[mythtv-users] Some notes on Google TV

Dave Brown davebrown099 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 09:48:53 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/11/2010 5:35 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:
>
>> I am sure myth would have had a universal search some time ago if not
>> for the fact that a lot of Myth is coded to work for people who just
>> have a remote control and not a keyboard. It was not so long ago that
>> there was even a bug when you wanted to do a search and type in strings
>> that pressing digits would act like a remote control and cycle through
>> the letters.
>>
>
> That was a bug? I was under the impression that the remote control's
> numbers acting like the keypad of a cellular phone was a "Feature" to make
> text entry easier in times before the on-screen keyboard was included (0.17,
> 0.18 or so).
> Search is what Google does best, after all. But, hopefully, with the
> addition of some indexing and optimisation, Myth's search can be improved
> (at least a little).
>
>
Wish it would come back too, for those of us who only use a remote.  Search
can be so painfull with the on screen keyboard.



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