[mythtv-users] Theme Competition Voting Now Open

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 21:11:54 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> Forwarding to -users list for anyone here who wants to try out the themes
>> with MythTV trunk...
>>
>> Hello users,
>>
>> Voting for the theme competition is now open!  You can see the
>> competition voting site here:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/theming-competition
>>
>> We have three eligible themes in the competition:  Childish, a 4:3
>> theme aimed at children from Michael Lynch, LCARS, a theme inspired by
>> a popular Science Fiction franchise by Gary Butters, and TransBlue, a
>> clean blue colored theme from Reto Wechner.
>>
>> Some things to remember:
>>
>> * These themes will only work properly against current trunk.  They
>> will not work with .22.  Votes based on your experience with them in
>> .22 would be unfair as they use different formats for several of the
>> widgets.
>
> I have been looking forward to looking at these themes and to the
> competition. I must admit I haven't followed every thread about it as
> I didn't intend to write a theme, I have just been looking forward to
> seeing the work of more talented artists!
>
> However the fact that you have to be running trunk must surely limit
> the usefulness, there will not be many who can or are prepared to do
> that, compared to the number running 0.22. (Hell I am still running
> 0.21 in production and 0.22 on a test machine!).

Sorry I meant to add kudos to the theme developers and thanks for the
very hard work.

Same goes to the mythtv devs.


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