Game List and Gif ideas (ES)

paffley · 11 Apr 2018, 09:51

Hi @Zigurana have you had anymore thoughts on this marquee carousel? or had any time to look further into it? I know the grid view is being developed as we speak but its not the same thing.

TypePlus · 11 Apr 2018, 11:07

@paffley said in Game List and Gif ideas (ES):

My thoughts are just to use the md_marquee tag for the carousel, the user can then decide what to put in the marquee folder, wheelart, boxart, screenshot etc. This way it is a separate entity and everything can be kept 'as-is' without jeopardising anybody's current setup.

Hope this helps and makes sense.

Personal build...

Those are collections on the carousel wheel, I'm thinking maybe the vertical_wheel on the gamelist view could look very similar.

@paffley is this a working ES theme? You have demonstrated exactly what I would love to do - get the gamelist with a carousel and the marquee images. Could you pretty please let me know how you did it ? :)

A12C4 · 11 Apr 2018, 11:25

@lilbud said in Game List and Gif ideas (ES):

Here is what I was thinking

This would be a really nice use of a one line horizontal scrolling grid view :)

paffley · 4 Nov 2018, 15:07

@typeplus

Hi, Those are collections on the carousel wheel that are on the system view currently on my personal build. Currently you cannot set the marquee's to work the same way in the gamelist view.

paffley · 4 Nov 2018, 15:11

@a12c4 said in Game List and Gif ideas (ES):

@lilbud said in Game List and Gif ideas (ES):

Here is what I was thinking

This would be a really nice use of a one line horizontal scrolling grid view :)

I agree completely, that's the kind of thing I was asking you about in the other post regarding the grid view.

Where the current screenshot is on the image above, have the video tag there also.

lilbud · 11 Apr 2018, 14:42

@paffley that actually is a video, can't show it through an image though

A12C4 · 11 Apr 2018, 15:28

@lilbud Damn I thought it was just an ingame screenshot.

lilbud · 11 Apr 2018, 15:38

@a12c4

paffley · 4 Nov 2018, 21:59

@lilbud thats brill thanks! The vertical wheel with the video and box art beside it is exactly what I was talking about to be compatible with the grid view :)

EctoOne · 12 Apr 2018, 00:29

There is one thing I like on the wheel over the single line grid, it's that the selected game is always in the same place. With grid view, you move the selector.

TypePlus · 12 Apr 2018, 00:47

@lilbud that is awesome!

@paffley thanks for your reply mate.

A12C4 · 12 Apr 2018, 07:57

@ectoone I'm always up to negotiate.

How many mock up of cool looking grid view using this feature are you ready to pay to see it coming ?

paffley · 12 Apr 2018, 08:10

@ectoone said in Game List and Gif ideas (ES):

There is one thing I like on the wheel over the single line grid, it's that the selected game is always in the same place. With grid view, you move the selector.

Very well said @EctoOne , this was one of the reasons why I asked if the marquee/gamelistview carousel was going back into development as it differs slightly to the Grid View.

paffley · 12 Apr 2018, 08:11

@a12c4 said in Game List and Gif ideas (ES):

@ectoone I'm always up to negotiate.

How many mock up of cool looking grid view using this feature are you ready to pay to see it coming ?

I'll do a few over the weekend :)

lilbud · 12 Apr 2018, 11:30

@paffley same here

A12C4 · 12 Apr 2018, 12:00

@paffley @lilbud I'm waiting for them ahahaha ;)

Joke appart, I just wanted to make it clear for future requests about the grid.

I'm always up to discuss, but the grid code is already complex enough, so any further development must have some good motivation behind it.

Basically, when you request a new feature, I estimate the 2 following points :

How much complexity it add to the code
How many use case/how often this will be used, and how much it improve the quality of the grid overall

If the answer is low for the first and high for the second, I will add it. Otherwise, you have to prove me that I underestimated the second point.

A12C4 · 18 Apr 2018, 00:48

@paffley Thinking back of this, don't you also need a circular grid to do that ?

A one row, horizontal scrolling grid isn't enought. I guess you want that, when the last game is selected, the first game is displayed on its right.

EctoOne · 18 Apr 2018, 02:29

@a12c4 said in Game List and Gif ideas (ES):

@ectoone I'm always up to negotiate.

How many mock up of cool looking grid view using this feature are you ready to pay to see it coming ?

Here's one, because I had some time while I was trying to repair my new phone...

A12C4 · 18 Apr 2018, 11:32

@ectoone Where is the mock up ? You sent me a drawing made by your little sister instead.

A12C4 · 18 Apr 2018, 11:43

Joke appart, I didn't thought of that, I was thinking about locking the cursor in the center row, so it don't go to the left when the first tile is selected or to the right when the last tile is selected, like it do atm.

This is something else. I made the grid so its selector stay centered within the grid, so the user always see what is coming next. What you propose would make him scroll blindly to the left, even if he already got past this tiles, I don't think that's good, ergonomically speaking.