[mythtv] SoC 2006: Configuration Revamp Information

[Justin M. Hunt]

----- Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:41 am, Justin M. Hunt wrote:
> > I was talking with Daniel (the project mentor, for those who dont
> know)
> > and we will have an expert mode like about:config in firefox.  Then
> basic
> > and advanced modes, where advanced is accessed via a button (not on
> a
> > menu), since this is more obvious.  This will not have every
> setting, to
> > keep it simple, the rarely used settings will be only accessible
> through
> > the expert mode. There will also be a search available to find a
> paticular
> > option. As well I will be making the whole thing loaded from an XML
> file,
> > so changing the heirarchy is simple.
> 
> State changes for screens everywhere else in myth are done through
> popup 
> menus, there's absolutely no reason to break this by doing something 
> different here.  Putting a "Press 'Menu' to see more options" message
> on 
> screen won't hurt anything, and makes it just as obvious as a button.
> 
> How are you going to put everything in an xml file, when quite a few
> of the 
> settings actually run code to get their possible values?  That's a
> completely 
> unnecessary complication, IMO.
> 
> Isaac
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I can do whatever you guys want as far as switching the modes, but 
everyone has their own opinion for what is best.  

As to the xml, I wanted to do it that way so thav when everyone 
disagrees with how I placed things they can change it.  It would
consist of the setting name, description and a way of denoting 
their location.  The code would load that and have a lookup table
to map it to the proper code, for display and saving. 

Justin