[mythtv] MythUI Screenshots - "Watch Recordings"

[Stuart Morgan]

On Sunday 02 November 2008 07:58:39 Nick Morrott wrote:
> When a user has arrow key accelerators enabled (in the LHS/RHS list
> version of the screen), pressing LEFT on a selected recording will
> enter the category/title list, whilst pressing RIGHT will bring up the
> playback/options popup.
>
> With the new vertical arrangement, I was wondering how this would be
> handled. Pressing LEFT on a recording doesn't seem the most natural
> keystroke to get to a list above the list of recordings, as most other
> accelerator-enabled interfaces will escape back to the previous
> menu/screen when LEFT is pressed on certain elements.

Well this is one of the reasons for posting the screenshots. I was hoping to 
break the news slowly once people had seen what was possible and why it can't 
work. We have discussed it at length and the arrow acceleration behaviour is 
being dumped. It simply can't be made to work with the flexible layout 
possibilities offered by the new UI.  There is also the issue of consistency, 
in fact the majority of screens have never used the arrow accelerator 
behaviour, in particular the Watch Recordings screen was a major anomaly in 
the user experience, being the only screen where you pressed an arrow key to 
bring up a menu.

> Will there be a TAB-like keybinding to switch between the two horizontal
> lists?

I may bind the existing NEXTVIEW/PREVIEW keys to switch groups. I don't intend 
to create new bindings, we've far too many already and usability suffers as a 
result. Where possible existing bindings should be used in ways that make 
sense.

> Will pressing DOWN when in the category/title list select the
> previously selected recording entry?

It does that now, but it's seen as a bug rather than intentional.
-- 
Stuart Morgan