Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18)

EctoOne

@thelostsoul said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

@EctoOne Ah yes, I was talking about subfolders in rom folder. My suggestion was adding the same dynamic description like it is available in custom collections. It will create a list of some examples in the description, plus the count of how many games are there, plus playing a video from a game in this collection. I was just hoping the same could be done for subfolders in rom folder.

Well dynamic content is definitely not a thing. You can add an image to a folder (same way as it is done to a game entry. I did that for my scummvm subfolders where i used company logos). Maybe you can add videos as well, never tested it though and if it works it would be always be the same.

lilbud

@thelostsoul said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

The image entry for a game will not show up, before the video playback starts. In the older theme the image was showing up right away, when i scroll down through the list. If i wait a second, the video starts playing. The entry for it is in this format: "<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes/Alter Ego-image.jpg</image>"

I updated the theme to have a 1.5 second delay before the video starts playing. It'll show the image while scrolling and if you stay on the game for a sec, the video will play.

I also enabled the ability to show the image if there is no video.

thelostsoul

@lilbud Huge thanks! I am going to sleep now and will test it tomorrow (in other words later).

EDIT: @lilbud Just tried it out now. It works perfectly, with those 1.5s even better than all the other themes regarding this. Huge thank you for this quick fix. (I didn't feel to double post.)

thelostsoul

@lilbud Now 2 days after usage, everything works fine. I have just changed the 1.5s delay to 1.0s. It is just very small effect, but I feel like 1.5s takes an eternity until video starts. Its just my personal preference. Another note, I also tried different (free) fonts from my Ubuntu installation. I found the "Ubuntu-R.ttf" (from usr/share/fonts/truetype/Ubuntu/ from desktop Ubuntu) is much better readable on my 640*480p screen, more clear. It could be just on my specific setup, but why not telling it here?!

A lot of game descriptions at the right side have characters like """, which aren't transformed into the characters they represent. Is this theme dependent or should I look elsewhere?

lilbud

@thelostsoul said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

A lot of game descriptions at the right side have characters like """, which aren't transformed into the characters they represent. Is this theme dependent or should I look elsewhere?

The only thing that could be is characters that don't have a matching glyph in the font file.

Not gonna lie, that Ubuntu font looks pretty sharp in the theme. I might add it and have it switchable in the theme.xml

thelostsoul

@lilbud Oh, above I meant "& quot ;" will not be translated to "

lilbud

@thelostsoul That might be a problem with the scraper. Or the gamelist files, I dunno.

hooperre

@lilbud Is this puppy on the theme downloader yet? :) Can't wait!

lilbud

@hooperre Yep

Wolverine1977

@lilbud Is it possible to get a "no Meta" option added to the theme so it just shows the Games list and Box art without the developer, released and description data?

Thanks :)

lilbud

@Wolverine1977 It is possible, I haven't done it though. Was never in the plans, but i'll look into it.

goobatroopa

@lilbud this is just what I've been looking for. Thanks I'll download tonight.

WylieCoyote

Apologies for the stupid question but how do you toggle between showing the Xbox and PS controller help buttons? I can't seem to figure it out.

lilbud

@WylieCoyote In the 'config.xml' file. Change letters.xml to symbols.xml

WylieCoyote

@lilbud Many thanks for the prompt response. I've searched the entire image using WinSCP and I have no config.xml file to edit??

lilbud

@WylieCoyote

/etc/emulationstation/themes/es-theme-switch/config.xml

WylieCoyote

@lilbud Well, there's my problem. In /etc/emulatationstation/themes I have 'darkswitch' and 'lightswitch' and no es-theme-switch. Apologies, I suspect I'm referring to a completely different theme. Noted github link at the top of the thread, will download try again.

WylieCoyote

@lilbud All working perfectly (once I figured out how to change permissions on the config.xml). Many thanks for your excellent theme and apologies for the oversight on my part.

natanpi

Hello, so I saw a video on youtube about that theme and decided to download it in my RetroPie, this theme is very awesome but when I installed that theme it doesn't have the icons that I saw in the video, how can I add these icons?.

lilbud

@natanpi That ain't my theme. That one was made by someone else (can't think of the name off the top of my head) who didn't realize there was an existing one already.

Mine should be labelled under lilbud on the downloader.

I don't have plans to add those icons currently.