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      Redstoner
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      beautiful. simply beautiful

      "See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster." -Johan Cruyff

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        Rookervik Global Moderator @nemo93
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        @nemo93

        Ok, think I found both errors. The second one was pretty hard to fix. The "system.svg." Anyway, lol, they're fixed. I'll update the download up top if you want to try it again.

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          nemo93
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          thanks a lot @Rookervik I do confirm that now the errors are gone!! As you suspected this had no impact on the performance and I still could see some stuttering or non smooth transition in the carousel.

          Also I like the fact that you removed the items titles (publisher, players, etc). In that case any chance to squeeze the publisher+developer in please? :) yeah I know I'm a pain and that's ok if it's too painful and can't be done. I may have asked this already (and if so apologize for the repeat) but in case you don't have child friendly ES enabled, is there any way to use the empty space left below players? for instance to display the rating? In short, if you use ES child friendly version displays the child icons else display rating from gamelist.

          thanks again for all the time and efforts!!

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            Rookervik Global Moderator @nemo93
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            @nemo93 Yeah, you ask to add them constantly. I'm trying to re-position the meta data on Carbon and it's taking longer than it took to design the rest of the theme. Different meta data align at different spots. I'm getting close to ready to remove all meta data completely. ES meta data is a complete nightmare.

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              nemo93
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              sorry for that :( I swear I won't ask again. Especially after reading one of your post where you explained how painful it was to align properly metadata in ES. Please forget what I just ask in my previous post. Luminous remains my default theme anyhow, it's so great!

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                Rookervik Global Moderator @nemo93
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                @nemo93 No-no, it's ok. I didn't mean to sound rude. I was just really frustrated at the meta data on carbon. LOL. I was still never able to get them to line up, perfectly, horizontally. Even going as far as 0.001% changes. Just had to get them close enough. Then stop OCDing over it. :D

                May sound sad, but I still just use Pixel. Haha. Meta data really annoys me. I just need the screenshot, and I'd like it big.

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                  nemo93
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                  No worries at all! I'm using this theme for a couple of weeks now without troubles. It's really lovely. Seems that my stuttering issue are still there but less visible it's all rather smooth in the end (Pi2) and very pleasant to use.

                  I may have another issue I need to have your confirmation. In the game list, left hand side, whenever you have a long game name then the last characters are being cut off after scrolling is over. It reminds me of the very same annoying behavior from other themes as well like Simple (then I suspect ES is at fault). The workaround so far was to add a blank space at the end of the name. Yet this doesn't work here like if the blank was not taken into account.

                  let me know if you need logs or whatnot!! Now i'm going to take a look at your splash screens section which looks gorgeous too. thanks!

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                    Rookervik Global Moderator @nemo93
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                    @nemo93 Yeah I've noticed the long name issue. It's not something that can be changed by a theme. Seems all long names cut off like that when the title scrolls. I've never had any luck trying to fix it. :-(

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                      hooperre
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                      @Rookervik Any chance you update this theme with the new changes to ES? I'm guessing I know the answer to this, but figured I'd ask any way.

                      4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                        Rookervik Global Moderator @hooperre
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                        @hooperre I don't know what all the new changes are. ES has a lot of commits and I can't keep up. Video has been around a long time. Adding video shouldn't be hard. I just didn't know anyone used this theme.

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                          hooperre @Rookervik
                          last edited by hooperre

                          @rookervik said in Luminous Theme: A light alternative to Carbon:

                          @hooperre I don't know what all the new changes are. ES has a lot of commits and I can't keep up. Video has been around a long time. Adding video shouldn't be hard. I just didn't know anyone used this theme.

                          Haha oh I love Luminous, man! I was going to offer to try to do it myself because it's my main theme. I didn't think I could do it justice. Also, sorry I think I troubled you with the same question on the Carbon-light theme and forgot now that I'm looking. Oops.

                          4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                            EctoOne
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                            Is the download still around somewhere? I'm working on a complete modular theme proof of concept based on carbon (because it already has 3 different versions) and it would be great if i could use this for an easy setup to test a color modul without having to do much work on my own. :)

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                              ohmycommodore
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                              if this one has been tested out it looks worthy of wide release. apologies if it has, i will have to go back and look...

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                                mattrixk @EctoOne
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                                @ectoone: I'm doing something similar, but I'm starting from scratch. I have a basic base theme, with different skins that you can choose that change the look of the theme while leaving the basic layout the same. I'm about 80% done, so I should have something to show people by tonight/tomorrow.

                                My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                  lilbud @mattrixk
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                                  @mattrixk said in Luminous Theme: A light alternative to Carbon:

                                  change the look of the theme while leaving the basic layout the same

                                  Well shit, I guess we are all working on our own versions of a modular theme, just add me to the list

                                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                    EctoOne @lilbud
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                                    @lilbud said in Luminous Theme: A light alternative to Carbon:

                                    @mattrixk said in Luminous Theme: A light alternative to Carbon:

                                    change the look of the theme while leaving the basic layout the same

                                    Well shit, I guess we are all working on our own versions of a modular theme, just add me to the list

                                    LOL, that's awesome.
                                    I just combined the three available carbon versions (and the layout I use for my personal theme), the color options from the nometa/centered ones, and just a basic version of a vertical and horizontal carousel.
                                    I still need to figure out some layout issues from the centered versions, but as of right now I can simply choose whatever carousel, color and layout I want within a config.xml by un-/commenting lines. But I had in mind to try using @jdrassa variables for that, yet idk in which way to do that because I think that would overcomplicate things.

                                    Oh, BTW, I don't need this theme anymore. I just color inverted the carbon background just to see how a white version would look.

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                                      mattrixk @EctoOne
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                                      @ectoone said in Luminous Theme: A light alternative to Carbon:

                                      But I had in mind to try using @jdrassa variables for that

                                      I had thought about using variables, but it cuts down on the number of ES versions that will be able to use the theme (there are no fallbacks, and older versions will just break). Also, I've not used the variable before and I'd rather get the theme done quickly than spend ages learning something new.

                                      I like your idea of a config.xml file, but thinking about how mine is set up, it wouldn't work for me. Each of my "skins" is a self contained folder with font, artwork and xml. You just choose a folder name in the main theme.xml to change skin.

                                      @lilbud: It's a race :D

                                      My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                        lilbud @mattrixk
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                                        @mattrixk said in Luminous Theme: A light alternative to Carbon:

                                        @lilbud: It's a race :D

                                        Here is what I have so far:
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                                        I'm adding support for a whole load of modular features, including different system view layouts.

                                        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                          EctoOne
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                                          Here's mine.
                                          alt text

                                          Like i said, it was just a test for me what's possible to do nowadays.
                                          Oh @mattrixk you will notice that the color tag is working on images within the carousel. And i think that carbon looks really nice with those changes.

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                                          • mattrixkM
                                            mattrixk @EctoOne
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                                            @ectoone, @lilbud Very nice guys, they look great. It looks like we've gone in slightly different directions. You seem to be focusing on modular layouts, so you can change how all the data and images are physically laid out, whereas I'm focused solely on changing the look of the Views, while leaving the layouts the same. Here's a small example of the System View screen. The Skins shown aren't complete, and I have some other ideas that I haven't started yet.

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                                            For some of them you'll be able to change the colour of the background and the border, but for others the colour is pretty much set.

                                            You might also notice some of the logos in the top left aren't too clear (white logo text on a white background), so I'll need to make sure all logos used have at least some border. All Logos and Console images were taken from ScreenScraper.fr, and I'll credits in the readme file.

                                            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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