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What features should be added to theming spec?

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speachy:
I'm not a fan of themes having untranslatable strings. 

For this specific use case, I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to add a global configuration option to give a given device a unique name (defaulting to "rockbox player" or "ipod4g" or whatever) then give the theme engine access to that?  This way it's clear that it's a user-specified string.

iPodVT:

--- Quote from: speachy on June 11, 2023, 12:19:24 PM ---For this specific use case, I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to add a global configuration option to give a given device a unique name (defaulting to "rockbox player" or "ipod4g" or whatever) then give the theme engine access to that?  This way it's clear that it's a user-specified string.

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That sounds good, but I'm not sure I understand the specifics:  do you mean there would be something in Settings that would allow the user to specify a piece of text that a theme could retrieve?  In any case, I think the mechanism should allow for the possibility that the data might be zero length (either by default or by the user's choice) and then the theme, recognizing the absence, could knowingly do the right thing.

Dook:

--- Quote from: Frankenpod on June 10, 2023, 04:57:17 PM ---Maybe an option when displaying album art to rotate it?

  Either in increments of 90degrees in the plane of the screen (i.e. ability to show it sideways or upside down) or (presumably more complex and more work for the device's processor) to display it with a perspective change, as if rotated perpendicular to the screen (kind of like what happens with the Picture Flow plugin or the ipod's original 'cover flow').  Some themes already have a kind of faked perspective rotation effect which really just clips off the edges of the image but doesn't actually change the perspective.

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Yeah, I'd like to see have a lot more options with album art. I've seen some people try and build a vertical UI for ipods, maybe some kind of different viewport that is drawn at a specific angle could be a solution?

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