[mythtv-users] opengl works in image gallery but not menus

[Jon Boehm]

Data point from last night

One of the other threads I'm currently involved with sent me to this page.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Override_settings

Last night I installed an updated copy of blootube via the svn trunk themes.

svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/themes
cd themes
./configure
qmake themes.pro
sudo make install

mythfrontend -O Themepainter=opengl -O Theme=blootube-wide

Notice I forced the opengl painter.

What do you know, it worked.  This go me wondering if my myththemes 
install is too old.  I don't know if I've updated it since the original 
install and I know there was some work done on opengl and the myththemes 
  because of disappearing menu items as the user passes over them.

Maybe I'll give it a try tonight.  FYI I still don't like opengl 
themepainting.  It gives the appearance of being slow, do to the fading. 
  I think when I'm done playing I'll switch back to the quick snaps of 
qt.  Nice to know it works though.

Jon

Brian J. Stults wrote:
> William Munson wrote:
>> Jon Boehm wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if it called QT or Xv either, but we are talking about the 
>>> same thing.
>>>
>>> Your are witnessing the problems.  When opengl is turned on, the menus 
>>> should fade and highlight when selected and just look prettier.  Its 
>>> also slower to navigate.  If you don't see distinctly different UI 
>>> interaction when navigating the menus, opengl is not turned on properly. 
>>> At least the way I understand it.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>   
>> Its QT. I personally find the opengl painter to be a pain in the rear. 
>> Myth is slow enough but with opengl its painful try to do anything while 
>> displaying HD content. I follow the dev mailing list and have not seen 
>> any indication that they are going away from QT so use it if it works 
>> better for you. If a dev wants to chime in here to verify my assumption 
>> I would appreciate it.
> 
> I was referring to the opengl painter which, I believe, should not have 
> any effect on video playback.  I wanted the fading menu transitions, but 
> could not get them to work for a long time on two of my frontends. 
> Wiping out my svn directory and compiling a fresh one finally worked for 
> me.  However, I had not tried 'make distclean'.  Only 'make clean'.
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