Closed ssokolow closed 6 days ago
I'm sorry for your trouble:-(. I think most people will install the icons by using the scummvm gui dl button. (Maybe we should add this default way the to readme)
But we could add that you can just put your icons into a zip file into the corect folder.
That'd be a big help.
I really prefer to download stuff manually, put it in sorted archival folders, and then install from the archival folders as a sort of human-centric "reproducible builds" workflow for system installs, sort of like how Flatpak breaks the build into a manifest-driven download phase that can't run arbitrary code and a build phase that can't download files.
You can put your icons in a
By the time I posted this, I'd already resorted to letting ScummVM download them on one machine, archiving what it downloaded, and then manually installing the archived dat files on another machine where ScummVM had no Internet access to make sure I understood what's going on.
The problem is, that's akin to giving up and using Steam to download DRM-free games in violation of my policy to never buy things that need specialized downloaders. I'm trying to make sure nobody else has to compromise like that.
(Granted, if I weren't so frustrated, I'd have had the patience to just stick to my principles and start reading the ScummVM source code to figure out what I was doing wrong.)
Well , maybe you could ask your questions on the scummvm discord server (if you have any further questions).
I think there's some kind of breakdown in communication here.
I have no more questions to ask. I'm trying to get the documentation improved for people who wind up in my situation in the future.
The official documentation for ScummVM is at https://docs.scummvm.org/ and there is a link to it in the side menu on https://www.scummvm.org/.
That documentation can certainly be improved. Regarding icons pack there is something on this page for manual installs: https://docs.scummvm.org/en/v2.8.0/settings/gui.html#updateicons
The icon packs can also be downloaded manually from https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/icons/ and must be placed in the Icon Path. The packs are incremental and you need all of them to have all the available icons and not just the most recent pack.
Based on what was confusing to you, do you have suggestion to improve these instructions?
I somehow missed those instructions and wound up at this repo, so it'd be a good idea to have something in the README that points users back toward those docs if they want to do a manual install.
Thank you for the feedback. I have updated the README to point to the documentation for instructions on how to use the icons.
I spent a long, frustrating waste of time trying to get these installed manually on a retro-hobby machine before giving up, temporarily granting unfiltered access to the Internet, and discovering they were expected to be in a completely different format.
icons
folder from the repo into the Icons folder... no dice.default
folder into the Icons folder... no dice.Please add something to the README to prevent others from making the same mistake.