[mythtv-users] can't find blue

[Bruce Markey]

Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 01:10 PM 6/25/2003 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:46 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>> > But I checked this morning, and that
>> > page now contains only 2 newer themes, not the half dozen or so that 
>> were
>> > there a month ago. (Why the change, Isaac?) This morning, I can only 
>> find
>> > blue as part of the full Myth-0.9.1 package available on the site's
>> > Download page.
>>
>> The older themes aren't compatible with 0.9 and would need to be 
>> updated to
>> work without problems with the current code.  What's on the website is 
>> what's
>> been sent to me so far.
> 
> 
> Then I am confused. I just rechecked my un-tar'd directory of the 
> mythtv-0.9.1.tar.bz2 tarball, which I downloaded yesterday from the Myth 
> site. In its themes subdirectory, it still includes both "blue" and 
> "liquid", so I assume that they too still work (I'm not actually running 
> 0.9 yet). Is the *only* way to get them by downloading the entire 
> tarball (or CVS)?

I think I see your confusion. The 'website' has the tarballs
and also has a Themes Gallery.

The "blue" and "liquid" are the example themes included in the
distribution. At least "blue" is kept up to date in the CVS
source and should always work.

The other themes from the "Gallery" on the website (*Quatch*,
etc.) are not maintained in CVS. Most of the 0.8 themes have
not been updated and therefore only Photo and Purple Galaxy
are available as themes that work with 0.9x.

In any case, any distribution should include the "blue" theme
that works with that version of the software. If you want to
use a 0.8 theme with 0.9 or later, you need to at least copy
the "ui.xml" file from blue. This generally works but hopefully
the other themes will get updated with their own ui.xml files.

--  bjm