[Suggestion] Screenshots in Addons

[Mish7913]

I have a brilliant idea: what if add screenshots in addons?

Right now items in addons looks like that:


But what if make looks like that? 
(I just edited screenshot in GIMP for example)

[GustaLOLE]

Holy sh*t, this Dashie version is so pretty omg

Btw, this version will continue with the same hitbox/size of the old one? I usually use this kart overriding Gravroche (for tracks where the space for racing is reduced).

[Mish7913]

Well ... kart size is a little bit larger than the old one, it's almost the same as my new Suzanne kart.

[Sven]

Some ways to better show a preview of tracks and karts than just an icoon or small screenshot are a good idea for sure.

[Alayan]

I couldn't find something about this in STK's issues on GitHub after a quick search (well there is https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/1844 but that's not really what we are after). There is also https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/4482.

But in any case, the deficiencies of the addons screen are well-known, and the lack of proper preview pictures for tracks and karts has been something that has been bothering me too for a long time. So although this apparently wasn't official in the bug tracker, this was definitely somewhere in my mental TODO list.

Since we are planning a general UI overhaul, specifics are hard to pin down, and we'd have to account for what Benau mentioned in one of the tickets linked above about picture downloads from the server, but we should absolutely give ways for player to get a proper preview of what they are about to download. The use of tiny pictures that don't take too much space and could be cached locally could perhaps help.

We should probably have some standardization on what we require from addons authors to make the addons browsing experience more consistent. Something like minimap + extra track pictures for tracks ; and views from kart selection and from a track (showing different angles of the kart) for karts?

If we can match the pictures to a specific meaning/category, the game could then consistently display them in the same spot in the UI, perhaps even with captions.

Feel free to further discuss how the addons screen can be redesigned and improved, that can only serve as useful inspiration for the future redesign.