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      ShawnS
      last edited by ShawnS

      So my Striation theme is in the final stretch. I think I've got most everything covered and cleaned up. A few people have asked how to download it through RetroPie and I'm really not sure.

      I see themes posted on Github mostly but I've never used the site. Is there a proper way to release my theme other than sticking a .zip file on Dropbox? Thanks for the help everyone!

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        BuZz administrators
        last edited by BuZz

        if you want the theme adding to the theme installer within retropie-setup, it has to be on github, and has to be named like https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon es-theme-shortname

        if you are happy for people to just download and install manually, you can just post a link on the forum etc.

        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          ShawnS @BuZz
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          @BuZz wow, that was fast! Thanks.

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            ShawnS @BuZz
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            @BuZz Ok, I spent some time and figured out how to set up Github. I think I've got it set up correctly. If you have a second can you confirm I'm not missing something for the theme to be included in the theme installer? Thanks!

            https://github.com/ShawnS52?tab=repositories

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            • mattrixkM
              mattrixk @ShawnS
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              @ShawnS: It looks fine as far as I can see, but others might notice something I missed.

              You could take some screenshots and put them on Imgur (or some other file sharing site) and link them in your readme file so people can see what the theme looks like.

              You can also turn your readme.txt into readme.md and then you can use Markdown to make it look fancy with headings, dot-points, images and such.

              My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                mattrixk @ShawnS
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                @ShawnS: I just noticed the Amiga logo is a bit hard to see on the Basic View, as it is almost the same colour as the heading background. I know nothing about the Amiga system, so I don't know if that was a deliberate design decision or not, I just thought I would point it out.

                My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                  ShawnS @mattrixk
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                  @mattrixk thanks for taking a look! I'd seen your themes have the fancy .md file and now i want to do one. I didn't get to look up what the markup is like though. I did mean to add a link to my imgur gallery in the regular readme, thanks for reminding me!

                  For reasons I can't figure out the bevel on the Amiga logo doesn't render in the portable version of ES but looks fine on my Pi.

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                    herb_fargus administrators @ShawnS
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                    @ShawnS svg library was updated for retropie's fork of ES. That's why.

                    If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                    Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                    • mattrixkM
                      mattrixk @ShawnS
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                      @ShawnS said in Publishing/Posting a Theme:

                      For reasons I can't figure out the bevel on the Amiga logo doesn't render in the portable version of ES but looks fine on my Pi.

                      Yeah, I find it much easier to check themes using Herb's portable windows ES. Luckily the man himself had an answer for you.

                      You can learn the basics of Markdown here. I've also found StackEdit to be incredibly helpful when making Markdown documents. It's an in-browser Markdown Editor that shows the 2 views side-by-side (much like this forum does).

                      My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                        ShawnS @mattrixk
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                        @mattrixk I may have just gone and forked your theme to get the code for the readme.md. :D Then I found a similar side-by-side markdown editor and now I've got fancy readmes.

                        This is a super noob Github question but better safe than sorry: if I delete the fork I made of yours it's not going to touch your version at all right?

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                        • mattrixkM
                          mattrixk @ShawnS
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                          @ShawnS said in Publishing/Posting a Theme:

                          if I delete the fork I made of yours it's not going to touch your version at all right?

                          Shrug. I'm not too well versed in GitHub myself, but I would hope that would be the case. I've never used forks in GitHub.

                          [dad-joke]Hope you don't fork it up[/dad-joke]

                          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                            ShawnS @mattrixk
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                            @mattrixk I clicked the button and deleted it. Pretty sure it's just my version but I hope you can fork-give me if something went wrong.

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