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v4's arrangement, which is the one that reads as an editor: a zone head holds what acts on THAT zone, so the app grows a bar of its own for what acts on the app. * The menu bar. Brand, View and Settings, and whether ComfyUI is still on the other end. Only menus with something real in them exist -- an empty File menu is a promise the app does not keep. * The prompt is written in the CONSTRUCTOR, a window. v4 called this the Composer; that name is taken here by the element kit, and two things called Composer in one repo is one thing nobody can search for. It is the longest thing a person writes and the least often read, and a permanent third of the centre column is the room the timeline needs. The host is built at startup and outlives every opening, so a window that opens twice does not throw away what was typed. * The timeline replaces it, and Generate moves into its head with what the run is doing at the far end of the same head. No bar across the bottom: one that spans the window belongs to no region. Four faults found on the way, three of them mine and one much older: * THE OVERLAY ROOT WAS A STACKING CONTEXT. It documents at length that it must never be one -- and then set `position: fixed`, which makes one on its own. So the whole z ladder was measured inside that single element: an open menu at z 500 painted UNDER a button at z 1. Every overlay in the app was one positive z-index away from being buried, and the only reason nobody had seen it is that almost nothing claims a z-index. The root is static and zero-sized now; every layer in it is fixed already. * Generate's hover ran `filter: brightness()`, which lightens the LABEL along with the fill under it -- the one thing that had to stay readable lost contrast in both themes. Only the fill moves now, and which way it moves depends on the theme: dark's accent carries near-black text so it goes lighter, light's carries white so it goes darker. Measured: no gradient stop under 4.1:1, hovered or at rest. * A fixed-height head could not shrink below the width of everything in it, and a head now holds a title, three controls and a status. That min-content became the centre column's, so a 768px window laid out 878px wide and scrolled sideways. It wraps now, as v4's does. * A CSS patch of mine silently did nothing because its anchor text had moved and I had left the assertion off that one replacement. Every patch asserts now.
ComfyUI-FunPack v5 — "Cunning Cranberry"
FunPack v4.0.0 is going to be the latest release of classic FunPack. Next update is another milestone update, or shall I say, a full rework.
Maintenance of current FunPack became a mess — forgetting to add or remove buttons from/to UI, finding functions that don't do anything but still present in the code absolutely randomly, trying to keep the UI neat while it has no strict boundaries on how it should look like, and of course — making it easy for users to understand how FunPack operates and how you can operate it — this is all time, money and token-consuming.
General idea behind the FunPack v5 rework is writing it from scratch, with a new architecture where a feature can't be forgotten, where a wire can't be missed, where one failing module never stops whole process from executing. Loaders and features would tell the UI by themselves what sorts of inputs they need and where to put it — and UI will compose them according to design guidelines it would have. Samplers would become independent from features — if a feature is available and enabled, sampler would call it. If it's not — it gets skipped and doesn't even appear in the UI so it won't confuse you.
Most of this comes from a FunUI backend draft that got shelved after understanding on how much time has to be invested into polishing it. Without a community support and wide usage it would become another dead project only one person in the world needs but no one else.
Come to think of it, FunPack already became something alike, with an exception — this project is more than alive, and while I can, I will support it.
Final goal is to make FunPack an ultimate answer for a novice's question "I don't know how to generate — what do I install and how do I start?" and for a professional's question "I need a UI with all the cutting edge techniques available on day 0 — which one?"
Preparation for the v5 had started.
FunPack v5.0 "Cunning Cranberry" — coming fall 2026.
This branch is a clean start. Classic FunPack lives on main.