[mythtv] OSD timeout settings

[Manuel McLure]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:
> But why would you want a different look
> and feel for the OSD and the main UI?

I'll throw my two cents in and mention my opinion. I would be somewhat
unhappy if I couldn't have Arclight as my main theme and an OSD
similar to BlackCurve - the transparency is a big feature to me since
it lets me see the show running behind the OSD. I believe that's why
people might want a different OSD theme from their main theme - the
OSD theme overlays/interrupts the video playback, so people might want
an OSD theme that's less intrusive and has less eye-candy than their
main theme.

> If I'm at cross purposes to the
> general view, then it's time for me to move on. That was, after all, a
> significant objective of the 'project' I've spent the last 6 months
> working on.

I think that moving the OSD to MythUI is a good thing. I'm a little
less sanguine about forcing the OSD theme to be the same as the main
Myth theme. If I'd been listening on the list when this was being
discussed I would have raised my opinion then, but unfortunately I was
not. Also, as far as MythUI is concerned I'm definitely in the user
rather than developer category, so I know my opinion doesn't have as
much weight as a developer's.


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