I want my old Myth theme back! [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?]

[Michael Sullivan]

I upgraded to mythtv-0.22_p23069.  Went through the whole song-and-dance
of repairing the database for the utf8 to latin1 thing, and now it's
finally back up.  Except for one tiny problem.  My G.A.N.T. theme is
gone.  I can't even select it as a theme.  Is there some way to get it
back?  I liked the plain gray background, the fact that I could tell at
a glance what was recording and what I had manually set not to record.
And the fact that a generic episode was easily distinguished from a
specific episode (I usually manually set generic episodes not to record,
but now I have to take extra time to find each episode and check that
it's not generic.  :(  I'm also not happy that they changed the order of
options.
-Michael Sullivan-

Re: I want my old Myth theme back! [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?]

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:08:25 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:

 I upgraded to mythtv-0.22_p23069.  Went through the whole song-and-dance
 of repairing the database for the utf8 to latin1 thing, and now it's
 finally back up.  Except for one tiny problem.  My G.A.N.T. theme is
 gone.  I can't even select it as a theme.  Is there some way to get it
 back?

Apparently not. The theme engine was completely rewritten for 0.22, to
give more flexibility and options, and G.A.N.T. was not ported. The jos
of free software, if a dev gets bored with something, they just stop.

 I'm also not happy that they changed the order of
 options.

Neither was I at first, but once I got the hang of the new layout, I find
it faster to use. Adding videos is an extreme example that was a real
hassle in older versions but a trivial task now.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Snacktrek, n.:
 The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly
 returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have
 materialized.


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