ROOT CAUSE, from the reporter's device log:
16:25:49.093 mic capture: 48000 Hz, 1 ch <- tap installed, format fine
16:25:49.235 audio engines joined - voice processing active
... 13 s of session, no errors, and the 10 s silence verdict NEVER fires
The engine started clean and the tap was installed against a valid
format - so neither the format timing nor the encoder was the fault. The
tripwire fires after ten seconds of CAPTURED frames and never fired
across a 13-second session: the tap received nothing at all.
Because the capture side must be pulled, and only the render graph pulls
anything. On the combined engine the input node carried a tap and no
connection, so it was not in the graph and nobody drove it: the IO unit
came up (the recording indicator lit for a beat, then went out as the
input went idle) and not one buffer ever reached the tap. No error, no
failed start - a session that quietly sent no microphone.
The input now runs through a silent sink into the main mixer, which is
what Apple's own voice-processing sample does. outputVolume = 0 because
the mic must reach the graph and never the speaker. The split path never
needed this - a capture-only engine has the input node AS its graph - so
this broke exactly when the combined topology became the default.
Verified: swift build (macOS), swift build --triple arm64-apple-ios17.0,
swift test 208 passed. Awaiting the reporter's on-device confirmation.
Field report: mic uplink dead on iOS, iPadOS and macOS alike, while
Android on the same host works - so the host and the wire are fine.
Two defects in the combined (voice-processing) engine, which became the
default on all three Apple platforms a week ago and has never run on a
device - CI only runs swift test on macOS, and the loopback test counts
datagrams without decoding them.
- The tap read the input format before the engine was prepared. Enabling
voice processing swaps the engine's IO unit for the VPIO one and
renegotiates its formats; until prepare() the input node can still
report the pre-swap state, 0 Hz / 0 channels included, which
installMicTap correctly refuses as 'no usable input device'. Both
topologies now prepare first, so the chain is built against what the
voice processor actually emits.
- A mic chain that failed on the voice-processed engine took the whole
uplink down for the session: that arm fell back to playback ONLY. The
sibling failure a few lines above - the voice processor refusing to
engage at all - already falls back to the split path, which is a
working mic without echo cancellation. Both arms do that now. The mic
outranks the AEC.
Not reproduced locally (no Punktfunk entries in this Mac's log store,
and collecting the device's log needs root), so this is a strong
inference plus one proven logic defect rather than a confirmed fix. If
it persists, Console filtered to subsystem io.unom.punktfunk / category
audio names the stage: 'mic capture: N Hz' then 'audio engines joined'
then, 10 s in, either 'mic uplink OK - peak ...' or the SILENCE warning.
Follow-up worth doing separately: nothing reports whether the uplink
actually opened, so the HUD offers a Mute Microphone button over a
session sending nothing. Android gates that on a real micRunning signal.
Making the HUD concentric with the physical display corner had no upper
bound, so a modern phone (~62 pt of display radius) asked for a 48 pt
corner on a card whose lines sit 10 pt from the edge. A corner of radius
r pulls the edge inward by r - sqrt(r^2 - (r-y)^2) at distance y below
the top: at the first line that is ~19 pt, so the top and bottom lines
rendered INSIDE the arc.
Concentricity is only a virtue while the radius is small next to the
card. The radius is now capped at 28 (devices asking for less still get
a truly concentric corner) and the iOS content padding scales with it at
0.45*r, which leaves ~4.6 pt of arc against 12.6 pt of padding at the
cap. The card grows by under 3 pt a side; the compact pill is unchanged.
Three things the Intel Arc measurement showed were wrong or unhelpful in the refusal
path.
The message named NV12 whatever the stream was. A Main 10 session refused over P010
was told about NV12, which sends the reader to look up the wrong format's support.
Both variants now carry the format the driver's own entry reported.
A missing SAMPLED now says what it costs. "does not advertise usage SAMPLED" is
accurate and tells a field reporter nothing: the consequence is that no shader can
read this device's decoded pictures, so the zero-copy path cannot exist on it at all
— which is a different conversation from a device that is merely slower. The line
points at --probe-decode for the driver's own words.
And the probe's second opinion no longer claims to be one. Measured on both vendors,
vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2 answers "creatable" for combinations the
video-format query rejects — on NVIDIA too, for SAMPLED alone, which is not a legal
video image usage at all. So it does not honour the chained profile list and must not
be read as permission; it is still printed, because otherwise everyone who reads a
refusal asks the question again, but it is labelled as not authority.
Also names the three video ENCODE usage bits, which NVIDIA advertises on decode
pictures and the probe was printing as "unrecognised 0xC000".
Structural, because tuning the transform values was treating a symptom.
A scroll transition derives its phase from the geometry of the view it
wraps, and the entrance was wrapping each card on the OUTSIDE - so it
moved the very thing the transition measures. Every card read as far
from centre for the whole travel, phase pinned at fully receded, and the
centred card only collapsed into its focused look as the entrance ended.
That collapse was the jump; shrinking the offset last round only made it
smaller.
The card builder now hands each caller its own CardEntrance and both the
launcher and the coverflow apply it BENEATH their .scrollTransition. The
transition measures a card that never moves and composes its scale and
rotation on top of the entrance's, so the two can no longer fight - and
the fuller travel is back (34 pt rise) now that the geometry constraint
that forced it down to 16 is gone.
The focused card jumping into its correct state at the end of the
entrance was the entrance's own geometry. The caller's .scrollTransition
reads the geometry of the view underneath the entrance's transforms, so
a card shoved 58 pt down and hinged on its leading edge spent the whole
travel reported as far from centre - phase pinned at fully receded - and
only collapsed to identity as the card came home. That collapse IS the
jump, and it explains why it looked timing-dependent rather than simply
broken.
Now the rotation is about the card's centre (it turns in place instead
of swinging sideways out of position) and the rise is 16 pt, inside the
strip's own vertical slack, so nothing the entrance does moves a card
away from where the scroll view thinks it is. The entrance also waits a
couple of frames for real layout - the GeometryReader's first pass can
report no width, so there is nothing to centre on yet - and the
transaction override from the previous round is gone: it was not the
cause, and nil-ing inherited animation could have made navigation
snappier than intended.
The Intel Arc refusal moved one step down the caps query and stopped again: the
coincide NV12 entry does not advertise SAMPLED. That sentence is punktfunk's, not
the driver's, and the last two times a conclusion was drawn from a sentence of ours
the conclusion was wrong.
So --probe-decode now prints the driver's own answers instead. For every profile the
client can negotiate (H.264 High, H.265 Main and Main 10, AV1 Main 8- and 10-bit) it
asks vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoFormatPropertiesKHR in six usage combinations — the
three the image pools really create with, plus DPB|DST without sampling, SAMPLED
alone and DST alone, which are what localise a refusal to a half. Each answer is
printed as the driver gave it: format, usage and create flags named AND in hex with
unrecognised bits called out, image type, tiling. A failed query prints its VkResult
rather than vanishing into an empty list.
It goes through pf-vkdecode's own query rather than a copy of it, which meant
splitting query_formats into a physical-device form — the call never needed the
VkDevice the old signature demanded. VideoFormat gains imageType and imageTiling to
carry the whole record; VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-pNext-06811 compares both for
equality, so they were being assumed rather than read.
