[mythtv-users] mythcenter-wide wraparound scrolling

[John Pilkington]

On 13/04/17 11:57, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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

Yes, I remember these exchanges from late 2013.  I had just been hunting 
for them, but Mike's reference system is better than mine :-)

John P