[mythtv] previous right arrow playbackbox function

[Ronald Frazier]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Mark Spieth <mark at digivation.com.au> wrote:
> if anyone is interested in a patch that provides the previous right arrow
> that produces play menu in playbackbox,
> I can provide one which has this configurable.
>
> I know a decision was made to change this behaviour but I *really* liked the
> previous behaviour.
> less finger movement on remote. ;-)

I loved this too. There was a lot of resistance to the idea because it
doesn't work right with all themes because of the varying layouts. I
tried to solve that by writing a patch that allowed the menu theme to
determine which direction could trigger the action. I actually made it
a lot more flexible and universal because I did it so that any
ButtonList could trigger any action with an arrow key (so there was no
"special purpose" code specifically for the Watch Recording screen). I
posted about it here but didn't bother submitting it because I figured
there was no point, since the devs seemed to be of the opinion that
the functionality just needed to disappear. I posted the patch here:
http://www.ronfrazier.net/mythtv/0.22/index.html#ButtonListTriggerEvent

This was written for 0.22-fixes. I haven't yet upgraded to 0.23, so I
have no idea if it will apply cleanly to that.

-- 
Ron