And because a driver that under-reports usage would be indistinguishable from one
that genuinely lacks it, the probe asks a second, independent question —
vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2 over the same profile list — and prints it
only where the two disagree. A disagreement is the finding.
No behaviour change to any decode path: derivation reads the same fields it did.
The strip entrance is one animated progress value now, not a Bool behind
per-card .animation modifiers. Those modifiers wrap the caller's card -
INCLUDING its .scrollTransition - so a delayed spring flipping while the
scroll view was still settling captured the transition's own per-frame
phase updates and stranded the centred card half-receded until the next
scroll re-drove it. That was the 'only navigating fixes it' report, and
the race with load speed was the same thing.
CardEntrance is now a ViewModifier + Animatable: it slices its own
window out of one master clock the carousel animates 0 -> 1, so every
transform is a pure function of an interpolated Double and no animation
modifier wraps a card at all. Benign failure mode too - progress
reaching 1 without animating leaves each card at exact identity rather
than stranded. The entrance also moved inside .frame(width:) so a scroll
target's geometry never depends on what its card is doing, and the
non-tvOS branch states its .id explicitly.
One leak remained after that: withAnimation sets its animation on the
whole TRANSACTION, so the scroll view's initial centring still inherited
the 1 s linear clock and the focused card only reached its correct look
as that clock ran out - arriving as a jump. The card subtree now clears
the inherited animation, so its phase lands per frame while the
entrance's own transforms (driven by animatableData, not by the
transaction) keep running.
Three defects behind an entrance that read as a card sliding up:
- The centred card never rotated. The stagger fans out from an anchor,
and the anchor was given side 0 = no rotation - but the anchor IS the
card the eye is on, so the single most visible card only rose. Side is
never 0 now; every card turns.
- The swing happened while the card was invisible. Opacity shared the
transform's spring, so the card spent its whole rotation at near-zero
alpha and only the last few degrees showed. The fade now runs on its
own 0.22 s curve (a second .animation governs only the modifiers above
it) while the transform springs over ~0.6 s. The travel is deeper too
- 0.74 scale, 64 degrees, 58 pt - and the rotation sign now matches the
coverflow's own recede, so a card unwinds INTO its resting angle
instead of swinging against it.
- It fired before the art existed. Cards swung in as grey placeholders
and filled with artwork afterwards. PosterImage reports when a cover
settles (art loaded, or candidates exhausted), the coverflow counts
the first few, and GamepadCarousel holds its entrance on a
contentReady gate - with a 700 ms backstop so a slow or artless
library still animates.
The strip entrance never ran in the library, for two reasons:
- The trigger was lost. Flipping the state inside onAppear puts the
change in the SAME transaction as the view's insertion, where SwiftUI
runs with animations disabled. The launcher got away with it; the
library's strip mounts late - only once the fetch lands - and lost
every time. The flip now defers one runloop turn, so it is an ordinary
animated state change.
- The art snapped in behind it. Covers hard-swapped from grey
placeholder to image, so even a working entrance was followed by a run
of cards popping to artwork after the strip had settled. PosterImage
cross-fades now (the touch grid inherits it).
And the entrance is 3D: a card starts turned away on the drum, small,
low and invisible, then swings flat, grows and rises on an overshooting
spring. Cards left of the anchor hinge on their trailing edge and cards
right of it on their leading one, so the strip FANS OPEN from the cursor
instead of sweeping past it - the same hinge-and-perspective language
the coverflow's own recede speaks, so arriving and scrolling read as one
object. Reduce Motion still drops every bit of travel.
Two more from the on-glass pass:
- The coverflow's store/source chip only showed its background on the
centred cover. Same mechanism as the tray blur: a card rides a
scrollTransition that composites it with opacity < 1 and a 3D
rotation, and a material cannot sample a backdrop through an offscreen
composite - so the frost stayed blank everywhere except the one card
sitting at exactly full opacity. The coverflow's chip is a flat wash
now (StoreBadge gains `solid`), which has no backdrop to sample and
is therefore simply always there. The touch grid keeps its material -
its cards carry no transform, so its frost samples fine.
- Host cards and library covers now arrive with the strip instead of
being there: each card rises out of a fade on a lightly overshooting
spring, delayed by its distance from the cursor, so the strip
assembles outward from where the eye already is. Implemented once in
GamepadCarousel, so the launcher and the coverflow inherit it
together. Transforms only - snapping, the callers' own
scrollTransition and the tvOS focus engine are untouched - and Reduce
Motion drops the travel for a plain unstaggered cross-fade.
Round-3 field findings: the pop-in had retreated to the X axis alone -
the one growth still left to safe-area resolution (the landscape side
insets), which settles a beat after insertion, outside any geometry
group and outside the view's own transaction. The scrim now reaches
full-bleed purely by layout: a fixed 80 pt negative-padding overhang on
the outer edge and both sides replaces ignoresSafeArea entirely, so
every axis is deterministic from the first frame (and orientation no
longer changes the gradient's proportions). The mask's strong region
moves to 0.65 to account for the overhang leading the gradient.
And the frost reads black now, not grey: an ink.shade(0.35) wash inside
the mask sinks the material's luminance lift toward the palette's shade
- black on a dark field, palette-honest on a pale one.
Two follow-ups from the second on-glass pass:
- The tray blur's pop-in survived the geometryGroup: the full-bleed
growth (negative padding + safe-area expansion) rode the push's
transaction, and safe-area resolution sits outside a geometry group.
The scrim now pins its own geometry out of any animation - the layer
fade/slide still carries it, only its SHAPE can never animate. The
bottom overshoot grows 32 -> 72 pt (the tray sits over scrolling rows
plus the detail line; the blur influence starts well above the legend
now) and the mask holds strength longer before dissolving.
- The selected tab pill is a Liquid Glass surface (accent-tinted
through consoleGlass, material fallback pre-26/tvOS) - the strip
wears the same material language as the rows below it. The
matched-geometry travel between pills is unchanged.
Six findings from the on-device pass over #91, all iOS-facing:
- The tray blurs no longer grow into place on a push: the screen layer
resolves its internal layout (safe-area trays, the scrims' full-bleed)
in a geometryGroup BEFORE the insertion animates.
- The option band is LINEAR now, not a ring. A ring showed the first
option waiting to the right of the last one - unreachable, since
left/right clamps - and on a 2-option ring the unselected item flipped
sides with every step (the 60/120 Hz row). Positions are fixed, the
ends are the ends, and A's wrap travels back across the list. Options
other than the facing one exist only while the drum is moving, so a
long label never sits under a resting neighbour as overlapping text.
- Toggles (and the pin rows) ride the band too: Off left of On,
matching the left-off/right-on step semantics.
- The close X is gone from settings, add-host and the library - a
gamepad UI exits with B. A chromeless cancel button keeps hardware
Esc and the macOS sheet working, and the library's loading/error/empty
states gain a zero-size B listener so a controller-only user is never
trapped where the coverflow (and its B) doesn't exist yet.
- The heading is a real heading: leading-aligned with the 24 pt content
inset, 24/34 pt (was 20/30), top margin 18/28 (was 10/18) - launcher,
settings, add-host and library alike. The launcher's hidden-mirror
chip trick died with the centred title that needed it.
