<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Nick F wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div class="Ih2E3d">> I leave the frontend running and I added an item to the main menu to<br>> launch boxee. Select it and use boxee normally with my remote and exit<br>> when I'm done - then I'm back in the frontend. Even my 11 year old can<br> > do it. :)<br>By the way, I figured out how to do that by going here:<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide</a><br> <br>So I added this to mainmenu.xml:<br> <button><br> <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type><br> <text>Launch Boxee</text><br> <action>EXEC /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop</action><br> </button></div></blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Wow - thanks. That was easy!</div> <div> </div> <div>And - without me doing anything special to set it up - boxee understood my Microsoft MCE remote and happily worked with it, and exit took me straight back to Myth. Boxee is really slick - love that user interface, and now being embedded into myth and working with the remote - it's almost like it's part of the same package! </div> </div></blockquote><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">I had some free time today so I expanded this a bit.<br><br>I added:<br> <state name="BOXEE" from="DEFAULT"><br> <imagetype name="watermark"><br> <filename>watermark/boxee.png</filename><br> </imagetype><br> </state><br>to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/menu-ui.xml<br><br>and then added this image:</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans'; "><a href="http://amade.us/images/boxee.png">http://amade.us/images/boxee.png</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/watermark as boxee.png<br><br>Then I changed my button definition in mainmenu.xml to:<br><button><br> <type>BOXEE</type><br> <text>Boxee</text><br> <action>EXEC /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop</action><br></button><br><br>Now it looks a little more integrated into MythTV with a pretty image of its very own.<br>(Obviously, add to whatever theme you're using and adjust image size as needed)<br><br>-Brad</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div></div></div><br></body></html>