[mythtv-users] 6 day weather forecast issue in Mepo-Wide

William william_munson at comcast.net
Sun Jul 13 12:57:27 UTC 2008


Phill Edwards wrote:
>> I've made some changes to the following files so that the 6 day
>> weather shows correctly under a wide theme:
>>
>> weather-ui.xml
>> mw-background.png
>> mw-lines.png
>>
>> A screenshot of what it looks like now is available here -
>> http://www.oaklands.aust.com/mythtv/mythweather-wide-6day.png
>>
>> I can put them on a site for people to download, but shouldn't they
>> get included into the MythTV release files somehow? Is there someone I
>> could send them to for submission? (I'm not willing to follow the
>> steps in http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Submitting_Bug_Fixes as
>> I don't use SVN and don't want to get into all that).
>>     
>
> I'm just bumping this one as I got no response last time and it seems
> silly to have someone fix up a formatting problem in one of the
> screens but not have it find its way into the code base. As it is,
> every time an update happens the old broken layout overwrites the new
> working one. Isn't there a simple way to just give this to the devs to
> include in future releases?
>
> Regards,
> Phill
>   
AFAIK the only way to get this accepted by the devs is to use SVN. 
Download the branch for -fixes and make your changes to the source code, 
compile to make sure you did it right and then use svn diff to capture 
the changes and submit that diff file as a patch. Since its a theme 
related fix it should also be usable in the trunk branch.  By making the 
change to your local copy of the source tree all you will ever need to 
do is a "svn up" to bring your code up to the latest version. In 
addition, this will allow you to not compile in features (like HDHR 
support) that you do not use which will result in a noticable increase 
in performance. I have been compiling from source for years and its not 
at all hard. There are plenty of howto's to help you install the 
libraries you will need to compile.\

William.


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