diff --git a/modules/firefox.nix b/modules/firefox.nix
index 77bb480..d615a0a 100644
--- a/modules/firefox.nix
+++ b/modules/firefox.nix
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ let
 in {
   options.steamFrame.firefox = {
     enable = lib.mkEnableOption ''
-      the Firefox Flatpak (org.mozilla.firefox) launcher with Steam Frame fixes
-    '';
+      the Firefox Flatpak (org.mozilla.firefox) launcher with Steam Frame fixes'';
     vrFullscreenFix = lib.mkOption {
       type = lib.types.bool;
       default = true;
diff --git a/modules/frame-controls/patch.js b/modules/frame-controls/patch.js
index 85a9ba5..0c43df5 100644
--- a/modules/frame-controls/patch.js
+++ b/modules/frame-controls/patch.js
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 // frame-controls: move the control icons under SteamVR dashboard windows
 // between the window's bottom bar and its More Options (three-dot) menu.
 // A long press on a bar icon or a menu row (opts.longPressMs; a ring around
-// the icon fills up once half a second .. a second has passed) opens a small
-// popup with a "Show in bar" checkbox; toggling it moves that control for all
+// the icon shows the progress from half that time, at most after 1 s) opens a
+// small popup with a "Show in bar" checkbox; toggling it moves that control for all
 // windows. Short presses stay stock. The three-dot button itself can't be
 // moved (stock shows it while its menu has entries). opts.floatInTheater
 // gives theater windows the "Float" control back.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 // dashboard (no right-click; the thumbstick click arrives as nothing), so a
 // long press is the trigger. Nothing is stopped or restyled while holding;
 // the timer keeps running when the laser moves or leaves the control and is
-// cancelled only by an early release. When it completes, the popup opens and
+// cancelled by an early release (or a curvature drag, below). When it completes, the popup opens and
 // the one click that follows the release on that control is swallowed, so
 // its stock action doesn't run.
 // window-curvature (its controls own press-and-drag) contract: its elements
diff --git a/modules/hidden-apps.nix b/modules/hidden-apps.nix
index 00696b9..ede25af 100644
--- a/modules/hidden-apps.nix
+++ b/modules/hidden-apps.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Hide system apps from menus, including the Steam session's "+" menu (with
-# Developer Mode on it lists every desktop entry GLib would show). A user
+# Developer Mode on, or launcherMenu.showAllApps, it lists every desktop entry
+# GLib would show). A user
 # entry with Hidden=true in ~/.local/share/applications masks the one in
 # /usr/share/applications. Also hides them from the nested desktop's KDE menu.
 { config, lib, ... }: {
diff --git a/modules/launcher-menu.nix b/modules/launcher-menu.nix
index cf916b8..d2916ea 100644
--- a/modules/launcher-menu.nix
+++ b/modules/launcher-menu.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,27 @@
 # The VR dashboard's "+" menu (non-Steam programs, #VRDashboard_LaunchNonSteamApp)
 # lists programs in the order SteamClient.Apps.ScanForInstalledNonSteamApps()
 # returns them: GLib hash-table order, effectively random, with "Desktop" (the
-# nested Plasma session) somewhere in a scrolling list. Two runtime patches of
-# Steam's UI (steam-ui-patches.nix, evaluated in SharedJSContext) fix that:
+# nested Plasma session) somewhere in a scrolling list. Runtime patches of
+# Steam's UI (steam-ui-patches.nix, evaluated in SharedJSContext), each
+# registered only when its option is set:
 # - order/: wraps ScanForInstalledNonSteamApps to sort the list by name;
 # - pinned-desktop/: hides Desktop in the scrolling list and pins a copy above
 #   or below it, with a separator; clicking the copy clicks the hidden
-#   original. The position is passed by calling the patch's function.
+#   original;
 # - launch/: wraps SteamClient.Apps.LaunchNonSteamApp (only called by this
 #   menu) to close the menu right after a program is started, and/or to
 #   ignore repeated launches of the same program within a few seconds (stock,
 #   the menu stays open until the program's window appears, inviting double
-#   launches). Options are passed by calling the patch's function.
+#   launches);
 # - grid/: restyles the programs section as a grid of tiles (icon, name
-#   below), optionally limited to maxRows visible rows.
-# All are reverted when turned off (next switch).
-# Depends on Steam UI internals (React props, popup names, the scroll fade's
-# classes and CSS), not on webpack module ids; scripts/check-signatures.mjs
-# checks them after a Steam update (lib/signatures.json). Tested with Steam
-# client 1790377368.
+#   below), optionally limited to maxRows visible rows;
+# - show-all/: empties the list of programs Steam hides without Developer
+#   Mode (the webpack module holding it is found by signature).
+# Options reach the patches through mkPatch's `opts`. All are reverted when
+# turned off (next switch). Besides that one module, they depend on Steam UI
+# internals such as React props, popup names and the scroll fade's classes
+# and CSS; scripts/check-signatures.mjs checks all of them after a Steam
+# update (lib/signatures.json). Tested with Steam client 1790377368.
 #
 # iconFallbacks is not a patch: Steam's scan of host programs resolves a
 # desktop entry's Icon= name only in the hicolor icon theme (and pixmaps),
@@ -91,8 +94,7 @@ in {
     grid = {
       enable = lib.mkEnableOption ''
         the "+" menu's programs as a grid of tiles (large icon, name below)
-        instead of a list. Runtime patch of Steam's UI (steamFrame.uiPatches)
-      '';
+        instead of a list. Runtime patch of Steam's UI (steamFrame.uiPatches)'';
       columns = lib.mkOption {
         type = lib.types.ints.between 1 8;
         default = 4;
diff --git a/modules/launcher-menu/pinned-desktop/patch.js b/modules/launcher-menu/pinned-desktop/patch.js
index 70cced3..f1a4220 100644
--- a/modules/launcher-menu/pinned-desktop/patch.js
+++ b/modules/launcher-menu/pinned-desktop/patch.js
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 // unpatch.js (or a new VERSION/position) calls __sfuiPinnedDesktop.stop(),
 // which removes the pinned blocks, CSS, markers, observers and the timer.
 ((find, sigs, opts) => {
-  const VERSION = 2;
+  const NAME = 'launcher-menu-pinned-desktop';
+  const VERSION = 3;
   const POS = opts.position === 'top' ? 'top' : 'bottom';
   const KEY = 'steamos-nested-desktop';
   const HIDDEN = 'data-sfui-desktop-hidden';
@@ -42,10 +43,10 @@
   const prev = window.__sfuiPinnedDesktop;
   if (prev?.version === VERSION && prev.position === POS) { prev.scan(); return 'unchanged'; }
   prev?.stop?.();
-  window.__sfuiDesktopFooter?.stop?.();          // predecessor of this patch
   if (!window.g_PopupManager) return 'g_PopupManager missing';
 
