[mythtv-users] 0.27 Themes question

[Joey Morris]

Matthias <lists at thyroff.net> wrote on Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 05:03:02PM +0200:
> 1) Can I easily disable the artwork behind the recorded programs?

You can disable it, but I don't know whether you'll consider it easy
to do.

One way is to look in the theme's recordings-ui.xml file and find the
watchrecording window. You should see an <imagetype name="fanart">
widget, which you could delete. (Note that I haven't actually looked
at the theme in question, so I'm making assumptions about what you'll
find in recordings-ui.xml.) To prevent your changes from being
clobbered the next time the theme is updated, you might want to check
the list archives for discussions about customizing a theme 

Another way is to ensure that the fanart isn't available to Myth.
Perhaps you could disable metadata lookup or even change permissions
on the directory where the fanart is stored. There has been recent
discussion about this on the users list.

 
> 2) I have switched to retro wide in two frontends, which is visually
> nice (I just miss the option to enter the menues with the cursur right
> button, it only reacts to enter; I can get used to that)...

You might be able to get your right-arrow select behavior back. Take a
look at menu-ui.xml in the blue-abstract-wide theme. You should see a
couple of <triggerevent> elements that add support for navigating with
the right and left arrow. You can copy those into your theme's
menu-ui.xml file. This works for me in 0.26, but I'm not running 0.27
yet so I can't say whether it still works there.