[mythtv-users] Programming remote button bindings (WAS: What major features are planned for 0.27?)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/04/2012 03:21 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Mike Perkins says:
>> There is a distinct philosophical difference between the two
>> buttons: Info brings up details about the current item - either what
>> you are watching or whatever is currently selected in the menu
>> tree. Info usually is just a display mechanism. Menu obviously
>> brings up the menu tree - either at the top or something relevant to
>> wherever you are. These two buttons are used by myth exactly the way
>> that my TV and my cable box use them.
> There is one exception to this: In MythVideo, Global|INFO brings up a
> second menu used nowhere else. It's a leftover from the days when
> MythTV used two separate, wholly distinct menus in Watch
> Recordings.

No, Watch Recordings used the INFO to show info (and *context* menu) on 
the selected recording.  It was changed because many people whined that 
"Any sane user interface doesn't need 2 menus," so now we have 2 menus 
and an impossible to describe user interface ("Hit MENU, and if you 
don't see <whatever>, hit MENU, again...").

>   Until 0.22, most people accessed the two menus via 1)
> RIGHT instead of INFO (any such remote button was more usefully bound
> to TV Frontend|DETAILS) and 2) MENU. When 0.22 removed the ability to
> bring up the INFO menu via RIGHT to (rightly) help move toward more
> flexible themes, it left many puzzled as to how to bring up the
> associated menu. 0.23 fixed this in Watch Recordings by making MENU
> both context-sensitive and able to toggle between the two menus, but
> MythVideo still has two wholly distinct menus, necessitating binding a
> button to INFO there. Hopefully these menus will similarly be merged
> at some point.

Again, INFO was always for information/context menu and MENU was for 
"main" menu (i.e. like the one you'd have at the top of the application, 
versus the right-click/context menu).

What Mike says is 100% accurate (and not the revisionist history of 
those who complained until MENU got changed).

Mike