Plugin: Diamond Theme

[Ericft]

thx..i'll work on it.

[bialio]

You can create plugin's that have no actual content, but just dependencies on everything you have installed. This way you could point people towards that instead of building it all into one super plugin.

I just find it way easier to manage what's enabled by doing it in the plugin menu rather than having to build in configuration options. If you want to go the extra mile and add a knob to enable disable in a menu somewhere, then more power to you.

btl.

[cncb]

Is there any way to configure how the OSD displays the date & time? I would like to somehow separate the day of the month number from the time since the numbers kind of blend together at a quick glance for me. Thanks.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by bialio

You can create plugin's that have no actual content, but just dependencies on everything you have installed. This way you could point people towards that instead of building it all into one super plugin.

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Wow talk about making the plugins more messy than they already are blank plugins are just more confusing. not to mention the fact at that point I have to track and support multiple plugins no thanks. I don't want to end up having to support 10 plugins that add to diamond rather than just support one plugin.

You find it easier to use the plugin manager to add remove options because you are a dev most users know options menu and get all kinds of confused in the plugin menu and I hope it doesn't start becoming a options type menu as having to reload the ui to make a change sounds no fun.

[jorton]

Originally Posted by cncb

Is there any way to configure how the OSD displays the date & time? I would like to somehow separate the day of the month number from the time since the numbers kind of blend together at a quick glance for me. Thanks.

Not currently without creating a UI mod, and I am not sure what other date formats are availible in Studio. What you are seeing is the Malore style long date that has been there for a long long time. I do agree though, the time at the end of the Date/Time is not really separated very much and does blend together a bit.

Jeremy

[bialio]

It might be confusing, but the way you are going Diamond is going to end up being more or less a UI replacement. Which is fine, but if I were you I'd stick with the Diamond STVi being stuff to make the graphics of the theme work. Then you can have another STVi that goes in and changes content to your hearts desire. It's way cleaner that way.
But do what you want. I don't really care. Because phoenix is coming!

[toricred]

Originally Posted by Ericft

so this recent new plugin (replace index numbers....) something that will be part of the diamond theme and should we wait to update diamond...or install it now (even thought i can't seem to get it to work)

There must be some dependency I wasn't aware of. I'll see if I can figure out what it could be. I'm really sorry this isn't working for you.

[Ericft]

thanks. let us know...appreciate your work...

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by bialio

It might be confusing, but the way you are going Diamond is going to end up being more or less a UI replacement. Which is fine, but if I were you I'd stick with the Diamond STVi being stuff to make the graphics of the theme work. Then you can have another STVi that goes in and changes content to your hearts desire. It's way cleaner that way.
But do what you want. I don't really care. Because phoenix is coming!

Good thing your not me then.

It will be hard for me to leave the default stv again, but Phoenix does have a good backend API and options are good. I disliked the framentation of sagemc users and defaut users as then you have to develop for multiple stvs to support everyone.

[tonysathre]

Is there any way to remove this? Seems a little redundant to me.

http://oi52.tinypic.com/icthq8.jpg

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by tonysathre

Is there any way to remove this? Seems a little redundant to me.

http://oi52.tinypic.com/icthq8.jpg

Not currently as that is part of the Phoenix fanart addin by bailo. But if you don't have his addin I believe it shows a logo or screenshot.

[tonysathre]

I would rather not have anything there. Is that possible?

[toricred]

@Ericft Do you have Phoenix Core Services installed? That might be a requirement since some of the calls I'm using are probably from the phoenix jar file. One other thing that might be the problem is if your STV file isn't SageTV7.xml.

[Ericft]

@toricred
i have phoenix core services 2.3 installed and i am using sagetv7.xml

[toricred]

Is this problem showing up on an extender or a client?

[Ericft]

client, placeshifter and server...haven't tried it on my extender as i'm not at home...just logging into home pcs via logmein...

[toricred]

Did it ask to reload the UI after it installed?

[Ericft]

yup

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by tonysathre

I would rather not have anything there. Is that possible?

You could use CVF plugin as it has an option to show or hide the preview, however you get other customizations too!

Or, PluckyHD could make this small change in the Diamond plugin as all I did in CVF was change the value of "SkipThumbInInfoArea" which exists in the default STV (but it might then interfere with CVF and I use both ).

k

[jorton]

Originally Posted by tonysathre

Is there any way to remove this? Seems a little redundant to me.

http://oi52.tinypic.com/icthq8.jpg

Another option is to increase the number of backgrounds that BMT is downloading to the backgrounds folder. In Diamond we don't have the background cycling through the background fanart as it would be too distracting. Bailio's Phoenix Fanart V7 in the thumbnail area does cycle through them all so I don't find that they are the same too often.

There is the odd show that just had one background for whatever reason that does double up, so unless you source your own extra images they will always be the same.

Just a thought.

Jeremy