Ok, so I've been slowly (s l o w l y) plugging away at things since the last release, and I've finally gotten things together enough to share.
For those unfamilar, here's my silly blurb from the README:
What's new?
from the NEWS file
and the README file:
This release involved an awful lot of rewriting and restructuring, which is my excuse for the number of months that have passed. Hopefully now that this is out of the way I'll be able to start knocking out more features/bugs from the github page and release a bit more often. Promises, promises.
Enjoy!
Download: 0.3.0.2-b464
Issue Tracking: https://github.com/nuhrin/pandafe/issues
For those unfamilar, here's my silly blurb from the README:
Pandafe is a sort of "universal" SDL frontend for Pandora games and emulators.
It was written especially for the Pandora, with the following goals:
* browse and run all roms and games from a single program
* specify commandline options for each game via a menu
* be fully configurable and extendable via the program itself
* use only dpad and buttons to do all this (no touching, heh)
* persist data via yaml, for human reading/writing/sharing
What's new?
from the NEWS file
* add category view
* use single list for platform view
* game rom management: rename, change category, delete
* game app management: rename, change category, edit ovr, delete pnd
* add terminal/file manager commands to various context menus
* add appearance presets
* much more extensive appearance configuration
* bug fixes and interface tweaks
and the README file:
Appearance Configuration
========================
Pandafe's appearance can be customized from the Preferences menu. This is
done through appearance "presets". The idea here is to allow folks to create
their own notion of pleasant and then share these baked appearance presets
with each other or submit them for inclusion in later releases.
Two presets are currently shipped, a new [Default] appearance and the
previous [Old Default]. These can be copied and modified to create new
appearances.
Game Rom/App Management
=======================
The context menu for games now provides an interface to perform various
actions on the rom or app representing the game.
For Roms
--------
* Rename * Change Category * Delete
Changing the category for a rom means moving the file(s) to a folder matching
the category name within the root rom folder for the platform. If you already
have your roms organized into subfolders within the platform rom folder,
these will be picked up as categories.
If there are multiple files associated with a rom, they will all be renamed/
moved/deleted. When renaming a .cue file based rom, the contents of the
que file will be updated as necessary.
Keep in mind that renaming rom files that most emulators associate saves,
states, etc by filename, so existing saves/etc will most likely no longer
work unless you rename those files manually. It would be nice if Pandafe
did this for you automatically, but it doesn't. Maybe later. [
]
For Apps
--------
* Rename * Change Category * Edit OVR * Delete PND
Renaming or changing the category for an app means creating/updating the
.ovr file for the app's pnd. This means your changes to apps here will
apply system wide.
The Edit OVR item allows you to edit all fields supported by .ovr files.
To return a field to its default, set it to blank.
========================
Pandafe's appearance can be customized from the Preferences menu. This is
done through appearance "presets". The idea here is to allow folks to create
their own notion of pleasant and then share these baked appearance presets
with each other or submit them for inclusion in later releases.
Two presets are currently shipped, a new [Default] appearance and the
previous [Old Default]. These can be copied and modified to create new
appearances.
Game Rom/App Management
=======================
The context menu for games now provides an interface to perform various
actions on the rom or app representing the game.
For Roms
--------
* Rename * Change Category * Delete
Changing the category for a rom means moving the file(s) to a folder matching
the category name within the root rom folder for the platform. If you already
have your roms organized into subfolders within the platform rom folder,
these will be picked up as categories.
If there are multiple files associated with a rom, they will all be renamed/
moved/deleted. When renaming a .cue file based rom, the contents of the
que file will be updated as necessary.
Keep in mind that renaming rom files that most emulators associate saves,
states, etc by filename, so existing saves/etc will most likely no longer
work unless you rename those files manually. It would be nice if Pandafe
did this for you automatically, but it doesn't. Maybe later. [
For Apps
--------
* Rename * Change Category * Edit OVR * Delete PND
Renaming or changing the category for an app means creating/updating the
.ovr file for the app's pnd. This means your changes to apps here will
apply system wide.
The Edit OVR item allows you to edit all fields supported by .ovr files.
To return a field to its default, set it to blank.
Enjoy!
Download: 0.3.0.2-b464
Issue Tracking: https://github.com/nuhrin/pandafe/issues
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