Difficult to know what cores support

[hadess]

This might be fixed by expanding on the inventory, but as this is a UI problem, I'll file it here.

I'm a patron of Jotego, and even with that, I can't make heads or tails of this sort of screen:

(yes, my screen is very wide)

The icons are all the same, the core names are not very descriptive, and the core descriptions don't mention which games they support. Is jtround what I need to play "Knights of the Round"? (it's not) Does jtgng support "Ghosts and Goblins", "Ghouls and Ghosts" or both or neither?

Looks like the text files in https://github.com/jotego/jtbin/tree/master/pocket/raw answer some of those questions, but the information should probably be in the UI, somewhere.

[neil-morrison44]

If you go to Platforms -> Data Packs & Image Packs you can change all the JOTEGO cores to use names / images given by the community.

There’s probably something in an option to have one of those applied by default on install though

[hadess]

There’s probably something in an option to have one of those applied by default on install though

That would be more than useful in this case. Is there any way I can ship then directly with pocket-sync in Flathub, or did you want them downloaded some other way?

[neil-morrison44]

They already come in via the “Data Packs” & “Image Packs” buttons in the Platforms view - that’ll let you change the names & images already

Not sure what the UI around the “apply automatically” setting would look like, maybe something on the zip install screen.

[hadess]

It's nice that it's easy to change them, but wouldn't it be nicer if those more descriptive icons were used out-of-the-box? I honestly haven't looked at where the "core thumbnails" were loaded from.

[neil-morrison44]

The ones that come in with the cores are from the core authors themselves (hence why I don’t want to change them by default - JOTEGO ones are named to avoid any trademarks).

Theres definitely something in presenting the user the option to apply a data / image pack at the point of update / install though, if it wouldn’t cause the UI to be too loaded

[neil-morrison44]

In terms of knowing what a given core does I have suggested openfpga-cores-inventory/analogue-pocket#472 on the inventory side, which would mean that the app could link to (or pull in) information on Wikipedia for each core