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EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) - Feature roadmap

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.

A more detailed breakdown can be found on the Kanban board, and for previous releases the Changelog contains all relevant details.

General functionality

  • Game manual viewer (PDF documents)
  • RetroAchievements.org integration
  • "Time played" counter per game, similar to how it works in Steam
  • Bulk metadata editor
  • Mouse/touch screen support
  • Background music
  • Controller button mappings from inside ES-DE (similar to pad2key in Batocera)
  • Localization/multi-language support
  • Audit tools to clean up orphaned gamelist entries, media files etc.
  • Auto-import tools for Steam, Lutris etc.

User interface

  • Selection between light and dark color schemes for the menu system
  • Menu reorganization, possibly adding basic/advanced modes
  • Animated menu elements like switches and tick boxes
  • Simple file browsing component

Theme engine

  • Composite element support for enabling advanced and finely controlled layouts
  • Element animation support (storyboards)
  • Scrollbar component for the system and gamelist views
  • Removal of legacy theme support

Scraper

  • Scraping of game manuals
  • Checksum support for the scraper for exact searches and for determining when to overwrite files
  • Support for additional scraper services

Infrastructure

  • New texture/cache manager with improved memory management and performance
  • Better and more accurate RAM and VRAM usage statistics
  • Vulkan renderer for all supported operating systems (via MoltenVK on macOS)
  • Proper audio mixer
  • Improved multi-threading
  • Reduced amount of gamelist reloading to retain cached textures and improve overall performance
  • Replace the built-in Unicode functions and lookup tables with those of the ICU library
  • Text kerning support using the HarfBuzz library
  • Replacement for the abandoned FreeImage library