[mythtv] OSD timeout settings

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 17 June 2010 06:42, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> Basically, I'd like to take the opportunity to rethink old behaviors and
>> improve.  Unfortunately, it seems that inertia may make major improvements
>> impossible.  I fully admit that I don't have a plan.  I don't really care
>> that much about this particular issue (other than insisting that it's at
>> least a complete implementation unlike what we had before).  So, I'll leave
>> it up to others.
>
> Exactly right, and exactly my take on this issue.  The only way to
> create a truly dynamic UI engine is to tear down the presumptions that
> it makes.  Having bunches of different timeouts presumes that the
> fixed pieces of information always occur within a fixed number of
> named, rigid windows and popups.  Contrast this with something like
> XBMC which can, with scripting and theming, be turned into another
> application altogether, Boxee.  Both behave profoundly differently,
> because the themer is given ultimate control to the finest detail.  We
> are a long, long way from being able to do this, and with this kind of
> insistence on maintaining legacy behavior, we never will be.

giving the user the time to read a message in a way he/she feels
comfortable with isn't "maintaining legacy behavior"... That a
behaviour, implemented almost universally (all my STB here allows such
configuration, including my sony tv) doesn't mean it has to be removed
on the basis that it is old.

How long it takes you to read something, that is displayed only for a
given time, isn't going to be the same for someone else and even more
different depending on the source of the content, the language being
used, how good your eyesight is etc..
It has to be configurable in an easy manner by anyone. The earlier
suggestion of having delays like long, medium, short. With the themes
using those will probably satisfy everyone

Mike is probably right, that with the proper default it wouldn't have
been such an issue to start with, but as it is today, it is an
issue...


>
> This thread, and the fallout that has associated from it (which none
> of you yet realize) has really destroyed my faith that we will ever
> get where people like Mark, Stuart Morgan, Me, and Mike dream/dreamed
> that we would get.  I think we are really in trouble.

you're such a drama queen ...
here is a tissue