sylvesterhouse wrote:
... iDVD is that it is forcing me to use a theme, ...
That's how iDVD worked - you have allways to use a 'Theme'.
If you want a theme-less disc, you should use the auto-play feature in iDVD. Which asks for a theme either …
When you (re)install the old themes, there're very simple ones, which you additionally can 'mod' ad infinitum to your needs.
Had a website about that (omg, 2009!!), don't maintain it any more, but maybe of help:
https://sites.google.com/site/idvdmodding/backdrops-and-background
This 'modding-by-drag' n drop'-ability was the outstanding feature of iDVD, which made it exceptional to any other authoring tool. Apple stopped development 8-9y ago, and any hope for a iBluRay-version was burried, since SJ mentioned BluRay "a bag of hurt" - allthough Appe was member in a BluRay-consortium...
Will be interesting when iDVD will finally stop working - Apple makes for years a transition to new code (Quicktime >> AVFoundation), I'm surprised, that iDVD works with Yosemite, anyhow.- If your with DVDs, keep an old Mac alive just fo this purposes.-
… the canned templates were never my thing, too ... 😝