[mythtv-users] Theme modification

[Allen Edwards]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 6:47 PM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 7:32 PM Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I really liked the Christmas theme specifically the ability to
>> scroll UP and have the pointer go to the last entry.  But now with
>> Christmas over we went back to the MythCenterWide and it doesn't do that.
>> Is there a way to modify the theme so it goes to the last entry when you up
>> arrow.  We save a ton of Jeopardy programs and like to watch them in order
>> starting with the oldest.
>>
>
> Hi Allen,
>
> It sounds like what you really want, is to change the sorting settings:
>
> Settings -> Video -> Playback -> View Recordings -> Episode sort orderings
> I recommend changing that to "Sort sub-title Ascending, multi-titles
> Descending"
>
> You also may want to tweak the "Sort Episodes" configuration to either
> "Original air date" or "Season / Episode".  With v30, "Season / Episode"
> will fall back to "Original air  date" if season and episode information is
> not available.
>
> If that doesn't work for you, then you could try a different theme like
> Steppes which behaves the way you want.
>
> John
>

Thank you John

This worked perfectly.  You were correct, this is what we really wanted.
We always watch the oldest episodes first so having them on top is great.

Thanks also to Stephen who answered what I actually asked even it I was not
asking what I should have.

Allen
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