Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18)

dugo3number2

@mitu can you remove this plz

dugo3number2

@lilbud Bug report: The buttons aren't showing regardless of what theme you are using

lilbud

@dugo3number2 any errors or anything in the es log txt?

Gremko

@dugo3number2 is only if Xbox Buttons are set, go with Playstation Buttons, at least for me.

dugo3number2

@lilbud No, nothing. @Gremko I will try PS buttons, although I have an Xbox controller.

dugo3number2

Update: @Gremko It worked with PS buttons. @lilbud It is just the main menu that is affected.

lilbud

@dugo3number2 I'll try and look at it on my phone. I'm away from a computer until next week.

Gremko

@dugo3number2 I found the error, it is in the file letters.xml
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/themes/switch/settings/letters.xml

replace:
<path> ./../ assets / buttons / Xbox_Buttons_system.svg </ path>

with:
<Path> ./../ assets / buttons / Xbox_Buttons_System.svg </ path>

lilbud

@Gremko Updated the repo with the fix.

sergioad

@lilbud would / could you please add grid support? that way we could have a nice UI for the game list

lilbud

@sergioad I don't think so.

AFAIK, I don't think you can do a carousel for the gridlist on the default ES. I can set one row to show, but you can't have a scrolling carousel.

sergioad

@lilbud I see...

RetroDuck

hey could you make a nice image for the 'ports' one?

lilbud

@RetroDuck There already is one

https://github.com/lilbud/es-theme-switch/blob/master/art/ports.jpg

RetroDuck

@lilbud oh cool! didn't see that before but i'll try to update the theme

fraggle200

@lilbud Even though there's a 4:3 option. do you know how this handles on 240p output? This looks great and something I'd want on my cabinet but 240/crt output usually needs a little massaging of the standard assets.

lilbud

@fraggle200 Absolutely no clue, sorry

Never set my pi up on a CRT before.

If you could try and report back, I'll make any changes needed

fraggle200

@lilbud Not sure I'll get a chance to look at this till the weekend but I'll let you know what I find.

I'm not sure if the CRT one may need a fork of this as the lower res may need to move a few things around to make it fit but we'll see.

fraggle200

@lilbud I'm trying to update the theme.xml to put it into 4:3 mode but I can't get permissions to allow me to do it on the pi as its in the ETC folder. any ideas of another way to do it?

initial views of the 16:9 on my 240p CRT is that the text is hard to read, but not totally unreadable, it just doesn't look great. placement of art/snaps are OK but I don't want to judge this till I can get it into 4:3 to see how it changes things. Once I can do that I'll post some pics etc.

lilbud

@fraggle200 try running this

Sudo nano + the path to the 4_3 xml