embedded:// — 52 hayeah/playing-cards-assets SVGs (MIT) + a midnight-purple back.svg (original work).
• User themes live under themes:// rooted at solitaire_engine::assets::user_theme_dir(). Drop a directory containing a valid theme.ron + 53 SVG files there and it appears in the registry on next launch.
• Importer at solitaire_engine::theme::import_theme(zip) validates an archive (20 MB cap, zip-slip rejection, manifest validation, every referenced SVG round-tripped through the rasteriser) and atomically unpacks it into the user themes dir.
• Picker UI in Settings → Cosmetic offers one chip per registered theme; selection persists to settings.json as selected_theme_id and propagates to live card sprites via react_to_settings_theme_change → sync_card_image_set_with_active_theme → StateChangedEvent.

Resume prompt

You are a senior Rust + Bevy developer finishing v1 of Solitaire
Quest. Working directory: /home/manage/Rusty_Solitare. Branch:
master. The polish phase is complete; the remaining work is release
prep, not new features.

State: HEAD=902560c, fully pushed to origin. Working tree clean.
Build: cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.
Tests: 906 passed / 0 failed.

READ FIRST (in order, before doing anything):
  1. SESSION_HANDOFF.md  — full state and punch list
  2. CLAUDE.md           — hard rules (UI-first, no panics, etc.)
  3. ARCHITECTURE.md §15, §17 — platform targets, deployment guide
  4. ~/.claude/projects/-home-manage-Rusty-Solitare/memory/MEMORY.md
                         — saved feedback / project context

PUNCH LIST (in priority order):
  1. Confirm or fill the xCards upstream URL in CREDITS.md (one-line
     edit; not a release blocker).
  2. Tag v0.1.0 once the user signs off.
  3. Desktop packaging: icon hookup, platform bundles (.ico/.icns/
     AppImage), signing. Needs artwork and certs from the user.

WORKFLOW NOTES:
  - Commits use:
      git -c user.name=funman300 -c user.email=root@vscode.infinity commit -m "..."
  - Sub-agents stage + verify only; orchestrator commits.
  - Every commit must pass build / clippy / test.

OPEN AT THE START: ask which punch-list item to start on. Don't pick
unilaterally — release-readiness ordering is the user's call.