[mythtv] RFC: Alerting in Myth

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Wed Jan 16 23:30:34 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 16 January 2008 23:11:26 Nigel Pearson wrote:
> 2) There is also the mythtvosd notification mechanism.
>     It'd be good if a menu alert scheme also showed these.

That was also one of the ideas I had. :)

> 3) Maybe the themes that have a clock could
>     replace the <clock> with a <notify> widget.
>     If there are no alerts, it would display the time.
>     If there are alerts, it could swap/animate/roll between
>     the time and "2 items require attention"

Not in favour of this personally.

I wouldn't create a new widget either, but instead a named textarea widget. 
One of the things I want to avoid with mythui is creating new widgets for 
every little purpose. Libmyth's uitypes is a mess because of this and there 
is far more theming flexibility in creating one versatile widget instead of 
3/4 special purpose ones.
-- 
Stuart Morgan


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