[mythtv-theming] Themeing and inerhitance

[Stuart Morgan]

On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 18:16:07 Robert McNamara wrote:
> You're not necessarily looking at it incorrectly, as by changing
> widgets you can and do change the look and feel of the theme-- that
> said, from a policy perspective we are probably looking for something
> a little more differentiated from default/default-wide when possible.
> Those screens were mostly made up on the fly to cram necessary widgets
> in to (and with little regard in some cases to attractive layout) so
> if they bear any resemblance to Retro of olde, it's probably mostly
> coincidence. 

It's important to note at this point that default/default-wide could change to 
be very different to how they appear now, if that ever happens then any theme 
that relies on falling back to them is no longer going to appear as desired 
and may even break.

Defaults should be treated at last ditch "if all else fails then this is what 
we display" screens. Themes should not rely on them. Mythcenter in 0.22 does, 
but only because it was felt necessary to keep at least one old theme around 
for continuity reasons and no-one had time to do it properly.

-- 
Stuart Morgan