[ubuntu-mythtv] Mythbuntu theme updates on stable releases

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, John Veness
<John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
> Recently there have been some quite major updates to the Mythbuntu theme,
> which will be visible to anyone who keeps the theme updated either via the
> theme chooser or via the package. In my opinion, I think it would be better
> for such major changes to the theme to not take place in a stable, released
> version of MythTV or of Mythbuntu. I think that if a user installs a
> particular version of Myth, and chooses the Mythbuntu theme, they should
> expect the theme to look the same and not change until they update to, e.g.,
> 0.26.
>
> Obviously bug fixes are fine, and even minor additions such as adding the
> metadata editor in Watch Recordings which was not previously there, but some
> of the recent changes are bigger than that, or have been tried then later
> reverted (such as the scrolling text). Some users may think that the
> Mythbuntu theme devs are doing "experiments" in what should be a stable
> release.
>
> Of course, experiments and big changes can take place in a "dev" version of
> the theme, or for 0.26 or 0.27 until they are released as stable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
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That is a fair assessment. I've reverted the massive changes on the
recordings screen and will only do bug fixes in released versions now.
I do plan on adding back some of the changes that existed in the new
screen, but I don't like the scrolling of things so much.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos