Update Decky Translator to 0.9.0

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Update Decky Translator to 0.9.0

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Offline translation

You can now translate your games fully offline! Previously on-device recognition already worked without internet, but the new offline translation option based on Meta's NLLB-200 model makes the stack fully complete.
One-time 1.4 GB model download is required, then it runs entirely on your Deck .

It handles all the languages at once, so no need to install many different packages for each language pair.

Chrome Screen AI - amazing on-device recognition accuracy

A new on-device text recognition option arrived, backed by Chromium "Screen-AI" library. It runs locally like RapidOCR, but provides much better and quicker results. It is now the default OCR option for the plugin

Gemini Vision is also available

It handles both recognition and translation in a single API call. It's not super fast, but handles heavily-stylized text better than the other ocr providers, and also requires API to be used

Custom fonts and overlay improvements

You can now pick what actually looks good for your game instead of seeing only the system default font:

• Many different fonts to select from (including Dyslexia-friendly)
• Text alignment (left, right, center, stretch)
• Font style (bold, italic)

And a few very nice overlay improvements:

• Smarter text region merging
• Labels grow and reposition based on alignment
• Translated text now redistributes itself to fit the overlay better

Non-SteamDeck handhelds support

Plugin now works with handhelds other than the Steam Deck thanks to InputPlumber support

Experimental support for Bazzite, Legion OS, etc

The plugin should now (theoretically) work on Bazzite and other non-SteamOS distros that previously had troubles with wrong Python versions. Now Python is bundled with the plugin again to prevent these issues

New languages added

• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Hungarian
• Swedish

Other improvements

On-demand model downloads

All offline models and engines can now be downloaded in plugin UI instead of being bundled into the dependencies archive

Speeding up on-device recognition and translation

All offline providers can now be kept in memory instead of cold-starting on every request - that approach speeds up the whole process quite a bit
Disabled by default - it eats a small chunk of RAM while enabled, so be aware of that

UI and UX

• New status element now shows you if your providers are ready or not
• Quality and Speed stars next to each provider description for clarity
• "Recommended" labels on OCR providers so that users don't have to guess

Other changes and bug fixes

• Screen capture now retries on broken frames instead of failing the translation
• Streaming warning added to the pause toggle, since pausing a stream is generally a bad idea
• API keys are now masked in the log file
• The game now pauses the moment you start a translation, not after the result comes back
• The activation progress text is not hardcoded anymore
• Plugin does not break input in Steam overlay sections (Media, Store, etc.) anymore
• Translation overlay was sometimes reappearing after being cancelled
• Recent SteamOS update broke some layout in the settings tabs
• RapidOCR availability check was spamming the log file

Task Checklist

Developer

• I am the original author or an authorized maintainer of this plugin.
• I have abided by the licenses of the libraries I am utilizing, including attaching license notices where appropriate.
• Generative AI was NOT used to write a majority of the code I am submitting.

Plugin

• I have verified that my plugin works properly on the Stable and Beta update channels of SteamOS.
• I have verified my plugin is unique or provides more/alternative functionality to a plugin already on the store.

Backend

• No: I am using a custom backend other than Python.
• Yes: I am using a tool or software from a 3rd party FOSS project that does not have it's dependencies statically linked.
• No: I am using a custom binary that has all of it's dependencies statically linked.

Community

• I have tested and left feedback on two other pull requests for new or updating plugins.
• I have commented links to my testing report in this PR.

Testing

• Tested by a third party on SteamOS Preview update channel.

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Testing Report

• Updated MagicPods to 2.0.15 #1037 (comment)

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Is it required for the plugin update to be tested by external testers before its code is reviewed by Decky team members?

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Is it required for the plugin update to be tested by external testers before its code is reviewed by Decky team members?

No, not really, we are just a small team and big changes might take more time to fully review :)