<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM Barry Martin <<a href="mailto:barry3martin@gmail.com">barry3martin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<pre>My question is, should I extend the flexibility to give themers the option
to format the data one way if syndicatedepisode exists, and another if it
does not, and another if the subtitle does not exist, and ....
Or, do I take the choice away from the themer and just have "s01e01" and
"1x1" automatically return the syndicated episode information in preference
to the metadata grabber information?
Thoughts?
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Hi John!</p>
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in">Personally I think
the “S1E1” looks the cleanest: is easy to read and takes up less
space on the Watch Recordings menu. It would be nice if the people
creating the Themes gave us the option, but that would also mean
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would have to (OK, should!) fallback to the other display options.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A lot of people think that MythTV already has too many options. At the same time, we can't agree what the correct behavior should be if an option is removed.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in">Whinings since I
haven’t used my 30 seconds of floor time. <g> Currently
we’re using the Themes MythCenter-wide 1.10 and Mythbuntu 35.0,
depending on which Frontend. Nothing wrong with the others, just
cleaner for our aging eyes. One problem is with the date stamp set
for DOW M/D the column is too narrow so the date information is
truncated: “Sat…” (should be Sat 1/3), “Fri 1/2” fits but –
well, that’s the only one: anything recorded in December or before
is truncated to the day of the week.</p>
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in">I did try a version
or two ago to make the font smaller – works, but also shrinks the
Closed Caption text.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Playback OSD fonts are defined separately from the "frontend" fonts. Does that mean you are talking about Playback OSD for the date? Either way, you can create a <b>new</b> font definition that is used only for a specific use-case instead of modifying an existing font definition.</div><font face="monospace"><fontdef name="mydate" from="small"></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <pixelsize>25</pixelsize></span><br></fontdef></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br><div>Then</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><font face="monospace"><textarea name="originalairdate"><br> <font>mydate</font><br> <area>720,3,350,35</area><br> <align>left,top</align><br> <template>(%1)</template><br> </textarea></font><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in">So the “would be
nice” for the Themes: add Season-Episode to the information
display, widen the recorded date column, maybe the ability to set
the
font size for Closed Captions separately from the other text.</p>
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in">(For us having the
DOW plus date is very useful: set a recording for a show
advertised
as next Friday [so what date?], or sometimes we have the date –
able to find easily.)</p>
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<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in">Overall fantastic
job! My Mother has a cable system (nationwide) and their look-up
is
horrible: almost need to know the information one is looking up to
find the show! Start or end a minute or two off of :00, :30 – you
missed it! Special showing on a different day? You missed it! So
great job to MythTV and SchedulesDirect!<br></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I designed Steppes-large for my mom. It is Steppes but with much larger fonts, which required some tricks to get everything to fit on the screen. I then did Steppes-small for those with large TVs. In all of those cases, a design goal was to allow the user to specify whatever date format they wanted to use, and for it to display correctly.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div></div></div>