[ubuntu-mythtv] Patches for Mythbuntu theme 25.24

[John Veness]

I agree that the videobackground.png file is better left out as it is. 
If it was possible to have an animated spinner, that might be better.

I don't much like the sliding panes either, from an aesthetic point of 
view. They just seem to be "too much" to me, sliding it from all over 
the place it seems. I don't mind a bit of animation, but I think it 
should be more subtle and classy.

Cheers,

John

On 12/09/2012 01:45, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> I've just committed these to 25.25 and 26.9, which should be available
> in the next few hours. I've commented out the videobackground.png file
> as I don't really like it (it's static, and I'm not really for
> replacing one static image with another. It also doesn't fill my
> screen, so looks kinda janky). I'm also not 100% sold on the sliding
> panes, as it doesn't appear to have everything slide into place (for
> instance, on the schedule guide, the backgrounds slide into place but
> the actual show content doesn't slide anywhere so that looks odd).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
>> CHANGELOG
>>
>> General:
>> * Animation added to various windows. The three panes of Watch
>>    Recordings slide into place from different directions. Other main
>>    windows drop down; popups and menus pop out from the center.
>>
>> base.xml:
>> * An old-style "film countdown" .png image, taken from the Terra
>>    theme, now appears before playing recordings and videos. The
>>    attached videobackground.png should be placed in the theme
>>    directory.
>> * Metadata thumbnails are slightly larger.
>>
>> netvision-ui.xml:
>> * Copied without modification from the default-wide theme to permit
>>    theme-specific changes.
>>
>> osd.xml:
>> * Extraneous starttime and endtime text no longer appears when playing
>>    a video.
>> * Cover art aspect ratio is now preserved.
>>
>> recordings-ui.xml:
>> * Extensive modifications to Watch Recordings, as discussed with
>>    Thomas Mashos and incorporating his suggestions. If available, cover
>>    art now takes the place of the group pane when the recording pane is
>>    focused, and is much larger so is actually legible from across the
>>    room. Both panes are enlarged to show 11 entries versus the current
>>    nine. Full channel names are now displayed. The banner is no longer
>>    displayed because 1) it's almost always redundant with the cover art
>>    and 2) while almost all recordings have fan art and cover art,
>>    movies don't have banners. The preview image is moved to the left
>>    under the cover art, and a gray background appears behind 4:3 images
>>    to produce a pillarbox-like effect.
>>
>>    Watch Recordings also returns to the older two-cursor paradigm with
>>    highlighting only on the focused cursor, albeit with improved
>>    consistency so that two cursors are always on the screen.
>>
>>    (NB - This is a patch to
>>    recordings-ui.xml. recordings-ui.xml.nobanner is superseded.)
>>
>> schedule-ui.xml:
>> * A note informing users of the existence of a second page has been
>>    added to Program Details.
>>
>>
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John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T