Included Themes

[petrockblog]

With the theme engine working, I think it would make sense to include at least one or even more themes that the users could choose from. What do you think?

[Aloshi]

You can place a 'default' theme in ~/.emulationstation/theme.xml if I remember correctly. If you can find/make a nice theme, just have RetroPie-Setup copy it there. I'm not sure if I want to add a default theme to the git project, since there's no guarantee that the user is running from the "correct" working directory for ES to load a theme from.

Adding system-specific themes to RetroPie-Setup is possible, but it would clutter the ROM directory as it stands now. At some point I'm going to make the load path for themes defined by a variable in es_systems.cfg, so that the theme files can stay away from the ROM files - then you could keep themes in one folder with a structure like:

--esthemes/
-----nestheme.xml
-----snestheme.xml
-----nes_art/
----------background.jpg
----------header.jpg
-----snes_art/
----------background.jpg

I'll try adding this change later tonight.

[petrockblog]

Ok then, I was just wondering in which repository you would like to have the themes. I will add this to the issues list in the RetroPie repository! I hope that I will finally find some time to work on the script again next weekend.

Your idea about the load path variable is great and would definitely help to have a clear separation between configurations and roms! Thanks also for your initial thoughts on the folder structure.

[petrockblog]

I just commited an update for the RetroPie script that also includes the themes for NES and SNES by @xevin.