[mythtv] PATCH: Don't hilight the selection in an inactive list

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Ben Levitt wrote:

>--- Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> wrote:
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>>Yes, anything could be changed in any way but you
>>had
>>indicated that the problem you wanted to resolve was
>>that
>>it didn't look good in visor. I think the solution
>>to
>>that problem would be to adjust the visor colors.
>>Changing
>>the behavior of the playbox is a different issue.
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>I guess the original problem was that it wasn't super
>obvious which column had focus, yes.  However, after
>changing things so that the right doesn't show a
>selection if the left has focus, I now feel a little
>uncomfortable performing actions on something that
>doesn't look like it's selected.  So that's my new
>problem.  :]
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>

Try the most recent playbackbox.  It differentiates between the left and 
right sides.


>>But you do know in saying this that it is less
>>convenient and
>>not more convenient. So I don't think this makes
>>things better.
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>True, right now we have the shortcut that lets you act
>upon the first item in a list by acting upon the whole
>list. So it's true that it's faster, but to me it
>feels a little odd.  When I hit Enter on a Category, I
>expect to end up inside it, not immediately playing
>the first thing in it.  (Maybe I just want the default
>action for items in the left column to be "Move
>Right"...)
>
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That's what it is in the new version.

>>One thing I've always thought is that when you enter
>>the playbox,
>>the focus should maybe initially be on the right. I
>>often (and you
>>may too ;-) click Watch Recording and mindlessly
>>start pressing
>>down only to find that I'm not going down the titles
>>rather then
>>the All list. I grumble then go back up, right, then
>>down.
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>That's a good call.  That happens to me all the time.
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And it also solves the problem of having too hit two keys for what used 
to be one (playing the first item in the first group that came up).

>>If the focus started on the right, the user would
>>only need to
>>press enter once to start playback. I wouldn't mind
>>a change to
>>Enter on the left as much then but I still think
>>seeing descriptions
>>while focus is left is a Good Thing.
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>With all this in mind, I think my ideal would be:
>
> - Start with focus in the right
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With the most recent change I checked in this cane be done.

> - When focus is in the left, make the default action
>be "change focus to the right"
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This is in

> - When we're focused on the left, the episode-title,
>subtitle, and description should be greyed out to
>match the episodes in the right-hand column
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>
When we're on the left that stuff doesn't even show up.  Instead there's 
a new container that contains the recording group name, display group 
name and a short description something like:

"Sci-Fi  -  Stargate
There are 12 recordings in this display group"

>I certainly don't want to slow down the interface. 
>But I feel like this might actually speed people up,
>since it would be slightly easier to tell what's going
>on.
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If you set it so that the focus starts on the right it doesn't slow 
things down at all.  The clear differentiation between the left and 
right looks a lot cleaner too.