Verified: swift build (macOS), swift build --triple arm64-apple-ios17.0,
swift test 208 passed / 0 failed.
Four reworks from the first palette-era on-glass review, all iOS-facing:
- Surfaces carry the palette now, not just the text on them: ConsoleGlass
washes every tier (Liquid Glass tint, pre-26 material, tvOS material)
with ink.glass — the same colour the desktop console fills its panels
with — and the close buttons move to an ink-aware consoleGlassBackground.
The pre-26 branch also gains the focus tint it had silently dropped.
Stray literals follow: ConnectOverlay text rides ink in the console
takeover, card shadows soften on pale fields, the focused keycap reads
onAccent. The online pip stays status-green on purpose.
- The header breathes: title top padding 4/10 -> 10/18 plus shared
header-spacing and title-bottom helpers mapped from the console shell's
rhythm, applied to the launcher, settings and add-host alike, with the
add-host close X re-anchored to the title row.
- Settings, Add Host and the Library present IN PLACE on iOS: one
persistent aurora whose calm is chased (the console's bg_mix), screens
as transparent layers with the console's 0.26 s ease-out-cubic push/pop,
an input drop for the transition, and the controller handed off through
isActive — no more opaque bottom-up covers, no backdrop teardown.
macOS keeps its sheets, tvOS its focus-engine covers.
- The settings select is a real band: choice rows mount GamepadOptionBand,
a spring-driven drum (Animatable body, ring-distance wrap, neighbours
gated by focus and flight) whose retargeting spring accumulates rapid
steps into one continuous spin. Reduce Motion falls back to a plain
crossfade; toggles keep the quiet 14 pt slip.
Verified: swift build (macOS), swift build --triple arm64-apple-ios17.0,
swift test 208 passed / 0 failed. On-glass QA still owed: palette sweep on
a pale palette, transition compositing over materials, drum feel on device.
--probe-decode printed its DISPLAY position and called it the
PUNKTFUNK_VK_DEVICE value. It is not. pick_device resolves that variable against
the RAW vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices order (setup.rs, `devices.get(i)`) BEFORE any
ranking runs, while the probe sorts discrete-first for readability.
Those two orders disagree precisely on the hardware this flag exists to
diagnose. pick_device's own comment records why the ranking is there: "enumeration
order puts the iGPU FIRST on some hybrids (observed: Ryzen iGPU ahead of an RTX
dGPU)". So on a hybrid laptop the number the probe printed for the iGPU could
well be the number for the dGPU — a diagnostic handing out an actionable value
that selects the other GPU, which is worse than printing none.
Measured on the Arc + RTX 3500 Ada laptop, which is also where the first output
went out with the wrong claim in it: three adapters, and the same Arc iGPU
enumerated TWICE. So AdapterDecode now carries the raw enumeration index,
captured before the sort, and the printer uses it; the "default presenter"
marker stays on the first LISTED entry, because sorted-first is what pick_device
lands on when nothing overrides.
The duplicate is why the trailing hint names PUNKTFUNK_VK_ADAPTER as the safer
knob and admits its limit: two adapters sharing a marketing name cannot be told
apart by it, and a name match resolves to whichever enumerates first. The hint
also states the thing this whole output invites a reader to get wrong — that a
capable GPU in the list does not mean the decoder will use it, because Vulkan
Video decodes on the presenter's device and PUNKTFUNK_DECODER does not move the
presenter.
Gates: fmt clean; clippy -D warnings on punktfunk-client-session and pf-presenter.
First hardware run of --probe-decode, on the RTX 5070 Ti:
driver decode ops: H.264, H.265, AV1 (0xF)
Three names, four bits. 0xF is H.264|H.265|AV1|VP9 — bit 3 is
VK_VIDEO_CODEC_OPERATION_DECODE_VP9_BIT_KHR, a real decode operation this
client has no rung for, so the name table stopped short of it and the line
looked complete while silently dropping a codec the driver had advertised.
That is the exact failure this flag exists to prevent. The whole point of
--probe-decode is that a reader can trust the words to cover the number; a mask
with an unexplained bit asks them to trust it instead. VP9 is now named (marked
as having no punktfunk rung, because advertising it as decodable would be its
own lie), and any bit beyond the four we know prints as "unrecognised bits
0x…" rather than vanishing — so the next codec Khronos adds shows up as an
unknown rather than as nothing at all.
Gates: fmt clean; clippy -D warnings on punktfunk-client-session.
Field report from an Intel Arc + NVIDIA laptop: pinning the Vulkan rung on the Arc
iGPU silently produced D3D11VA, and there was no way to tell whether the build had
tried at all. That ambiguity was ours, in three places.
The "unavailable" log printed three of the FIVE conjuncts that gate Vulkan Video.
A device with 1.3, the features and a decode queue family — but no codec extension
— logged dev_is_13=true features_ok=true decode_family=true next to the word
"unavailable" and named nothing actionable. It now prints all five, plus which
base extensions are missing, which codec extensions are present, the decode
family's own advertised codec operations, and the device name and vendor. It also
no longer says "VAAPI/software" on Windows, where the rung below is D3D11VA.
The native-vulkan PIN refusal logged `video_decode` alone. On a device that
decodes something but not THIS codec, that reads as a contradiction: refused, yet
video_decode=true. It now carries the caps mask and the codec bit that was wanted,
so "your GPU can't" is distinguishable from "we asked for the wrong thing" — only
the second is our bug.
And `--probe-decode` is new: per-adapter Vulkan Video capability with no session,
no surface and no logical device. For each GPU it answers usable yes/no, the
driver's own decode ops, the extensions, and — when the answer is no — which
conjunct failed, in words. Separate from --list-adapters, which the desktop shells
parse line-by-line for their GPU picker and which therefore keeps printing bare
names.
The listing is ordered like pick_device (discrete first) and marks entry 0 as the
default presenter, because that ordering is very likely the reporter's actual
answer: pick_device ranks DISCRETE_GPU above INTEGRATED_GPU, Vulkan Video decodes
on the PRESENTER's device by design (that is what makes it zero-copy), and
PUNKTFUNK_DECODER does not move the presenter. So on a hybrid laptop, pinning the
decoder while the dGPU presents probes the wrong GPU entirely —
PUNKTFUNK_VK_DEVICE=<index> is the knob that moves it, and the index printed is
that value.
To keep the probe honest, VIDEO_BASE and VIDEO_CODECS moved to module scope and
the five-way AND became video_decode_gate(), called by both the probe and device
creation. A probe holding its own copy of the rule is one that eventually reports
a capability the session then refuses — which reads to everyone as a decoder bug
rather than a probe bug.
Gates: fmt clean; clippy -D warnings over punktfunk-client-session and
pf-presenter. The Linux container was unavailable (the host's disk filled and took
the docker daemon with it), so this ran on the macOS host target only — the
container leg is owed, and CI covers it on the PR.
Two gaps, both found on the shared Linux/Windows console UI.
**The settings tabs only moved for a gamepad.** They were bound to the shoulder
buttons and to PgUp/PgDn, and the legend spells PgUp/PgDn out only when NO pad is
attached — so with a controller plugged in a keyboard user had nothing to find,
and a mouse or a touchscreen could not change section at all.
