Home page touch-ups

[franknoirot]

Start of an implementation toward #2133. Dialed back this to not include the screenshot functionality so we could land the PR sooner rather than later. However, I'm going to keep this in draft form until we have a "zoom to fit" endpoint in the engine, and then use the take_snapshot modeling command to get a much more consistent snapshot.

Another design dilemma I'm in is how to capture new snapshots from the home page. I want to make this more robust, so that when either:

1. the app.theme setting is changed
2. a project does not yet have a thumbnail
   the card is put into a loading state and a new image is captured without leaving the home page

Demo with current limitations

Screenshare.-.2024-04-16.8_19_51.PM-compressed.mp4

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[franknoirot]

Some open questions:

1. How do we take snapshots from the home page?
2. Is there a different method other than saving a frame from the stream that allows me to have a transparent background to these images?
3. Do we want users to be able to self-author their file thumbnails via a menu?
4. How would that self-authorship work with default thumbnail capture behavior?

[Irev-Dev]

we can definitely store the camera position, which will go more neatly into the project.toml than an actually image would.

And take_snapshot is the endpoint used for taking a snapshot (websocket endpoint), pretty sure that's the same thing the cli uses, so you could try that instead when the user leaves to get something transparent. Updating all of the snapshots everytime the user changes the theme sounds messy to me.

Getting snap shots for projects the user hasn't open 🤷 not sure hey.

[Irev-Dev]

[franknoirot]

we can definitely store the camera position, which will go more neatly into the project.toml than an actually image would.

Sorry I used imprecise language in the video, I meant just save the path to the image in project.toml. But that should just be a constant anyway.

I like the idea of using take_snapshot to take a PNG, and setting the camera's position for the project thumbnail in project.toml. If they haven't manually Set project thumbnail we have some sensible camera default camera position, and regardless we always call zoom_to_fit to get the whole geometry in view once that's available.

[franknoirot]

This PR resolves #2337