[mythtv-users] mythcenter-wide wraparound scrolling

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/12/2017 10:59 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 04/12/2017 10:15 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 4:50:29 AM MDT John Pilkington wrote:
>>> On 12/04/17 10:41, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>>>> Does mythcenter-wide get any updates anymore?
>>>> Yes, my guess is it is probably top three most commonly used theme 
>>>> - based
>>>> on how often I see mentions of it on the list anyway.
>>> ... but if you have a personally tweaked version in ~/.mythtv/themes I
>>> don't suppose it will see updates.  Perhaps I should rename mine.
>> What I do is keep a "reference" copy of recordings-ui.xml and make my 
>> changes
>> there. When I do an update I diff the new one with my copy. So far 
>> the only
>> differences are my additions, and I just cat my reference into the 
>> overwritten
>> file. There's only 1 file so it's a simple hack.
>>
>> I do the same with MythWeb's canned_searches.php.
>>
>
> Why don't we just update mythcenter and mythcenter-wide so everybody 
> does not need to tweak it?

Not everybody tweaks it.

A versy similar thread a couple years ago:
https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/558968#558968
https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/559057#559057
https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/559387#559387

> I suggest open a ticket with details of the tweaks. I think 
> wrap-around would be an improvement. If the change looks OK I will 
> update the repository.

and from the one who has spent the largest amount of time recently 
updating Mythcenter-wide (and the one who changed it so the scrolling 
works as it does in https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/743d02720f3fb ):

https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/559348#559348

I recommend you check with Paul before making that particular change.  
Or, as Paul suggested, those who want it done differently can make their 
own version and maintain it.  Or a team of people could maintain 
multiple versions of Mythcenter/Mythcenter-wide, including the 
main/upstream/... ones--deciding the main use styles and having a 
separate version for each, but rolling "universal" changes into both.  
We can set the theme(s) up on https://github.com/MythTV-Themes and then 
pull changes from the MythTV-Themes repo into the MythTV repo.  (In the 
past, though, no one has stepped up to maintain the theme, so finding 
someone/some people willing to accept responsibility for it is likely to 
prevent this from occurring.)

(In the interest of full disclosure, I don't use any of the Mythcenter 
themes, so I have no vested interest in any particular theme choices for 
it.  Just mentioning some history.)

Mike