Most themes not displaying right on Surfans F20

[bubuz0]

Hello there,

I am back using rockbox after an absence  of 15y.... and pun not intended, but you people really rock! Seeing an active, vibrant community like you is the reason that make me love free/libre software! <3 <3 <3

I got myself a 2nd hand Surfans F20, and rocked it with a native/nightly build. Downloaded a few themes that say "works with current dev build" from https://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?target=aigoerosq

- Most themes do not work, although sometimes alter the color scheme, they display a same default garbled theme, where all elements seem compressed towards the top of the screen
- One works partially: center art https://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1307&target=aigoerosq but all minimal graphical elements are replaced by lines of dotted squares (see attached files)
- surprisingly a few work, among them some rather complex ones like iRetro, with full of graphical and even animated elements, or dancepuff... so it seems like it's not a question of lack of resources...

Hence my questions to you:

- Is that a known issue? Is anybody else experiencing the same?
- How to diagnose this? Where to look? Are there logs upon loading themes, or something like this?
- Does anyone know how to know which themes work and which do not?

Thanks and long live to the R-Box! <3

[7o9]

Could you be missing some fonts?

Try installing the extra fonts from https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxExtras

[bubuz0]

hey there!

Thanks for your reply!

I installed https://www.rockbox.org/realwiki/pub/Main/RockboxExtras/anti_aliased_fonts.zip which seems to be containing everything i need...

What else can I be missing?

[bubuz0]

Also i don't know if it's relevant or not (video memory size maybe?) but my hardware revision is hw2 (a firmware version 2.7)

[speachy]

hey there!

I installed https://www.rockbox.org/realwiki/pub/Main/RockboxExtras/anti_aliased_fonts.zip which seems to be containing everything i need...

What else can I be missing?

Look at the *second* line of text on the RockboxExtras page.

[bubuz0]

thanks for your message!

I saw:
"We have a font-pack with a bunch of extra fonts. The font-pack is built with each release. A link to the latest font-pack can be found here. "

but the link has nothing related to the aigoerosq.

do these font-packs have something different than the one I linked?

do you think this is what prevents the themes from loading?

[speachy]

> but the link has nothing related to the aigoerosq.

If you look at the links, you'll see the font file is the same for all targets.

Meanwhile, there's also the download page specifically for the erosq:

   https://www.rockbox.org/dl.cgi?bin=aigoerosq

[bubuz0]

Aaah! Thanks!

So indeed! It sounds so obvious now that you mention it! I swear i did my RTFM... but the direct link to the font pack was missing from most page i looked for install, like here: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AIGOErosQK or at least it failed at conveying the importance of looking for them (that otherwise things would fail) and what/where to look for! ("antialiased-fonts" looked good enough for me...)

I am incredibly grateful, and rockbox look indeed gorgeous with all these themes!

I wish the applying of a theme would produce some sort of warning, or error messages, for idiots like me!

Thanks for all the amazing work, and long rocking life to rockbox! 

[speachy]

I added a reference to the font pack to various places on the theme site.  Hopefully that will forestall future confusion.

[bubuz0]

As said in the parlance of our time: 👍💖🚀

(thank you!)