# Graphical interface

[English](interface.md) · [Português](pt-BR/interface.md)

Guará has a desktop app (Tauri) and the same front end in the browser with `guara ui`. Everything below exists in both.

<p align="center"><img src="img/explorer-light-en.png" width="900" alt="The Guará explorer showing recovered photos grouped by month, with a sidebar to filter and a details panel on the right"></p>

## The explorer

After a scan, results open in a file-manager style explorer built for thousands of items:

- **Left:** navigation by type, real photo date (EXIF, by year and month), folder, camera, confidence and GPS, with an option to hide small files and duplicates.
- **Center:** thumbnail grid or list, grouped by day or month, with virtual scrolling. A filter chip shows what is active and clears it in one click.
- **Right:** details panel with the preview, folder, dates (taken, modified, created, accessed), camera, resolution and the file metadata. The badge shows the **confidence** of the file (high, medium or low).
- **Bottom bar:** selection count and the recovery buttons. Recovery always goes to another folder and writes a manifest with MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256.

Arrow keys move through the files, and Space opens the full-screen quick look. Selection works like Finder or Explorer (Ctrl, Shift, keyboard).

## Themes

The switch at the bottom of the sidebar offers **Auto** (follows the system), **Light** and **Dark**. The choice is saved.

<p align="center"><img src="img/explorer-dark-en.png" width="900" alt="The same explorer in the dark theme"></p>

## Language

**Settings** (the gear at the bottom of the sidebar) has a **Language** selector: **Auto** follows the system language, or you can pick **Português** or **English**. The change applies right away. The same dialog controls notifications for long tasks and online maps for photos with GPS (off by default, because it downloads OpenStreetMap tiles).

<p align="center"><img src="img/settings-language-en.png" width="420" alt="The Settings dialog with the Language selector set to English"></p>

Error messages that come from the core, and the terminal output, are still in Portuguese.

## About these screenshots

They show the real interface, not a mock-up, running on a synthetic test image: 72 generated JPEGs with fake EXIF (cameras, dates, GPS) that were deleted from a FAT32 image by `scripts/make-photo-fixture.py` and found by a normal `guara scan`. No real data appears. The device name in the sidebar was replaced with a generic one.