[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r19017 - in trunk/mythtv/libs by janne

[Stuart Morgan]

On Sunday 09 November 2008 09:32:22 Paul Harrison wrote:
> I already have a version of the progdetails dialog  that uses mythui but
> it can't be used yet because you can't show a mythui screen on top of a
> qt one, at least not without a nasty hack, and most of the places where
> it's shown from are still using the old qt dialogs. There is the added
> problem that it uses the new mythuiwebbrowser to render the prog details
> which is only available on >=Qt4.4.0.

One of the complaints that themers tend to make is that this page isn't really 
themable since the text formatting is hardcoded. I was hoping to find a way 
that this information could be displayed without replicating the old Rich Text 
behaviour. I've got patches for scrollable text areas which could be used for 
the description, but until I have time to play with it, I've no idea whether 
it's really possible to display the information within a single screen.

One possibility would be putting the more important details on one screen 
(title, description, parental rating, actors etc). Then a second page, 
accessed via a 'more' button for the less important stuff that your average, 
less geeky user couldn't care about and probably won't understand. (e.g. 
programme ids, types, watch list scores etc)

If nothing else, an html based version is a fallback.
-- 
Stuart Morgan