[mythtv-users] Long single-column menus
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Jan 28 21:24:46 EST 2004
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 18:55, Jeff Monks wrote:
>
> Recently, I've switched my frontend over to the "visor" theme, which I
> really like. However, this (and most other) theme uses a single-column
> approach to the menus, which looks neat and clean, but it a pain sometimes
> when scrolling down a long menu (to get to MythDVD on the main menu, for
> example, is eight or nine keypresses).
>
> I was thinking of trying to hack something to make the problem easier to
> live with - either enabling PgUp and PgDown in the menu screens, or having
> the scroll wrap around to the top or bottom when it runs over.
>
> My question is this: is this behavior a limitation of Myth's menu code,
> or a limitation of the theme itself, or a limitation of the QT toolkit?
> I don't mind looking into and trying to fix this, but I'd like to know
> where to start looking.
>
You must have read my mind. I was just thinking last night that I would look
into this issue, as I recently downloaded some of the themes available and
found that behavior annoying. I'd guess it's just a limitation of the
MythThemedMenu class in libmyth.
-JAC
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