[mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

Jack R. Hyde jr at jrh.net
Tue Dec 6 17:58:11 EST 2005


Justin Hornsby wrote:
> Jack R. Hyde wrote:
>> Nice, this would make Project Grayhem the first wide enabled Vertical 
>> selection theme? I don't like the horizontal selection of Minimalist 
>> wide (or the look really, but I hate to bash the first and only? 
>> widescreen theme) so really looking forward to this. Figure I can 
>> also run a diff after you do all the hard work and maybe apply what I 
>> learn to some of the other themes =)
>>
>> Though it's quite possible I am far to lazy to actually get around to 
>> doing so.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> Glad you like it Jack, but there's more to converting a theme to wide 
> than stretching a few images (don't I just know it - lol).
>
Yep, I briefly looked into doing a mythcenter-wide, but the amount of 
changes was pretty staggering I thought. Just resizing some of the 
images as you pointed out is the easy part, which is why I was thinking 
running a diff on the xml between the two versions (wide & non wide) 
would be a valuable learning tool.
> And er.. yes it'll be the first vertical selection wide theme... and 
> the second 'free' theme in all.
>
> Making a theme is time-consuming but fun... what's stopping people? ;-)
>
> Regards,
> J.
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