[mythtv] Feature: Configurable LIRC client name [PATCH]
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Feb 16 02:49:13 UTC 2010
On 02/15/2010 12:54 PM, David Kubicek wrote:
> I'm sending a small patch that enables changing MythTV's LIRC client
> ("program") name. This is quite useful when you have mythfrontend and
> mythtv-setup or several mythfrontends open at the same time. All these
> apps use "mythtv" client name by default, but by making this client
> name configurable, I can use the existing command-line overrides to
> allow different instances use a different name, hence different LIRC
> modes/mappings.
<my opinion>Die, new setting! Die!</my opinion>
How about program = mythtv works for mythfrontend, mythtv-setup, ...
program = mythfrontend works only for mythfrontend.
program = mythtv-setup works only for mythtv-setup.
No settings required. Then, if a user wants different keys for
different client apps, they map them appropriately in their lircrc.
Otherwise, the same mythtv that we've always used will work fine for the
other 99.999%. :)
It would require a bit more code, probably (as I haven't looked into the
LIRC libs), but I really think we have enough settings--even if this
would have been an "undocumented setting" (which may actually be worse
than making it a setting with a GUI control, because it encourages
direct DB editing).
Mike
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