[mythtv-users] Minimize frontend?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/30/2014 11:39 AM, airdrummer wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 06/30/2014 08:00 AM, airdrummer wrote:
>>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>> Use window border
>>>> Toggles between windowed and borderless operation.
>>> too bad the window doesn't behave as a normal window, with a fullscreen toggle
>>> in the header, and resizing the image with the window size...is there some
>>> technical reason it doesn't/can't?
> ...
>> Oh, and all that code would have to "properly" deal with people's doing "bad"
>> things--like scaling the window to a 17:11 aspect when it's using a 16:9 theme
>> or even scaling to an 11:17 ratio--whatever "properly" might be (and I'm sure
> vlc does the right thing: image in 16:9 fitted into whatever window the user sets...

The problem isn't playback--MythTV does the right thing for that, 
already (and has for years).  The problem is the theme/UI.  Some would 
complain that MythTV should stretch the theme (which may look OK with 
some), while others would say it should letterbox/pillarbox, and still 
others would say to "snap to" the closest proper-aspect size, and I'm 
sure others would find even other solutions.

Mike