Background images, coming back!!!

[Muddyhardcore]

@herb_fargus
Ok I figured it out. It was in core packages in the retropie setup script. Been stuck on 89% for about 3 hours now.

Stuck89%

[herb_fargus]

@Muddyhardcore you need to exit emulationstation before you build from source

[Muddyhardcore]

@herb_fargus
I didn't do that. I went into the setup script from emulation station. What do I do now?

[Muddyhardcore]

@herb_fargus
Am I screwed?

[Muddyhardcore]

@herb_fargus
Ok I was able to update Emulation Station and the problem with the backgrounds turning white is still there. It's random. No specific system.

[emilio1555]

@Muddyhardcore increase your GPU memory that worked for me.

[Muddyhardcore]

@emilio1555
How do you do that?

[emilio1555]

@Muddyhardcore Go into raspi-config/advanced options/memory split.
Put 762, that should work.

[Muddyhardcore]

@emilio1555
Do I need to exit emulationstation and get there from the command line or can I just select raspi-config from the retropie menu?

[emilio1555]

@Muddyhardcore You can select it from the retropie menu.

[AndersHP]

Hey @tronkyfran - I really, really love your theme, it just looks awesome on my Bartop Build with the great system pictures, BUT ALAS! On my 4:3 monitor the box-art is soo tiny, it's really sad.

Is there any chance of you making a possible update to the theme or a variant with a larger window for box-art? See below...

[caver01]

@andershp @tronkyfran Ditto that! I love the theme and I too use a setup with a 4:3 display. Some of the meta data categories are cut off, like DEVELOPER whick is missing the R. Smaller metadata might accommodate a bigger thumbnail.

[herb_fargus]

@caver01 you can blame me as I maintain the theme. Tronkyfran just makes the pretty art.

Anyways it's just the simple theme so far as far as the detailed gamelist is concerned so I'm definitely open to other suggestions to improve it as I personally don't like metadata at all, but making it smaller would be a start.

I'm open to pull requests if someone wants to improve the theme

[AndersHP]

@herb_fargus I don't know how to program unfortunately, but the game-list in the righthand side is fine, maybe the artwork could just fill out the entire top-left side, with the area below getting split between game description on the left, getting a bit less space, with only 4 lines of the metadata on the right, for example: rating, publisher, times played and last played?

Like this:
B O X A R T LIST
B O X A R T LIST
DESC META LIST

Maybe the background could reflect the system you're in, like a greyed-out version of the system folder image? Edit: thinking about it, maybe this'll get a little too "busy"?

If the above will be too cramped, maybe the font could get reduced just by a a size or 2?

Don't know what's possible, but that's my suggestion :)

Edit: Here's my suggestion, quickly put together in GIMP. I like the landscape mode, since it'll work great with the Universal XML Scraper images:

[AndersHP]

Oh, and sorry if this is the wrong place to talk about the theme. Let me know if this should be moved to a separate thread.

[herb_fargus]

@andershp I'm almost just keen to kill the metadata altogether. Keeps it simple that way.

If I were to keep it I wouldn't want to split the description column with the other attributes, I'd probably have 4 bits of metadata above the description column

[AndersHP]

@herb_fargus Yeah, metadata isn't really that interesting in my mind either. Could just be the description below the box art :) simple is good and it suits the theme.

[herb_fargus]

@andershp yeah I'm not oppposed to that

[AndersHP]

@herb_fargus Cool! That'll be brilliant. The theme apparently doesn't support video previews, is that true? Is that easy to switch on as well? If not, then never mind :)

[AndersHP]

Oh, and I just realized that Favourites are now incorporated in ES, having these is something I really looked forward to, so I'm going to abandon the Tronkyfran theme unwillingly, until this is supported. So if this could be supported, I'd really love it!

But @herb_fargus do I understand you right, that it's not you who will end up update the theme?