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

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Bill <billstuff2001 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/15/2010 01:33 PM, MythTV wrote:
>>
>>  Bill,
>>
>>  A very sincere thank you for your work on this.  After some discussion
>>  amongst the developers, we've decided this isn't exactly the direction we
>>  want to go with the Watch Recordings screen.  We *do* want to consolidate
>>  some of the screens together (the recording title/people/etc. searches)
>>  but the current and upcoming recordings from a user interface point of
>>  view just don't feel natural to us.
>>
>>  Some other random commentary that might be useful to you in the future:
>>
>>  * 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.
>>
>>  * It would be nice to avoid "generic" topline/midline/bottomline stuff,
>> it
>>  implies a fixed/strict layout we're trying to avoid with MythUI.
>>
>>
>
> No problem Robert, thanks for considering it.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. What's your (developers') opinion on ticket #8328?

Hi Bill.  I can't speak to what the group as a whole thinks of the
patch, there hasn't been any mention of it just yet.  I know that it's
not something I would use, but I don't have a strong preference one
way or another about the functionality.  I certainly don't mind it as
a concept, but there could easily be things I'm not considering and
lord knows I am weak in the ways of the scheduler.  There always seems
to be some repurcussion to any recording action so I'll let the smaht
kids opine on the patch when they review it :).

> 2. I get your points on the "number button" and generic stuff you mention
> above. I have a number of patches from 0.21 with this type of logic that I'm
> now porting to trunk.  Is there any preferred way of attaching a hotkey to
> these menu options?

I think the right way is probably to use a mythdialogbox or
mythpopupbox to change views, change sort orders, etc.  If you also
want a hot key, one of the global keybindings probably makes sense
(forgive me, my myth box is actually down for the night), but I don't
know off the top of my head which it would be.  I think Stuart Morgan
or Paul Harrison might have something to add on this topic when they
see it, they drive the UI more than I do.

Robert