ES themes ready for favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections
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@cyperghost not yet but it will be v.soon
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@choccyhobnob I changed your themes-entry to WIP = Work in progress
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@mediamogul said in ES themes ready for favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections:
I get the message about the theme (carbon) not supporting it. It still works...
I got the same message, but as you say, it works.
just the image for the virtual systems is plain text.
The images will come soon. I believe @UDb23 is working on them.
I also tried uninstall and reinstall the theme from esthemes but the carbon theme it pulls still doesn't have the collections.
That's strange, I updated this way and it had the collections functionality.
I see. So is this why comicbook theme 'works' but there is just plain text for the section? Need to wait for the creator to update it properly.
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@cyperghost My new theme "Maximus Pie" (the RetroPie version of the PC front-end Maximus Arcade) is also updated with the four new virtual machines and is ready to go.
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Updates list with "Special Note"
This could be interesting if you ask for portalbe builds are if storage space matters -
FYI.. I just added favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections functionality to both the light and dark versions of Gameboy Zero 3.5.
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@mrjordaaany sorry I just saw this post now, you may need to update your comic book theme. My theme should support everything being talked about in this post without any issues.
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@rxbrad Please use the @ sign ;)
Without it your chances are good that I oversee your theme
I think I will use your GBZ theme for my next project build :) -
@cyperghost - CRT is ready to go now with support for all 4 VS (recent, all, favs, custom-col). Thank you!
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@tmntturtlguy It sure does! Thought I was up to date but wasn't. Have since updated and all works great. Thanks!
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Added Retrorama
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@cyperghost I just wanted to let you know that the ComicBook theme (all versions) have been updated to incorporate the "Default" theme. This is useful with the new custom collections that @pjft is working on. You might want to add this to your list. FYI - this is a great tool! Thanks
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@tmntturtlguy Added this to Special Notes
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@choccyhobnob thanks for the update, that's made cygnus my no. 1 theme to use again! Without trying to come across as a pest, there's still a few systems missing in your theme that I have (megadrive Japan for example), is there any chance you might add them at some stage? I have no real coding knowledge so I don't know how much an ordeal those might be!
Thanks for all your hard work on this!!
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Is there a separate Canadian theme with "favourites" spelled correctly? :)
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@ohmycommodore Yes... IO-theme! I rather prefer BE did not know that canadians also use the ou
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Hi all,
Happy Saturday.
Apologies for the trouble here, and a big thank you for all your support so far throughout this process!
As you know, we started this endeavor without anything concrete, but now that there's a testable working build and themes are starting to be updated, I ran into some inconsistencies that, while they'll unfortunately require a slight bit of work from us all, it's good that they come up early-ish in the process as we can make the best decision together.
Now that a few people are testing builds, especially when they choose to sort the systems alphabetically, the experience can be somewhat inconsistent and awkward. The main reason for that was that - in my miserable naming skills - named the designated folder to group the collections
custom-collectionsbut during development after some suggestions I ended up settling on a more friendly name of "My Collections" for the user facing name.This poses the following problems:
- For themes that named the user-facing theme "custom collections", it's fine, as the system is sorted between "c" and "d", as expected.
- For themes that named the user-facing theme "my collections" as I suggested, it's weird if they sort the systems to go from "colecovision" to "my collections" to "daphne".
I've thought about this, and here are the few options I'm seeing:
- Name the user facing theme "custom collections".
- Pros: it will match the folder name. It will be correctly sorted. Some themes already have that.
- Cons: longer name, which poses some challenges for some themes in terms of font sizes. "Feels" less user friendly/more jargon-y.
- Name the user facing theme "my collections", and rename the folder to
custom-my-collections.- Pros: More user friendly. Some themes already have that.
- Cons: needs change in the current themes to change the folder structure to
custom-my-collections. Needs to change the code as well.
- Let things be as they are.
- Pros: no extra effort.
- Cons: inconsistent user experience. Some themes will call it "custom collections", other "my collections". Sorting order will either be good or bad, if they sort it. May look like a bug.
I'd love to hear your perspective, as most options will require a bit of work from all of you - and for that I do apologize.
I'm personally inclined to option 2, if you feel "My Collections" is more user friendly, and update the code accordingly. I know a lot of you will have to change the name that shows in the carousel to match that (well, in option 1 others would probably have to change it as well to match "Custom Collections"), and I know that's not necessarily a small task.
So let me know your thoughts, and I do appreciate you all having been early adopters and supporters of this work. I'm sure ES will be a lot better and user-friendlier platform as a result!
Thank you, and have a good weekend.
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@pjft As I'm no theme creator and I'm far away from saying everything must work 100%. I vote #3 because there is still the option to sort all auto generated systems together if you are not happy with alphabetical order. And I find it a bit funny - there is more than just the western part of the world. The alphabetical order is not always ABC - ABW is also common :)
But you are so kind to ask the users - so let the users decide :)
So here is the poll
before vote please read @pjfts thread above!
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Thank you for the poll.
By the way, we can also just call them "collections", without the "custom" or "my" prefix, and keep the folder as custom-collections.
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