[mythtv-users] LxMSuite.com to provide services to the Myth community

[Stephen Boddy]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 22:41, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> * The first of many new themes. James Meyer has been working closely
> with some artists/UI designers hired by Technovera to produce the
> first of many themes.  It's nearly complete and is *really* sharp, I'm
> currently running it on my main machine and frankly it makes my own
> themes look like a piles of dog crap. Some screenshots are:
> http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/menu1.jpg (there's 6 of those,
> just change the number)
> http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/playbackbox_preview.jpg
> http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/playbackbox_nopreview.jpg and
> http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/video_manager.jpg.

I hate to sound like a knocker, and for the most part I like the design, but I 
can see 4 problems with that theme

1) It's very dark. The unhighlighted menu items are quite difficult to read 
for speedy operation.
2) It's rather monochromatic. Black and white with a few blue bits is a little 
dull.
3) The menu6.jpg shows the blue theme on the screen, which looks a little out 
of place.
4) The next release of MythTV is planned to change the theming UI and 
capabilities. Perhaps they're a little premature, although obviously there is 
no indication of how long 0.19 will take.

It'll be interesting to see how this evolves.
-- 
Steve Boddy