Two problems, one feature. The gamepad/couch UI existed but you had to
already know it was there:
- On the hosts page its card only rendered when a controller was CONNECTED,
so with no pad plugged in there was no visible entry point at all -- the
only other door being a per-host overflow menu behind a "..." nobody
opens. The card now always shows, with copy that adapts to whether a pad
is present, so the feature is findable before you own the hardware.
- There was no way to start it directly. An HTPC or TV box wants the couch
interface as its first screen, not the desktop shell. "punktfunk-client
--console" now hands straight off to it (fullscreen unless --windowed),
which covers shortcuts, Steam entries, autostart and Task Scheduler.
The Start-menu tile needs its own executable: an MSIX <Application> cannot
pass arguments to a full-trust exe, so "punktfunk-client.exe --console" is
not expressible there. punktfunk-console.exe is a ~20-line hand-off to the
session binary's browse mode, staged into the package and given its own
tile ("Punktfunk Console").
Nothing new is implemented behind either door: a bare "--browse" was
already a complete standalone client (host list, discovery, PIN pairing,
settings, Wake-on-LAN, library). It just had no front door.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
