[mythtv-users] New blue-abstract theme 1.8

[Myth Steve]

On 09/20/2012 09:36 AM, Gordon McCrae wrote:
> On 20/09/12 09:36, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Scott harris <scott.harris0509 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>>>>>> Am 15.09.2012 02:43, schrieb Scott & Nicole Harris:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi everybody, I just wanted to announce on the mailing list 
>>>>>>>>>> that a new version
>>>>>>>>> of the blue-abstract theme is out.
>>>>>>>>>> It has undergone a major rewrite. There were tons of changes,
>>>>>>>>> which can be seen in the changelog or on github.
>>>>>>> Robert, I downloaded version 1.8 a few days ago, and I'm very 
>>>>>>> impressed with how polished it is. Thanks.
>>>>>> A few more issues I noticed while using the new version for a few 
>>>>>> days:
>>>>>> - The OSD element in top left corner is not taking GUI offsets into
>>>>>> account. I use different resolutions for video vs. GUI and while
>>>>>> watching recordings, the top left corner of the screen is outside 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> viewport, so that this OSD element is only partially visible.
>>>>>> - I wonder why there are distinct background images missing for some
>>>>>> major menu points like Media Library.
>>>>>> - The upcoming recording entries aren't colored, which makes it hard
>>>>>> to determine the different state of the different recordings from 
>>>>>> each
>>>>>> other.
>>>>>> - The auto-scrolling of some text areas is far to fast, e.g. for the
>>>>>> episode descriptions. I'd rather have them not scrolling at all, 
>>>>>> so I
>>>>>> can always read the beginning of the description and hit INFO for 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> complete text.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding the missing background images: I use my own (imho better 
>>>>> structured) menu (which you can activate in the appearance 
>>>>> settings, it called blue-abstract-menu). There I don't use the 
>>>>> media gallery. I'll add the background to it in the next version.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll add some color to the upcoming recording text.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately there is no option to change the scrolling speed. 
>>>>> I'll think about disabling it. You can still disable the scrolling 
>>>>> yourself in the xml file.
>>>>>
>>>> Dont disable it, its one of the best features of this theme. IMO.
>>>
>>> Agreed
>>
>> So how do you guys actually read the scrolling content with the 
>> current scrolling speed, if the episode description is like 10 lines 
>> longs, but you only see 4 lines at once? I might not be the fastest 
>> reader, but I doubt anyone could really read those with the current 
>> settings.
>> A slower scrolling speed would definitely help too, though I'd still 
>> prefer to only read the full description on demand, because everybody 
>> has a different reading speed, and you might not start reading right 
>> after opening the recording, so you missed the first lines and need 
>> to wait until the scrolling loops back. Bad usability IMO.
>>
> Actually, I love the idea of the text scrolling, It's been a bugbear 
> of mine for a while that there's a word or two missing from a text 
> field, and I have to go into the "full detail" window to see it.
>
> However, while it works well in the "Watch Recordings" screen where 
> 99% of the "details" are only one or two lines over the limit of the 
> panel, some stuff in "Watch Videos" has very long details, and it is, 
> I agree, impossible to read, so either a control somewhere to specify 
> speed, or perhaps a "pause" button to stop the scrolling temporarily 
> while we read the section currently on screen?
>
> In general I like 1.8, however I must say I preferred 1.7's animated 
> icon when a programme was recording to the pulsing cog that 1.8 has, 
> and I also feel that background images in the menus is distracting and 
> a little tacky, one of the things that I liked about blue-abstract was 
> that it didn't have naff images of TVs and turntables, so that's a bit 
> of a backward step for me, but I guess I'll get used to it!
>
> I would like to echo the earlier comments about having the ability to 
> turn things on and off, or vary speeds etc. Perhaps in a config file, 
> perhaps in the MythFrontend menu, I don't care, but the ability to do 
> this would be fantastic.
>
> One simple way to disable the scrolling is pick QT instead of Auto or 
> OpenGL for your paint engine. Mine was set to "Qt" by default and I 
> was about to post as to why I couldn't get animated text fields, but 
> then thought to check this and test in OpenGL. One obvious question, 
> is there any obvious advantage / disadvantage to using the OpenGL 
> paint engine?
>
> Cheers
> Gordon
>
>
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Any way to increase the font sizes in the watch recordings and the guide 
(or even all throughout)? Our tv is about 17' from our couch, and even 
though it's a 48", it's hard to read these fonts.


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Sincerely,

Steve Peters