[mythtv-users] Merge of OSD and Main themes causes WAF to Plummet

Dan Armbrust daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 17:01:27 UTC 2011


> Yes the user should have to learn to edit a theme in order to make
> that change.  This is a specific one of a kind modification that
> anybody can do in the text editor of their choice.  "Learning" how to
> do this is not a major inconvenience.
>
> I say if font sizes were adjustable via the mythfrontend GUI it would
> take the user longer to perform the modification.  GUI's with five+
> layer deep sub-menus, slider bars, check boxes, ratio buttons, etc.
> take a lot longer to adjust than a simple XML formated text file.


And this attitude, in a nutshell, is why myth will never be user
friendly enough for anyone but a technical geek to use.

In windows 7, you choose "Small, Medium or Large".  In myth, folks
think that the "easy" way is to go manually edit XML.

Sigh.


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