Switch Theme

Omnija

@lilbud ever thought adding some switch to all the consoles to switch em up?

lilbud

@Omnija No, I never thought about it and I'm not doing it. Mainly for 2 reasons, that would mean 80 more icons that I'd have to make (honestly, my next theme will have no custom logos) I also like to follow the K.I.S.S Principle for icons. The switch on the icons would make it too cluttered.

itsmejerry

Just wanted to say I am loving this theme great job! very inspiring! I decided to make some custom icons that could be used for recently played, kodi, settings, all games, favorites, alternative pc-engine, alternative kodi, and rapsbian os hope you don't mind. i thought it gives it even more of a switch feel.

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Danorak1981

@lilbud Unless I'm being thick, tI can't find the dark Switch theme. I've updated Retropie-in the sense that I updated everything from source. Your Switch theme comes up, but I can only seem to see the Light theme in the theme installer menu. Is the dark theme actually available or has it been pulled?

Also, the theme pictured below: is this one of yours? If so, which is it? I like simple, and prefer dark themes over light themes.

@ectoone said in Switch Theme:

@lilbud Here ya go:

EctoOne

@danorak1981 I'm not at home right now so I can't check if the dark version is available from within Retropie. But at least it's available on github if you want to manually install it. https://github.com/lilbud/es-theme-switch-dark

Also, the images are showing changes I've made to the dark switch version just for personal use. And i will not release it, because i only changed the things I needed for my particular setup and I'm to lazy to add more icons.

lilbud

@danorak1981 I never added the dark theme to the retropie setup, I'll send a PR soon.

That theme you see is a custom version made by @EctoOne

lilbud

@itsmejerry If it is okay with you, I would like to add these icons to the switch theme.

Also, whats the TV icon for?

Danorak1981

@lilbud Thats actually really cool-I like the Switch theme, but I find light themes a bit hard on the eyes in my lounge-the darker side has always appealed to me (enter Star Wars reference here lol). What I really need to learn to do is make my own theme, but not a clue where to start-I could just pinch bits of others then to make my own!

lilbud

@danorak1981 said in Switch Theme:

Thats actually really cool-I like the Switch theme, but I find light themes a bit hard on the eyes

Why do you think all of my themes have a dark variant? I start by making the light version, but then realize (usually by playing games late at night) that the light version will slowly make me go blind.

itsmejerry

@lilbud no problem at all please do! the tv icon is just an alternative "kodi" icon. I figured if people do not know what Kodi is it might be easier to just show a tv icon.

Here is the link to the files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bza0Ft88hK60YkxqVGNhOWxicG8

I'll be sure to share any other additions I make to your theme as well. I am currently working on a loading screen that looks similar to the loading screen on switch.

-Jerry

itsmejerry

alternate splash screen replacement.

itsmejerry

Allanbuzzy

Yeah, that was missing.

sergioad

@itsmejerry When it will land in the RetroPie ES themes repo?

lilbud

@sergioad its already there

sergioad

Ok, thanks

EctoOne

I just noticed a small error in both variants.

<!-------------LAST PLAYED--------------->		
		<datetime name="md_lbl_lastplayed">
			<pos>1 1</pos>
		</datetime>
		
		<datetime name="md_lastplayed">
			<pos>1 1</pos>
		</datetime>

Should be:

<!-------------LAST PLAYED--------------->		
		<text name="md_lbl_lastplayed">
			<pos>1 1</pos>
		</text>
		
		<datetime name="md_lastplayed">
			<pos>1 1</pos>
		</datetime>

lilbud

@ectoone Could you submit a pull request to both versions? I'm kind of busy at the moment

EctoOne

@lilbud Um, I will try. I just got into that whole github thing a few days ago and it took me an hour to figure out how to even upload files.
I have to fork your themes, change the things in my fork and then send the pull request, right?

Edit: I think i've done it, let me know if it was correct.

lilbud

Okay, first update in a long while. But I have updated the theme with some new features.

Made use of variables in the main theme.xml to remove need for individual system folders.
Cleaned up code
Updated colors to be more accurate to the actual Nintendo Switch menu.