Its about time we got directly involved in this discussion Yes, we are planning a complete GUI overhaul in the near future (after the in-game text reader is complete) and we want to take input from you, our customers, in order to ensure that we can deliver an excellent GUI. The most important thing for us is that when the new GUI is complete, it must be fully compatible with all the current skins that have been created - there is such a vast library of truly great skins now that doing anything to make them incompatible would be a huge mistake.
So what we propose is a flexible GUI system which can take any current skin and apply that to the new GUI engine. In cases where any of the "old style" skins are used the appearance would be similar to what we have currently, with a few subtle changes such as the look of dialog boxes and various GUI widgets such as buttons, check boxes etc. GUI widgets will be skinnable, but in cases where they are not provided by the skin we can simply use the built-in widget bitmaps and apply the skin colours to them.
There are various enhancements/additions which we will definitely be adding, including:
* Fully configurable main screen - can specify which buttons to add, where they will be placed and what each button will do
* File operations (delete, copy, move, hide, unhide etc)
* Per game settings screen for configuring cheat codes, RTS files, .sav files etc
* Properly working, draggable scroll bar
* Option of using the top screen for something useful such as displaying ROM information, a calendar etc
* Different backgrounds for the main screen and the file list
