[mythtv] [PATCH] add visiblerowlimit tag to theme.xml

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 03:20 am, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> >On Monday 13 October 2003 11:44 am, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> >>as it currently stands there is a hardcoded limit of 6 (six) buttons
> >>visible on a screen at any one time. i'm working on a minimalist theme
> >> and wanted to get more buttons than this limit. it was easy to change
> >> the 6 to 8 (as in my case) but having found it very easy to extend the
> >> theme.xml processing i thought; why not make it configurable.
> >
> >Well, I really think 6 items on screen is the maximum you'd want -- don't
> > want to overwhelm the user with possible things to do at any given time,
> > but I'll apply this anyway.
>
> the theme i'm working on is very minimalistic
> with a screen resolution of 800x600 and buttons with no icons (just
> text) of 300x75 it is possible to get all
> 8 top level buttons on the main screen

It doesn't _matter_ if it's possible.  You could pretty easily pack more than 
6 buttons into any of the themes besides blue, if you wanted to.  Instead, 
it's the fact that too many options on screen at one time is bad UI design.

Also, if you install everything that's in the CVS tree, that's 9 top level 
items, not 8.

Isaac