Flat Theme

lilbud

@backstander yeah, i'm planning on using the backgrounds from the simple theme. Unless someone has an idea that could work for every single system

lilbud

Keigan

Personal opinion for the flat look, limit your colours, no photos.

Keep it clean and minimalistic, even on the select screen.

Tone the vibrance down on some of the colours (i.e Super Nintendo red on the select screen, even all 4 colours from the logo).

I would likely change the font size to a bit smaller, but it's clean so that's just me being picky.

lilbud

@Keigan got some ideas for the system select? Cause I'm running on empty.

The photo idea came from the need to have 1 color/image for all systems

kbronctjr

I like different background for each system with a blurr effect. The feeling it gives is really nice.

I see there are different opinions about this. There could be two theme versions, one with specific background ofr each system and another one with the same background.

lilbud

@kbronctjr There will only ever be 2 versions of the theme, Flat and Flat-Dark. Only 2 versions makes updates faster and prevents me from having to maintain 50 different versions.

lilbud

The Flat theme has been updated with a custom carousel

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sergioad

I love it

kbronctjr

@lilbud How can I activate carousel feature?

lilbud

@kbronctjr download the newest emulation station from the retropie setup menu

bobbycopter

Hey there. I'm using your theme and it works just fine, though I set up ScummVm recently and I guess it somehow needs to update...something?

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lilbud

@bobbycopter All fixed, try updating the theme from the theme installer.

Keigan

@lilbud for me personally, flat style, I would honestly not mind just a black background, with white system logos. Clean and simple.

Ideally if the transitions could be altered to not fade to black first, or not fade at all, I'd suggest any to jus made it any colour you like, or soft colours that resemble the system. NES (red), SNES (purple), etc.

lilbud

@Keigan Well, that's the beauty of themes, you can change whatever you want. I do have a set of white logos that I used for the Material theme. The transitions can be changed through ES itself.

Since not everyone updates ES, I would have to have another version of the theme to monitor without carousel changes.

A Former User

Alright, I've been having some trouble.
I'm using the ES Toolkie v1.1 and the theme just shows up as the default theme. Any help?

Keigan

@lilbud I realise you can change whatever you please, you asked for an idea about system selects. I gave my suggestion to fit a flat theme.

You have 2 options for transitions

Slide / Fade

Slide is fine if you build a select screen that flows into the next, so it looks smooth, but a carousel doesn't look right since it scrolls vertically, while the background would scroll horizontal.

Fade is good too, though it always fades to black before the next screen. It would be much cleaner to have it just fade into the next screen, and not fade to black first

These all need to be changed inside the program, I am not a C# guy, so I've been trying to pin point it, but having no luck. Also would be nice to add no transitions, so there is no transition between scrolling.

lilbud

@Keigan I'm not sure why the carousel scroll horizontal regardless, or the fade transition. Might want to ask @Zigurana, I am completely useless when it comes to code.

lilbud

@itsnitro Shows up fine for me, make sure you change the theme on there. And remember to add it to the theme folder.

bobbycopter

@lilbud I feel dumb for not trying that first. It all works now, thanks!

InsecureSpike

@lilbud hi, since ive come back to ES from a lengthy stint of AM i've been really impressed with this theme, i've tweeked it a bit for my own needs, but i'm curious of what can be done to simplify the system select & carousel even more, i've lost touch with all the advancments that ave been made in ES, i thought about emailing you directly, but since its Flat Theme based i thought of posting here.
is there anyway of having the carousel resemble the top bar of the emulator page, like this...

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the text would need to be editable via the theme.xml, and have the possibility to have custom font, or what ever font the theme uses, and 2 lines of text, would this be do able?
all im asking for is a little guidance, pls

thanks