The root cause was wider than the strip: `SkiaOverlay::handle_event` matched only
`KeyDown` and `TextInput`, so every mouse button, wheel and touch contact fell
past the console into the run loop, which routes pointer input exclusively at
`stream.capture` — `None` while you are browsing. Nothing in the console had ever
been clickable. Making just the pills answer would not have helped either: the
settings screen is opened with X from home, so a mouse could not reach it.
So the console gets a real pointer path:
- `Overlay::handle_pointer` carries mouse/touch in SWAPCHAIN PIXELS. The run loop
converts (it owns the window, hence the display scale, and mouse coordinates are
logical while fingers are normalised); the console then hit-tests the very rects
it drew last frame. Only DIRECT touch devices are offered — an indirect trackpad
already drives the mouse.
- Widgets act on the PRESS, not the release. The list and both carousels scroll the
focused item toward the centre, so what you pressed has slid out from under your
finger by the time it lifts; press-to-act has no such race and there is no drag
gesture to compete with.
- The hint bar became the pointer's button bar. It is already the console's only
on-screen statement of what the face buttons do, and a pointer has none — so its
Confirm/Back/Secondary/Tertiary pills are clickable on every screen, which is what
puts Settings and Library within reach of a mouse at all.
- Tab / Shift+Tab change section; PgUp/PgDn still do, and the keyboard legend now
reads "Tab".
- Right-click is Back everywhere, EXCEPT at the root: B there quits the launcher and
a right-click is far easier to fire by accident. Quitting stays explicit.
**Host cards had no menu.** Every other client hangs Wake / Copy link / Edit /
Forget off a host card; the console could add a host and connect to one, and that
was all — so a renamed machine or a fat-fingered address stayed wrong forever
unless you opened a desktop shell. UP on a saved tile now opens that host's menu,
the same gesture the Android console uses, on the one direction a horizontal
carousel leaves free.
- `ConsoleCmd::UpdateHost` edits the stored host IN PLACE. Removing and re-adding
would silently drop the fingerprint, the learned MAC, the pinned cards and the
profile binding — that is a rename, not a re-pair.
- `ConsoleCmd::ForgetHost` drops it; if it is still advertising it returns as a
discovered, unpaired row, which is the honest state.
- Forget arms on the first press and fires on the second. The other clients forget
outright; a console is driven by a thumbstick from across a room.
- A pinned profile card offers only Unpin. It is a shortcut, not a second host, and
offering to forget the host from it would blur exactly the distinction a pin draws.
- "Edit…" REPLACES the menu on the stack rather than stacking over it, so Back from
the editor doesn't land on a menu describing the host as it was before the edit.
Verified in the pf-lxcheck2 container (this crate compiles to nothing on macOS —
a bare `cargo check` there is vacuous): plain build and `clippy --all-targets`
clean under `-D warnings`, 72 tests pass. Seven are new, and cover the reported
bug directly — a press on a pill selects that tab, and each tab still keeps its
own cursor when a pointer is what switched it.
Opt-in "Gyro from this phone" (gyro_on_phone, off by default): this
device's IMU sources wire pad 0's motion while that pad is a controller
with no motion source of its own. On Android that gate is exact — the only
pads that forward motion are the capture links (USB DualSense / SC2,
claimed as ExternalPads), so the mirror stands down per sample whenever
GamepadRouter.padHasOwnMotion(0) says a capture link holds the index, and
sends nothing while pad 0 has no slot at all (motion never creates a host
pad). "Rumble on this phone"'s sibling, data flowing the other way: same
read-once-at-attach settings plumbing, same hardware-gated rows in the
touch and controller settings (a TV box has no gyroscope to mirror from).
DeviceGyro registers TYPE_GYROSCOPE + TYPE_ACCELEROMETER at ~200 Hz on a
dedicated HandlerThread with batching disabled (maxReportLatencyUs = 0 —
batching is poison for gyro aim), converts with the wire contract shared
with pf-client-core (rad/s → 20 LSB/°·s, m/s² → g → 10000 LSB/g; Android's
accelerometer already reads specific force, the DualSense report's own
convention), and rotates each sample from the natural-portrait sensor
frame into the controller frame by display rotation — a phone clipped
landscape yaws when the player yaws instead of rolling. The remap matrix
and unit constants are pinned by DeviceGyroTest.
A stand-down edge (capture link claims pad 0, or session teardown) sends
one zero-gyro sample so the host's virtual pad never keeps integrating an
angular velocity this device stopped producing — the gyro sweep's
stale-rotation latch, avoided by construction here.
Opt-in "Gyro from this device" (DefaultsKey.gyroFromDevice, off by default,
iOS only): while player 1's forwarded controller reports no rotation rate of
its own — no GCMotion, or the gravity-only motion an Xbox pad exposes — this
device's IMU sources pad 0's wire motion instead. The rumble-on-device
mirror's sibling, data flowing the other way: same session-scoped
UserDefaults read, same hardware-gated settings rows, same pad-0 rule.
DeviceGyro wraps CMDeviceMotion at the ~100 Hz CoreMotion ceiling on a
dedicated serial queue (not main — the controller path's main-queue delivery
is a known jitter source), converts with the shared GamepadWire constants,
and rotates each sample from the device's portrait frame into the controller
frame by interface orientation, so a phone clipped landscape yaws when the
player yaws instead of rolling. The remap matrix is derived and pinned by
DeviceGyroRemapTests.
GamepadCapture owns engage/stand-down (reconcile, suspend/resume, stop), and
suppresses pad 0's controller-motion forwarding while the mirror runs — two
writers on one pad's motion state would fight, and the accel-only stream
would stomp the mirror's gyro with zeros.
Also fixes the stale-motion latch from the gyro sweep on the controller
path: flush now parks motion at zero (keeping the last accel, so gravity
doesn't become free-fall), and the mirror's stop sends the same closing
zero. The host holds motion as state and re-emits it — a nonzero angular
velocity left behind read as endless rotation for as long as an overlay
(Control Center pull-down) kept the app inactive.
main moved 93 commits while this branch ran. Two conflicts, both where main's new
work sat next to M10's excision:
packaging/flatpak/io.unom.Punktfunk.yml — main added the vendored gamescope WSI
layer (the only route to HDR on a Deck) and, before it, a vulkan-headers module.
Took both: this branch predates them and deletes neither. But the headers module's
stated consumer was pf-ffvk's bindgen over FFmpeg's hwcontext_vulkan.h, and M10
deleted pf-ffvk — so it now reads as dead weight to the next person. It is not:
the WSI layer IS a Vulkan layer, compiles against those headers, and builds after
it, so module order is the dependency. Rewrote the rationale to say so, including
why dropping it would be expensive to discover — flatpak.yml has no pull_request:
trigger, so a manifest break reaches main invisibly and a tag then ships no Linux
flatpak. Also recorded that the native decoder needs nothing from there: pf-vkdecode
reaches Vulkan through ash, which is pure Rust bindings, no bindgen, no C headers.
crates/pf-console-ui/src/screens/settings.rs — main restructured the gamepad
settings into TABS, which removed the per-row section headers; this branch had left
Some("Video") untouched from the merge base and added the pre-M10 decoder migration
next to it. Git could not tell those apart. Took main's structure (no header, its
deliberate change) with this branch's migration layered on: a stored `vulkan`,
`vaapi` or `d3d11va` names no preset in the tabbed list and would render as "—",
then silently rewrite the user's preference on the next save.
