[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu Theme - fix required (solution within)

[Paul Harrison]

On 17/05/2020 16:10, Tim Draper wrote:

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> ---- On Sun, 17 May 2020 12:15:30 +0100 Paul Harrison 
> <mythtv at mythqml.net> wrote ----
> > On 17/05/2020 09:45, Tim Draper wrote:
> > I can see the problem with current master as well.
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> should've probably said it was an active issue; downloading the 
> current version of the theme exhibits the issue.
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> > It's the <outlinesize> size of 4 that is causing the problem and is 
> making the black outline obliterate the grey text. Since the 
> background is also black it has the effect of making the text 
> invisible. If you change the <outlinecolor> to #ff0000 you can see 
> what is happening better since that makes the outline color red.
> >
> > Reducing the outline size to say 1 improves the problem but still 
> looks bad. I would change all the references of 
> 'basesmallblackoutline' to 'basesmallgrey' in video-ui.xml and remove 
> the 'basesmallblackoutline' fontdef from base.xml since it's not used 
> anywhere else. That looks a lot better to my eyes but it's not my 
> theme to mess with.
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> while i get everyone can contribute to FOSS, it's more the fact i'm 
> not familiar with git or theming enough to ammend source. your 
> findings is what i've found although solution different. I initially 
> went with 'basesmallblackoutline2' just for video_ui.xml use that only 
> appeared to affect this. then i figured just to edit the existing 
> definition. Been using Mythbuntu long enough that i'm reasonably 
> confident it's only affected/used in videos, or it's a problem 
> elsewhere that i've just not seen.
> ultimately i'm not fussed about exactly which solution, but in the 
> spirit of standardising and OSS, it should be done right for everyones 
> sanity.
>
> > A quick tip if you want to start playing around with themes is you 
> can make changes to say video-ui.xml in ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu and 
> to see the changes just exit out of the screen in the frontend and 
> back in again and you should see the changes you made. If you make 
> changes to base.xml though then you will have to restart the frontend 
> to see the changes. There is a jumppoint called 'Reload Theme' that 
> you can set to lets say Ctrl-R that you can then use to reload the 
> theme without restarting the frontend (useful if you want to see what 
> affect changing something in base.xml does).
> > Other useful JumpPoints are 'Toggle Show Widget Borders' and 'Toggle 
> Show Widget Names'. Try setting them and then try them out to see what 
> they do if you can't guess already :)
> >
> >
> i've been using the Theming guide page in the mythtv wiki a lot and 
> using the sugestion on restarting just the UI, but didnt realise there 
> was a jumppoint option in there too. good info. sounds like widget 
> borders&names would be bloody useful too, rather than guess & feel on 
> a half-size 1920x1080 FE window when testing.
> Yet to figure out the osd.xml for the new v31 deinterlacer values, but 
> not spent too much time on that yet. For the sake of a couple of minor 
> tweaks to the existing themes, seems like it's effort well spent 
> rather than creating my own to fix those issues...
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This is the commit that added the deinterlacer to the debug OSD

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/47e41e76f4ce4e


You have to 2 options

1. remove the osd_debug window from Mythbuntu's osd.xml it will then 
fallback to using the default window definition. It looks like a copy 
paste from the default one so really no need for it be copied.

2. add the new <textarea>'s 'deint' and  'deinterlacer' that the above 
commit added. You will also have to tweak the height of the window 
<area> to make room for the new textarea's.


This is Mythbuntu's osd.xml

https://github.com/MythTV-Themes/Mythbuntu/blob/master/osd.xml#L4

and this is the default-wide's

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/themes/default-wide/osd.xml#L4


Paul H.

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