Eleganz v0.01 by KaKaRoTo
Hi everyone, Last year, in January, I decided to have some fun and write a homebrew application using the EFL libraries. I decided to work on a homebrew manager.. basically a replacement to the XMB.
Install on your PS3
| File | Size | |
|---|---|---|
| Eleganz.AllCFW.pkg 51c00537…369c | 7.8 MB | Send to PS3 Download |
Other ways to install
On the PS3: open store.brewology.com/ps3/eleganz/ in its browser, press Download and install it from Package Manager › Install Package Files in the Game column.
From a USB drive: copy Eleganz.AllCFW_brewology_com.pkg to the root of a USB drive (FAT32), plug it into the PS3 and install it from Package Manager › Install Package Files in the Game column.
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About Eleganz
Hi everyone,
Last year, in January, I decided to have some fun and write a homebrew application using the EFL libraries. I decided to work on a homebrew manager.. basically a replacement to the XMB. It went really well, and the development was really fast, and it was all thanks to the awesome API and capabilities of the EFL libraries. However, I became busy and was unable to continue... also, it was a bit slow and without proper hardware acceleration, it wouldn't be as good as I hoped for, so I put the project on the side.
After many months, in September, thanks to gzorin's work, we finally had a working and usable GL implementation and the EFL apps automatically gained from it by becoming hardware accelerated. My homebrew manager was much better! but I still needed to finish a few things and I didn't have time so I put to rest again.
Today, I have decided to release this homebrew application, as is for everyone's enjoyment! This means that it is not fully working, it might still have some bugs here and there, but it is still a homebrew app that people can use and have some fun with. Most importantly it will serve 4 purposes:
Maybe re-awaken this dying PS3 homebrew scene
Be a good "exercise to the community" for finishing it up
Be a good example of what can be done with the EFL
Bring non-developers into writing EFL themes for the app
I introduce to you, Eleganz! The Elegant Homebrew Manager! A little homebrew app that lets you install pkg files and run your games directly from it.
I have published my app in both github and on ps3dev's gitorious. and you can also download a pre-compiled .pkg for your PS3 to have fun with it.
Here are some highglights of the application (features, limitations and bugs):
The whole User Interface is completely customizable with themes
Installs .pkg files locally to its own data directory (won't be visible in the real XMB, unless someone reverses the database format)
Does not yet run games (it's for you to do it, use ps3load as reference maybe...)
Current theme is missing proper theme/images for the progressbar windows (default exquisite/E17 theme used)
System freezes for a few milliseconds when it tries to load a game's background image (might be fixed if we implement a pthread library and threading support in the EFL)
Apparently crashes when it exits (bug)