[mythtv] Proposed MythMusic Interface Improvements

[Simon Kenyon]

On Sunday 02 May 2004 14:36, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> > Tako Schotanus wrote:
> >> Well personally I positively hate it and never use it at all because
> >> selection is extremely slow if you don't have any page up/down mapped
> >> to your remote. I always wished I could select more than one letter
> >> so I could narrow down the list a lot more.
> >
> > So why not map keys to it?  I mean if it didn't allow page up/down
> > that'd be one thing but it does so you really only have yourself to
> > blame.
>
> 1. Maybe because I don't have more buttons on my control?
> 2. Maybe because even if I did have more buttons they would hardly be
> labelled PageUp/Down so other people would have to follow a course just
> to use MythTV
> 3. Maybe because I think MythTV should work well enough with just
> Up/Down/Left/Right/Select/Menu and Info buttons?

how about moving the discussion to a definition of a UI for the whole of myth 
(not just mythmusic) which can be controlled just with a remote of the 
calibre of the hauppauge 350 (silver)
it has:

power
go
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0
back/edit
menu
red, green, yellow and blue
left, right, up and down
ok
mute
a blank key
full
<< and >>
play
record
stop
pause
|< and >|

a UI which could be done with only those keys would be most welcome
there are parts of it that will not work with a remote with any amount of keys 
(because it requires you to enter text)
--
simon