[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6813: Patch to manage upcoming recordings from the "Watch Recordings" screen

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> Robert McNamara wrote in Trac:
>>  * We're trying to move away from the "number button = change view"
>>  functionality.  We'd rather allow for friendly menus that have the
>>  user selecting the view from a plain-english list.
>
> I'm glad to hear that since I suspect PAGEBOTTOM/PAGETOP/PAGEMIDDLE
> will be more often useful for most.
>

I think you must be thinking of something else.  Above I am referring
to changing the sort order or the list contents in various myth
screens by pressing number keys which have no obvious definition or
consistency across screens.  the desire is instead go to a context
menu that spells out explicitly what you are doing, and what the
contents of the new view will be (like changing the view in
MythVideo).

> That said, could the ability to change the view by pushing a button be
> retained by using PAGELEFT/PAGERIGHT? I mention those bindings, with
> PREVVIEW/NEXTVIEW being already used for the similar ability to move
> through multiple presets in places like Search Words|Stored Search. If
> PAGELEFT/PAGERIGHT are made available, there would ideally be some
> sort of on-screen indication of the current view ("Title," "Reverse
> Time," etc.) much the way that the current preset search is displayed.
>

This would be horrible interface design in my opinion.  I'd rather see
the ugly behavior traded for a more obvious and user friendly one,
rather than trading one insanity for the next.

>>  * It would be nice to avoid "generic" topline/midline/bottomline
>>    stuff, it implies a fixed/strict layout we're trying to avoid
>>    with MythUI.
>
> I take back what I said above. Are PAGEBOTTOM/PAGETOP/PAGEMIDDLE going
> away?
>

Not relevant to the comments I made on the patch, but no, there's no
immediate plan to remove them.  The above were the names of his
textareas.

Robert