<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt">First thank for Google group information.<br><br>Second, it is just about the first two levels of layout. <br><br>Example is Graphite with Classic Menu Theme<br><br>First layer have Settings, TV, Videos and Games (Settings to be hidden or parental control protected, other 3 visible or without protection)<br><br>- TV layer have Watch TV, Watch Recordings, Previously Recorded (all 3 should be available), Schedule Recordings (removing, no needs in client PC), System Status (removing, no needs in client PC, or can be parental control protected), TV settings ( (removing, exist in Settings submenu - second level).<br><br>- Videos is more simple, because it should to be removed just Video settings (exist in Settings submenu - second level).<br><br>- Games no needs for changes at all.<br><br>- Music is
similar to videos (but it is less important of all media).<br><br>- Other plugins, hard to expect to be installed for public usage (but it is not too different situation).<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Raymond Wagner <raymond@wagnerrp.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion about MythTV theming <mythtv-theming@mythtv.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, September 22, 2010 9:41:32 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-theming] Menu Theme Customization Request<br></font><br>
On 9/22/2010 09:55, Ljubomir Manojlovic wrote:
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<div>I'm looking for Menu themes (now is available default,
classic, DVR and mediacenter).<br>
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That mean how ALL dialogs with any sort of the settings (so,
it is about the MythTV in client PC, it is not about media
deletion in media server) should to be in some way hidden from
final user (to disable user to make ANY TYPE OF CHANGES in
menu).<br>
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I wrote how it is for cyber cafe (it is stupid to limit PC
usage just for internet and office), but think about the
schools (e.g. educational movies), libraries (e.g. listening
music), etc. Any administrator can not permit situation where
public user can make changes in media center settings.</div>
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Menu themes don't do what you think they do. They only control the
first two levels of layout. Once you get into any of the individual
sections and plugins, the interface is all hard coded. The changes
you ask for would require large amounts of coding and relatively
little theming.<br>
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MythTV was designed for home use, not commercial, and as such,
security wasn't even an afterthought. There is no authentication on
the backend protocol or XML interface, and no access management to
MySQL besides its own access credentials. There is no way to
restrict access to content, beside the parental controls which take
a 4-digit PIN. There is no way to prevent modification or deletion
of content, recording rules, or any other behavior in MythTV.<br>
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There (supposedly) are several commercial installations of MythTV,
including some hotels, schools, and even one residential cable
provider in Canada. These all required heavy modification to get
running securely, which we have never been submitted back upstream
to us. For any paid contract work you are looking for, there is a
Google group set up to handle that.<br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://groups.google.com/group/mythtv-contractors">http://groups.google.com/group/mythtv-contractors</a></span><br>
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