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Deckback v0.0.7

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@Properrr Properrr released this 24 Jul 00:21

Added

  • Closed captions on the View (⧉) button. Press View during a video to turn subtitles on or off.
    The new Settings ▸ Captions section lets you list the languages you prefer, in order, and
    choose whether to favour human-written or auto-generated tracks — Deckback then picks the best
    match for each video, and translates when your language isn't offered.
  • Exit without leaving the app. Open the menu and hold Y to quit, from any tab and wherever
    the highlight happens to be. Deckback pauses and saves your place first, so the next launch picks
    up where you stopped. (Holding STEAM + B still force-quits, but that skips the save.)
  • The Settings menu now opens while a video is playing. The Menu (☰) button previously did
    nothing on the watch screen.
  • One-line install. Deckback can now be installed with a single command in Desktop Mode — see
    the README.
  • One-step uninstall. A single script removes Deckback along with everything it put on the
    system: both helper services and the Steam library shortcut. Your YouTube sign-in is kept unless
    you ask for a full wipe.

Fixed

  • The screen no longer dims, and the Deck no longer suspends, in the middle of a video. The
    helper that keeps the screen awake could quietly disable itself while Deckback was being updated,
    and then stay off — with nothing on screen to say so. It now waits much longer before deciding
    Deckback is really gone, and its own cleanup can no longer be interrupted half-finished. If the
    helper is not running, Deckback now tells you the first time you play something instead of
    leaving you to guess.
  • Long on-screen messages are no longer cut off. Notices wider than the screen were clipped at
    both edges, with no "…" to show anything was missing. They now wrap.
  • Updates keep working after the Deck sleeps. The update check could go silently inert after a
    suspend/resume and never recover until the app was restarted.

Changed

  • The audio and keep-awake helpers now remove themselves when you uninstall Deckback, instead of
    staying enabled on the system afterwards.