Gates on the merged tree, Linux container: fmt clean; cargo check --workspace
--all-targets clean; clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings clean; tests
green across pf-vkdecode (187), pf-client-core (163), pf-console-ui (58) and
punktfunk-host (447 of 448 — the one failure is the pre-existing
gamestream::stream::tests::sender_delivers_batches, a UDP-loopback EINTR under
qemu that fails identically on a pristine HEAD).
The shared JitterPolicy grew an adaptive target floor — clustered genuine
underruns raise the live target a step at a time up to max_target_ms, a long
quiet spell relaxes it back — and the three Rust rings all run it via
note_read. The Apple ring is the one hand-written mirror, and it mirrored the
shed half but not the growth half: its target was pinned at the 20 ms base
forever. On Wi-Fi that bunches arrivals (power-save is the classic; the field
MacBook report is the symptom), 20 ms is regularly shorter than one delivery
stall, so the ring re-primed through every stall for the whole session —
crackle that never got better, on exactly the client where a Moonlight with a
deeper buffer sounds fine on the same host and network.
The ring now carries the full mirror of note_read: 3 underruns inside a 5 s
window grow the target 10 ms (capped at COREAUDIO's 70), 30 s of quiet gives a
step back, and the write-side hard trim follows the grown target (including
the Rust policy's target+quantum guard, which the mirror also lacked). New
tests pin the mirror to the Rust suite's expectations — growth, relax, the
cap — plus the field scenario end to end: bunched 60 ms deliveries with every
fourth burst 30 ms late converge to a silence-free tail instead of crackling
forever.
cargo tree -p punktfunk-client-session finds no ffmpeg. The host still does,
which is the whole point: pf-encode keeps libavcodec unconditionally and no
host workflow, packaging script or licence file was touched.
Deleted: crates/pf-ffvk, video_vulkan.rs, video_vaapi.rs, video_libav.rs, the
libavcodec half of video_d3d11.rs, the av_log machinery, ffmpeg::codec::Id as
the decoder's vocabulary (the quic CODEC_* wire constants now serve, which is
why the evidence table was keyed on them), DecodedImage::VkFrame and ::Dmabuf,
the presenter's AVVkFrame lane, and the ffmpeg-fallback feature with
everything behind it. DrmFrameGuard collapses from an enum to a newtype, which
removes an unsafe impl Send. Roughly 25,000 lines.
Then the CI, packaging, licensing and docs work the plan's §6 lists: the
Windows workflows lose FFMPEG_DIR, PF_FFVK_VULKAN_INCLUDE and their PATH
prepend; the MSIX loses its DLL wildcard; the client .deb stops emitting libav
sonames on its own because depends come from dpkg-shlibdeps; arch, flatpak and
nix drop the dependency; and the README's "FFmpeg 7 or 8" contract narrows to
the host.
Three defects reached users' machines in the first cut, and none was in the
deletion itself.
All three desktop Settings UIs offer vulkan, vaapi and d3d11va as stored
decoder values, so those strings sit in shipped settings files today. Refusing
them by name — which is the correct rule for a stale pin — would have bricked
every upgraded client whose owner ever touched that dropdown. They now migrate
onto the native rung for the same hardware family, at decoder construction AND
at each dialog's lookup, because a legacy value that matches no preset
displays as "Automatic" and silently rewrites the user's preference on the
next save.
M9's evidence filter was deleted on the argument that with no libavcodec twin
below, barring an unproven rung removes hardware decode rather than moving
down one rung. That is true on Windows and false on Linux for Intel and every
unknown vendor id, where prefer_vulkan_first is false and the order is
native-vaapi → native-vk: a rung that has decoded nothing anywhere sitting
above one that is 250/250 on three drivers. Every Intel Linux desktop would
have moved from libavcodec VAAPI, shipping for years, onto pf-vaadec by
default — and a rung that constructs and then produces wrong pixels leaves
only by the error-streak demotion, which this codebase already documents as
not tripping on the B580's strobing. The filter is restored as a narrow, pure,
testable rule: an unproven rung yields to a proven one, and to nothing else.
Windows deliberately passes no rung below, because that vendor family is the
one with a measured wrong-pixel report against Vulkan decode, and trading no
evidence for evidence of corruption is the wrong direction.
And the notices still said FFmpeg was bundled. The root file is what both
desktop clients include_str! and what the MSIX ships, three lines under the
new card saying no FFmpeg is bundled; Apple's Acknowledgements said it too, on
iOS, tvOS and macOS. The generator now emits four per-client files scoped by
transitive closure — 0 FFmpeg mentions in each, verified — while the root file
keeps it for the host. That also ends the standing false attribution of
ffmpeg-next, GTK4, windows-rs and the NVENC SDK to an iPhone.
Windows has no reachable box, so it was compiled instead: a cross clippy at
-D warnings on x86_64 and aarch64-pc-windows-msvc with the C toolchain stubbed
so build scripts run without linking. That gate immediately caught an
include_str! path one directory too deep, which nothing else could have.
Gates: container clippy -D warnings, 160 tests, workspace check, both Windows
targets clean, client ffmpeg count 0 and host 2. The four decode crates are
untouched, so the hardware rungs' 250/250 stands.
⚠ Owed and unrun: no GPU has executed any of this milestone. M8's on-glass
software check, M7's D3D11 and VAAPI AV1 hardware legs, and M9's field bake
all still want hardware, and the bake window and criteria remain the user's.
`ffmpeg-fallback` on pf-client-core, default off on the crate. With it off the
libavcodec rungs are not compiled, pf-ffvk leaves the dependency graph, and no
ladder or demotion arm names them; with it on each sits exactly where it sits
today, directly below its native twin. That is the switch which makes M10 a
deletion rather than a redesign.
The bake window and the regression criteria are the user's, per the plan, and
nothing here claims the M9 gate is met.
The hard part was not the feature, it was honesty. Two of the four native
rungs have never decoded a frame on any hardware — native VAAPI at all, and
native D3D11VA's AV1 leg — and making those the default would assert evidence
that does not exist. So admission is per rung and per codec: a pair with
hardware evidence joins `auto` always; a pair without it joins only when
nothing proven is left below it (a build with no FFmpeg twin, where the
alternative is not a proven rung but the CPU) or when the user asks with
PUNKTFUNK_NATIVE_FIRST=1. Pins bypass it, so a lab run can still reach any
rung.
The shipping default therefore changes in exactly three ways, all
evidence-backed: AV1 `auto` takes native Vulkan (250/250 bit-identical on an
RTX 5070 Ti), Windows H.264/H.265 `auto` takes native D3D11VA above its FFmpeg
twin (parity on two GPUs plus a 30-minute soak), and a failing Vulkan rung on
Windows demotes to native D3D11VA first. Everything unproven is byte-for-byte
as it was.
The evidence state is written where it cannot rot: a table in video.rs's
module docs, the same facts in code as `native_evidence()`, a test asserting
them in both feature states, and a per-session log line carrying the rung, the
codec, whether hardware has verified that pair and the evidence string — at
WARN when it has not. A support engineer reading a log can now tell proven
from assumed without asking anyone.
