[mythtv-users] Feedback mythfrontend

[Paul Harrison]

On 28/11/2023 00:03, James Linder wrote:

> Peter I think you have done a stiring job of implimenting mythweb in webfrontend.
> I offer a few thoughts that are neither requests nor criticsm, they may be things of interest.
>
> I find the scope of the listings a tiny bit short. I think 2.5 hours would be nicer than 2 hours
>
> [next] ships 2 hours, not 2 1/2
>
> ie imagine
>
> 0600 .. 0830
> [next]
> 0800 .. 1030
> [next]
> 1000.. 1230
>
> I quickly browse choosing categories of interest by colour eg movies in white. What I see is a sea of colourless guide items.
>
> I record Aprogram
>
> [diversion]
> It must be my hardware but having virtual tuners results in 1 or  2 a week damaged recordings.
> Setting no-virtual tuners and I have never had a damaged recording
>
> The scheduler sets Aprogram to record on tuner one
> and AprogramHD to record on tuner two
>
> [mythweb] going to upcoming I can mark Aprogram as “Don’t Record” on webfrontend I see only “Cancel Recording” which is not what I want of course.
>
> The archives will show that when webfrontend first appeared I made comment about garish and mobile phone set. So I get my just deserts!
>
> Were I doing UI design I would flavour the categories of programguide by colour so as to  not trouble those who do not want but be of use to those who do.
> A point to consider is 1 in 7 males are colour blind (there are many sorts of colour blindness the most common being red-green) and there are web standards about colour choices.
>
> Finally (I’ve not looked a webfrontend code at all) can one use CSS ?
>
> Cheers
> James


Have you tried switching themes? There's a button to switch the theme 
top right hand side.

All the themes provided are all the free themes I could find. I know 
there are better paid for themes but obviously we can't supply them in a 
open source app like ours. The themes we supply for the WebApp are all 
css based so if you don't like something you can always change it. You 
will typically find them in /usr/share/mythtv/html/assets/themes 
directory. The themes.xml file contains the list of available themes so 
I would just add the theme there and copy one of the css files and start 
from there.


Regarding the EPG not sure if Peter modified or replaced it but I think 
it's only fair to point out Stuart A did most of the work creating the 
original EPG screen.


Paul H.