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@sokie Yeah, I was hoping that we had many of the necessary elements already in place. I have no clue yet what those two lines are meant to accomplish, but...

And I must say, I really appreciate the amount of brainwork you are putting into this discussion! Thank you guys! 👍

@pjft I believe that backwards compatibility for older themes should definitely be possible, and should be a firm requirement. I personally do not believe in the use for backwards compatibility...

>Will we abstract the other views as well As you probably noticed by now, I like to sketch out 5 yr horizons a lot, so what I'd like to see...

I've created [this document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x9kWhNUs7DLJOacaW7_GFxsqb1ckuEiigSyThUt1Y1E/edit?usp=sharing), please have a look and add anything you find missing.

@jrassa, @pjft, @sokie I thought it would be nice to report back with some of the things Ive been doing on this topic. It would be nice to get some...

@Darknior , please use the forum or the issue tracker to request new features, this is outside the current discussion.

So I've tried to implement a new class called ScrollableTextComponent, and learned something along the way about virtual inheritance no less!  So now the scrollable text box renders correctly...

Yep, it was rendered twice, once from the container, and once from the new hybrid component. Now onwards to sound handling! Op vr 16 jun. 2017 14:23 schreef pjft :...

Ok, I've updated my [dev branch](https://github.com/zigurana/EmulationStation/tree/ThemingRefactoring). By no means done, but it's good enough to give a a first test-drive / look over. Please note that I've currently disabled all...