Hi, "Andrew Flegg" wrote: > Anamorphic skin > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I've got a 16:9 CRT TV in the UK, connected over S-Video. X is running > at 800x600 (with overscan). Since the TV stretches the image > horizontally, this means non-square pixels. The current themes look > rather "fat" like this, so I'm thinking of working on an anamorphic > skin which would look better on these widescreen TVs. > > Since I'm not an artist, I imagine this will mostly be done by > squishing images in a current theme horizontally, and modifying the > co-ordinates to take it into account. Since font width/height can't be > specified separately, I'm currently using Deja Vu Sans Condensed, > which looks alright stretched back out. > > Is there such a theme already, or would there be a better way of > scaling everything horizontally (perhaps in kaa?) giving the ability > to define a theme which has ~1400 pixels horizontally to play with, > which get squished to 800 on output?
I know this problem. I now also have a 16:9 tv. I have square pixels (running Freevo on 1360x768) but the skin still looks kind of odd. The next gui redesign will get some information about monitor aspect to fix this. But I don't use 1.x anymore (I don't even know the code), so a simple 16:9 skin should be created by someone. > Ideally when scheduling favourites, it would look through the list of > previously recorded programmes and identify duplicates by subtitle or > - if no subtitle - description. It'd then not record it again. Nice idea. Dischi -- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
