The console can switch itself off, and a TV remote can reach everything it offers #354

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enricobuehler	7af6c323d0	Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into worktree-console-ui-off-toggle ... # Conflicts: # docs-site/content/docs/client-settings.md	2026-08-20 09:13:10 +02:00
enricobuehler	76e6618b84	fix(console-ui): Settings and the library are reachable without face buttons, for a TV remote ... An Android TV's only input is its remote — a D-pad, OK and Back — and the console bound both Settings and the game library to face buttons that remote does not have. X opened Settings, Y opened the shelf, and neither event could be produced: the Kotlin bridge emits Move/Confirm/Back for a remote and nothing else, the carousel's only action tiles are Add Host and Rescan, and the hint chips that also carry those actions need a finger on a touchscreen. So on a TV the two were simply unreachable. This is the gap the deleted Compose home used to paper over with its own "no face buttons" mapping, and the same wall Apple hit on the Siri Remote. Down on the carousel now opens Settings — the other free direction beside up, which already opens the host menu. It is a second route on a pad and the only route on a remote, so the hint bar names the one the device in hand actually has: ▼ with no pad attached, X with one. That is the whole extent of the legend change; Y still opens the library and still says so. The shelf gains a Library row on the host's own options menu, which up reaches, offered on exactly the terms Y offers it (saved AND paired). It replaces the menu rather than stacking on it, so Back from the shelf lands on the carousel and not on a menu about the host just left. This is also the route `docs/game-library.md` has been describing all along — "open its options and choose Library" — which until now did not exist. ▼ is a new hint glyph: the ▲ triangle stood on its head rather than a second drawing routine, and pressable in the hint bar exactly as ▲ is.	2026-08-20 09:06:05 +02:00
enricobuehler	6007bc42cd	docs(client-settings): the console-off switch is in both places on Android, and neither row is offered on a TV ... The Interface section owned two facts this changes: which surfaces carry "Gamepad-optimized browsing" (the Android console home carries it now, so that home can be left from inside it) and what an Android TV sees — the mode row used to be described as present-but-inert there, and both rows are simply absent now.	2026-08-20 08:40:59 +02:00
enricobuehler	16d54b73a1	feat(console-ui): the console can switch itself off, where there is a touch UI to switch off to ... The Android console's settings screen had a picker for WHEN it fronts the app but no switch for WHETHER it does — that lived only in the touch settings, which a user already inside the console has no way to reach. The console UI became the only UI on Android, so the way back out was a setting you could only change from the thing you were trying to get to. Adds the "Controller-optimized UI" row over the same `gamepadUiEnabled` the touch switch writes, folded through `extra` under `android.gamepad_ui_enabled` like the other Android-only rows. Off returns to the touch home immediately: the console's save bumps the snapshot generation, the host emits its settings event, and Kotlin's `applySettings` now folds the flag back into the App state that `gamepadUiActive` reads. Shown only where "off" has somewhere to land. `ConsoleOptions.fallback_ui` (new, threaded to `Ctx` beside `deck`) is true only for the Android touch shell — false on a TV and for the desktop session, where this console IS the interface and an off switch would strand the user in nothing. The mode row follows the same rule and moves under it: it decides nothing on a TV (the tv term satisfies `gamepadUiActive`'s OR on its own) or while the switch is off, so it is hidden in both cases rather than offered as a control that changes nothing. Renamed to the touch screen's own word for it, "Show it" — "Controller UI" directly under "Controller-optimized UI" was two rows told apart by their tails.	2026-08-20 08:40:59 +02:00