[mythtv] SoC 2006: Configuration Revamp Information

[Chris Bagwell]

Justin M. Hunt wrote:
> Channels to display: causes problems when changed
> Time blocks to display: causes problems when changed
>   
I've used both of these successfully in the past.  I have a frontend 
hooked to a TV only and one on a computer.  The TV needs like a 4x4 
program guide to be readable but my computer can be much larger and be 
readable.   I vote for keeping it; at least in an advanced tab.

> Allow channel jumping in guide: if the keymap allows it ok, otherwise thats ok too
>   
I think this option doesn't really convey what its useful for.  I think 
the intuitive behavior would be that entering numbers would jump to 
those channels in the guide.  So when I first read it I couldn't begin 
to guess why you'd want to disable that.

*But* I eventually found it very useful.  I have a remote with very 
little buttons and is the only input option on one of my frontends.  I 
would love to have a dedicated page up/down button and Day forward/back 
button for use in browsing the guide on my TV.  Scrolling threw the EPG 
a line at a time is not very a nice way to go.

So I started to map some random buttons to those concepts.  While doing 
that I noticed that the number buttons already had default mappings to 
that in the EPG context.  But it requires you to disable the "channel 
jumping" for the mappings to not be intercepted.  Once you do then the 
buttons 1/7 effectively become Day Forward/Back and 3/9 become Page Up/Down.

I'd prefer to see that option changed to something like "Allow numbers 
to be used as paging shortcuts in guide".  I think that would make it 
more obvious why the option exists.

Chris