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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>:

> 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>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Zitat von Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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 ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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)?
>>>>
>>>
>>> line 169 of ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/base.xml
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> > 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.
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>
> If anyone is wondering how difficult it is to do a theme, see above.

Well, of course he is right, because it *is* the same color. There is  
still a lot of colors to pick from that have high enough contrast  
against the black background.

Oh, and consider yourself happy, you probably haven't even started to  
keep color blinded people in mind. ;-)

-- 
Jan Schneider
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