[mythtv-theming] Theme Chooser and directory names with dots

Joey Morris rjmorris at nc.rr.com
Mon Oct 8 14:13:50 UTC 2012


Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote on Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:32:59AM -0700:
> Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com> says:
> > I tweaked the Mythbuntu theme and saved my modified version under
> > ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu-local-25.29.
> 
> Aside from the Theme Chooser bug you discovered, you're better off not
> putting a version number in the directory at all. Put your modified
> local copy of the theme in Mythbuntu-local, then modify the theme name
> and/or version numbers in themeinfo.xml so the info appears in Theme
> Chooser.

The reason I named it that way in the first place is that I wanted to
have two Mythbuntu-local versions: one based on 25.16 that I'd been
using and another based on 25.29 that I was porting my patches to. So
I named the directories Mythbuntu-local-25.16 and
Mythbuntu-local-25.29.


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