Alright guys, time to finally release again. Vacation was great, but there is only so much time I can spend doing nothing. We'll be getting back to a regular release schedule, starting with the already teased "Quick Menu" feature. Theres quite a few smaler fixes and changes that made their way into this revision, so please - as always - dont hold back and give constructive feedback and report bugs!
The smaller stuff
- Fixes to the image loader to improve responsiveness and speed of background/game art loading
- Completely redone assets as vector graphics and properly aligned them for better scaling/improved sharpness
- Fixed brightness shortcut also bringing up game switcher
- Added new setting "default view" to directly boot into Game Switcher or Quick Menu instead of the usual list
- Finally added an icon for the "color temperature" adjustment
- Fixed an issue that duplicated all entries of the "recently played" list
- Fixed some text always rendering white to enable themes working off a white background
New feature: Quick Menu
- Quick menu on button (previously used for version info, which moved into settings.pak)
- Shortcuts for Wifi, Sleep, Reboot, Poweroff, as well as Settings app and Pak Store (if installed)
- Shortcuts to Collections (if present), Recents, Games, Tools folders
- Fully themeable (I hope)
Quick Menu theming
There are multiple elements to this:
- You can replace the icon assets (small and big) as usual in
.system/res. Please note that these are present in multiple sizes, e.g. "3x" for Brick and "2x" for TSP. - Each entry/toggle has its own background image when selected, which are loaded from
/mnt/SDCARD/.media/quick_<setting>.png. The valid names are "Collections", "Games", "Poweroff", "Reboot", "Settings", "Sleep", "Tools", "Wifi". In addition, a generic fallback background for the whole quick menu can be stored at/mnt/SDCARD/.media/quick.png. - If those options dont satisfy your theming needs, theres also an option to completely hide the UI elements of the quick switcher and build your own UI (with just the background images).
For full features list and help on how to use etc of NextUI:
https://nextui.loveretro.games/docs/
How to install/update
For a fresh installation, follow the instructions here: https://nextui.loveretro.games/getting-started/installation/
When updating from a previous release: https://nextui.loveretro.games/getting-started/updating/
What's Changed
Full Changelog: v5.5.1...v5.6.0