[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #8822: Context-sensitive ESCAPE action during DVD playback

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 08/26/2010 03:19 AM, MythTV wrote:
> #8822: Context-sensitive ESCAPE action during DVD playback
>
>   This patch slightly changes the behavior of the ESCAPE key during DVD
>   playback.  If playback is not in a DVD menu, it tries to jump to the title
>   or root menu instead of exiting the player.
>
>   Minor improvements could possibly be made, such as cleaning up OSD
>   anomalies, and maybe directly exiting if ESCAPE is pressed during the
>   first 1 or 2 seconds of playback.
>
>   Thanks to Friedrich Clause on the users list for expressing the same idea
>   I was starting to have.

Rather than force this behavior on everyone (effectively removing all 
ability to exit directly), I'd prefer to see this done with ... a 
different key binding.  (You thought I was going to say setting, didn't 
you?  :)

Basically, if you create a new keybinding, like BACK, then a user can 
use BACK to get the behavior you desire or ESCAPE to just exit.  Users 
who want BACK functionality could just override Global/ESCAPE with TV 
Playback/BACK (i.e. bind the same key they have bound to 
Global/ESCAPE--likely Escape--to TV Playback/BACK).

(FWIW, I was trying to come up with a generic name for the action.  I 
couldn't decide between STOP and BACK, as they both make sense to me.  
STOP stops playback (while ESCAPE exits playback).  BACK makes sense 
since you're going BACK to the menu.  There may well be a better name 
than either, though.)

Mike