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@codingncaffeine codingncaffeine released this 06 Jun 19:53
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v0.7.8
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A focused release: full in-game UI on X11 sessions, plus library polish.

What's New

  • Play touch-based DS games entirely on a controller. The right analog
    stick now moves an on-screen crosshair and taps with the right trigger —
    so games that require the touchscreen are fully playable from the couch.
    A bindable Touch button also appears under Preferences → Controls →
    Nintendo DS ("Touch Screen" section). Mouse taps keep working as before.
  • Full in-game experience on X11 — if your desktop runs X11 (XFCE, MATE,
    Cinnamon on Xorg, etc.), the game window previously showed just the game:
    no status bar, no hover controls, no settings menu. X11 now gets the
    complete in-game UI — the status line, the Power/Pause/Reset/Save/Record
    pill, the full cog menu, achievement toasts and indicators, pause effects —
    plus bezels and Vectrex screen overlays, and games now render at the
    correct display aspect ratio on X11 too. (Your window manager keeps its own
    title bar; shader presets and full-resolution screenshots remain
    Wayland-only for now.)
  • Sharper power button in the in-game controls — the new art is crisp at
    any size, where the old one rendered soft on large or high-scale displays.

What's Fixed

  • The "ghost card" is gone — after closing a game, the card you launched
    could linger over the next library you opened, following you across views
    until enough clicking dislodged it. Root-caused to a view-virtualization
    quirk (a keyboard-navigation bookmark pinned the old card's container) and
    fixed at the source — verified gone.
  • Far less console noise — a binding in the library card template
    produced tens of thousands of harmless-but-noisy errors per session while
    scrolling and switching views; it now resolves without the noise.
  • Controller bindings that can't be resolved are now reported in
    controller-diag.log instead of being silently ignored, making "this
    button does nothing" problems diagnosable.
  • Library hygiene on view switches — selection and focus are released
    when you switch libraries, so a card from the previous view can't hold
    state into the next one.
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