Netplay Room List Text + Sublabel

[RobLoach]

The Netplay rooms list text could use some tweaking to improve usability, mainly displaying the game name in the main label. Would love @fr500's thoughts on this one.

Expected behavior

Should be able to see available games without scrolling and setting focus on the room.

Actual behavior

In order to see what game the netplay room is playing, you have to scroll down to the entry. In the screenshot above, you can't see what "bp" is playing without scrolling down to it.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Run RetroArch
2. Visit Netplay
3. Refresh the rooms
4. See a list of room nicknames, which is helpful, but it would be nicer if it listed the game name.

Version/Commit

You can find this information under Information/System Information

• RetroArch: 1.4.0 git 38bfed4a93a733f79b6dd5d230c017ca784fedaa

Proposed Solution

Change both the label and sublabel to be more descriptive when browsing the rooms.

Current

Nickname: ROOMNAME
CORENAME (VERSION)
GAME (HASH)

Proposed

ROOMNAME - GAME
CORENAME (VERSION)
HASH

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[silentq]

Was asked for thoughts on this so I will give them.

Ideally for usability you would probably just want the game name listed.

When pressing on the game name a sub menu should pop up displaying the same way it currently does showing the nicknames exact rom name etc. with all the hosts currently playing the game.

So basically:

Game Name

• Nicknames,rom name, core

Essentially this would make finding a game easier imo.

Thoughts?

[RobLoach]

@silentq Ideally for usability you would probably just want the game name listed.

If you were to join a friend though, you would want to easily find her name.

Existing UIs

Here is a quick list of some existing server lists out there...

Old Steam

Battlefront II

Minecraft 1.6

[zach-morris]

Maybe this is or isn't the right place to suggest this, but it would be nice to add an extra field for description of the netplay game, which would just be an optional entry the host could provide when starting the game. Viewing the description the host entered would appear when the available game is highlighted in the lobby. I'm thinking of things like:

Nickname: Zach Core: SNES9x Game: Super Mario World Description: Watch me try to speedrun this game! or Description: Chat with me on discord channel xyz

It could provide just a little more info to people on what the player is interested in.

[LibretroAdmin]

@Cthulhu-throwaway Are there any more useful ideas in this Github issue or can it be closed entirely?