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

[Paul Harrison]

Stuart Morgan wrote:
> 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. 
  You have always been able to change the style of the text via the font 
definitions in the theme file if that's what you mean.
> 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.
>   
I've got to ask why reinvent the wheel :-) but if that's what you want 
to do fair enough. You can't get much more flexible than an html 
document when it comes to formating and it comes with scrolling built in 
for nothing.  I'd actually like to see some more information like video 
bit rates, resolution etc. on there but when someone mentioned that a 
while ago a few people had a fit at the idea so maybe separating that 
info to another screen is a good idea :-)

Paul H.