Termination needed a new guarantee. With the FFmpeg twins gone, two native
rungs in opposite per-vendor orders could hand a session back and forth
forever, so a rung once entered is never re-entered and the walk is monotone
to software. The never-delivered fall-through still works: with the feature on
it is unchanged, and with it off it is redundant, because the next candidate
already IS the rung below.
⚠ ffmpeg-next remains a hard dependency of pf-client-core, deliberately. What
is left off-feature is three type-level residues — the codec-id vocabulary,
the AVVkFrame guard that is pf-presenter's public import, and a pixel-format
in one signature — every one of them an M10 §6 line item. Deleting them here
would mean deleting the presenter's FFmpeg lane, 55 call sites, in a milestone
whose gates cannot run a GPU. No libavcodec decoder is opened in a default
build.
⚠ video_d3d11.rs was gated item by item rather than wholesale, and nothing in
this tree compiles it — it needs a Windows check before anyone trusts it.
Gates: both feature states, container clippy -D warnings and 158/159 tests,
workspace check. The four decode crates are untouched, so the hardware rungs'
250/250 stands.
The ladder's last rung no longer runs FFmpeg. H.264 decodes through openh264,
AV1 through rav1d, and HEVC is refused outright: no permissively licensed
software HEVC decoder exists, so an HEVC session that exhausts its hardware
rungs now tears down and re-dials advertising HEVC-less caps, and the host
picks H.264. The plan calls that a first-class path; it is one.
swscale is deleted, and with it the BT.601 default that its correction code
existed to undo. Colour on the H.264 lane now comes from the same
pf-bitstream planner every hardware rung submits from — openh264 reports no
VUI at all — and AV1's comes per-picture from the sequence header. One colour
source, one CSC: the old default is unrepresentable rather than merely fixed.
Frames reach the presenter as three tightly-packed planes through the planar
CSC pass, which had to be un-gated from the pyrowave feature and its device
probe, since the last rung must exist on devices that failed that probe.
rav1d rather than the dav1d crate, deliberately and against the plan's
literal wording: dav1d-sys is system-deps-only, so it would add a system
library and a .pc file to every client package — in the milestone family
whose excision checklist exists to delete exactly that. rav1d is the same
decoder, same licence, statically linked. The cost is honest: no-asm builds
on both decoders, and software throughput is still unmeasured.
The colour test is the milestone's exit criterion, so it is built to fail.
Three fixtures, and a mutation check: hardcoding the swscale default turns the
red bar to [255,24,0], and swapping Cb/Cr turns red to blue — a silent error
no metadata assertion could catch. Review then disproved the range half of it
numerically: with eight saturated bars, decoding the full-range fixture with
the wrong range gives max error ZERO, because a mismatch only pushes values
outside [0,1] where the shader clamps. A mid-tone was added; the wrong range
now costs 11, well past the tolerance. The exit criterion I set was
satisfiable by a test that proved nothing.
Two blocking defects, both emergent rather than local.
Software AV1 on a 10-bit stream never reached its typed refusal: rav1d is
built 8-bit-only and returns ENOPROTOOPT, which the send loop turned into a
generic error, so the pump's typed downcast missed and every AU failed
identically — a permanent freeze on precisely the shipping case, since AV1 is
advertised only where hardware AV1 exists and hardware AV1 plus HDR is Main
10. The shape is now read from the sequence header before any byte reaches
the decoder, exactly as the H.264 leg reads the active SPS.
And the new Reconnecting phase was the first state that is not streaming, not
connecting, and still holding a live stream — which opened all three guards
that had made a second launch impossible. Pressing A assigned over `stream`
where every other site shuts down first, and StreamState has no Drop, so the
old pump was detached: a second live session still submitting to a Vulkan
device that gets destroyed underneath it. Nothing about the reconnect was
wrong in isolation; the defect lived between a new state and three guards
nobody re-examined. Start is now defensive and the retry raises the
connecting modal, so the UI matches the state and B can cancel.
Also closed: retry_caps was computed, tested and never applied, so a shape
refusal could end a session reporting no codec available while a working
retry existed; the retry inherited force_software sticky-true, landing an
HEVC→H.264 fallback on software H.264 with working hardware H.264; it
re-dialled with a stale mode; the CPU present arm had no survivable-failure
handling where the pyrowave arm — same pass — has it; HEVC is no longer
advertised when the decoder is pinned to software; and the software rung now
feeds the recovery-point SEI it already had in hand to the re-anchor gate.
⚠ Two host-side gaps found while tracing, neither in scope here: Hello::launch
is NOT idempotent (gog:/custom: targets spawn a second copy on a retry; the
field is kept verbatim because dropping it orphans the gamescope display whose
reuse key includes the command), and a reconnected session can never adopt a
game predating its own launch stamp, so it has no game-exit detection.
⚠ OWED: the on-glass software run. ~200 lines of new Vulkan on a path that
only runs because the GPU already failed, and no driver has seen it. The
review's minimum check is sync validation enabled, a non-multiple-of-16 mode,
a mid-session resize and demotion, and both colour matrices.
Gates: container clippy -D warnings over four crates, 236 tests, workspace
check. pf-vkdecode and pf-bitstream are byte-for-byte untouched, so the
hardware rungs' 250/250 stands.
"unom" alone is not the legal entity name. Updated the copyright line in
all nine first-party license files -- the root MIT/Apache pair and the
hand-maintained copies under clients/apple, clients/decky,
packaging/windows/drivers and packaging/windows/pf-vkhdr-layer (there is
no script that syncs these, so each is edited directly).
The Linux and Windows clients' About screens pick this up automatically:
both `include_str!` the root LICENSE-MIT / LICENSE-APACHE at compile time.
Deliberately untouched:
- Third-party license texts (Geist OFL, FFmpeg, VB-CABLE, the vendored
pyrowave/Granite tree, KDE protocol XMLs, the os-icon licenses) -- those
are other parties' copyrights.
- Publisher/author/maintainer metadata, which is identity rather than
license text and is reported separately for a decision.
The docs site's page title read "punktfunk docs". Fixed that and swept the
rest of the tree for the same defect, capitalizing the brand wherever it is
shown to a human and leaving it lowercase where it is a technical identifier
(CLI/package names, `punktfunk://` scheme, PnP enumerator, TLS SNI, logcat
tag, config paths, CMS tenant id).
User-visible fixes:
- docs-site: page title -> "Punktfunk Docs"; API reference title, meta
description and the branded bar's aria-label; the BrandMark/Wordmark SVG
accessible names (the web console already had these capitalized -- the
docs site had drifted from it).
- Android: six strings of live UI copy -- the local-network permission
dialog (x2), the connect-screen error banner, and the no-controller
explainer.
- Apple: the "No Hosts" empty-state text and the fallback display name for
a host that advertises no instance name.
- Windows client: the `--discover` progress line.
- KWin fake-input: the application name passed to `authenticate()` (the
grant is cached per-exe, so the string is display-only).
- THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES: fixed in both generators (about.hbs and
gen-third-party-notices.py) and applied to the three checked-in outputs
so they match what a regeneration now produces.
Every changed line differs from the original only by letter case, so line
lengths are unchanged and no formatter width rule is affected.
`cargo fmt --all --check` passes.
Android was the one app that could open a punktfunk:// link but never hand
one out, so every Android link had to be typed by hand — and the host's
stable record id, which is the part that keeps a link working after the box
changes address, isn't shown anywhere in the UI to type.
