[mythtv-users] New blue-abstract theme 1.8
Jan Schneider
jan at horde.org
Fri Sep 21 08:01:37 UTC 2012
Zitat von Gordon McCrae <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com>:
> On 20/09/12 09:36, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Scott harris <scott.harris0509 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>>>>>> Am 15.09.2012 02:43, schrieb Scott & Nicole Harris:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi everybody, I just wanted to announce on the mailing list
>>>>>>>>>> that a new version
>>>>>>>>> of the blue-abstract theme is out.
>>>>>>>>>> It has undergone a major rewrite. There were tons of changes,
>>>>>>>>> which can be seen in the changelog or on github.
>>>>>>> Robert, I downloaded version 1.8 a few days ago, and I'm very
>>>>>>> impressed with how polished it is. Thanks.
>>>>>> A few more issues I noticed while using the new version for a few days:
>>>>>> - The OSD element in top left corner is not taking GUI offsets into
>>>>>> account. I use different resolutions for video vs. GUI and while
>>>>>> watching recordings, the top left corner of the screen is outside the
>>>>>> viewport, so that this OSD element is only partially visible.
>>>>>> - I wonder why there are distinct background images missing for some
>>>>>> major menu points like Media Library.
>>>>>> - The upcoming recording entries aren't colored, which makes it hard
>>>>>> to determine the different state of the different recordings from each
>>>>>> other.
>>>>>> - The auto-scrolling of some text areas is far to fast, e.g. for the
>>>>>> episode descriptions. I'd rather have them not scrolling at all, so I
>>>>>> can always read the beginning of the description and hit INFO for the
>>>>>> complete text.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding the missing background images: I use my own (imho
>>>>> better structured) menu (which you can activate in the
>>>>> appearance settings, it called blue-abstract-menu). There I
>>>>> don't use the media gallery. I'll add the background to it in
>>>>> the next version.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll add some color to the upcoming recording text.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately there is no option to change the scrolling speed.
>>>>> I'll think about disabling it. You can still disable the
>>>>> scrolling yourself in the xml file.
>>>>>
>>>> Dont disable it, its one of the best features of this theme. IMO.
>>>
>>> Agreed
>>
>> So how do you guys actually read the scrolling content with the
>> current scrolling speed, if the episode description is like 10
>> lines longs, but you only see 4 lines at once? I might not be the
>> fastest reader, but I doubt anyone could really read those with the
>> current settings.
>> A slower scrolling speed would definitely help too, though I'd
>> still prefer to only read the full description on demand, because
>> everybody has a different reading speed, and you might not start
>> reading right after opening the recording, so you missed the first
>> lines and need to wait until the scrolling loops back. Bad
>> usability IMO.
>>
> Actually, I love the idea of the text scrolling, It's been a bugbear
> of mine for a while that there's a word or two missing from a text
> field, and I have to go into the "full detail" window to see it.
>
> However, while it works well in the "Watch Recordings" screen where
> 99% of the "details" are only one or two lines over the limit of the
> panel, some stuff in "Watch Videos" has very long details, and it
> is, I agree, impossible to read, so either a control somewhere to
> specify speed, or perhaps a "pause" button to stop the scrolling
> temporarily while we read the section currently on screen?
>
> In general I like 1.8, however I must say I preferred 1.7's animated
> icon when a programme was recording to the pulsing cog that 1.8 has,
> and I also feel that background images in the menus is distracting
> and a little tacky, one of the things that I liked about
> blue-abstract was that it didn't have naff images of TVs and
> turntables, so that's a bit of a backward step for me, but I guess
> I'll get used to it!
The icon pulses? I never noticed. :)
Regarding the backdrop images, I'm obviously in the opposite camp.
Before 1.8, the theme made a rather incomplete impression to me, so
that I never sticked with it after using it for a while. One of the
reasons was the missing background images.
> I would like to echo the earlier comments about having the ability
> to turn things on and off, or vary speeds etc. Perhaps in a config
> file, perhaps in the MythFrontend menu, I don't care, but the
> ability to do this would be fantastic.
>
> One simple way to disable the scrolling is pick QT instead of Auto
> or OpenGL for your paint engine. Mine was set to "Qt" by default and
> I was about to post as to why I couldn't get animated text fields,
> but then thought to check this and test in OpenGL. One obvious
> question, is there any obvious advantage / disadvantage to using the
> OpenGL paint engine?
>
> Cheers
> Gordon
>
>
>
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