[mythtv-users] Long single-column menus

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 18:55, Jeff Monks wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

You must have read my mind.  I was just thinking last night that I would look 
into this issue, as I recently downloaded some of the themes available and 
found that behavior annoying.  I'd guess it's just a limitation of the 
MythThemedMenu class in libmyth.

-JAC