Dingoonity user jack83 has released a alpha version of his pymenu download below.
Hello everyone!
I was not so satisfied with the usability of gmenu2x and the existing dmenu, so I started a new menu from scratch written in python3. I chose python because I don't know C/C++ that well and I'm able to test on the PC without changing much.
In the current state, its not much more than a collection of modules that will be a menu some day
I got
- a main selection screen
- file selection
- options popup menu
- general configuration menu with inputs for text, boolean, files, folders and images
There is a lot missing, but I'm working on it. While I'm capable to program the menu, I'm very bad at designing stuff. I tried to replicate the main menu of emulation station, but from there it gets ugly
If someone is interested in making a completely new design, please leave a comment
Update 10.07.2018
Gmenu next is progressing rapidly and I can not keep up, but from time to time I'm still working on PyMenu
Here is ALPHA2 of PyMenu
New in this release:
- Resume after launching a game/rom
- fixed folder bug
- added new layout options
- swapped left/right on main menu
- added descriptions for native apps
Limitations:
- Suspend can be configured but is not working yet
- USB mounting is probably broken
- Links in the ports section are broken if they need a selection browser. Used for Doom etc. to select a wad file.
Installation RS97:
1. You need the custom firmware for your device. Follow the guides listed here:
https://jutleys.wixsite.com/retrogamers97-90 , I recomend the external version
2. Extract the zip next to the gmenu2x folder. (Can only be accessed by using a card reader. Gmenu2x has its own partition). Folder has to be named "PyMenu"
3. run PyMenu/python/install.dge to install python
4. PyMenu can be run by starting PyMenu/run.sh
5. If you want to make it your default launcher, run PyMenu/installer/install.dge. This can currently only be undone by reflashing the cfw (or replacing the "main" script with the backup if you know what you are doing)
Tested on cfw 2.1_Final
I'm sorry but this is pretty lame. It doesn't even find any games in almost all my folders.
OMG that is f.... awsome. It would be so nice, if some people work on this, and autostart would be really great :-).
Well done ;-)