[mythtv-users] Long single-column menus

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting Jeff Monks <mythtv at skunkeye.com>:

> 
> Recently, I've switched my frontend over to the "visor" theme, which I 
> really like.  However, this (and most other) theme uses a single-column 
> approach to the menus, which looks neat and clean, but it a pain sometimes 
> when scrolling down a long menu (to get to MythDVD on the main menu, for 
> example, is eight or nine keypresses).
> 
> I was thinking of trying to hack something to make the problem easier to 
> live with - either enabling PgUp and PgDown in the menu screens, or having 
> the scroll wrap around to the top or bottom when it runs over. 
> 
> My question is this:  is this behavior a limitation of Myth's menu code, 
> or a limitation of the theme itself, or a limitation of the QT toolkit?  
> I don't mind looking into and trying to fix this, but I'd like to know 
> where to start looking.

I don't know about PgUp/PgDn, but wrapping would be REALLY nice.

I'll look into figuring out how to implement it, but no guarantees.  I'm not
exactly familiar with the code.  I'm sure one of the core developers could do it
in 1/100 the time I could.  :)