Favorites in KIOSK mode are not working

[bebeidon]

@psyke83 yes as soon as I'm home again will do. Are you referring to the emulationstation config or Retroarch? I've only looked into the emulationstation one until now.

[IanDaemon]

I use KIOSK mode for when I have people over and don't want them hitting random buttons and messing things up. Removing all my favorites? No thank you. I'm happy that adding/deleting favorites or custom collections IS NOT available in KIOSK mode. Just use FULL UI if you want to change those lists, then put ES back in KIOSK mode. (Going back and forth is fast and simple.) I have a manually curated collection with custom collections and wouldn't want people pressing random buttons and changing things unknowingly.

[bebeidon]

@IanDaemon I can understand your point of view but then you could maybe consider to use the KID mode for this purpose.

[mitu]

@bebeidon for kid mode you have to tag all your games to be visible. I think @IanDaemon has a point here, I'm sure there are other users having a similar setup and this change would impact them for the favourites list.

[pjft]

@IanDaemon I am with you there, and I designed the feature :) that being said, a few months back this was put up for discussion on GitHub and maybe even here in the forums. The oldest ticket I posted earlier had that conversation.

I'm honestly happy to revert this - I agree that kiosk should be unchangeable. Exact same use case as you described.

Happy to revert this and put this back the way it was designed, but do go over that oldest discussion on GitHub for other points of view first, and then happy to revisit this. Especially since this was already operating that way a while back and the original proposers hadn't noticed it :D

[bebeidon]

@psyke83 here is the controller cfg:

input_device = "8Bitdo SF30 Pro"
input_driver = "udev"
input_r_y_plus_axis = "+3"
input_r_x_minus_axis = "-2"
input_l_btn = "6"
input_load_state_btn = "6"
input_start_btn = "11"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "11"
input_r_y_minus_axis = "-3"
input_down_btn = "h0down"
input_l_x_plus_axis = "+0"
input_r_btn = "7"
input_save_state_btn = "7"
input_right_btn = "h0right"
input_state_slot_increase_btn = "h0right"
input_select_btn = "10"
input_left_btn = "h0left"
input_state_slot_decrease_btn = "h0left"
input_l2_btn = "8"
input_l3_btn = "13"
input_l_y_minus_axis = "-1"
input_up_btn = "h0up"
input_a_btn = "0"
input_b_btn = "1"
input_reset_btn = "1"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "2"
input_l_y_plus_axis = "+1"
input_r2_btn = "9"
input_r3_btn = "14"
input_x_btn = "3"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "3"
input_l_x_minus_axis = "-0"
input_y_btn = "4"
input_r_x_plus_axis = "+2"

If there would be a way to save the Filter settings in FULL UI and keep them after reboot it would be "as good" as the allowance of editing the favorites in KIOSK mode for my setup. As I can understand your point of view and it seems that I'm the minority here that would be a good alternative.

[bebeidon]

@pjft I got it working like i wanted with your explained procedure :) Still hard for my to grasp how this did not work by editing the controller cfg but well at least it works :)

[Polybius22]

Perhaps providing an option in the menu would make everyone happy, but I'm personally thankful you have provided this revision. I will be installing the dev build to get the favorites working with kiosk mode tonight.

[IanDaemon]

Now Kiosk mode enables setting and deleting favorites? Is there a way to turn this back on my end? I searched the forum for discussions, but only found this old one. I have ES in Kiosk mode and the favorites button still add/removes favorites. Any suggestions?

[Codafire]

After installing a translation KIOSK mode stop saving favorites, anyway i can activate this "bug" again?