fix(errors): show readable failures in modals

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Summary

• route recoverable action failures through a lossless Rust/QML event bridge into localized standard error modals
• deduplicate repeated failures, enforce modal input ownership, and provide Retry, Restart, or OK actions
• fully replace live screen content during eligible inline load errors and make Systems retry fetch fresh catalog data
• add routing, dismissal, retry, retained-event, and content-hiding coverage

Testing

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• just test

Closes #328

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a unified action-error dialog for launch, media, favorite, QR, card, settings, and upload failures.
  • Added queued, deduplicated error notifications with contextual retry actions.
  • Added retry controls for favorites, recents, systems, catalog loading, game details, and other operations.
  • Improved error-state screens by hiding unavailable content and presenting clearer guidance.
• Bug Fixes
  • QR-code views now open only after successful generation.
  • Error messages are displayed as plain text with clearer network and loading guidance.
• Translations
  • Updated localized error, retry, loading, and navigation strings across supported languages.

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• rust/frontend/src/models/action_error.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/favorites.rs
• src/ui/app/Main.qml
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ar.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_de.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_el.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_en.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_es.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_eu.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_fr.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_he.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_hi.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_it.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ja.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ko.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_nl.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ro.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_sk.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_uk.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_zh_CN.ts
• tests/ui/tst_navigation.qml

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• rust/frontend/src/models/favorites.rs
• tests/ui/tst_navigation.qml
• rust/frontend/src/models/action_error.rs
• src/ui/app/Main.qml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The frontend adds a Rust-to-QML action-error bus. QML presents queued, deduplicated, retryable error modals. Loading screens hide errored content and expose retry actions. Translation catalogs and navigation tests cover the new flows.

Changes

Action error reporting and recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rust action-error bus and model reporting rust/frontend/src/models/action_error.rs, rust/frontend/src/models/*.rs, rust/frontend/build.rs	Rust publishes sequenced, batched action errors. Models report failures and expose retry methods for affected operations.
Shared QML error modal and retry dispatch src/ui/app/Main.qml, src/ui/app/MainLayout.qml	QML maps backend errors to localized modal content, suppresses duplicates, queues distinct errors, and invokes stored retry callbacks.
Screen retry states and safe error rendering src/ui/components/*.qml, src/ui/screens/*.qml	Error overlays use user-facing text. Media, systems, and category content hides during errors. Favorites and recents expose retry actions.
Localized messages and navigation coverage src/ui/translations/frontend_*.ts, tests/ui/tst_navigation.qml	Translation catalogs include new failure and retry strings. Tests cover batching, deduplication, modal input ownership, retries, and hidden errored content.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 69af6

The PR improves recoverable failure presentation and retry/content behavior; no concrete current-head correctness, availability, or configuration risk is supported, so it is merge-ready after normal checks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RustModel
  participant ActionErrorRust
  participant MainQML
  participant MainLayout
  participant ActionErrorModal
  RustModel->>ActionErrorRust: report action failure
  ActionErrorRust->>MainQML: publish sequenced error batch
  MainQML->>MainLayout: request error modal
  MainLayout->>ActionErrorModal: display localized failure and action
  ActionErrorModal->>MainQML: accept retry or dismiss
  MainQML->>RustModel: invoke retry operation

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Possibly related PRs

• ZaparooProject/zaparoo-frontend#11 — Extends the shared QML modal and navigation architecture.
• ZaparooProject/zaparoo-frontend#26 — Overlaps in screen retry and error-state handling.
• ZaparooProject/zaparoo-frontend#232 — Overlaps in media and systems content gating.

Suggested reviewers: kindarconrath

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: showing readable failures in modal dialogs.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the scope, linked issue, and test commands, but omits the template checklist and screenshots for visual changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #328 through modal routing, safe localized copy, deduplication, input ownership, retries, content hiding, and tests.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The Rust, QML, translation, and test changes support the linked error-handling and retry objectives without unrelated scope.

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src/ui/translations/frontend_fr.ts

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src/ui/translations/frontend_en.ts

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src/ui/translations/frontend_el.ts

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In `@rust/frontend/src/models/action_error.rs`:
- Around line 46-58: Update report_action_error so NEXT_SEQUENCE.fetch_add
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ActionErrorEvent, ensuring sequence allocation and enqueue are serialized as one
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In `@rust/frontend/src/models/favorites.rs`:
- Around line 627-630: Update the retry method to call refetch() before
start_subscription(), ensuring retry requests fresh data rather than reusing the
cached Errored resource; keep the existing watcher restart behavior in retry
unchanged.

In `@src/ui/app/Main.qml`:
- Around line 2355-2359: Update the action-error handling around
_actionErrorQueue and _showActionError so any new entry is appended and
processed by actionErrorQueueTimer whenever the queue is already non-empty, even
if actionErrorModalVisible is false. Preserve FIFO order and keep direct display
only for an empty queue with no visible modal.

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• rust/frontend/build.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/action_error.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/alternate_versions.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/crt_video.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/favorites.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/game_info.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/games.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/media_status.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/mod.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/notice.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/qr_code.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/recents.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/settings.rs
• rust/frontend/src/models/systems.rs
• src/ui/app/Main.qml
• src/ui/app/MainLayout.qml
• src/ui/components/GameInfoModal.qml
• src/ui/components/LogUploadModal.qml
• src/ui/components/Modal.qml
• src/ui/components/ScreenStateOverlay.qml
• src/ui/screens/FavoritesScreen.qml
• src/ui/screens/HubScreen.qml
• src/ui/screens/MediaListScreen.qml
• src/ui/screens/RecentsScreen.qml
• src/ui/screens/SystemsScreen.qml
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ar.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_de.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_el.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_en.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_es.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_eu.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_fr.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_he.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_hi.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_it.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ja.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ko.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_nl.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_ro.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_sk.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_uk.ts
• src/ui/translations/frontend_zh_CN.ts
• tests/ui/tst_navigation.qml

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