Both homes now offer Copy link: the touch grid's card overflow menu, and the
controller home's host options (Up on a tile). A pinned card copies its own
profile with it, matching Linux and Apple; a host card copies none and so
keeps honouring the host's binding, exactly like tapping it does.
The URL is the shared self-emitted form (DeepLinks.forHost), already covered
by the cross-language vector tests, so the three emitters stay in step.
Android 13+ draws its own clipboard confirmation and we add nothing on top of
it; below that we say so ourselves, as a toast in the console home, which
renders neither banner.
The native VAAPI decoder now runs end to end: pf-vaadec's plans go into
libva's buffers, the surface comes back as DRM-PRIME dmabufs, and the
presenter imports them exactly as it does the FFmpeg rung's. Pin-only —
`PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=native-vaapi` — for the reason M5's D3D11VA rung was:
`auto` admission is earned with hardware parity and a soak, and this rung
has decoded nothing yet.
libva is dlopen'd rather than linked, so the pf-lxcheck2 container compiles
and clippies the whole thing without libva-dev, and a machine without a
VAAPI runtime gets a clean refusal instead of a packaging dependency.
The surface pool is not the slot map. `SlotMap::assign` hands out the lowest
free slot, and a slot freed by an access unit's own removals is free by the
time that unit's picture takes it — measured at 225 of the vendored vector's
250 access units. A surface bound by slot index would therefore decode, on
nine frames in ten, into the surface still holding the picture on screen. So
`plan_to_va` now takes the decode target as a parameter, bound by the caller
at activation time the way pf-vkdecode binds a pool image, and a surface is
free only when no live picture is bound to it, no output is owed for it, and
no consumer holds it.
Measured rather than transcribed, as everywhere else here: layout-probe.c
grew the export descriptor (312 bytes, objects[4]/layers[4]), the buffer-type
enumerators — VASliceParameterBufferType is 4 and VASliceDataBufferType is 5,
not the 3 and 4 that counting off the header suggests — and the config,
attribute and generic-value layouts. All pinned as compile-time assertions,
which is how the 12-byte VAGenericValue in the first draft was caught: the C
union holds a pointer, so it is 8-aligned and 16 bytes.
The plane walk lives in pf-vaadec, pure and unit-tested on macOS, because it
is the one structure the DRIVER writes and we read: SEPARATE_LAYERS returns
NV12 as two layers, and taking layers[0] is the green screen this project has
already paid for. It also refuses what it cannot express rather than guessing
— a bogus object count, a plane naming an object that is not there, objects
disagreeing on tiling.
Own DecodedImage variant, same payload type. The physical hand-off is
identical to the FFmpeg rung's, so the presenter keeps ONE arm and one
demotion streak; the variant exists so the compiler asks which rung decoded
wherever that matters. Both D3D11VA rungs share a variant and `1573a987` had
to fix the consequence afterwards — a "native" soak that could silently have
been an FFmpeg soak. Here the four uncovered matches were compile errors.
Buffers are destroyed by us, not by vaEndPicture: va.h is explicit that the
user must call vaDestroyBuffer, and the libva 0.x behaviour is long gone.
Leaking two per picture at 60 fps exhausts the driver's store in minutes.
pf-vaadec's presenter headroom was 4, written against no consumer. The Vulkan
rung had already measured the client pipeline at four to seven held frames;
it is 8 now, pinned to that crate's constant so a re-measurement moves both.
Gates: macOS fmt/clippy/341 tests/cargo doc, and in the container clippy
-D warnings over six crates, 795 tests, workspace check.
Hardware legs are still owed — no AMD/Mesa or Intel box was reachable.
The first pass built each palette by rotating ONE colour field's hue, and it
showed: every option was a single tone at several brightnesses, which reads flat
next to any real gradient. A palette is now an ordered ramp of DISTINCT hues.
The 4×4 mesh samples that ramp along the diagonal with a fixed per-cell offset
table, so neighbouring cells land on different parts of it and the colours pool
and swirl instead of banding; the control points' existing drift then moves the
pools around. Violet keeps its explicit sixteen colours, so the default is
untouched.
Twelve of them now, dark first then pale: Violet, Nebula, Abyss, Ember, Moss,
Graphite, then Holo, Sunset, Bloom, Dawn, Mint, Opal. Holo and Sunset are
straight takes on the two reference gradients — foil and poster.
`every_palette_is_multi_tone` measures the hue spread across all sixteen cells
and fails under 45° (20° for Graphite and Opal, which are meant to be
restrained). It caught Ember at 35°, all reds and oranges — the very flatness
this rework exists to remove — and Graphite at 3° despite a comment claiming it
drifted cool to warm. Both were rebuilt until the numbers matched the prose.
The UI follows the palette now, rather than wearing brand violet over whatever
happens to be behind it. Each palette carries an accent and a light flag, and an
Ink derived from those (foreground, accent, on-accent, glass, scrim and its
strength) is published to the whole tree — a thread-local in the console, an
environment value on Apple, a CompositionLocal on Android. Pale palettes flip
the ink: dark text on white frost, with the materials, tray scrims and every
wash that sits under text following suit.
Three things only the renders could have told us:
- Additive blending blows out over a pale ground. Android's blobs and Apple's
legacy field composite with Plus/plusLighter, which over near-white
saturates every blob to white — Holo rendered as a grey wash. Pale palettes
blend normally.
- A white scrim at the dark field's strength BLEACHES the gradient. Mixing
toward black at 0.4 reads as depth; toward white at 0.4 destroys the chroma
it is drawn over. The scrim now carries a per-palette strength.
- White glass over a bright field has far less separating it from its backdrop
than dark glass over a dark one, and needed more body.
Verified: console build + clippy -D warnings + 173 tests, Apple build + 200
tests + an iOS-triple typecheck, Android compile + 62 tests, and eyeball passes
on real renders of both the vivid and the pale ends (console CPU rasters; a new
Roborazzi light-palette scene, which is what exposed the blend-mode bug).
Streaming a KDE desktop showed two cursors: the one the user was moving, and a
second one sitting underneath it that never moved. It was not KDE's — KWin 6.7.3
in cursor-as-metadata mode calls `setRenderCursor(false)` on every recorded buffer
and hands the cursor item to an exclusive `ItemTreeView`, so `shouldRenderItem()`
skips it and no pointer is ever painted into that stream. It was ours.
Both clients declared the render model as `captured && desktop`, so ANY released
pointer handed compositing back to the host. But releasing does not remove the
local cursor — it restores the ordinary window arrow over the video. The host then
blends its own pointer in underneath, and since a released client forwards no
motion, nothing drives it: it stays frozen wherever the host pointer was last left.
Caught live on the host with the render-model diag:
cursor diag: client_draws=false blended=true live=Some((-1, 622, true))
x = -1 — parked on the streamed output's left edge, unchanged sample after sample,
while the user moved their own cursor around freely. Engaging capture flipped it to
`client_draws=true blended=false` and the duplicate vanished, which is why it only
looked "stuck when not dragging": dragging means engaged, and engaged was the one
state that behaved.
The host may composite ONLY while the client holds a grabbed, hidden pointer — the
capture model, engaged — which is the single state with no local cursor on screen.
