[mythtv-users] Default Theme [was: Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 disasters - please help; (]

[Christopher Kerr]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Fred Squires <fsquires at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Paul Clark <paul at aghast.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Have you tried the blue-abstract theme?
>>>
>>> No I haven't but having just googled it it looks clean and easy to use.
>>> I'll install it and give it a go.  Mythbuntu is nice but a bit dark.
>>>
>>
>> I installed blue-abstract last night and after commenting out the
>> fanart section of the watch recordings ui XML to get rid of lagginess
>> when naviagting the watch recordings screen it all works great.  We
>> have a new favourite theme in our house.
>
> After you scroll through and load the fanart the first time it runs much faster.

Things seem to slow down if some shows don't have fanart, though - in
my case, the local networks have a bad habit of including the subtitle
in the title, so title matching often doesn't work properly.

- Chris