Very cool. Thanks for putting all that work into it! I think my new html pages kinda cover the same thing you are doing, but I'd like to see your finished product. I have no php skills, so I just made thumbnails of all the items on Myxer's website.
I think what people are looking for eventually is some kind of php thingy that would have like one area about 480 pixels at the bottom of the screen that shows a little preview of mythfrontend's main menu, and by selecting buttons or icons or whatever from little drop-down lists, they could change the preview at the bottom of the screen. That'd be pretty wicked for sure! IMPORTANT NOTE: the links to Myxer on your site actually point to MythCenter website. Myxer's website is actually.. http://lisadaveh.home.comcast.net/myxer Inline comments below > - transparent png's: very nice, but resizing with php is not so easy and > internet explorer can not show them decently What's this 'Internet Explorer' thing you mention? I thought using a non-standards-compliant browser disappeared in the last ice age. It's like driving a car that only works on some of the roads. heh Transparent png's are a must for most of these buttons because most of them 'fade' out, or have a semi-transparent shadow. To my knowledge, jpg will not handle this as well. > - a typo: it's button_blue_square_flat_bluetwo.png and not > button_blue_sqare_flat_bluetwo.png Only one? Amazing. heh, I'll fix that this weekend. > - I tried to sort the backgrounds because each color has the same 4 "types", > but then I realised, why not let the user create his own background? Give > him a type and let choose him the color. To be implemented somehow .... That'd be cool. I suspect most people won't/don't use the ver1 bacgrounds. They were really a exercise in concept. I am not really happy with the variations in colors, and the poor quality of compression on some of the colors. I will think about making the type-->color choice options in the future. My only problem is I may eventually scrap some of them in favor of a more nicely done set. We'll see. This Monday the pool goes in, I have been chopping lumber from trees I had trimmed, messing with the stupid septic system (which actually turns out to have 2 fields instead of just one), running buried electrical to the pool area, tearing down portions of my deck, dealing with delivery people, dealing with installers, dealing with electricians, and moving a garden of rocks to the other side of the house. I can hardly type this email, I hurt so bad. Myxer is likely to slow down for a week or two. heh I plan on making the above changes this weekend, and my next project is contacting some 10 KDE icon creators I found on kde-look.org. I would like to see if I can get at least 5 more sets of icons for people to choose from. All of the icons I am thinking about are GPL'd or LGPL'd or DSL or Artistic2.0 liscensed. I would think the first three should be no problem to include, but anyone in the 'know' could tell me more if they like. > Maybe some of this is implemented in the new MythUI concept, I don't know. > It will be next week before I can do some more work on this. I wonder what timeline the MythUI concept is on, and if we might end up with a 'Myxer' type selection where all aspects of the UI are separate. That way people could just come up with iconsets, or buttons rather than whole themes, and theme quality is bound to soar if that is the case. Dave Hofstra _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
