[mythtv-users] mythmote App and minimyth

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/16/2012 01:51 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 16/08/12 17:52, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 08/16/2012 12:12 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>>
>>> I would rather suggest that this indicates that this particular 
>>> setting is in
>>> the wrong place.
>>>
>>> It's much like having to fire up the front end (on the master 
>>> backend that
>>> lives in a cupboard) in order to select a theme so that you can then 
>>> shut it
>>> down in order to set up the backend properly... the default Terra 
>>> theme is
>>> unusable (IMHO).
>>
>> You simply have to run mythtv-setup, the setup program for MythTV, to 
>> set the
>> appropriate setting.  Note that it's not called mythbackend-setup...
>>
> I'm still running 0.24.1. There is no option in mythtv-setup to select 
> a theme. If that has changed in 0.25 up, then that's progress, I guess.

No, I was referring to what it takes to configure the MythTV IP address 
settings that are the issue in this thread, and the one I thought you 
meant by "this particular setting is in the wrong place."

We haven't duplicated the mythfrontend settings code for the Theme, or 
any other settings in mythtv-setup.  mythtv-setup works without ever 
running mythfrontend to set a theme.  If you're not happy with the 
default theme, then it's you--not MythTV--that's requiring you to run 
mythfrontend to be able to select a different theme.

That said, we all admit that the settings code is a mess because it was 
designed for MythTV 0.8 or before and MythTV has changed a lot since 
then.  We do plan to improve setup eventually, but it takes 
time--something which seems to be harder and harder to find, anymore.

Mike