[PATCH] Re: [mythtv] Recorded Programs menu

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 11 November 2002 06:44 pm, Jim Radford wrote:
> I hate to "me too", but I don't like it either.  With the combined
> dialog, you can hit "d" (or whatever) when you're done and if you
> don't want to delete, then there's no extra keystroke.  *That* is a
> lack if UI clutter.  Do you consider the extra key posibility clutter?
>
> Isaac, would you mind reitterating your philosophy on the UI?  It
> seems to me that you've got some vestigial Macintosh one-button-mouse
> tendencies. :-)

All the Qt bits of the UI are useable with 6 buttons -- 4 arrow keys, one for 
'select' and one for 'go back a screen' -- ie, something easily mapped to a 
remote.

> > What clutter are you talking about?  On-screen clutter or feature
> > clutter per menu?  I wouldn't consider 3 options on a menu (play,
> > delete, re-encode) for a show to be too many, and the only other things
> > from those individual menus that you can do now are scroll up or down,
> > or go back to the main menu.  The main menu would have one fewer choice,
> > so it would be cleaner.
>
> Again, I agree here too.  I've been thinking of alternatives the
> size-bar and the size column (the visual clutter I think you're
> refering to).  What do you think of replacing them with a "light
> colored" progress like bar under each show title that would represent
> the size of the program visually?  And possibly the percentage of the
> disk space taken up as well?

Basically, when I'm selecting a file to be played back, I don't care how much 
disk space I've got left, or how big the file is.  I just want to play the 
thing, so that information just clutters the UI.

Now, when I want to delete something, that stuff matters, so it should be in 
there.

Anyway.  How 'bout I don't change the UIs at all, and add a keybinding for 'd' 
in the playback dialog that'll pop up the delete confirmation message?

Isaac