External repositories for themes?

George

First off, I think the external repositories idea is great. It makes a lot of sense, especially when adding something new to RetroPie that isn't supported yet.

Would it also be possible to have external repository functionality for EmulationStation themes? Currently all the themes are hardcoded and one has to dig a little to find out where themes should get placed. It would be great if I could just checkout my themes into an ext directory and then install them with the existing script. Or maybe even use the themes script to add an external repository by pasting in the Git URL.

Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

- George

Thorr69

Seems a bit much. All themes get installed into the same directory already. You copy it once, and that's it.

mitu

@george said in External repositories for themes?:

Currently all the themes are hardcoded and one has to dig a little to find out where themes should get placed.

There are 2 folders where EmulationStation looks for themes

$HOME/.emulationstation/themes
/etc/emulationstation/themes

You can copy your own themes in the first folder, without resorting to the esthemes module.

It would be great if I could just checkout my themes into an ext directory and then install them with the existing script. Or maybe even use the themes script to add an external repository by pasting in the Git URL.

You can add a line in the esthemes module (starting here) containing the Gihub repo user/project and then you can install the theme the setup script. Of course, there's nothing stopping you from providing your own theme download script.

George

@mitu Ahh, this would be one of those moments I should have looked at the documentation first.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#themes

Awesome. I will take a look and see if I'm able to accomplish what I need to.

Thank you!

- George