[mythtv-users] MythTV Themes - Looking great!

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Wed Jul 14 13:49:07 UTC 2010


* On Wed Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46:19PM +0200, Robert Siebert wrote:
> But as far as I know things will get better when the frontend offers
> some kind of theme chooser. 
> See http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/ThemeDownloader

And it's coming very, very soon....

I need to cleanup the UI some, regenerate some higher resolution
preview images, and get the repository moved off my test server
onto themes.mythtv.org, and then it will be committed to trunk.
Here are some screenshots of the interface as it is currently.
This same interface is for choosing a new theme and for
downloading new ones off the themes site.

Theme chooser/picker:
http://mythtv.bc2va.org/tmp/themedownloader.jpg

Downloading and installing the chosen theme:
http://mythtv.bc2va.org/tmp/themedownloader_downloading.jpg
http://mythtv.bc2va.org/tmp/themedownloader_installing.jpg

After the theme is finished downloading and installing, the
UI reloads with the new theme.  The frontend does _not_
need to be running as root. The new theme is installed under
the normal .mythtv/themes subdirectory so the frontend user
only has to have permission to write to its own directory.

There is also a full-screen preview mode where you can cycle
through full-screen preview images of each theme to see how
they look on your display.

Since the theme downloader uses the new MythDownloadManager
class on the master backend which has a built-in cache, you
won't have to download the same theme off the net 5 times to
install it on 5 frontends right in a row.  If you do this
over a period of time though, the theme package may get
purged from the master's cache.  This shouldn't happen
that much though since not many things are using this cache.

--
Chris


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