Need description/clarification for the 2 "UI Companion" settings.

[bslenul]

Description

Hey! So with "Show Advanced Settings" ON, in the User Interface menu you get 2 UI Companion settings: "UI Companion" (OFF by default) and "Start UI Companion on Boot" (ON by default). But no matter if I toggle them it doesn't seem to change anything at all :x

I did some googling and from what I understand it's just another name for the Desktop Menu? But the Desktop Menu already has 2 similar options ("Desktop Menu" and "Open Desktop Menu on Startup") so that doesn't really make sense.

So, 2 questions:

• Could it be a mistake? Like idk, the options were renamed at some point and they were left in by mistake?
• If they're legit settings (I mean for devs or debugging purpose for example), could we get a small description, please? Or at least some clarification about what they do in the replies of this issue? :p

Expected behavior

Do something? Or if it's not something obvious for the user, having a description would be great.

Actual behavior

Doesn't seem to do anything, at least to regular user eyes.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Go to Settings > User Interface and enable "Show Advanced Settings".
2. Play with the "UI Companion" settings and restart RetroArch.
3. ???

Bisect Results

Looks like these 2 settings started to appear here: 1fe213de8c13a1cdbe714684f71b15742686133c

Version/Commit

• RetroArch: 1.8.9 / f35010e

Environment information

• OS: Windows 10 and Linux Mint.

[zoltanvb]

Old ticket, but quite valid. As it turns out, "companion driver" only exists on desktop Windows, MacOS, and iOS. Probably they mean a bit different things, I would have guessed that on Windows it refers to the small pulldown menu visible when RA is in windowed mode, but it does not seem to go away even when all related options are disabled.

[sonninnos]

That native menu is behind "Show Menu Bar" option under "Windowed Mode" settings, and works fine here.