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joeinbend
April 2nd, 2009, 07:30 PM
Hi all,
I'm an old xLobby guy from the beginning, and one of its' greatest assets is the ability to build a truly custom skin. I dont just mean reorganizing the icons and such, but being able to set up the way each menu connects to the next.

For example: If you want to build a skin for a home-automation kiosk, it would have only specific items such as weather, news, music, and lighting control. Another interface in the home theatre room might have control of all of your video content, audio, lighting control. A third one outside near the BBQ and hot tub would have control of the music, landscape lighting, temperature control of the hot tub.

Down to the question now: Is there anyone out there who has done some real serious skinning and design in xLobby, who can tell me what my constraints are in Myth?

managementboy
April 3rd, 2009, 07:15 AM
hi, mythtv has no application to make skins, you have to edit XML files and generate PNGs to create a new "theme".

check http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Theme_development_guide for a developer guide to the new 0.22 version.

nickrout
April 3rd, 2009, 06:20 PM
but you can quite easily create a new menu structure without a new theme.

take a look at the files in /usr/share/mythtv