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Universal input (mouse, touch, keyboard, gamepad) and responsive/universal-viewport layout in the RomM v2 frontend. Use when adding interactive v2 components, focus management, spatial navigation, gamepad/keyboard handling, modality-gated focus rings, breakpoints, or responsive layout. Covers useInput, focus geometry primitives, the overlay scope stack, useBreakpoint, and the data-bp/data-input attributes. Trigger on interactive or responsive work under frontend/src/v2/.

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RomM v2 — Universal Input & Universal Viewport

Premise: all v2 UI works with mouse, touch, keyboard, and gamepad; and every surface reads cleanly from a 320px phone to a 4K display. Both mechanisms are fixed — don't invent a parallel one.

The input system lives in src/v2/composables/useInput/ (bus, keyboard, gamepad, actions, scope). It generalises the original gamepad-only src/console/ system. There are no /console/* routes in v2.

Modality

useInputModality sets data-input="mouse|touch|key|pad" on <html> from the most recent input.

  • Focus rings appear only with key and pad (CSS in global.css). Never use bare :focus in styles — use the modality-gated selectors, or focus rings flash on mouse click.
  • Hit targets may scale up for touch and pad.

Coverage — every interactive primitive participates

Buttons, list items, tabs, menu items, focusable cards, toggleable chips — all participate in spatial navigation (not optional). A new interactive primitive must:

  • be focusable (proper tabindex, or already so via a wrapped Vuetify component);
  • react to logical actions (confirm/cancel) from useInput, in addition to native click;
  • show a modality-gated focus state.

Storybook play() covering gamepad input is required only when applicable (the primitive is interactive enough that gamepad navigation matters).

Focus geometry

Each view declares its layout with focus primitives: RFocusZone, RFocusGrid, RFocusRow, RFocusColumn. Multiple regions = multiple zones. Predictable up/down/left/right movement is the view's responsibility.

Element-level global shortcuts

Above per-view geometry, some elements bind globally regardless of focus location:

  • UserMenu opens on Start.
  • Navbar tabs cycle with LB/RB (plus D-pad).
  • Context menu opens on X or Y.

Scope (overlay stack)

When a dialog opens, push a scope; when it closes, pop. This stops Escape from closing two things at once and stops confirm leaking to controls beneath an overlay. RDialog and RMenu manage their scope automatically — custom overlays are an anti-pattern; go through the primitives.

Responsive layout (universal viewport)

  • Single breakpoint source: useBreakpoint (src/v2/composables/useBreakpoint/). Material thresholds — xs <600, sm 600–959, md 960–1279, lg 1280–1919, xl ≥1920. installBreakpointAttribute() (mounted once in AppLayout) mirrors the active set onto <html data-bp="…">.
  • Layout switches live in CSS via the attribute selector: html[data-bp~="xs"] .foo { … }, html[data-bp~="sm-and-down"] .foo { … }. No raw @media for layout — the only allowed @media are prefers-reduced-motion and print. The attribute is on <html> so it reaches teleported overlays.
  • Conditional rendering (mount/unmount a different component per tier) uses the useBreakpoint() refs in <script> — e.g. v-if="xs". Prefer mount-gating over display:none for focusable chrome so hidden controls never sit in the tab/spatial-nav order.
  • --r-row-pad is the global horizontal gutter, already re-scoped responsive in global.css (36 → 20 → 14px). Consume var(--r-row-pad); don't hard-code a smaller xs padding per component.
  • Touch targets ≥ --r-touch-target (44px) on xs/touch. Gate the bump to touch/pad where desktop sizing would bloat.
  • Overlays go full-bleed on xs. RDialog renders full-screen / bottom-sheet on phones (fullscreenOnMobile, default on); RMenu bottom-sheets large menus. Never float a 600px dialog on a 360px screen.
  • Label→icon collapse (the AppNav precedent) is the canonical way to compress chrome; the four primary destinations relocate to BottomNav on sm-and-down.
  • Grids size via useResponsiveColumns (ResizeObserver), never a fixed column count.

Verification adds a breakpoint sweep — see pre-pr-verification.