[mythtv] Testing the default and default-wide themes

[Scott Theisen]

On 9/30/22 20:35, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 01/10/2022 01:32, Paul Harrison wrote:
>
>> On 01/10/2022 00:02, Scott Theisen wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> How do I test the default and default-wide themes?
>>>
>>> I am confident in my changes to them in 
>>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/646 since they are the same 
>>> for all themes, but I was wondering how to test those themes.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Scott Theisen
>>>
>>
>> They are only used as a fallback if your chosen theme doesn't have a 
>> particular <window> definition.
>>
>>
>> If the theme is a wide theme then the search for the <window> will go 
>> look in the theme first then fallback to default-wide and finally try 
>> default.
>>
>>
>> If the theme is a 4:3 theme the the search will look in the theme 
>> first then try default.
>>
>>
>> To test them you can rename the <window> or comment it out in the 
>> active theme so the fallback will work. It doesn't always look good 
>> because of differences in the base elements but it's considered 
>> better that not working at all.
>>

Changing the <window> name worked, thanks.  MythCenter looked the same.  
MythCenter-wide has the "pagetitle" more in the corner, but was 
otherwise the same.

>
> I meant to say it doesn't seem a good enough reason to break all 
> themes IMHO? If it was for a feature addition or change then I can 
> live with it but for what appears to be some code clean up I'm not so 
> sure.
>
>
> Paul H.
>

I don't understand this comment; it doesn't seem to follow the rest.  
Setting the subtitle of a manual recording in mythfrontend is a new feature.

Regards,

Scott