[mythtv-users] Re: Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 00:00, Andrew Hogue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would totally be willing to help out, I have lots of experience
> with openGL which I would think would be great to use since I'm sure
> that most people have some form of openGL (I'm not talking about
> rendering hundreds of thousands of polygons but rather a few textures
> on simple quads)....
>
> The reflections in frontrow are simple and easy to do and yes a
> little celeron could probably do that in software at full speed.
>
> Anyways, let me know where I should begin.... :) I think however that
> it goes a bit beyond just a simple theme, it might require a bit of
> an overhaul on the interface in order to piece everything
> together.... not sure about that though.... either way... adding
> animation to the theme would be very simple if we used openGL.
>
> -- Andrew
>
> On 12-Oct-05, at 11:52 PM, Brad wrote:
> >> The gods of User Experience have spoken (
> >> http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the
> >> highest
> >> form of flattery.
> >>
> >> Lets see if we can get a hold of some full res screenshots, and put
> >> together a team to turn this out quickly. Please reply to this email
> >> with a list of your skills.
> >
> > My very first thought when I saw that was "Wow, that looks nice...
> > I wonder if I could make a MythTV theme like that...".  That said,
> > I don't think I can. :-) But I'd be willing to try. I've already
> > done one MythTV theme - which I use everyday -- and love. Its a far
> > cry from the silky goodness that Apple is serving up though.
> >
> > There's a Front Row walk-through here: http://www.apple.com/imac/
> > tour/ . I'm not so sure about some of the sound effects, but
> > certainly its the simplest and cleanest UI I've seen for this type
> > of application. I love how your desktop transitions to Front Row...
> > that's cool (although not necessary for MythTV). I really like how
> > it is very iPod-like to step through various screens. I don't think
> > we could get some of the eye-candy on my poor little Celeron -- I
> > guess they are using Quartz Extreme for some of the reflections/
> > transitions/etc.
> >
> > Brad


I'd love to see a clean and simple interface for MythTV. I'd also like to see 
a more consistant navigation scheme, but i don't know if the theme has 
anything to do with that...

Steve