Better "Play" Tab Categorisation Thread - Desura

Adding a better list sorting for the "Play" tab could prove very beneficial in terms of organising long lists of games.
It would be extremely helpful if one could, besides the already existing columns, sort/show/hide the titles by genre, demo/full, single/multiplayer, etc.

we are looking at making the play list heaps better just have so little time to do the things we need to do first. Your suggestion is noted though

Take all the time you need guys. I'm just trying to help out. No pressure.

Allowing multiple custom tags to be added to games could be very handy too Steam tried this but it's currently very limiting still - only one tag per game: whereas I wanted to tag games as FPS, Racing, etc as well as Multiplayer, SinglePlayer, etc. Tags could additionally be community based allowing for voting up/down tags and setting a threshold for valid tags you want to see (this should minimise any random tagging issues).

Having these tags autocreated as per Alex's suggestion would be even better.

Look forward to whatever you come up with

The play page is just html/js and css. If your any good at coding that you are always welcome to make your own theme and customize the play list.

Plus if its any good im happy to role changes back into the default theme

Cool - didn't know you could do that

Not sure how much I can do but understood enough to remove "Demos" from my favourites list. Why demos? I tend to grab a bunch of demos to try out games but end up with a cluttered list (yes I could remove them but sometimes there's a bunch you want to keep around for a while).

Would eventually like to add a toggle button somewhere but it's a good start

Is there more information on themeing anywhere and limits of what you can do? eg. can I add a new tab in addition to Games and Favourites for the gamelist? Are there other "flags" or fields for games accessible? Eg. iteminfo..getGenre(), getTheme(), getProject, getPlayers, getBoxshot (could be good for a tiled gamelist layout, assuming the image provided is always the same dimensions), getRank, getReviews (link to reviews page?) Also how much info are you ok with people posting somewhere? Is it ok to post a tutorial or forum post with available methods of iteminfo (for the purpose of assisting themeing)?

I did a quick search and found the DesuraTweaks group but there's no forum or other themeing info there.

Edited by: Zarius

Hey Zarius,

Sorry you wont be able to add a new tab (might make that an option one day). If you look at the data/bindings folder there are all the code that bind the js side to the native side (you want all the ones starting with native_) in side them is the api and comments on what each function does.

Let me know if i can help you with any thing else.

Mark

Edited by: lodle

Cool, thanks for that Was pretty sure I couldn't add a new tab but would love to see themeing expand to being able to rearrange/enhance more of the client window. I did look into methods of itemInfo and the ones mentioned above are not possible currently - any possibility of these being added (eventually )?

Getting the Genre and Players automatically from the Desura item would be great as I could easily add a "sort by Genre and/or single/multi-player games" feature without having to store/categorise this information (that's already on the Desura website) for each game.

The DesuraTweaks group has just opened up a forum - I might start up a basic themeing tutorial over there detailing what methods are available, where to find the files and whats in each file.

There is a genre info attached to each item, should be a function to grab it.

Ok, will browse the API when I get a chance tonight.

You can gen a doc on the api by running this:

Github.com

Continuing the technical discussion here (at the Desura Tweaks forums) to free this thread up for more general discussion on what improvements to make rather than how to make them.