I am in the final stages of setting up a myth system for my family. One of the things I decided to do was change the main menu...very easy. Just take the .xml menu files from /usr/share/mythtv that you want to modify and copy them to a /usr/share/mythtv/themes/<your menu theme name> and edit. You don't have to copy any file that you are not modifying...myth uses the default files in those menus.
In my case, I wanted the main menu to only have the functions we'll use the most, so I modified mainmenu.xml to say: Live TV Recorded TV Videos Music Pictures Weather Other Options I then copied the default mainmenu.xml to other_options.xml and edited out the features we won't use (like the phone). I edited one other file...library.xml I think...to remove the game emulator for now. Now, I just select my theme from the front end setup and away we go. As easy as that was, there is one "Tivo" feature I wish we had. Our Tivo remote has a button labeled "Live TV" and another labeled "List". Those buttons, take you to live TV or to the list of recorded programs no matter where you are in the Tivo system. I'd love to be able to configure MythTV to do that. Rob --- Mark H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well all you need to do is edit those xml files. > They are pretty easy to > figure out. Knock yourself out and if you find > something you like share it > with us. > > > On 8/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would agree that Mythtv's menus are a bit > unorganized. Perhaps > > adding multiple ways to get to the same > setup/config pages would be > > helpful, allowing jumps between sections rather > than going all the > > way back to the top of the hierarchy, but I don't > know. > > > > - KG > > > > On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:31 AM, roger wrote: > > > > > Is it just me, or is Mythtv's menu organization > confusing? > > > > > > Maybe the items are organized well, however, the > end user just > > > needs to > > > learn how & when Mythtv spawns it's processes? > > > > > > (It took less time for me to learn how my > dishnetwork pvr menu system > > > worked. On the lighter side, there's less > features with the > > > dishnetwork > > > pvr.) > > > > > > (Still learning, but now have a more sane handle > of mythtv.) > > > > > > -- > > > Roger > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html > > > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 > 640F C963 1005 1D61 > > > > > > Tue Aug 9 12:31:29 PDT 2005 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
