[mythtv] Key mapping for BOOKMARK

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
> During playback, the select key assigned in global key mapping is used for
> setting and removing bookmarks.
> 
> To allow users to set a different key for bookmarks without having to change
> global select, I have create a new key mapping for bookmarks. I can default
> this to the same keys as SELECT (i.e. space, enter, return) and it should
> not affect anybody unless they have changed their global select settings.
> (see https://code.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/13234/20180313_1414_bookmark.patch).
> It is not committed yet.
> 
> Personally I never set a bookmark and the fact that it is on the most
> prominent keyboard keys seems inappropriate.
> 
> On the Nvidia Shield there is only one button (enter), and it should do
> something useful that leads to other interactions, rather than set a
> bookmark. Other remotes also have a prominent enter button, which should be
> used for something more important.
> 
> I propose defaulting the new BOOKMARK setting to Ctrl+K (since K is "jump to
> bookmark"). I would default Space to pause(which is how most players work),
> and Enter to a new navigation OSD that I plan to develop.
> 
> Existing frontends would find that space enter and return would no longer
> invoke bookmark. They could still assign those keys to bookmark in the key
> mappings.
> 
> I expect that bookmarks are not widely used and that most people would not
> be upset at this.
> 
> If necessary the code could apply different defaults for Android so as to
> have less impact on existing users, but I think it is better if possible to
> keep the different platforms working the same.
> 
> Please let me have feedback on this.

I use the bookmark feature quite a bit and really like the key it is
assigned to.  Certainly needing a two key combo would be extremely
annoying in my opinion.

We already have m to bring up an onscreen menu for the rare case it
is used.

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Len Sorensen