Field report: "as of version 0.23 of this plugin, there is no setting to
toggle off the stat overlay." Correct, and it never had one — no commit in
`clients/decky` has ever touched a stats key. Every other client does:
the GTK dialog, the Windows page, the Apple app, and the console's own
settings screen all carry the four-tier picker.
The tier defaults to on. `Settings::default` is `show_stats: true` and
`stats_verbosity: None`, which `Settings::stats_verbosity` resolves to
Normal — so a Deck that has only ever been configured through this panel
streams with the overlay up and no way here to put it down. What escapes
exist are not discoverable: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S wants a keyboard, and the
three-finger touchscreen tap is documented in `docs/stats`, not on the
glass. The console's picker is reachable (X on console home), but that is
a different shortcut than the one-tap stream this panel launches, and a
user editing stream settings here has no reason to look there.
So the row lands here, last in the section, matching the console's
wording. It writes `stats_verbosity` AND the legacy `show_stats` in the
same pairing `Settings::set_stats_verbosity` keeps, so a client too old
for the tiers still honours an Off chosen here; it reads them back the
way `Settings::stats_verbosity` does, so a pre-tier file — including
every file this plugin wrote before today — shows the Normal the stream
actually runs at.
`set_settings` stops replacing the file and merges onto it instead. This
JSON is shared with the desktop client and the console, and holds many
more keys than this panel models (decoder, GPU, profiles, touch/mouse
model). The panel reads it once when it mounts, so a wholesale write
posts a snapshot that predates anything another editor stored while it
sat open — silently reverting it. That was invisible until 0.23.0:
`9c5af8d7` fixed the GTK shell handing the session a spec built from
`Settings::default()`, and only since then does this file reach a stream
at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>