[mythtv-users] Theme Competition Voting Now Open

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/15/2010 05:57 PM, ryan patterson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>    
>> Forwarding to -users list for anyone here who wants to try out the themes
>> with MythTV trunk...
>>
>> Hello users,
>>
>> Voting for the theme competition is now open!  You can see the
>> competition voting site here:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/theming-competition
>>
>> We have three eligible themes in the competition:  Childish, a 4:3
>> theme aimed at children from Michael Lynch, LCARS, a theme inspired by
>> a popular Science Fiction franchise by Gary Butters, and TransBlue, a
>> clean blue colored theme from Reto Wechner.
>> . . .
>>      
> I noticed a problem with the .tar files for all three themes.  The
> subdirectories in each theme directory are not marked "executable".
> This means myth can't see the files in the subdirectories.  I don't
> think I made a mistake extracting the .tar files to cause this.
> Hopefully somebody can fix this error on the hosting server.
> Otherwise many people wont see the themes correctly.
>    

That was fixed yesterday within an hour or two of starting the 
competition.  So, yes, it was a problem in the tarball and not in your 
extraction procedure, but it's no longer a problem.

Thanks for the feedback, though (which would have been very important 
had we not noticed).

Mike