[mythtv] [PATCH] Three small patches

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:25:39PM +0200, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have made three small patches that I'd like to contribute.
> >
> >1. Mythbackend communications
> >With the patch Mythtv exits if the backend closes the connection while 
> >watching live TV, instead of locking. It also makes it possible to 
> >recover from some backend failures. Mythtv will try to reconnect to the 
> >backend if there are no remote file transmissions in progress, for 
> >example live TV. 
> > 
> >
> Wouldn't his mean the frontend itself exits?
> That would mean you could get back and be staring at an empty screen 
> without really knowing what went wrong.
> Wouldn't it be better to pop up a dialog saying something like 
> "connection to backend lost" and afterwards just returning to the main menu?
> 
> (not saying _you_ should implement this, just wondering if that wouldn't 
> make for a "better user experience" ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> -Tako
> 

Of course it's better to display a message and not exit the program. 
Displaying a message shouldn't be to hard, but I don't know how the 
TV viewer can be shutdown cleanly if the backend connection is closed. 

Mikael