Theme Assets and Alternatives Important Notes

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  • Extraction process has been updated so that if you’re extracting a grid image archive pack it will clear the grid folder before extracting.
  • Added support to the theme engine for including assets.muxzip file with your theme so that you can include a default set of grid icons with your theme.
  • Added ability to include .muxzip files as theme alternatives that get extracted when a theme alternative is selected

Documentation is here:
https://muos.dev/themes/theme_assets.html
https://muos.dev/themes/theme_alternative.html

I noted it in the documentation but it is important so I’m going to note it here too. When including images for content explore grid items it is a good idea to use Catalogue names when naming the png. Pixie can already use these names so it will make it more compatible with all users. Feel free to include alternate images that users can switch to.

There are several example users can look at on the muOS:

theme website https://theme.muos.dev/

Aurora themes by @Rosabel
Aurora
AuroraCloud
AuroraMidnight
AuroraMoon
AuroraRetro
AuroraTwilight
CatOs By: @Pankeko
muOS - Pixie - Grid By: @Bitter_Bizarro
MuOS Advance Pixie By: @JuhoSprite

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@bitter_bizarro how can I make an alternative bootlogo? Putting it to image folder doesn’t work. Maybe it is an issue?

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the bootlogo is read from a different area so right now the .muxzip is just updating the bootlogo that is in the active theme directory but not the bootlogo.bmp that is read on boot. Logic has been added to the next patch that will update the bootlogo after an alternative is selected.

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