[theslx]

I’ve been playing around with this as well and I found an easy way to get rid of the text all together. I had the text running in front of the box art as well.
I solved this by changing he pos and size of each md_ element i don’t wish to see to:

<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
<size>0.01 0.01</size>

I had to paste this about 18 times in a theme.xml for one system. It’s easily copy pasted further to other systems though.

This is my simple xml’s detailed view portion:

<view name="detailed">
	
<!-- <measuring rectangle 
		<image name="measure" extra="true">
			<pos>0.025 0.6</pos>
			<origin>0 0</origin>
			<size>0.125 0.301</size>
			<path>./../art/white.png</path>
			<color>ff00ff</color>
		</image> 
-->

		<image name="md_image">
			<pos>0.025 0.22</pos>
<!-- 			<size>0.12 0.301</size>
 -->			<maxSize>0.12 0.301</maxSize>
			<origin>0 0</origin>
		</image>
		
		<text name="md_lbl_rating">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<text name="md_lbl_releasedate">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<text name="md_lbl_developer">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>

		<text name="md_lbl_publisher">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<text name="md_lbl_genre">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<text name="md_lbl_players">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>

		<text name="md_lbl_lastplayed">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>

		<text name="md_lbl_playcount">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<text name="md_playcount">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>

		<datetime name="md_lastplayed">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</datetime>
		
		<text name="md_players">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<text name="md_genre">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>

		<text name="md_publisher">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<text name="md_developer">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<datetime name="md_releasedate">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</datetime>
		
		<rating name="md_rating">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
			<filledPath>./../art/mid.png</filledPath>
			<unfilledPath>./../art/mid.png</unfilledPath>
		</rating>
		
		<text name="md_description">
			<pos>0.05 0.15</pos>
			<size>0.01 0.01</size>
		</text>
		
		<textlist name="gamelist">
			<pos>0.615 0.22</pos>
			<size>0.359 0.68</size>
			<alignment>left</alignment>
			<horizontalMargin>0.01</horizontalMargin>
		</textlist>

	</view>
	

Hope this helps and thanks for the idea :)

[theslx]

Just a little heads up, if hdmi cec in kodi is the only thing you need right now (emulationstation doesn’t support it (yet)) there seems to me a much easier approach.
I tried the above steps with compiling but I failed that. Then I just installed “cec-utils” and cec worked perfectly in kodi.

sudo apt-get install cec-utils

Hope this helps someone.

[theslx]

Hey there,
First of all, very nice job with the theme. I really love it.

I’m running into issues when using it on retropie though.
When I try to update all my systems to your theme, emulationstation crashes when it’s finished loading at startup.
I have been trying what it could be and I noticed that e.g. the GBA theme is the cause. After some more testing it showed that the GBA theme is not the only one crashing the system.

I wonder what could be the issue.
In an attempt to try to resolve it I installed emulationstation on my windows pc and added all the themes, suprisingly it worked perfectly there.

Have you or anyone else ever had issues with your themes not being able to load on retropie?

Thanks!

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