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Am 15.09.2012 02:43, schrieb Scott &
Nicole Harris:<br>
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Hi everybody, I just wanted to
announce on the mailing list that a
new version<br>
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of the blue-abstract theme is out.<br>
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It has undergone a major rewrite.
There were tons of changes,<br>
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which can be seen in the changelog or on
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Robert, I downloaded version 1.8 a few days
ago, and I'm very impressed with how
polished it is. Thanks.<br>
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A few more issues I noticed while using the
new version for a few days:<br>
- The OSD element in top left corner is not
taking GUI offsets into<br>
account. I use different resolutions for video
vs. GUI and while<br>
watching recordings, the top left corner of
the screen is outside the<br>
viewport, so that this OSD element is only
partially visible.<br>
- I wonder why there are distinct background
images missing for some<br>
major menu points like Media Library.<br>
- The upcoming recording entries aren't
colored, which makes it hard<br>
to determine the different state of the
different recordings from each<br>
other.<br>
- The auto-scrolling of some text areas is far
to fast, e.g. for the<br>
episode descriptions. I'd rather have them not
scrolling at all, so I<br>
can always read the beginning of the
description and hit INFO for the<br>
complete text.<br>
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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.<br>
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I'll add some color to the upcoming recording
text.<br>
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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.<br>
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Dont disable it, its one of the best features of
this theme. IMO.<br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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!<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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Cheers<br>
Gordon<br>
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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
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<div>I'm sure you could but it would likely break a lot of
things. 17 feet is awfully far for that size TV... I set 3.5"
of screen (diagonal) per foot I'm away from the TV as a
minimum. It would be very hard to make a decent theme
suitable for your reading distance. You might try the
"Readability" theme, I believe it's intended to have higher
contrast so at least the letters will be a little easier to
make out, I haven't used it myself.</div>
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I know it's far. It's just how our living room is setup. You are far
from the tv and there is no real good way to fix it. We could up it
to a 65" tv, but I bet we'd still have a hard time reading. We're
young, so we can technically read it, but but the guide is hard to
read and I get a headache if I look at it for more than 5 minutes
due to all the squinting required. Mythtv has font size settings,
but they don't do anything for the themes.<br>
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Sincerely,
Steve Peters
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