[mythtv] MePo-wide. A New Mythtv Theme now available for downlaod.

[Steven Adeff]

On 1/5/07, Zdzislaw Gorlicki <zdzisekg at comcast.net> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 1/3/07, Zdzislaw Gorlicki <zdzisekg at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> It's still work in progress, but after struggling with it for over two
> >> months, I wanted to share it with you.
> >> It was tested on trunk, but 0.20 should work as well. All core
> >> components should work + mythmusic. Rest should be done within a month
> >> or so.
> >> You can get it from http://home.comcast.net/~zdzisekg/
> >>
> >> PLEASE READ THE "ABOUT" AND "README" PAGES on WEBSITE.
> >>
> >> Hope you guys enjoy it.
> >>
> >> Jesse.
> >>
> >
> > some thoughts after using it today...
> >
> > the watch recordings screen space for the shows listed (the right
> > side) does not give enough room to show the important info and the
> > file size text takes up way too much room.
> > Episode name/title is cut short to about 20 letters not enough to
> > really be useful. The date only shows one letter (ie T for Thursday, W
> > for Wednesday, etc). Also there is a lot of space in this area that is
> > not being used which would allow more information to be shown.
> >
> > Also, the main menu requires scrolling, which is very annoying.
> >
> >
> I think it's very important to stay consistent throughout the theme.I'll
> try to complete the theme with the layout as is, however not having
> enough room in the right panel and the bottom one did give me some
> issues and I'll try to come up with a better idea for the different
> screens in the future.
>
> "watch recording" screen - , you still have to go through the list of
> recordings to get to the one you want, as you go through all info is
> displayed in the bottom panel. So I thought it's not that important to
> have the same info displayed twice on the screen. that applies to most
> other screens as well.

except then I have to go to the specific recording. OR I could look at
~5 or 6 recordings at once if I could just see them.

I'm also noticing the information on the bottom is formatted such that
if the channel number is greater than 99 then things get cut off.

-- 
Steve
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