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<p>On 17/05/2020 09:45, Tim Draper wrote:<br>
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<div>I've had this issue on my Shield with v30, but now i'm
seeing it on all my v31 FE's too which has made it a whole lot
easier to debug.<br>
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<div>In Videos, there is no gallery-view text for each video -
it's like the text is #000000 as you can see gaps in the
horizontal lines for 'decender' letters (p,q,j,y etc), however
turns out it's an outline colour issue.<br>
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<div>First up, i'm not a themer. While I've tried i simply don't
have the time to create my own or spend excessive time
adapting an existing (i'd love to see mythAeon &
Readability themes back working,so maybe this is the start of
a slippery slope...). The problem with Mythbuntu is within
base.xml, starting at line 61:<br>
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<div><fontdef name="basesmallblackoutline"
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<div> <color>#bcbcbc</color><br>
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<div> <outlinecolor>#000000</outlinecolor><br>
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<div> <outlinesize>4</outlinesize><br>
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<div> </fontdef><br>
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<div>Specifically the <outlinecolor> and
<outlinesize> (line 63&64) need to be removed. Not
sure what changed to make the outline break things as git
shows the latest commit in 2018, but this fixes the videos
menu UI.<br>
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<div>Clearly the outline is so intense that it just hiding
#bcbcbc and i found the only way to make it look right is to
remove outline tags completely.<br>
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<div>I'm happy to re-learn git and submit a fix, i guess i'm
seeking confirmation that this is a proper solution from the
wiser amongst us... it appears to work and none of the common
areas i'm using in the GUI appear to be negatively affected...<br>
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<div>Next up is to add the new deinterlacer info to the
OSDDEBUG....<br>
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<p>I can see the problem with current master as well.</p>
<p>It's the <outlinesize> size of 4 that is causing the
problem and is making the black outline obliterate the grey text.
Since the background is also black it has the effect of making the
text invisible. If you change the <outlinecolor> to #ff0000
you can see what is happening better since that makes the outline
color red.<br>
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<p>Reducing the outline size to say 1 improves the problem but still
looks bad. I would change all the references of
'basesmallblackoutline' to 'basesmallgrey' in video-ui.xml and
remove the 'basesmallblackoutline' fontdef from base.xml since
it's not used anywhere else. That looks a lot better to my eyes
but it's not my theme to mess with.</p>
<p>A quick tip if you want to start playing around with themes is
you can make changes to say video-ui.xml in
~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu and to see the changes just exit out of
the screen in the frontend and back in again and you should see
the changes you made. If you make changes to base.xml though then
you will have to restart the frontend to see the changes. There is
a jumppoint called 'Reload Theme' that you can set to lets say
Ctrl-R that you can then use to reload the theme without
restarting the frontend (useful if you want to see what affect
changing something in base.xml does).</p>
<p>Other useful JumpPoints are 'Toggle Show Widget Borders' and
'Toggle Show Widget Names'. Try setting them and then try them out
to see what they do if you can't guess already :) <br>
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<p>Paul H.<br>
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