   const docs = new Map();                         // popup document -> MutationObserver
+  const guard = (f) => (...a) => { try { f(...a); } catch (e) { console.error(`sfui ${NAME}:`, e); } };
   // The stock Desktop item: role=button element whose fiber ancestors include
   // the list entry keyed by the program's exe path.
   const isDesktop = (el) => {
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@
       s.id = STYLE_ID; s.textContent = CSS;
       (d.head ?? d.documentElement).appendChild(s);
     }
-    const obs = new MutationObserver(() => { try { update(d); } catch (e) { console.error('sfui pinned-desktop:', e); } });
+    const obs = new MutationObserver(guard(() => update(d)));
     obs.observe(d.body, { childList: true, subtree: true, characterData: true });
     docs.set(d, obs);
     update(d);
@@ -136,10 +137,8 @@
 
   const scan = () => {
     for (const [d, obs] of docs) if (!d.defaultView || d.defaultView.closed) { obs.disconnect(); docs.delete(d); }
-    for (const p of g_PopupManager.GetPopups()) {
-      if (!/barpopup/.test(p.m_strName ?? '')) continue;
-      try { attach(p.window?.document); } catch (e) { console.error('sfui pinned-desktop:', e); }
-    }
+    for (const p of g_PopupManager.GetPopups())
+      if (/barpopup/.test(p.m_strName ?? '')) guard(() => attach(p.window?.document))();
   };
 
   const timer = setInterval(scan, 1000);
diff --git a/modules/steam-close-button.nix b/modules/steam-close-button.nix
index 95f9875..30d47dd 100644
--- a/modules/steam-close-button.nix
+++ b/modules/steam-close-button.nix
@@ -16,20 +16,15 @@ let
 in {
   imports = [ ./steam-ui-patches.nix ./steamvr-debugger.nix ];
 
