Xyb0t Posted Sunday at 12:55 PM Posted Sunday at 12:55 PM I installed a few themes and everything is very nice looking, but during app startup etc i still have the purple'ish background (looks kinda like the background pic here on the forum). Can i replace this background with another pic? When i export games from my Windows LaunchBox to Android, i end up with twice the number of folders. For every folder (box front and clear logo), there is a similar folder with a "thumb" suffix. What are these thumb files used for? Can i delete them to save a bit of space? Or maybe delete the non-thumb folders? Quote
faeran Posted Tuesday at 04:01 PM Posted Tuesday at 04:01 PM On 4/13/2025 at 8:55 AM, Xyb0t said: I installed a few themes and everything is very nice looking, but during app startup etc i still have the purple'ish background (looks kinda like the background pic here on the forum). Can i replace this background with another pic? When i export games from my Windows LaunchBox to Android, i end up with twice the number of folders. For every folder (box front and clear logo), there is a similar folder with a "thumb" suffix. What are these thumb files used for? Can i delete them to save a bit of space? Or maybe delete the non-thumb folders? Unfortunately, the startup background is not themeable. It's possible in the future we could allow it to be themeable, although if one were to use a theme that has broken code, you'd essentially stop yourself from opening the app. So, there's some risk there that would have to be mitigated. Unfortunately both the original sized image, and the thumb images are used throughout LaunchBox for Android. The thumb is used inside of lists and other places where performance is key. The normal sized images are used in places where quality is preferred and where it doesn't impact performance of the app. If you were to remove either of those folders you'd probably end up with blank spots throughout the app in places you didn't realize. We have talked internally about changing this up to be more device specific, while moving sizing off to our server and having the user download an optimized size based on their device. When that happens, it's possible we could move to a situation where images would not have to be cached for performance reasons. We are probably a ways off from that reality though. Quote
Xyb0t Posted 12 hours ago Author Posted 12 hours ago I do get the point about the default pic, but maybe it could be done another way? Like BigBox on Windows, where you are free to use startup videos and pics just by naming them a certain way or putting them in a certain folder? Tbh, the default picture is not very appealing Quote
faeran Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago 3 hours ago, Xyb0t said: I do get the point about the default pic, but maybe it could be done another way? Like BigBox on Windows, where you are free to use startup videos and pics just by naming them a certain way or putting them in a certain folder? Tbh, the default picture is not very appealing Yeah, can definitely see that. We probably could do something like that, keep it restricted to just a background pic, but let's say that happens, the pic used would either have to work well in a multitude of aspect ratios / orientations, or you'd have to provide multiple images that would be used in different aspect ratios / orientations. A great landscape image might not be great in portrait mode. I'm sure something could be worked out though. If you haven't already, get something into our feature request system here: https://feedback.launchbox.gg Quote
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