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# EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) - Feature roadmap
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ES-DE is developed using an agile methodology so which features to include per release is reviewed and adjusted continuously. As such this document is basically a list of the main features that are planned to be added eventually.
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A more detailed breakdown can be found on the [Kanban](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/boards) board, and for previous releases the [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) contains all relevant details.
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**General functionality**
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* Game manual viewer (PDF documents)
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* RetroAchievements.org integration
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* "Time played" counter per game, similar to how it works in Steam
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* Bulk metadata editor
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* Mouse/touch screen support
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* Background music
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* Controller button mappings from inside ES-DE (similar to pad2key in Batocera)
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* Localization/multi-language support
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* Audit tools to clean up orphaned gamelist entries, media files etc.
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* Auto-import tools for Steam, Lutris etc.
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**User interface**
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* Selection between light and dark color schemes for the menu system
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* Menu reorganization, possibly adding basic/advanced modes
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* Animated menu elements like switches and tick boxes
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* Simple file browsing component
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**Theme engine**
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* Composite element support for enabling advanced and finely controlled layouts
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* Element animation support (storyboards)
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* Scrollbar component for the system and gamelist views
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* Removal of legacy theme support
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**Scraper**
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* Scraping of game manuals
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* Checksum support for the scraper for exact searches and for determining when to overwrite files
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* Support for additional scraper services
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**Infrastructure**
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* New texture/cache manager with improved memory management and performance
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* Better and more accurate RAM and VRAM usage statistics
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* Vulkan renderer for all supported operating systems (via MoltenVK on macOS)
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* Proper audio mixer
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* Improved multi-threading
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* Reduced amount of gamelist reloading to retain cached textures and improve overall performance
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* Replace the built-in Unicode functions and lookup tables with those of the ICU library
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* Text kerning support using the HarfBuzz library
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* Replacement for the abandoned FreeImage library
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