[mythtv-users] Edit a theme menu screen

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Igor Cicimov <icicimov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using MythCenter-wide theme and want to add very simple additional menu
>> item with EXEC action but not sure how to do it for this particular theme. I
>> read about adding button in the mainmenu.xml file but that file doesn't
>> exist for this particular theme (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide
>> directory) or I'm looking in wrong place. Or maybe all themes use the same
>> mainmenu.xml file but parse that file differently? I would appreciate any
>> directions regarding this. Although this might be a question for the
>> developers list so please let me know if that's the case.
>
> You don't need to modify the theme. You need to modify the menu theme.
> Menu themes are different. They are in the same folder (for me, it's
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes) with names like defaultmenu, DVR,
> classic, and mediacentermenu.

Also, you can create or copy one of the menu theme files into
~/.mythtv/ and the frontend will pick up that file instead, so you
don't have to modify any installed files.

Jim