[mythtv] SoC 2006: Configuration Revamp Information

[Justin M. Hunt]

----- Lucas Meijer <lucas at mach8.nl> wrote:
> Hey Justin,
> > I looked at this about a year ago, and basically the way the
> settings
> > are stored requires access to the database, and myth, last I
> checked,
> > uses QT to do all that.  So basically, as far as I know anyway, if 
> > you have QT you have X.  It would be possible to write a text mode 
> > configuration program that access mysql directly but as of right now
> I
> > will concentrate my work on getting the new frontend config working.
> 
> >   
> Fair enough. I don't think X is a requirement for QT, but it surely is
> 
> for mythtv :). So everyone will have an xserver, my point is that it
> is 
> not always very convenient to have to use it.
> 
> That being said, I don't think it's a very big deal, and the revamp of
> 
> the settings itself is way more important than the potential 
> inconvienance to have to use X to do the setup.
> 
> I'm still hoping min/max values, potential values, expert level could
> be 
> stored as colums in the settingstable :-), alltough I also see
> potential 
> problems on how to store certain logic between settings like that.
> (only 
> show setting B,C & D if setting A is enabled, else show setting E & F
> etc).
> 
> Good luck with your SoC project,
> 
>   Lucas
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Lucas,

I feel your pain I often want to modify the mythtv-setup settings
from an ssh session because i dont have a keyboard on my backend.

Justin