[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4353: Customize MythMusic Miniplayer settings

[Justin Hornsby]

Tom Lichti wrote:
> Stuart Morgan wrote:
>   
>> In my experience, only the smallest minority of users actually a setup which 
>> differs from the defaults and the number of possible configuration 
>> combinations causes immense confusion for  the rest. Far better to balance 
>> differing ideas on how things should work and to come up with clever ways to 
>> satisfy everyone, than to just throw in another setting. It's harder work and 
>> not nearly as simple to do in practise though.
>>
>>   
>>     
> A couple of programs I use have 'expert mode' settings, so by default 
> they only display the bare minimum of settings needed to do the most 
> common things, with the hidden options using sane defaults. Once the 
> 'expert' switch is on, then all available options are presented. Making 
> the expert mode hard to enable (via a manual db update perhaps) with 
> appropriate warnings, the chance that the average joe reaching them 
> becomes much slimmer.
>
> I don't know if it's workable, just a thought, and probably one that's 
> been discussed here already...
>
> Tom
>   
One of the Google Summer of Code students was allegedly working on 
rationalising mythtv's setup menus etc.  That would've tied in nicely 
with the multi-user stuff which was also part of Google's SoC.  Pity 
about all of that.

Justin