[mythtv-users] 0.27: differences between two builds

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:25 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
> Hi:  I've been running 0.27 on my laptop for a few weeks, and yesterday
> installed it on my main box.  I'm puzzled by the differences that I see.
>
> Both builds were from Richard Shaw's SRPM of 19 Sept; the laptop running SL6
> with extensions, the main box running Fedora 18.  Both have mythcenter-wide,
> usually running in a kde-managed 1024x576 window.
>
> On the laptop the WatchRecordings screen looks essentially unchanged from
> 0.26; when I fired up the main box that screen was virtually unreadable
> because of a FanArt background, which I have disabled by editing
> /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/recordings-ui.xml, as suggested
> recently here.
>
> But there are other differences: I now have a 'disk usage' indicator, the
> recording starttime is quoted from the published schedule instead of system
> activity, no endtime is shown, some of the thumbnails are clearly
> download-based, and scrolling in the left-hand panel no longer goes in both
> directions from the starting point.
>
> The new screen is (now) crisp and attractive but I feel little need for the
> artwork downloads and preferred the old timing info and scrolling. Maybe
> I'll grow into it, but mainly I'm puzzled by the fact that the differences
> exist.  I haven't yet compared the theme files.
>

Why not? Virtually everything you mentioned is done in the theme.

> John P
>
> 2013-10-02 16:08:35.255404 C  mythfrontend version: tag: v0.27 [317d5b7]
> www.mythtv.org
> 2013-10-02 16:08:35.255416 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.5, runtime: 4.8.5
>
>
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