[mythtv-users] cutlist editing hangs frontend

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Nov 14 22:43:21 UTC 2010


  On 11/14/2010 05:29 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> actually, it doesn't. having to hunt and peck for the M key rather than
> the Enter key sucks. that change might be justifiable if there were
> actually a good reason for it, but there isn't - it's just an arbitrary
> change with no benefit.

FWIW, there is exactly one situation for which you need to use the MENU 
key.  Every other action can be done with only SELECT and the 
directional keys.***  And, truth be told, if you really wanted to, you 
could perform that one action in that one situation that requires the 
MENU key using only SELECT (though half of the time it would require one 
more button press than just using MENU and the other half it would 
require exactly the same number of button presses).

Determining exactly what that situation is--and how to use the editor 
such that MENU is unnecessary or mostly unnecessary--is left as an 
exercise to the interested reader.

Also, note that when you're complaining that the developers didn't 
consider usability and made things more awkward, it's obvious you're 
assuming everyone edits recordings the way you do.  Remember that not 
everyone in this whole wide world gets good results from MythTV's 
commercial detection.  Note, also, that you may find that if you were to 
change the way you used the commercial detection when editing 
recordings, you may be able to edit recordings even more efficiently 
than you could with the old UI (and using fewer button presses--and no 
need for MENU or hitting keys that are close together, other than the 
arrow keys).

Mike

*** The pensive reader may actually consider the possibility that this 
flexibility, in and of itself, may constitute something other than "an 
arbitrary change with no benefit."


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