[mythtv-users] 0.22RC1 report

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 18:19:38 UTC 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jason Spears
<shadestalker at thatsmystapler.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Andy Colson <andy at squeakycode.net> wrote:
>>
>> andy wrote:
>>>
>>> Johnny wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, there it is.  I've never used it from there... had to even search
>>>>> my
>>>>> remote for the "info" button.  When sitting on a recording you could
>>>>> hit
>>>>> right arrow ( --> ) and it would open a menu with play, delete, etc.
>>>>>  That's
>>>>> how I used to do it, but now right arrow toggles between the groups and
>>>>> the
>>>>> shows.
>>>>
>>>> I remember reading that the right arrow shortcut had to be changed
>>>> because of the changes with the new mythUI. There is much more freedom
>>>> in the way things can be laid out and organized on screen by the
>>>> themes. So it didn't work to tie the right arrow to that submenu
>>>> anymore. At least that was what I understood.
>>>
>>> Well, yes, after seeing the new default theme, that totally makes since.
>>> Humm.. I seem to have lost pageup/pagedown on the OSD.  I used to use 3
>>> and 9.  Looks like its page up and page down now.  But I dont have a remote
>>> control with page up and page down keys.  Looks like I'll have to remap some
>>> things.
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>
>>
>> Oh!  You can type in a number to go to that channel.  I like that.  I
>> think that's worth loosing the 3/9 as pgup/pgdown.
>
>
> Sounds like 0.22 makes enough fundamental UI changes that we need a
> transition guide to help prevent WAF falloff.
>
> Jason
>

Not it!  (Especially since I already wrote the MythVideo transition guide)

Sounds like a worthwhile community project, there is just no way in
heck any of the devs are going to have time to write it-- though
Robert K is updating the docs/Howto in a major way for .22.

Robert


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