[mythtv-users] Guide settings gone in 0.22?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/11/2010 05:21 AM, Thomas Pontoppidan wrote:
> I can't be the judge of whether moving control to the theme is good or 
> bad, - and as a user I shouldn't really care either:-) What I miss is 
> (easier) user control, e.g. control by settings/variables in the GUI. 
> I also noticed that other GUI settings - like font sizes - don't work,

They work, but they--like they always have--control the font sizes for 
the non-themed, Qt widgets.  The theme controls the font sizes for the 
themed portions of Myth--as the theme always has.

> and I assume they don't work because the size has been "hard coded" in 
> the theme (I know it's not actual code, but it is out of reach for the 
> casual user). In my opinion these settings are a matter of personal 
> preference and therefore should be easily accesible.

They are.  In the Appearance section, there's a control called, 
"Theme."  If you change it, it changes the fonts/font sizes/...  :)

For more, see 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/405692#405692 and 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/405884#405884 (and a 
lot of other messages in that thread).

> A long time ago I used Meedio as my media center software. Besides 
> having a partly grapical theme editor that allowed the 
> not-so-technical user to create their own themes it had the great 
> advantage of theme variables (defined by the designer). That way the 
> theme designer could keep control of the vital parts and choose which 
> settings should be available through the frontend/setup GUI. I think a 
> similar approach (especially if more control is moved to the theme) 
> would be a great improvement to MythTV.

This would be wonderful--and would actually make sense now that the UI 
is mostly converted to mythui.  All we need, now, is someone to write 
such a theme editor...

Mike