[mythtv-users] 0.27: differences between two builds

[Tom Lichti]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
It could also be the renderer, the difference between OpenGL and QT Painter
is pretty big, from what I've seen.

Tom
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