[mythtv-users] A new theme on the way...

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 13:35:59 UTC 2009


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:53 AM, raptor jr<raptorjr at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It looks really good. But i hope you release it a little earlier. Looking
> back on previous versions of MythTV it would take 12-24 months before we
> could use your theme if you should wait for 0.23. That would be sad.

A couple things about this-- The goal is not to let it go too long
until .23.  Ideally, the gap between .22 and .23 will be much, much
shorter than ever before, though I will refrain from making any
promises.   More importantly, there's quite a lot of MythUI that is
not yet implemented-- things like video previews, animated
buttonlists, transitions, GL effects, and the like.  Releasing
Arclight early would prevent me from using any of these things planned
for .23, and I won't do that.  Graphite, which was a comparatively
simple theme, took me seven months, thus my reason for starting early
with Arclight.  A theme is definitely *not* something you throw
together in a weekend, and releasing it sooner would mean rushing it--
which brings me to my last point-- the whole idea of Arclight is a
theme where I refuse to make any concessions or compromises.
Releasing sooner just to release sooner would be the biggest
compromise of all.

Robert


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