mmatyas/pegasus-frontend alpha14

Alpha 14

on GitHub

• General:
  • Added command line options for selectively disabling the buttons of the main menu, useful for kiosk setups. Here are the newly introduced parameters:
    • --disable-menu-reboot: Hides the system reboot entry in the main menu
    • --disable-menu-shutdown: Hides the system shutdown entry in the main menu
    • --disable-menu-appclose: Hides the closing Pegasus entry in the main menu
    • --disable-menu-settings: Hides the Settings menu entry in the main men
    • --kiosk: Alias for turning on all the above
  • Added support for game tags
  • Added support for custom game and collection sort orders
  • Added Chinese translation
  • Added support for disabling gamepad layout autodetection with --disable-gamepad-autoconfig (this is mainly for troubleshooting issues with custom controller hardware and such, especially on Raspberries)
  • Added more platform logos to the main theme and made lots of small usability improvements
  • Fixed a case where gamepad layout configurations of multiple gamepads weren't saved properly
  • Fixed a case where input was not working in terminal-based apps
  • Fixed the loading progress bar's width behaving incorrectly
  • Fixed the loading bar showing "0 games found" when returning from a game
  • Fixed favorite paths storing absolute paths even in portable mode
  • Fixed the log file getting spammed with PNG profile warnings
  • Fixed some incorrect logo colors in the main theme
  • Fixed a very rare possibility of game play times not saving accurate information
  • Fixed handling the comma key when it's set to an action on the keyboard config screen
  • Performance and memory usage improvements
  • Documentation updates
• Linux:
  • Added support for Odroid boards (experimental)
  • Added support for Lutris
  • Improved support for Steam when it's installed as a Flatpak app
  • Improved support for launching programs when Pegasus is installed as a Flatpak app
  • Fixed the OpenSSL issues on Ubuntu 19.04 and later
  • Fixed visible dbus messages on Linux when rebooting/shutting down
• Android:
  • Added support for using Pegasus as a launcher
  • Fixed the shutdown/reboot options visible on Android
• Windows:
  • Fixed networking issues with WiFi connections
  • Improved the program icon on Windows to support large icon size views
• EmulationStation compatibility:
  • Fixed games not having launch commands in some cases
• Steam compatibility:
  • Fixed games not ordered by title
  • Fixed networking issues
  • Fixed Proton builds (released so far) appearing among the games
• GOG compatibility:
  • Fixed networking issues
• LaunchBox compatibility:
  • Improved detection of platforms and games
  • Improved automatic video file detection and added support for manually set video and music files
  • Fixed support for images without numeric suffix
  • Fixed sort title not being set in some cases
  • Fixed command line parameters not getting passed in certain cases
• Skraper compatibility:
  • Box3D pictures are now also accepted as box frontal images
• Theme API
  • Added support for multiple files for all asset fields
  • Added support for QtQml.Models
  • Added support for global.fonts
  • Added support for [model].toVarArray()
  • Added a sortBy field to Collections and Games

New tools:

• An experimental script for converting ES themes to Pegasus themes: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/24610/es-to-pegasus-theme-converter

System requirements changes

There have been several updates to the components and tools Pegasus uses, and the official releases for certain platform has changed accordingly:

• The minimal required Android release is now 5.0 (Lollipop, released in 2015)
• The desktop Linux release is now built against Ubuntu 18.04
• The Raspberry releases are now built against Debian Buster (eg. RetroPie 4.6)

Of course, you can always build Pegasus from source to support your particular setup.

Updates for package maintainers:

• Pegasus now requires at least Qt 5.15.0
• Removed the INSTALL_DATADIR configuration option. It wasn't really used since Pegasus is a single executable, and for config files there are plenty of directories supported already.
• Added support for installing the readme and license files, by specifying the INSTALL_DOCDIR configuration option. For a global installation on Linux, the XDG spec recommends setting it to /usr/share/doc/pegasus-frontend.
• INSTALL_ICONDIR should now be set to the common directory of the different icon sizes, eg. /usr/share/icons/hicolor/