In the MX-98o templates, we did choose to use a different background image for each page, along with a different button shape. Installers had been asking for more variety in button shapes, so we provided that. However, the actual button art style, or theme, is consistent between pages.

Some clients prefer this variety, while others prefer to have every page be identical except for the labels on the buttons. Everyone's taste is different, and there's no "right" or "wrong." For example, what's totally intuitive and obvious to a Linux user may seem bizarre and counterproductive to a Windows user. Neither person is wrong... they just have different cognitive styles. So while I do understand what you prefer, believe it or not, it was done this way because installers asked for it. We're moving away from this philosophy in MX-880 and MX-6000, but the MX-980 is what it is.

Although I doubt we'll see a gaggle of new templates for the MX-980, you can actually go into the program folder and edit the graphics in the base templates that are there. As long as you only replace the graphics in the buttons, and not the buttons themselves, then you'll have transformed the template you want into the format you want to use. To do this, you can use the Gallery to drag the button images you want onto the existing button images. The button labels will change, but that's okay, because the IR Database is going to reassign all the button names when you use the template anyway.

(Just be sure to save a copy of the original template before you start editing. It will be a lot easier to restore that than to reinstall the whole application if you somehow need a base template later.

Best regards,
Dale