[mythtv-users] Updated mythbuntu theme version 28 (for MythTV 0.27)

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
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> Zitat von Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>:
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>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
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>>> Zitat von Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>:
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>>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>:
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>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Zitat von Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>:
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 28.8 released. Minor changes. Questions and comments in this thread.
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is definitely an improvement. I can see recording group names in
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> left pane sometimes completely now, otherwise the first two letters.
>>>>>>> Can't
>>>>>>> we remove the "All Recordings - " prefix from the pane header? It's
>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> wast of screen estate IMO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure this is fixable in the theme. It might be a user specific
>>>>>> frontend setting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The situation in the right pane with the too narrow date columns has
>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>> improved a tad. If the day of month and month happen to be both
>>>>>>> single-digit, I can see the date now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Remind me, what language is your frontend in? I've tested this with
>>>>>> double digit month/year and can see it fine (and it also worked before
>>>>>> I adjusted it). Same goes with the time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> German. And I have a date format of "Ww DD.MM.".
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> By Ww, is that "Week of year"?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No, wweekday ;-)
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>>>
>>>>>>> The color of disabled recordings in the recording preview screen is
>>>>>>> nearly
>>>>>>> unreadable now though. Dark blue on black doesn't seem to be a good
>>>>>>> choice.
>>>>>>> Gray seems most intuitive to me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And now we've come full circle.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, there is some middle ground between
>>>>> light-gray-hard-to-determine-from-white and
>>>>> dark-blue-hard-to-determine-from-black. Someone remembering web-safe
>>>>> color
>>>>> palettes? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How about #0492A7 does that work?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Where can I change this (file, XPath)?
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>> line 169 of ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/base.xml
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> Much better!
>
>
> --
> Jan Schneider

I'm going to respond to this with the following quote from an earlier
conversation in this thead with torbjorn.jansson (and note that the
color code I gave you is the exact color code I had previously changed
it from.



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> > colors in upcoming recordings screen is not good, hard to see the
> difference between recordings that will record and those that have been
> disabled and will record later
> > also fonts is too big so channel names and programs is cut of (all of
> them)
> >
>
> You aren't on 28.5 then. Disabled are blue, regular are gray
>
yes i am, i updated before i rechecked and wrote the mail.
right now there is only 2 colors in the upcoming recordings screen, cyan
and white.
cyan for disabled recordings, like those that already have recorded in the
past and white for those that will record.
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If anyone is wondering how difficult it is to do a theme, see above.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos