[mythtv] Multiple Favorite Groups (Aka Ticket #199)
Matthew Wire
devel at mrwire.co.uk
Thu Nov 1 13:34:37 UTC 2007
This may not have got through because it got classified as spam:
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 12:13 +0000, Matthew Wire wrote:
> Firstly, I've been looking for something like this for a while. It
> works very well...
>
> A few things:
> 1. When you select a favourite group from the menu I think it would help
> if a little osd flashed up with the name of the favourite group (just to
> make it clear that you really did select it).
>
> 2. The favourite groups editor in settings doesn't work very well with
> checkboxes in my opinion. I have over 1000 channels and this means I
> have to go through 33 pages for each favourite group.
>
> My suggestion would be to use two listboxes side by side with the first
> listing channels in the favourite group and the second listing channels
> not in the favourite group (ie. all other channels).
> Pressing enter (or selecting and hitting the arrow button) on a channel
> would move it to the other list.
> A combo box at the top would select favourite group.
> As well as buttons to add/delete groups.
>
> Something like this:
>
> Favourite Group: [ Radio \/] [ Add New Group ] [ Delete Group ]
>
> Channels in Group: Available Channels:
> ------------------- -------------------
> | channel 1 | | channel 2 |
> | channel 5 | | channel 3 |
> | | | channel 4 |
> | | | channel 6 |
> | | [ <-- ] | |
> | | | |
> | | [ --> ] | |
> | | | |
> | | | |
> | | | |
> | | | |
> ------------------- -------------------
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew
>
Also:
One other thing, are the favourite groups global or per frontend?
Personally I think global would be best.
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