Creating Themes

From DVD-Slideshow

Overview

Themes are basically just a collection of settings and standardized locations for saving background images and other helping media. The idea here is that we can distribute some (public domain) images, fonts, and music along with dvd-slideshow (or other similar tools?) and the user just does something like:

dir2slideshow -theme wedding ~/myimages
dvd-slideshow -theme wedding myInputFile.txt
dvd-menu -theme wedding myfile.xml

to achieve a consistent look and feel across all the slideshows and menus generated.

I hope to also be able to use themes from other applications like Q DVD-Author. Each theme can be gzipped and distributed independently. Here's the proposed directory structure:

/path/to/themes/wedding/ 
backgrounds/background.jpg  (I think a directory is required for moving backgrounds in Q-dvdauthor?)
other_needed_image.jpg
button.jpg
music.mp3
wedding.qdvdauthor.xml
wedding.qdvdauthor.layout.xml
wedding.dvdslideshow.txt
preview.png
copyrights_and_licenses.txt  (very important that every image and audio file is documented for distribution!)

Theme List

(Listed in order of my preference for completion)

Name	Description	Menu Image	Title Image	Slide Image
Default	Not really a theme, but contains all the default settings in a separate file
Travel	Antique map inspired. This will probably have several versions.
Wedding	The obvious wedding theme
Babypink	(pinkish and lacey?)
Babyblue	(baby blue background and fonts?)
Movie	(used only with dvd-menu for creating a menu for movies)	Image:Movie theme menu.jpg	Image:Movie theme title.jpg	Image:Movie theme slide.jpg
Dinner	For pictures taken from a dinner party...
Camping		Image:Camping theme menu.jpg	Image:Camping theme title.jpg	Image:Camping theme slide.jpg
Graduation		Image:Graduation theme menu.jpg	Image:Graduation theme title.jpg	Image:Graduation theme slide.jpg
Photo		Image:Photo theme menu.jpg	Image:Photo theme title.jpg	Image:Photo theme slide.jpg
Party		Image:Party theme menu.jpg	Image:Party theme title.jpg	Image:Party theme slide.jpg
Roadtrip		Image:Roadtrip theme menu.jpg	Image:Roadtrip theme title.jpg	Image:Roadtrip theme slide.jpg

dvd-slideshow theme creation howto

Default themes will be stored in the directory /opt/foo/bar

You can create your own local theme directory and use that instead.

List of variables used in all programs

pal=0

List of variables available for dir2slideshow or gallery1-to-slideshow

slideshow_background="#000000"
crossfade=1
kenburns=0
slide_duration=6.5
title_type=titlebar
title_background=background.jpg
slideshow_audio=summer_calling.mp3,suburban_train.mp3,soularis-sunrise.mp3

List of variables available for dvd-slideshow

autocrop=1
title_font_color="darkred"
title_font_size=52
title_font="SteveHand.ttf"

List of variables available for dvd-menu

menu_background=background.jpg
menu_title_font="SteveHand.ttf"
menu_button_font="SteveHand.ttf"
menu_title_font_color="darkred"
menu_button_font_color="darkred"
menu_button_hilight_color="black"
menu_audio=soularis-sunrise.mp3
menu_continuous_play=1
menu_fadein=1
menu_fadeout=1
menu_fade_to_black=0
menu_panel_location_x=500