oggzee said:Would you find the ability to change the overlay file name useful?
As at the moment the file names are hard-coded (bg_overlay.png, bg_overlay_w.png, bg_gui_over.png, bg_gui_over_w.png). And I'm leaning towards not making that configurable so that the filenames are standardized and can be easily swapped between themes without the need to edit theme.txt. Also note: if there are no wide variants supplied then the normal 4:3 overlay is used, so it is possible to use the same file for both 4:3 and wide mode. I'm mostly looking for opinion from: DonTlaloc, Blue-K, Milkoi and Narolez. But if anyone has any thoughts about that let me know.
Either way is ok with me, at first I thought hard-coded but after reading what Dr. Clipper wrote, I'm leaning towards configurability. And the guys who prefer the default naming can just use that and not specify it in theme.txt.
Actually, all in all I think I prefer the good old way (without the overlays) for most of the themes I've made - some of the effects use colors from the background in Photoshop and that's not easily reproduced by using the overlays. But I think I'll make a couple of 'generic' themes of with the overlays so people can easily put in their own backgrounds if they prefer that.