[mythtv-users] Programming remote button bindings (WAS: What major features are planned for 0.27?)

[Yeechang Lee]

Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> says:
> There is a distinct philosophical difference between the two
> buttons: Info brings up details about the current item - either what
> you are watching or whatever is currently selected in the menu
> tree. Info usually is just a display mechanism. Menu obviously
> brings up the menu tree - either at the top or something relevant to
> wherever you are. These two buttons are used by myth exactly the way
> that my TV and my cable box use them.

There is one exception to this: In MythVideo, Global|INFO brings up a
second menu used nowhere else. It's a leftover from the days when
MythTV used two separate, wholly distinct menus in Watch
Recordings. Until 0.22, most people accessed the two menus via 1)
RIGHT instead of INFO (any such remote button was more usefully bound
to TV Frontend|DETAILS) and 2) MENU. When 0.22 removed the ability to
bring up the INFO menu via RIGHT to (rightly) help move toward more
flexible themes, it left many puzzled as to how to bring up the
associated menu. 0.23 fixed this in Watch Recordings by making MENU
both context-sensitive and able to toggle between the two menus, but
MythVideo still has two wholly distinct menus, necessitating binding a
button to INFO there. Hopefully these menus will similarly be merged
at some point.