[mythtv-users] New theme: Monochrome

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 04/01/17 19:27, jaham at gmx.net wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2017 00:12:10 CET John P Poet wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:54 PM <jaham at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> On Dienstag, 3. Januar 2017 15:41:52 CET Gabe Rubin wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:26 PM, <jaham at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>>> Hi folks...
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wanted to tell you about a new mythtv theme I have worked on
>>>
>>> during
>>>
>>>>> the
>>>>> last year. It was created for mythtv 0.27, but most things should work
>>>
>>> for
>>>
>>>>> 0.28 too. I just upgraded to 0.28 and plan to update the theme to the
>>>>> current
>>>>> mythtv version soon.
>>>>> The theme is on github (https://github.com/hambre/Monochrome) and some
>>>>> screenshots can be looked at in the repo wiki (
>>>
>>> https://github.com/hambre/
>>>
>>>>> Monochrome/wiki <https://github.com/hambre/%0AMonochrome/wiki>).
>>>>>
>>>>> Please be gentle with your comments, it is my first theme after all.
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>>>> Ciao Jan
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for making this.  It looks real nice and am looking forward to
>>>> trying it.  Is it possible to select it from the built-in theme chooser
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>> should I download it my local mythbox?
>>>
>>> At the moment you have to download it manually. I think it needs a mythtv
>>> dev
>>> to add it to the theme chooser.
>>>
>>> Ciao Jan
>>
>> I can add your theme to the mythtv downloader.  Before I do, I recommend
>> you create branches for the different versions of myth.  I personally use:
>>
>> fixes/0.27
>> fixes/0.28
>> etc
>>
>> You can then make version specific changes as appropriate.
>>
>> John
> 
> Ok, I have done that now. There is a fixes/0.27 and a fixes/0.28 branch which 
> you can pull from. It would be great if you can add the theme to the theme 
> chooser.
> How does the theme chooser know there is a new version available. Does it 
> periodically pull from the repo and checks the version number in 
> themeinfo.xml?

The theme chooser pulls some data from our services site with all the
metadata about the themes and their download location.

On the mythtv project server, there is a job which polls the relevant
repos daily and packages up the themes and makes them available for
download.


Regards
Stuart

> 
> Ciao Jan
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