[mythtv-users] Re: Mascot? (Was: commercial detection causing backend to stop)

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 05:25 am, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:38 am, Bruce Markey wrote:
> >>Michael J. Sherman wrote:
> >>...
> >>
> >>>Having come up with several themes, I can say it's quite hard to keep up
> >>>with all the small GUI changes that get made over time.  Also, I do not
> >>>run every myth module (recipe? I don't need no stinkin recipes), so I
> >>>cannot see all the changes that must be made for each module.
> >>
> >>This isn't (necessarily) an answer to keep a customized theme
> >>up to date but there is an easy way to continue to use old
> >>themes. The trick is the use the "ui.xml" from the blue theme.
> >>The theme will still have it's background, menu layout and fonts,
> >>images, etc. Pages like the Watch Recordings, Schedule Recordings,
> >>Program Finder, etc. will have the same layout as "blue" so all
> >>these pages will be up to date and will work.
> >
> > I really dislike color swap themes.  Kind of pointless, if you ask me.
>
> Noted =). Generally text is white, highlight is yellow and
> the record color is green and this looks okay on top of most
> backgrounds. This never worked for "liquid" because it has a
> nearly white background. The point is that you can use old
> themes without any manual changes. I still really like "iulius"
> for it's simplicity and uncluttered functionality.
>
> However, shortly after I sent this it struck me that with the
> new mythui stuff, old themes may not work anymore so this is
> probably a bad time to suggest this ;-).

I'm going to _try_ not to break the theme format, but I'm not going to go all 
out to keep compatability.

I still haven't decided how I'm going to handle convert the UI over.  It's not 
going to be very quick process, especially since I want to rewrite some of 
the logic as well to get rid of all blocking (no more processEvents() calls) 
and become more event driven, so nothing in the UI path will cause things to 
stall.

Isaac