[mythtv] [PATCH] Add support for specifying directory to use for
configuration
Jeremiah Morris
jm at whpress.com
Sun Feb 13 02:14:49 UTC 2005
On Feb 12, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Kyle Rose wrote:
> Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> writes:
>
>>> I use myth on my primary desktop system and usually like watching
>>> programs
>>> in a 800x600 window, however, occasionally I like to watch stuff full
>>> screen. Mythfrontend as it stands now doesn't provide any
>>> non-tedious way
>>> to accomplish that.
>>
>> Why don't you just run it as a different user?
>
> Kinda dumb to have to add users just to get a different resolution.
> That, and the irritation of getting X auth to cross users... all in
> all, this sounds like a reasonable solution to the problem.
A prefs switch is easily accomplished via the mysql.txt frontend
identifier; it would be nice to have something akin to Mozilla's
Profile Manager to switch between different identifiers. What about
this: if one specifies multiple identifiers somehow in mysql.txt, then
at startup, mythfrontend asks which one it should use for that session.
(It doesn't ask if there's only one, and daemons like mythbackend would
always use the first identifier, unless there's a command-line switch
or something.)
> FWIW, this is something I accomplish by cd'ing into a directory with a
> custom mysql.txt, but I also needed to change the code not to whack
> the theme cache.
In the above scheme, Myth could maintain one themecache per
identifier/profile, so the cache only grows relative to the number of
profiles you use. In the current default case, there would be one
profile and one cached theme configuration.
- Jer
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