libretro / libretro/RetroArch

(Menu) Add "user_label" to allow renaming playlist entries without losing thumbnails

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Description

Description

When a ROM is renamed from within the GUI, the thumbnails, cover art, screenshots, and information for the ROM will no longer be valid (typically empty). There should be an extra field in the playlist with a key like "user_label". If non-empty this should override the "label" for the user view in playlists, but not for RetroArch internal lookups.

Expected behavior

Expect renaming the ROM to have no change on the thumbnail, cover art, screenshot, and information of that ROM.

Actual behavior

All of that information is disassociated from the ROM.

Steps to reproduce the bug
  1. Load a ROM into a playlist.
  2. Load the thumbnail for the ROM.
  3. Rename the ROM (via the GUI).
  4. Load the thumbnail for the ROM.
Bisect Results

Always true, as far as I can tell.

Version/Commit

You can find this information under Information/System Information

  • RetroArch: 1.8.4
Environment information
  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04 (Linux)

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by tracing the GUI playlist rename flow and the playlist label and thumbnail lookup behavior described in the issue. Verify how renaming changes the label used for user display versus RetroArch's internal lookup, then confirm that thumbnails, cover art, screenshots, and information remain associated after the rename.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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