[mythtv-users] family acceptance test.

Paul Harrison mythtv at sky.com
Wed Aug 19 09:10:16 UTC 2015



On 18/08/15 11:00, Robin Gilks wrote:
>> I do find some of the comments in this thread to be rather nasty and
>> full of hate which is just unacceptable. All you are doing is just
>> leaching the life blood out of the project at a time when it is
>> struggling to keep going.
>>
>> And finally the old classic. If you don't like it I will refund the
>> money you paid for it :). But seriously why complain it's open source
>> software you have all the tools to fix it as you want. (standby for the
>> this is why open source software will never be any good comments). For
>> the record I'm not a programmer I'm a user who got fed up with devs not
>> making their program work how _I_ wanted so learned to program just so I
>> could have it work how I want. Now _I_ get to piss of the users I'd say
>> that is a Win Win situation :)
> I for one have found the new UI MythMusic to be excellent but for one
> small niggle!!
>
> The volume level popup which 'eats' all further remote control keys (other
> than ESC) until it times out and disappears. This may be a MythCentre-Wide
> theme issue but *I* find it *so* irritating!!
>
> If MythTV was written in 'C', assembler or machine code I could probably
> fix it but C++ - I just don't get it :(
>
> Cheers Paul and all...
>

Attached is a simple patch that should do what you want for the volume 
popup. I can't say I've tested it very well so YMMV :)

Just to elaborate on why we don't do this by default.

In the early days of switching to MythUI we did pass all unhandled key 
presses to the underlying screens until something handled it but that 
caused unexpected behaviour and crashes. One example I remember was lets 
say in the picture gallery you press DELETE to remove an image and a 
popup asks you 'Are you sure' you press PAGE DOWN by mistake which the 
popup ignores and passes it to the screen underneath which move the 
highlight to another image. Which image gets deleted in this case?

It's easier and safer to make the popups behave in a modal way like most 
people are used to in most window managers especially when all you need 
to do is press ESCAPE to close them I don't really see that as a big 
problem.

Paul H.
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