[mythtv] Inefficient guide listings...

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Aug 27 10:23:21 EDT 2004


On Friday 27 August 2004 09:24, Henrik Harmsen wrote:
> citerar "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>:
> > On Friday 27 August 2004 07:54, Henrik Harmsen wrote:
> > > Hi, I'm thinking of maybe putting some energy into making an
> > > alternative guide listing. Today, the listing is horizontal with
> > > increasing time on the horizontal axis. For me, this causes
> > > listings to be very difficult to read (and slow to browse). Most
> > > shows here
>
> in
>
> > > Sweden do not begin on even half-hour bondaries. Also, the
> > > current method wastes a lot of screen space on blank areas where
> > > it would better serve to have text from the listings, I think. So
> > > the listing that I'd prefer would look something roughly like
> > > this:
> > >
> > > (Assume current time is 20:05)
> > > Chan start end description
> > > ------------------------------
> > > CNN  1800 2100 World news
> > > BBC1 2000 2100 Monty Python
> > > (currently running shows above in some color and coming shows
> > > below in another color)
> > > BBC2 2030 2100 More news
> >
> > Have you looked at the "Time Search" screen under "Schedule
>
> Recordings"?
>
> > -JAC
>
> I'm running 0.15.1 where it seems to not be available. Guess I have
> to build the CVS to see it? 

I don't recall when this feature went in; it seems to be accessible only 
using the new ('Default' in CVS) menu theme.

> Does it look approximately like what I 
> described above?

See for yourself:

http://caputo.webhop.net/time_search.jpg

-JAC


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