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enricobuehler be09f9f345 feat(session): console game library — Skia coverflow + SkSL aurora, --browse (phase 4b)
The run loop grows a browse mode: the console library idles between
streams in ONE window (no gamescope handoff), overlay actions launch
sessions via run_browse's callback, session end returns to the library.
The Overlay contract gains menu routing (MenuEvent → haptic pulse),
action draining, and session-phase edges.

pf-console-ui ports the GTK launcher wholesale: the coverflow's springs,
cursor arithmetic and recede/tilt constants move verbatim with their
tests (plus new projection tests — focused-card centering, the inner-
edge-recedes corridor); paint order is draw order (the gtk::Fixed
restack hack is gone); the aurora renders as an SkSL runtime shader at
full rate on every box (the 30 Hz CPU-upscale path and its frozen-on-
Deck fallback are deleted — the generated SkSL is compile-tested);
titles/scenes shape through textlayout (CJK-safe). Poster art streams
in as encoded bytes through the shared model and decodes renderer-side.

The session binary wires --browse host[:port] [--mgmt PORT]: KnownHosts
lookup (unpaired renders the pair-first scene), library + art fetch on
threads, PUNKTFUNK_FAKE_LIBRARY dev hook, and a session_params helper
shared with --connect. The minimal build refuses --browse cleanly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 23:13:16 +02:00

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punktfunk-session

The Vulkan session binary: one stream per invocation in an SDL3 window — no UI toolkit, no widgets, terminal stats. The power-user / gamescope stream client, and the stage-2 presenter of the Linux client re-architecture (punktfunk-planning: linux-client-rearchitecture.md).

punktfunk-session --connect host[:port] [--fp HEX] [--launch id] [--fullscreen] [--stats]
punktfunk-session --browse host[:port] [--mgmt PORT] [--fullscreen]

--browse opens the console game library (the Skia coverflow over the animated aurora) instead of connecting: A launches the focused title as a stream in the same window, session end returns to the library, B quits (Gaming Mode returns). Paired hosts only — pairing is the desktop client / Decky plugin's job. PUNKTFUNK_FAKE_LIBRARY=<file.json> feeds canned entries with no host (portrait paths starting with / load from disk).

Reads the same identity / known-hosts / settings stores as the desktop client (punktfunk-client) — pair there (or via its headless --pair) first; this binary never connects to a host it has no pinned fingerprint for (--fp HEX overrides the store).

Stdout is the machine interface: {"ready":true} after the first presented frame, stats: … once per second (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S toggles, --stats forces on), one {"error"|"ended": …} JSON line on the way out. Logs go to stderr. Exit codes: 0 clean end, 2 connect failed, 3 trust rejected / pairing required, 4 presenter init failed.

In-stream keys match the desktop client: click captures input (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q releases), Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D disconnects, F11 toggles fullscreen; the controller escape chord (L1+R1+Start+Select, hold to disconnect) works the same.

The default build carries the Skia console UI (ui feature): the stats OSD and capture hint render in-window (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S toggles both the OSD and the stdout mirror). --no-default-features is the ~5 MB power-user build — same streaming, stats on stdout only, no Skia anywhere in the dependency tree.

Decode follows the Settings preference: VAAPI frames import zero-copy into Vulkan (per-plane dmabuf + the stream's CICP-driven CSC shader); boxes whose driver can't import (NVIDIA proprietary by design) fall back to software decode automatically. Debug/bisect knobs: PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=software|vaapi, PUNKTFUNK_PRESENT_MODE= mailbox|immediate (default FIFO), PUNKTFUNK_VK_DEVICE=<index> (multi-GPU), and PUNKTFUNK_HW_FAULT=import (fault every dmabuf import — proves the three-strike demotion to software on healthy hardware). HDR/P010 and the Skia console UI (--browse) are later phases of the plan.