[mythtv-users] key binding standards?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue May 20 10:50:48 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 20 May 2003 09:39 am, Eni Gma wrote:
> Chris Petersen wrote:
> >I was messing around in mythmusic (I finally got my machine moved out
> >into the living room and plugged into my nice tv) and realized that it
> >doesn't have key mappings for ff/rw, etc...  I then noticed that the ff
> >button on my remote was sending "right arrow" - the same keystroke as
> >the right arrow button on my remote.
> >
> >Anyway, between this and the must-use-spacebar bits of mythmusic, I was
> >wondering what other people thought about redoing the keystrokes for
> >much of myth, and then standardizing them for future plugin projects so
> >we don't run into these differences again.
> >
> >(this would also allow us to update the gui of mythmusic and remove a
> >bunch of the track control buttons - since they're just there taking up
> >space and would be redundant if we had a working keystroke map for
> >them).
>
> I would be extremely happy to see something like this.  I was very
> frustrated when I set up MythMusic because of the odd key bindings.  I
> don't have a space key on my remote (I use enter because 'Space' didn't
> work well with TV and 'KP_Space' segfaults my frontend) and I had to
> hook up a keyboard to even try out MythMusic.  The keys don't match up
> in MythVideo either (but that is probably more of an MPlayer issue).
>  However, the worst choice for keys is in MythWeather.  The setup is
> really simple, I don't know why it uses keys other than the standard
> arrow->enter keys.   It is a pain in the butt to have to take a keyboard
> to all my frontends in order to configure the weather module (or to
> select songs from MythMusic).  I think the majority of Myth users don't
> have a full-time keyboard on their frontend.  Consistent key use would
> be fantastic.

Did I just hear someone volunteer?

Isaac


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