Homebrew [Release] Homebrew Launcher with grid layout

bunny365 · Oct 13, 2015

mashers said:
Morning guys! I've just attached beta 29. This update improves the screenshot code. Screenshots are now rotated in processing so are saved the right way round. Both screens are now drawn in one (larger) image so you don't have two separate files for the screenshot. Also, the screenshot PNG files are given unique filenames so they no longer get overwritten when you take another screenshot.

There should be a global "Default" button in the theme settings menu and an "OK" button. If the back button is pressed of the OK button, the theme settings will reset to before you opened the theme menu. This will prevent config saving lag every time you change one of the colors and go back. Also, the loading screen should show when saving settings.

AmandaRose · Oct 13, 2015

Baccabechoppin said:
Don't think he was referring to FTBrony, as he mentioned 'System titles". Last I checked, FTBrony isn't a system title.

he clearly states the Ftbrony crashes for him and he has used the hide title thingy to hide Ftbrony from the launcher along with the system files that don't work as well

bunny365 · Oct 13, 2015

Bug: With the icon based settings menu, changing the "Third row of icons" setting resets the settings grid layout based on the number of icons in the current folder, causing it to show the 8 settings icons then multiple blank pages.

mashers · Oct 13, 2015

bunny365 said:
Bug: With the icon based settings menu, changing the "Third row of icons" setting resets the settings grid layout based on the number of icons in the current folder, causing it to show the 8 settings icons then multiple blank pages.

Could you attach a screenshot please? I'm not getting that problem here.

nop90 · Oct 13, 2015

I would like an option to select if the .hbfolder have to be searched in the root dir or in the 3ds dir.

This because I don't like having a lot of files and directory in the root, so it will be better for me to place all the HB stuff organized in subfolder inside the 3ds folder.

Gocario · Oct 13, 2015

bunny365 said:
Bug: With the icon based settings menu, changing the "Third row of icons" setting resets the settings grid layout based on the number of icons in the current folder, causing it to show the 8 settings icons then multiple blank pages.

Was my post invisible?

Gocario said:
When switching the "Third row of icons" in setting menu.
The arrows of the "Wraparound scrolling" appear in the setting menu.

PS: add a door to the house. :3

Phanton · Oct 13, 2015

Marko76 said:
he clearly states the Ftbrony crashes for him and he has used the hide title thingy to hide Ftbrony from the launcher along with the system files that don't work as well

Nope, it is just as @Baccabechoppin says.

mashers · Oct 13, 2015

Just a little tease with ugly test wallpapers

BurningDesire · Oct 13, 2015

mashers said:
Just a little tease with ugly test wallpapers

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How hard world it be to add bg music to this?

Vague Rant · Oct 13, 2015

@mashers Looks like it's about time for you to start up a Theme Shop and start charging $3 a pop for crap wallpapers. It's good enough for Nintendo.

BurningDesire · Oct 13, 2015

Vague Rant said:
@mashers Looks like it's about time for you to start up a Theme Shop and start charging $3 a pop for crap wallpapers. It's good enough for Nintendo.

There should be a theme shop for the launcher in the launcher though. That would be pretty sweet.

mashers · Oct 13, 2015

Ok guys, beta 30 is up!

The selected app indicator is now no longer drawn on top of the grid background, meaning the corners should look clean now
Fixed the bug with the paging arrows appearing when toggling the third row of icons
Added an option to disable the water completely
Finally added custom wallpapers!
- Create a 400 x 240 PNG with no alpha channel (transparency). Call it wallpapertop.png and place it in the root of your SD card
- Create a 320 x 240 PNG with no alpha channel (transparency). Call it wallpaperbottom.png and place it in the root of your SD card
- The launcher will automatically find the files and set them as the wallpaper
- You may want to turn the water off in the settings so you can see the wallpaper properly

Currently, the text on the top screen doesn't look too good when on a wallpaper (as you can see in the screenshot below). Also, the grid background squares on the bottom screen don't look too good either when on a wallpaper. I need some suggestions here on how people think I should handle this:

For the top screen, should the wallpaper be made paler so the text stands out? Or should the text be drawn inside a translucent background on top of the wallpaper so the area where the text is displayed is paler?
For the bottom screen, I'm thinking of making the grid backgrounds translucent so you can see the wallpaper through them. What do you think?

Misledz · Oct 13, 2015

Just, gorgeous. This looks like it could slowly replace the default system xmb

Garcia98 · Oct 13, 2015

How can this be still in beta stage? xD

BurningDesire · Oct 13, 2015

@Garcia98 because nothing is perfect! In a year it will be at beta 1000 - Added option to change text typeface.

Misledz · Oct 13, 2015

Garcia98 said:
How can this be still in beta stage? xD

Because the core is based off Ninjhax 2.0 and a lot of that code is broken hence why it's still in beta by smealum. This is based off that so my guess is it will stay beta until smealum says 2.5 is perfect for where it should be.

BurningDesire · Oct 13, 2015

@mashers the wifi bar still needs to be moved a wee bit to the right

mashers · Oct 13, 2015

Misledz said:
Just, gorgeous. This looks like it could slowly replace the default system xmb

Thanks

Garcia98 said:
How can this be still in beta stage? xD

Misledz said:
Because the core is based off Ninjhax 2.0 and a lot of that code is broken hence why it's still in beta by smealum. This is based off that so my guess is it will stay beta until smealum says 2.5 is perfect for where it should be.

Kinda. But there are still little bugs here and there. Also, it will stay in 'beta' until I have implemented all of the features I want to work on. At that point it will go to 1.0 and the source will be released.

bunny365 · Oct 13, 2015

mashers said:
Kinda. But there are still little bugs here and there. Also, it will stay in 'beta' until I have implemented all of the features I want to work on. At that point it will go to 1.0 and the source will be released.

You know, if you put the code on GitHub now, we could actually help it get to 1.0, because we can use pull requests on it to add the different features. All the pull requests can be pulled up on one screen, where it'll show the changes, then you can easily accept them and sync the PR to your PC.

Phanton · Oct 13, 2015

mashers said:
Currently, the text on the top screen doesn't look too good when on a wallpaper (as you can see in the screenshot below). Also, the grid background squares on the bottom screen don't look too good either when on a wallpaper. I need some suggestions here on how people think I should handle this:

The only thing I can think of would be shadow for both text and apps on the grid.

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