Released now counts as "the client draws it": the host stops compositing and keeps
forwarding shape/state over the channel (the forwarder ticks on this side of the
flip), so re-engaging is seamless and the client's cached shape stays warm.
`cargo clippy -p punktfunk-client-windows -- -D warnings` fails on main with the
pinned 1.96.0 toolchain: `ticks % 5 == 0` trips `manual_is_multiple_of`. Pre-existing
and not from this branch — found while gating the launcher work on .173, because
neither macOS nor Linux ever compiles this crate.
Clippy's own suggestion, applied verbatim.
The host has been able to describe a launcher entry since M2 — `role: "launcher"`,
the `steam_ui` and `launcher_ui` kinds — and the web console has grouped them into
their own rail since M4. No other client ever looked. `pf-client-core` decoded
`role` into an `is_launcher()` helper with zero call sites, and the shared console
model dropped the field entirely on its way to the renderer.
So a launcher tile arrived everywhere else as an ordinary game with no cover art:
indistinguishable from a title whose poster failed to load, sorted into the middle
of the alphabet, and captioned "Play".
One contract, implemented in each client's own idiom:
* launchers never interleave with titles — they lead, and each group keeps the
host's title order
* grid surfaces get a labelled section; a coverflow keeps its single carousel and
names the group the cursor is in, changing as it crosses the boundary. A second
focus rail would mean a new up/down nav model in three renderers for two or
three tiles
* an art-less launcher gets an accent face naming its launcher, not a title
monogram on the neutral one — "opens Steam", not "a cover that didn't load"
* anything that is not `"launcher"` is a game, and a host that omits the field
renders exactly as before (design D4's intended degradation)
* launching is unchanged: the client sends an id, the host resolves the recipe
The grouping is enforced once per client stack rather than per screen. In the
console UI it is an invariant of `LibraryShared::set_games`, so the cursor
arithmetic, the art pump and every future consumer inherit it; on Apple and Android
it is applied where the library is fetched/parsed.
Fixed in passing: the Apple and Android store badges were hard-coded
`isCustom ? "Custom" : "Steam"`, so every Lutris, GOG, Heroic, Epic and Xbox title
was labelled "Steam". Both now carry the same store table the Rust clients use.
The CLI's `--library` gains a fourth column (`game`/`launcher`), appended rather
than folded into an existing one so anything reading the first three is untouched.
Gates: punktfunk-host 436 passed / 0 failed and pf-console-ui 49 passed / 0 failed
on .21 (three new tests), workspace clippy -D warnings and cargo fmt --check clean
there; `swift build` of the full PunktfunkClient and `:app:compileDebugKotlin` clean
on macOS; `cargo check` + `clippy -D warnings` for the Windows client on .173.
Still unproven on hardware: no launcher tile has been clicked on a real host — that
needs the plugins published, which needs this branch's base merged first.
The stream watchdog polled a bare "has the session ended" boolean, so it
had exactly one thing it could say and said it every time: "Connection
lost — the host may be asleep. Wake it to reconnect." That ran when the
player quit their game, when an operator ended the session from the
console, and when they pressed Back themselves — telling them to go wake
a host that was never asleep.
It now reads the end reason. Only a connection that actually died gets
that line, a host-side failure gets its own, and the three deliberate
endings say nothing at all: leaving the stream is already the feedback,
and a toast on top of it is just noise.
A game launched from a library also returns to that library instead of
host selection, which needs the intent hoisted out of the console shell:
the stream replaces that shell in the composition, discarding the
`remember`s holding its screen and host, so by the time the session ends
there is nothing left to navigate back with. The parent holds it across
the gap and the shell consumes it on the way in. The touch UI has no
library — only the console shell does — so there it is the toast fix
alone.
The desktop clients turned every host-side close into "Host ended the
session", and a reason string means "abnormal" to everything downstream:
the GTK and Windows shells raised a banner, the console overlay drew a
status strip. Quitting a game you launched yourself produced all of
that. Now only a host error or a lost connection carries a message; the
deliberate endings return the silence those shells already give a clean
exit, which is also what puts the console back in its library with
nothing in the way.
The Apple client gains the same distinction. It had one line for every
ending — "Session ended by <host>." — which is fine for an operator
stopping the session and wrong for a link that died, so each now says
what happened. A game exiting stays silent and returns to the library it
was launched from.
Both read the reason while the connection is still up, because tearing
it down is what makes it unreadable, and both fall back to their previous
wording when there is no verdict — an older core, or a close that raced
the read — rather than inventing a new one for a case they cannot see.
Quit a game you launched from a host's library and the stream ended with
"Session ended by <host>." on the host-selection screen — an error
report for something you had just done on purpose, and several taps away
from starting the next title.
The host has always said what happened: it closes the connection with
APP_EXITED when the game it launched for a session exits, and that
code's own documentation describes this feature. Nothing ever read it —
a search across every client found zero consumers. (It also could not
reach anyone until the previous commit, since the close only happens
once the lease declares the game gone.)
The core now records the reason as it observes the close, latched before
the shutdown flag because different threads watch the two, and exposes
it as punktfunk_connection_game_exited. Purely additive: a client that
never asks behaves exactly as before, the host sends identical bytes,
and the wire version is untouched — ABI 17.
The Apple client asks while the connection is still up, then treats a
game exit as the normal finish it is: no error banner, and if the
session began as a library launch it reopens that library so the next
title is one tap away. Any other ending — a stop, the host going away,
network loss — is unchanged. The other clients keep their existing
end-of-session behaviour; the call is there when they want it.
Pressing Escape mid-stream on an iPad handed the mouse back to iPadOS:
the captured cursor was swapped for the system one and the game stopped
receiving relative motion, so aiming died until you clicked back in.
Two previous attempts treated that release as unavoidable and built
recovery around it — a re-lock burst, then a click that re-asks. Both
came back from the field unchanged, because both fought the release
after it had already happened, inside the cooldown the platform applies
straight after its own "let me out" gesture.
The release was never unavoidable. This app had no UIKit key handling at
all: every key arrives on the GameController path, which is a parallel
HID feed that does not consume the UIKit event, and the only thing that
ever became first responder was the video view, and only to summon the
soft keyboard. So every hardware Escape reached UIKit unclaimed — and an
unclaimed key press is precisely what lets the system apply its own
default for that key. Apps that read a hardware keyboard the ordinary
way consume the event as a side effect and never see this.
So claim it. The stream controller becomes first responder while capture
is engaged and takes Escape in pressesBegan/pressesEnded, passing every
other press to super untouched. Escape still reaches the host on the
GameController path, so in-game menus open exactly as before; only the
system's own interpretation is suppressed. Scoped to captured input, so
Escape keeps dismissing sheets and leaving full screen whenever the
stream doesn't own the keyboard, and the deliberate ways out are
untouched — Cmd-Escape and Ctrl-Opt-Shift-Q are read off the same
GameController path and clear capture themselves.
The recovery path stays as a backstop and is retimed to match what was
measured: the old burst spent its entire budget within ~0.6 s of the
drop, i.e. wholly inside the cooldown, where the answer can only be no.
Retries now continue at 1.2 s and 2.4 s, and quietly — they don't hide
the cursor or mute pointer motion the way the burst does, so a longer
recovery costs nothing when it fails.