[mythtv-users] remote display from frontend

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> You'd be better off because you're not actively disabling/breaking MythTV's
> mechanism for setting the window size.

That's not an answer.  It's just a setup for the question "Why am I
better off for not actively disabling/breaking MythTV's mechanism for
setting the window size?".

> By
> hard-coding in a window size, you will make it very confusing for anyone who
> ever tries to change the window size using the Appearance settings.

Anyone familiar enough with MythTV to know that this setting is even
there and could be used to do that would be sufficiently advanced to
not be confused.  99% of users are going to try to click & drag the
window corner, fail to resize it, and say "Huh, I guess you can't
resize this thing.".  Adjusting window sizes with a configuration
option in a settings dialog is really counter intuitive.

> It's not a "database setting."  It's a per-host setting that just happens to
> be stored in the database, rather than storing it in a file on the host.
> How do you propose we make it a per-window property--and, I assume, that
> MythTV remembers it--without our storing it somewhere?

I don't really see any advantage to having MythTV remember the size
used the last time the frontend was run.  It's not a good predictor
for what size I'll want it to be on the next run.

Eric