[mythtv-users] Merge of OSD and Main themes causes WAF to Plummet

[Paul Gardiner]

On 26/02/2011 18:30, Manuel McLure wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:46 PM, George Nassas<gnassas at mac.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I have used myth a long time and have never encountered a theme with a decent UI and OSD. I've tried a lot of them and it's either one or the other. Never both. Maybe there's something genetic where being good at one makes you incapable of the other. Can't say why. Don't know.
>>
>> Both have only been one unit for a matter of months.
>>
>> This is not going to change.
>
> And this is one of the reasons I haven't upgraded from 0.23 to 0.24
> yet, regardless of all of the enhancements. From a UI perspective, the
> OSD is different from the rest of MythTV. The OSD intrudes into the
> show watching experience in a way that the main theme does not.
> Therefore an OSD theme should be as unobtrusive as possible (like
> BlackCurve is.) If I can't have BlackCurve as my OSD theme regardless
> of the main theme, I'm not interested. I'm not going to upgrade to a
> release where I lose functionality.

Yeah BlackCurve, that's the one: when I had BlackCurve, I could turn on
subtitles, jump back a little in the program and then read the subtitles
while the OSD was still present; I remember those days, :-) Maybe a
version of MythBuntu with BlackCurve as the OSD would address we
dissenters requests, or is it just a case of hacking the OSD's alpha?

It's a shame that this discussion has gotten so heated. I'd imagine
everyone here agrees on at least two things.

1) Designing a theme takes a lot of work, and it's a great service
themers provide in doing so.

2) Independent of the correctness of the design choice, and whether
a temporary disadvantage or not, the merging of main theme and OSD
gives users less choice in easy configuration than just before the
merge. (Not disputing it was the right choice... )

Those are just facts, right?

Paul.