[mythtv-users] Default Buttons

Paul Harrison mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Fri Apr 6 15:07:48 UTC 2007


Josh wrote:
> I got fussed at for sending this to the "wrong" 
> list so I'll post it again over here...
>
> With the classic menu theme 
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/classic) I can quickly 
> snap a button on the screen to do  something like 
> a EXEC or generate a new MENU, but I can't seem to 
> figure it out on the default theme 
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default)... The DVR menu 
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/DVR) theme is not the 
> one I'm looking for either. Maybe I have to do 
> something specific to the theme being used or is 
> that what the "classic" menu theme eliminates and 
> I am actually doing it the correct way?
>
> I am working on a "hack" and I am creating the 
> Wiki for it and I want to cover as many 
> possibilities as I can. I got this working on my 
> system by simply switching to the classic menu 
> theme and hacking it up to look very similar to 
> the "default" I was using before hacking in the 
> buttons. But for some reason it lags in 
> performance to the default theme.
>
> Can someone help me out or get me pointed in the 
> right direction?
>
>   
The menu xml files for the default menu layout are '/usr/share/mythtv/' 
not where you would expect them to be in 
'/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default'. And no I don't know why either :-)

Paul H.




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