[mythtv-users] Steppes theme for 0.25

[John P Poet]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:18 AM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Gavin Whitehead
> <gavin at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 25/02/2012 05:17, John P Poet wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Gabe Rubin<gaberubin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:36 PM, John P Poet<jppoet at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> A new theme called Steppes is now available for anyone running master.
>>>>>   It does require new features not available in 0.24.x.
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to thank Nicolas Riendeau, Kenni Lund and Yianni Vidalis for
>>>>> their help in testing it with non-English languages.  I also need to
>>>>> thank Nicolas for helping me get zoneminder working enough to get that
>>>>> plug-in themed, and Stuart Morgan for tips on MythGame.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Is there a place with screenshots for us .24 users to start getting
>>>> excited about the new things to come in .25?
>>> http://imagebin.org/200703
>>> http://imagebin.org/200702
>>> http://imagebin.org/200701
>>> http://imagebin.org/200700
>>> http://imagebin.org/200699
>>> http://imagebin.org/200698
>>>
>>>
>>> John
>> Wow.  That looks good.  Can you post an EPG screen shot please.
>>
>> Gavin
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> John:
>
> Very nice!  What new items in 0.25 are you using?  I've been curious
> about how some of them, like the animation ui element, work?


Mostly I am taking advantage of the ability for objects to auto-size
themselves.  For example, notice the page title in these shots:

http://imagebin.org/200833
http://imagebin.org/200835

You can see how the background oval is automatically sized to the
text.  Also notice that in French, the buttons have to be a little
larger to accommodate the words.  That sizing can happen dynamically
now.

Personally, I like the long date format (Sat 25 Feb 2012 5:47PM), but
some people like it to be short.  Once again, the background will auto
adjust to the size necessary to portray the information in whatever
format the user chooses.

I have made *very* basic use of animation to "pop up" the pop-up
windows, but that is it.  Animation is a very recent feature, and this
theme was pretty much done when it was added.


John
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