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Ozone content metadata and two thumbnails #14634

Open i30817 opened 1 year ago

i30817 commented 1 year ago

Description

With three-two (if the thumbnails are the 'main' ones selected) thumbnails content metadata is not displayed at all. However if the game happens to only have 1 thumbnail available to display in the current mode, it will.

This is probably because there is no space.

Expected behavior

What i'd like to happen is a ticker variant that is really a single line and display all 3 thumbnails at once in the column if they exist, and the ticker variant of content metadata being pinned to the bottom. I'd have to see how it looks but it seems like it should be possible from the space if the ticker was really a single line (it isn't).

Actual behavior

It's somewhat inconsistent. It's better than what it was before, because at least when you press the button to switch thumbnails there are no '3' thumbnail states like before, but only two, and that's good, but it would be interesting to see a state that displayed all the thumbnails and the content metadata. Failing that, at least when there are two visible ones, not hide the content metadata, maybe forcing the 'ticker' state.

Another, easier, way to achieve consistency would be a option in the appearance menu to always hide the content metadata.

Since the name of the core is the main culprit in making the 'ticker text' move, showing the 'short name' of the core (what's inside parenthesis if it's not autodetect), without the type of console would be good too.

@sonninnos

sonninnos commented 1 year ago

Sure, and also finding a proper solution for playlist items that don't have a boxart but do have screenshots, like C64. It kinda works only when second thumbnail is enabled, but with only the main one being boxart, it shows nothing. It looked kinda messy to know beforehand if the image really exists or not instead of being simply enabled.

i30817 commented 1 year ago

Yes, that's another thing i noticed. It makes one paranoid that the thumbnails are either missing or not downloading to the right name properly (in my case, this last one is because i actually have a custom fuzzy thumbnail downloader i programmed myself so it made me wonder if i was removing the forbidden characters correctly - i was).

It can also happen if you have the boxart but not the screenshot or the title, i think. It's normal for either to happen in some of the more neglected thumbnail repositories.

i30817 commented 1 year ago

Also if you select the ticker option, the metadata text doesn't display empty lines between the actual text, unlike the normal display. This seems inconsistent, and i assume unintentional. To display the text with both images, it might be sufficient to remove the extra \n's in the normal view?

edit: actually i tested it and no, it still omits it.