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feat: full-screen session menu with window switcher (Steam Shift+Tab style) - #120
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…iew) The Select + Y menu is the core of the app, so it gets the same language as the console interface. Look and motion - Acrylic glass (DesktopAcrylicBackdrop) with rounded corners (DWM), icon tiles like the console quick settings, a volume gauge, a filled main exit. - The panel slides up and fades in; the tiles come in 45 ms apart; closing fades and sinks it, then closes (by timer, so a stalled composition can never leave the window up). The sub-picker fades and rises in. All of it is skipped when Windows animations are off. - The focused tile outlines in white and grows, on the composition visual: once a tile's visual is used for the entrance, WinUI refuses UIElement.Scale / CenterPoint on it (that threw in the first build). - Move / confirm / back sounds; the arrows go through GamepadNavigator (aligned card, then the nearest), and the picker confines the focus to itself. Preview (this alpha) - The menu opens without a session (shortcut, tray, consolemode://menu) on the game screen if it is on, else the primary one, with a "Preview" badge. FPS (needs a restore afterwards) is hidden, "Back to the PC" becomes "Close menu" and Exit only exits the app: nothing tries to restore a session that does not exist. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
A new "Windows" tile in the session menu opens a strip with one card per open window, front to back, each with the program's icon, its name and the title. The D-pad picks, A brings the window to the front, X (Square on PlayStation) or Delete asks it to close, B goes back. It opens on the second card like Alt + Tab, since the first is the window that was in front. - AltTabRules (pure, tested) holds the listing rules Windows applies to its own Alt + Tab: visible, not cloaked, titled, not a tool window or an owned dialog unless it says it is an app window, not the shell, not our own menu. - WindowSwitcher lists, activates (restoring a minimized window, without leaving it topmost) and closes (WM_CLOSE, so a window that asks to save keeps its card). Icons load after the cards show, through the shell thumbnail; protected app folders keep the generic icon. - Switching does not end a session: the engine decides that by whether Big Picture / Playnite is still visible, not by focus. - The veils of the picker and the switcher are nearly opaque so the tiles do not ghost through the lists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
…erlay The session menu was a fixed-size panel in the middle of the game screen, so on a big display it looked small. It now covers the whole screen, like Steam's overlay: the game dims and blurs behind it, the options sit in a glass side panel and the open windows fill the middle. - WindowPlacement.FillScreen puts the borderless, topmost window over the whole monitor (the game screen in a session, the primary one in the preview). - Side panel (left): back to the game, volume with a gauge, resolution, audio, FPS, HDR, the coming-soon recording row, then the two ways out, the main one filled. Rows grow 2.5% when focused; the window cards 6%. - The open windows are always on screen (the "Windows" tile and the separate strip are gone): the in-menu Alt + Tab is a grid with one card per window. The D-pad moves between the panel and the grid, A brings a window to the front, X / Delete closes it, B goes back to the game. - GamepadNavigator.NearestOnSides lets left/right jump to the nearest control when nothing shares the row: the panel and the grid are side by side and never do. - Entrance: the header drops in, the panel slides in from the left with its rows one after another, then the windows and the hints; closing fades and sinks it. All skipped when Windows animations are off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
…, controller flow Reviewed with the ui-ux-pro-max (WinUI 3 stack) and hallmark (audit) design skills, kept out of the repo (installed under .claude/skills, git-excluded). Look - The light 3 px frame around the full-screen menu was the classic window frame: WinUI's SetBorderAndTitleBar(false, false) leaves WS_DLGFRAME and WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE on, which also shrank the client area (1914x1074 in 1920x1080). WindowChrome.Strip removes them; the toast uses it too. - Glass (DesktopAcrylicBackdrop) only when Windows' transparency effects are on, re-applied live on UISettings.ColorValuesChanged; otherwise a solid dark panel with the same contrast. - One selection marker: a 2 px ring on the edge of the row or card (it sat 5 px out with a gap of background before), no hairline on the rows or the panel (a bordered container holding bordered cards), rows stay still, cards grow 4%. - Colours are named tokens with a high-contrast variant instead of ~30 inline hex values; labels 14 -> 16 px and hints 15 -> 17 px for a couch. Controller - Left from the grid returns to the panel row you came from; up/down stay inside the panel or the grid, so the end of a list is an end (no jump to the other side or to the card beside it: GamepadNavigator.ReadingOrderFallback). - The picker gives the focus back to the row that opened it; closing a window card moves the focus to the next card. Robustness - A menu that fails to build is logged and dropped instead of crashing the app (a bad resource lookup had taken the process down with a stowed exception). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
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The preview can leak HDR restore bookkeeping into the next session, and a failed window activation still dismisses the switcher.
Reviewed changes This review covers the full-screen session menu, preview/session behavior, window switcher, and controller navigation.
- Session menu redesign Replaces the compact overlay with a full-screen, themed and animated menu, including selection and picker focus handling.
- Window switcher Adds native window enumeration, activation and close actions with an always-visible card grid.
- Preview and input behavior Opens the menu outside a session and updates menu actions, display/audio/HDR handling, and directional navigation.
- Localization and verification Adds all three translation catalogs, manual test steps, and pure window-filtering tests.
Note: 1 inline comment(s) dropped because they did not anchor to lines inside the PR diff:
src/ConsoleMode/ViewModels/MainViewModel.SessionMenu.cs:296(RIGHT) — line 296 (RIGHT) is not inside a diff hunk
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Reviewed changes This incremental review covers the window-activation failure fix and its documentation.
- Kept the menu available after activation failure Changed the switcher to close only when Windows reports successful activation, preserving the retry path.
- Added failure-case coverage guidance Documented manual checks for stale windows and Windows foreground-activation denial, and recorded the fix in both changelogs.
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Stacked on #117. Redesigned session menu: full-screen, Steam Shift+Tab style, in-menu Alt+Tab window grid, previewable outside a session, no window frame, Windows glass when transparency effects are on, selection ring and controller-flow fixes.
Build left to CI (Windows only); unit tests pass locally. Manual checks are in docs/TESTING.md.
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