[mythtv-users] Make MythCenter theme consistent with MythCenter-wide

[faginbagin]

If you're like me, you've got a mix of SD and HD displays as part of your mythtv environment. In our home, we've still got an SDTV connected to a GT-9500 and a monitor with a native resolution of 1280x1024, as well as a a couple of laptops made in 2004 that have 1400x1024 resolutions. What I've always wanted was an SD theme that had the same look and feel as an HD theme, so that, no matter which frontend you were using, you would know what to expect. That was more or less true with the MythCenter and MythCenter-wide themes in mythtv 0.23. But that's no longer true as of 0.25. The big difference between these two themes is the OSD. Through 0.23, you could mix and match your main theme and your OSD theme. As of 0.25, the OSD theme is now part of the main theme. Unfortunately, the MythCenter and MythCenter-wide themes have very different OSDs. 

I have updated the MythCenter theme so it's OSD is consistent with the MythCenter-wide theme's OSD. While I was at it, I have made other improvements to the MythCenter theme. For example:
* When you're in the Program Guide, you can see both the channel numbers and call signs, as well as the channel icons.
* When you're in the Program Finder, you can see the time a show is scheduled, including whether its in the AM or PM.
* When you schedule a recording, the options presented on the main page now fit on the screen. As a result, you will know if you're choosing "Record one showing of this title every week" vs "Record one showing of this title every day". Or if you're choosing "Record at any time on this channel" vs "record at any time on any channel". The same is true for the various sub-pages.
* When you're in Watch Recordings: both time and date of recordings fit on the list, at a variety of different resolutions; you can now see the watched status of recordings on the list, as well as other status indicators, like whether the recording is on a slave backend that may or may not be up and running.

There are many other improvements, but I think these are the most obvious ones. I have been through every window defined in every .xml files and tested any changes I made at these resolutions:
* 800x600
* 1024x768
* 1280x1024
* 1400x1024

Dates and times were tested using settings that should look reasonable regardless of whether its a single digit or double digit month or day. For example, I used the short date setting of "02/04" versus "2/4" and the time setting of "05:58 PM" vs "5:58 pm"

Since I only speak one language, I have not tested my changes in other languages. But I suspect, if anything, my changes will be improvements in any language, because, in general, more space is provided for various text elements than before. If I'm wrong, I'd be happy to work with anyone who finds my changes less than helpful.

If you'd like to try my version of MythCenter, you've got two choices:
* Untar MythCenter-custom.tgz in your $HOME/.mythtv/themes directory, then go to Setup -> Theme Chooser, and change the theme to "MythCenter-custom 1.2" This will allow you to go back and forth between the current MythCenter themes and my version.
* Apply the patch MythCenter-like-wide.patch, build and install. In this case, the theme name will be MythCenter, although the version has been bumped to 1.2

FWIW my changes are up-to-date with the most recent change made to the theme that fixes ticket #10614.

The files mentioned above can be found in:
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11477

Regards,
Helen