[mythtv-users] Old notebook with touchscreen ... make it "mythable" ?

[Matt Emmott]

On 10/9/07, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Matt:
>
> Having tried this before, I've discovered that the main issue with
> Myth on a touchscreen is that there generally are few navigation
> buttons on the screen.  I built a kpanel applet a while back that
> provides left, right, up, down, enter and esc buttons using the telnet
> interface (thanks Chris!!), but you then have to run Myth in a window
> and not full screen (a little distracting, but it works).
>
> What would need to happen to make Myth more touchscreen friendly is to
> create some means by which a navigation window could pop up so that
> you could use the screen to navigate.  I'm not sure how to do it,
> though there is an on-screen keyboard that can be called at certain
> points.  This might provide a framework on which to build something.
> I've got my hands full right now, so I won't be able to look into this
> for a while.


That's a good point - One workaround I could think of would be to get one of
those USB numeric keypads and mount it next to the screen, using the arrow
keys to navigate / scroll when needed. Not a very elegant solution, but a
good stopgap to at least get things usable.
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