Me TV

electronic program guide colour scheme changes?

Asked by stanna on 2008-03-10

is it possible to change the way me-tv does the colours on the electronic program guide so that it uses the same colour scheme that is being used for gnome? whatever is involved i dont know, just a question if perhaps the channel names on the left could use the same background/foreground colour and button configuration as whatever theme gnome is using. not something that really helps the functionality of the app. just easy on the eyes and matches everything a little better? im just curious. not asking for the world to be changed for one small thing..

whats your thoughts michael?

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Me TV Edit question

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Solved by:: Michael Lamothe

Solved:: 2008-03-11

Last query:: 2008-03-11

Last reply:: 2008-03-10

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said on 2008-03-10:

The colours are hard coded in the source. If you wanted to change these values to known values then it's easy to do that from the source. Let me know if you want to do that and I can help if needed.

I thought of making the colours configurable but at the time that I built it I was really pushed for time. The issue with making it the same as the GNOME desktop colours is:

1. That I need too many of them,

Column timespan (Blue)
Channel Buttons (Blue)
Normal Event (GNOME colours)
Current Event (Green)
Selected Event (Yellow)
Recorded Event (Red, but I didn't get this done in time)

2. The GNOME desktop has a few predefined (PRELIGHT, ACTIVE, NORMAL, ...) colours but I didn't want to use them because I think that it would cause confusion if I showed a button in a particular state. i.e Users might think that they can't click it because it already looks clicked.

3. It makes writing the guide a lot easier if I can just say "The current event is Green".

I'll definitely consider making the colours configurable in the future (0.6) but I'm not sure that the EPG will stick around in its current form. I'm thinking of making it an overlay using the Clutter UI.

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stanna (stanna) said on 2008-03-10:

even adding an optiont to use use 'system colours' if wanted or use the ones you pre define in me-tv.. or a possible 3rd to configure your own colours.. ? but this might be heading towards pointless features when the main purpose of the software is to do one thing and do it properly with no frills..

what do you think?

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