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AstroDad2

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  1. Yes. Deleted from both cache folders while the apps were not running. Image always comes back in both LB and BB.
  2. Hi all -- I found this thread while searching for a way to force Launchbox and Bigbox to just use plain text for ALL playlist names, and I'm confused about where this landed. The BitBucket issue is marked as "resolved" but it doesn't seem resolved to me. My situation is that I've made a number of playlists, some of which happen to have common genre names (e.g. "Role Playing") and some of which are very custom to my situation that aren't genres (e.g. "Kid Favorites"). LaunchBox and BigBox both are forcing a clear logo image on any playlist that it thinks is a genre (like Role Playing), which means that no matter which theme I use, my playlist view is a mix of plain text (which I want for all), and inconsistent logo images (which I do not want). As documented extensively by the OP in this thread, I have repeatedly edited and removed the Clear Logo image in the playlists' settings. It always comes back. I have deleted every occurrence of the logo images from the playlist folders, and from both cache folders. They always come back. No, I'm not going to use the plain text view for the themes. It's too small and I want the rest of the theme's look/animation, I just don't want to be FORCED to use logos that I didn't put in there!! All this talk about the BigBox theme builders doing a workaround for this is not the solution, or people having to hack in clear logo images that are just text -- for one thing, this is happening in LaunchBox, not just BigBox. Second, that's not really a solution and it's not intuitive. As a user, when I didn't explicitly add a logo image for my playlist, it shouldn't magically get one. Even worse, when I explicitly remove the logo image for my playlist, it shouldn't magically come back with no way to stop it! That is terrible UX design. I'm a paid user and a big reason for that is because LB/BB allows me to create a beautiful showcase for my games. This bug is a major annoyance, because in order to get consistent look for my playlists I have to manually create logos for all of them, when I could just let them be text. Please fix this. EDIT: opened a BitBucket issue I didn't put this image there: Clicking edit, deleting the image: Closed, deleted all images from all playlist and cache folders. And it just comes back, and shows in my BigBox themes:
  3. I think this theme has amazing aesthetics and I really like a lot of things about it, but I wanted to provide a little feedback on the usability. I've observed one problem when using this theme with my kids and wife, and that is the way to "flip through" different things is not immediately obvious. Like from platform to platform. The initial impression when looking at an item in one of these high level "carousels" (like a platform) is that your only option is to drill into that platform. Yes, there are tiny little arrows in the bottom right, but that doesn't seem to be enough. A lot of big-screen UIs address this by "peeking" the other items -- you can see half of an image to the right or left of the next and previous items, for example. Or maybe the next/previous are faded out a bit and only the one you're on is 100% alpha. It not only provides a strong visual indicator as to whether you should go up/down or left/right, but it also helps orient users. People build mental maps in their mind, and being able to see more than one thing at a time helps with orientation in a UI. Look at the various streaming boxes/apps -- Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Android TV...they all do this. I think a stronger visual indicator of what's next/previous for these high-level carousels would be a really positive user experience enhancement. As of right now, it's a big reason I haven't made this my main theme. Other than that...this theme is really fantastic and professional looking!
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