-  options.steamFrame.dashboard.steamCloseButton.enable = lib.mkOption {
-    type = lib.types.bool;
-    default = false;
-    description = ''
-      Close (X) button on the SteamVR dashboard's main Steam window. It
-      docks the window back into the dashboard if it was placed in the world,
-      then switches to the most recently active other dashboard window, or,
-      with none, leaves the dashboard open with just its bar ("bar only";
-      kept when the dashboard is closed and reopened, until a window is
-      activated, e.g. with the Steam tab). Runtime patch of the SteamVR
-      dashboard (steamFrame.uiPatches), applied immediately; turning it off
-      removes the button (next switch).
-    '';
-  };
+  options.steamFrame.dashboard.steamCloseButton.enable = lib.mkEnableOption ''
+    a Close (X) button on the SteamVR dashboard's main Steam window. It
+    docks the window back into the dashboard if it was placed in the world,
+    then switches to the most recently active other dashboard window, or,
+    with none, leaves the dashboard open with just its bar ("bar only";
+    kept when the dashboard is closed and reopened, until a window is
+    activated, e.g. with the Steam tab). Runtime patch of the SteamVR
+    dashboard (steamFrame.uiPatches), applied immediately; turning it off
+    removes the button (next switch)'';
 
   config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
     steamFrame.uiPatches.patches = [ {
diff --git a/modules/steam-close-button/patch.js b/modules/steam-close-button/patch.js
index 4af7787..32cdb7c 100644
--- a/modules/steam-close-button/patch.js
+++ b/modules/steam-close-button/patch.js
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@
 //
 // State that must outlive this instance (bar-only flag, last open time,
 // pending Steam request, frame history, suppression log) is kept in
-// window.__sfuiSteamCloseState (schema 1, shared with the earlier personal
-// version 4 of this patch, whose instance is handed over seamlessly).
+// window.__sfuiSteamCloseState (schema 1), which upgrades take over.
 // Teardown (unpatch.js, a newer VERSION) only removes overrides, reactions
 // and markers: it never switches frames and leaves the state, so a
 // re-injection (service restart, switch) continues bar-only. It is in-page
diff --git a/modules/steam-keyboard-patch.nix b/modules/steam-keyboard-patch.nix
index 32b30fb..ec77a6e 100644
--- a/modules/steam-keyboard-patch.nix
+++ b/modules/steam-keyboard-patch.nix
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ in {
     separate arrow keys, real Ctrl/Alt chords (held while toggled, e.g. for
     Ctrl+scroll), and working AltGr/non-ASCII characters. Injected into Steam's
     UI through its CEF DevTools port by an xdotool helper service; disabling
-    it reverts the patch on the next switch
-  '';
+    it reverts the patch on the next switch'';
 
   config = lib.mkMerge [
   (lib.mkIf config.steamFrame.steamKeyboardPatch.enable {
diff --git a/modules/window-curvature/patch.js b/modules/window-curvature/patch.js
index 08926fe..7fb08e0 100644
--- a/modules/window-curvature/patch.js
+++ b/modules/window-curvature/patch.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // stock "Toggle Curvature" control becomes a wheel wherever it is shown: the
 // row of a window's More Options (three-dot) menu (with the value on the
 // right of the row) and, when the control sits in the window's bottom bar
-// (e.g. moved there by another patch), that bar button (no value shown:
+// (e.g. moved there by frame-controls), that bar button (no value shown:
 // the steps and snap points are felt as controller haptics). Click toggles
 // (curved -> flat, flat -> stock curve), dragging up/down with the laser sets
 // the curvature live.