[mythtv] New theme "sleek"

[Joel Feenstra]

I agree, that's one thing I was thinking about changing a little bit. 
Currently the text color sceme for selected and unselected needs more 
contrast. I just forgot about it. This release was mainly about the 
getting the overall layout setup to something I can deal with.

One of the ideas I had for the main menu was changing the outline of the 
selected button, but I haven't come up with a idea that really like yet. 
As for the contrast between active and inactive text, I think I'll just 
darken the gray some more. Unless there's a better color out there. What 
I really wanted to do was make an new overlay appear on top of the 
inactive area's, but currently only the program finder supports 
something like that.

One other comment on the theming code in myth. Is it possible to add 
some of the text formating stuff that's in the osd code? For instance I 
would like to combine some of the things in to one textarea. Something 
like this:

[%CHANNELNUM%] - %CHANNELNAME%%SPACE(200)%%RECORDINGTYPE%

With the ability to add codes like %TAB% and %BR%. Or something like 
that. It would also be nice to group tags, so that if one of them is 
zero length (ie. doesn't exist) then the whole group is omitted.

%TITLE% %(- %SUBTITLE%)%

In that example the - %SUBTITLE% would be omitted from the final string 
if the subtitle doesn't exist.

All that would just be cool, it's really a nice theming system. Great 
work everyone who worked on it.

By the way, for other theme makers there is a kind of whitepaper on it 
out there at http://untzuntz.com/mythtv/ui
It came in handy a little bit.

Joel Feenstra

Chris Petersen wrote:
> one suggestion for all of you people making new themes (or updating old
> ones).  Please provide better color distinctions between "selected" and
> "unselected" text (like in the "play recordings" screen).  going from
> one white to another (bold) white is *really* hard to see, even on a
> monitor instead of a tv.
> 
> better UI design would be to use grey/white, or some other visibly
> different color differentiation, rather than a font-weight kind of
> styling.
> 
> The same goes for buttons, etc.  highlight colors need to show some kind
> of noticeable color/contrast color changes, and should be immediately
> noticeable as different - not require closer examination to tell what is
> selected and what isn't.
> 
> myth's bluish theme-independent confirmation buttons also fall into this
> category, as does the very nice visor theme (myth's blue theme, with
> yellow/white text is a little better in that respect).  It is the first
> (and usually only) complaint I hear from UI designer friends who see
> myth for the first time.
> 
> -Chris
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