[mythtv] Proposed MythMusic Interface Improvements

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Tako Schotanus wrote:

>
> An interface where you can select more than one letter (e.g. like in 
> the TiVo screenshot that was in the original message) would be perfect 
> and would also help people like you who have large lists to browse 
> through. You can't be saying that you think selecting more than one 
> letter to search for a program wouldn't help you, now can't you?


I don't argue that having an on screen keyboard would be helpful, but 
with page up/down it's not all that hard.

> And even though you say that people who know other PVRs or who know 
> how to do ChUp/ChDown will find it easy I beg to differ, I know my 
> MythTV well enough and still I find it difficult to control it, 
> basically because

It's not just PVRs, it's cable and satellite boxes with EPGs as well...

> a) my remote doesn't come labelled with the actions that I need for 
> Myth 9no ESC, no MENU, no INFO etc) and

A universal remote with PVR buttons costs less that $20.


> b) because there are just too may of them to remember easily. 

Not if they're labeled on your remote...

> So a) and b) combined make me press the wrong buttons way too often. 
> So I really like it that each time there are more and more menus that 
> will allow me to just use MENU, UP. DOWN and SELECT (like the OSD menu 
> we have nowadays). So having a Program Finder (or Music Finder or 
> whatever) that used only simple buttons 

Page up/down *are* simple buttons.  Using menu, up/down and select 
doesn't work for large lists (as your original complaint about the 
program finder indicated) so you need some way to move through the list 
in larger chunks, hence page up/down being mapped to keys on your 
remote. The on screen keyboard in the Tivo is nice, it'd be spiffy to 
have on available in Myth for entering text, but in the case of Tivo's 
program finder vs Myth program finder you'd save a couple seconds at best.