[mythtv-users] Couple of issues in Myth TOT.

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:31 pm, Eric Weiss wrote:
> 1) There is this crossfade effect that happens transitioning between
> top-level menu sets (ie the main menu, and all of the submenus you can
> get to from there.  The effect is quite pretty, but happens incredibly
> slowly.  Like, it takes about 15 seconds to completely fade the menu
> menu into the Media Library section.  Same is true for all of the
> others.  This happens with all of the themes we've tried.  This makes
> browsing the UI anything but smooth, which is a shame.  Is this a
> known issue?  The rest of the interface is quite smooth and we didn't
> see this in .19, so I doubt this is a "hardware too slow" issue.

This is a 'hardware is too slow', or 'user doesn't have working opengl 
drivers' issue.  Of course, you wouldn't have this issue if you hadn't 
explicitly turned on the opengl painter in the appearance settings.

> 2) There are a number of areas where cursor nav/clicking is not yet
> supported.  Specifically, it would be really great for such support to
> exist in the TV Guide, since it is a nice big grid, and selecting an
> arbitrary location is a big part of what out input device attempts to
> make easy.  Is support for selecting a listing from the guide going to
> exist any time soon?

Nope.

Isaac