[mythtv] Thoughts on Myth UI

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 08:20:53 UTC 2004


Sounds like a great idea to me.

Are you thinking of redesigning the look of the menu in livetv?
because although it fits in well when overlayed on moving video I'm
not too sure how good it would look on a static menu - say if you hit
menu when in mythmusic.


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:45:26 -0000, Paul Volkaerts
<paul.volkaerts at lineone.net> wrote:
> 
> There has been some trains on this lately but I wanted to run some ideas
> passed the alias to see if they seem to hang together.  I may well go ahead
> and prototype this anyway to see how the UI looks and feels; but wanted to
> flush out ideas first.
> 
> This is meant to fix two things: better integration between plugins, and
> getting rid of dead-time in the main menu. By the last point I mean; to go
> from TV to music you have to exit TV then enter music. The bit in between is
> dead-time - the user experiences no content and it detracts from the user
> experience.
> 
> I would like to see the "Menu" button call up a common menu regardless of
> where in Myth the user is. This would be a on-screen menu like the MythTV
> OSD menu, and would be context sensitive such that hitting Menu in Live-TV
> would result in entering the menu at a level that has relevant actions; but
> hitting up-menu would go back to TV where you could switch to Music etc.
> 
> Then without the main screen changing from watching TV, you could look at
> music playlists etc.
> 
> I imagine one or two levels of fixed menu items, then a set of dynamic
> menus. A new plugin function, something like get_osd_menu(), would be called
> when the user hits "right" at a menu prompt to build the next menu layer. As
> an example; within "MythMusic" I could hit menu, then left, select TV, then
> Live-TV which could then give me a menu of channels created dynamically by
> calling the mythtv-plugin (I know, it isnt a plugin, but you get what I
> mean). Then I could switch straight from listening to music to watching BBC1
> without "dead-time".
> 
> Problems I see implementing this: ideally it would be implemented within
> Mythfrontend without heavy impact to each plugin; but it may be that each
> plugin needs to capture the "menu" key and call a libmyth function; then
> pass all subsequent keystrokes to it. Also, a mix of OSD-type displays and
> QT-type displays adds complexity.
> 
> Welcome any thoughts.
> 
> Paul
> 
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