[Feature Request] Overlay: option to hide unused buttons
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Description
A functionality that I think would make RetroArch more friendly for mobile users is the option to hide unused buttons.
Basically, if the option is on, every button unassigned in the controls and the hotkeys menu will not appear in the overlay.
This would be useful because the default overlay has so many buttons (and the common users doesn't know how to change it), or to declutter it for games that only use some buttons without having to create a new overlay.
The option should be on by default for mobile users and off for the others (because if one uses this types of overlays on non mobile devices it's probably for testing).
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Research direction
Start by locating the overlay implementation and the controls and hotkeys configuration handling in RetroArch. Trace how assigned buttons are selected for display on mobile and non-mobile devices, then verify that unassigned buttons are hidden only when the option is enabled and that the platform-specific defaults match the request.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- frontend, mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100