ES themes ready for favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections

cyperghost

@choccyhobnob Is custom collection als implented?

HurricaneFan

@cyperghost Not yet. This is my number one feature I can't wait for!

ChoccyHobNob

@cyperghost not yet but it will be v.soon

cyperghost

@choccyhobnob I changed your themes-entry to WIP = Work in progress
You can answer this thread and I will change asap

MrJordaaany

@mediamogul said in ES themes ready for favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections:

@martin88

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.

dmmarti

@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.

ChoccyHobNob

@cyperghost

There we go!

cyperghost

Updates list with "Special Note"
This could be interesting if you ask for portalbe builds are if storage space matters

RxBrad

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.

TMNTturtlguy

@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.

cyperghost

@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 :)

alphatoanant

@cyperghost - CRT is ready to go now with support for all 4 VS (recent, all, favs, custom-col). Thank you!

MrJordaaany

@tmntturtlguy It sure does! Thought I was up to date but wasn't. Have since updated and all works great. Thanks!

cyperghost

Added Retrorama

TMNTturtlguy

@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

cyperghost

@tmntturtlguy Added this to Special Notes

NoeleyC

@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!!

ohmycommodore

Is there a separate Canadian theme with "favourites" spelled correctly? :)

cyperghost

@ohmycommodore Yes... IO-theme! I rather prefer BE did not know that canadians also use the ou

pjft

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.