[mythtv] MePo-wide 0.3.0 available for download

[Zdzislaw Gorlicki]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Zdzislaw Gorlicki <zdzisekg at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> get it at the usual place http://home.comcast.net/~zdzisekg/
>>
>> Changes:
>> - added OSD (tested mainly with small fonts, but default/big size font
>> should be fine too)
>> - minor changes here and there.
>>     
>
> nice to see it coming along. I've still got one issue though, tons,
> tons, of wasted space, and not enough information being portrayed to
> the user. It would also be nice to have a watch recordings screen
> without the file size, so that I can see things like, the subtitle of
> the show and the date it was recorded.
>
>   
I wanted to stay consistent throughout the theme as far as look/layout 
goes. As you've noticed, this theme is is little different then all the 
others. All themes I've seen so far just use one background image and 
then try to draw appropriate panels on each screen. I tried a different 
concept of having 4 panels throughout, top panel for context/help, left 
panel for menus, center panel for content and bottom panel for details. 
This however creates a lot of wasted space on some screens, in panels 
that don't have enough info to display, or not enough space in panels 
that have a lot of data to display. The panels in myth are very much 
fixed as to what each panel displays and you can't just move it from one 
panel to another. You kind of have to get down and dirty with the theme 
creation to understand better why things are what they are. If I had a 
better understanding before, I'd probably just do what everybody else 
did and go with one single image concept. As I already started the other 
way, my priority is to finish it, and the wasted space/not enough space 
is just a price to pay for using my skin, but there is no way around it. 
If it's a problem, then just use another theme. I'll try to improve the 
theme, perhaps try not to be so strict and consistent on all screens, 
but that won't happen until I finish the theme with the current layout.