[mythtv-users] Pretty theme like eyeTV

Justin Hornsby justin at mythtvthemes.co.uk
Wed Oct 31 10:25:36 UTC 2007


Greg Lucas-Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   The other day I was at a friends house and he proudly showed me his 
> mac-mini hosted eyeTV installation and I've got to say that I was 
> impressed.  Not at the features and functionality, myth clearly has it 
> all over eyeTV in that department, but at the quality of the 
> interface.  In particular the smoothness when the cursor moved between 
> the items in the main menu and when you moved between programs in the 
> schedule.  It kind of slinks between each item instead of the stark 
> movement of the myth interface.
>
>   Is there a similarly cool and smooth theme for Myth?  I've scanned 
> the archives and the web through google but I can't find anything 
> (though I did find the pretty good looking ( 
> http://home.comcast.net/~zdzisekg/ 
> <http://home.comcast.net/%7Ezdzisekg/>).
>
> Greg
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Definitely sounds like a rewrite of the whole mythtv UI is needed to do 
what you want.  There's no 'slink' and no 'smooth' in the UI.

Even how all the themes look is forced upon us by the UI code itself.  
All the themes are (rather unsurprisingly), merely variations on a theme 
as a result.




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