[mythtv-users] Mythtv Menu organization

[Rob Bongiovi]

I am in the final stages of setting up a myth system
for my family. One of the things I decided to do was
change the main menu...very easy. Just take the .xml
menu files from /usr/share/mythtv that you want to
modify and copy them to a
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/<your menu theme name> and
edit. You don't have to copy any file that you are not
modifying...myth uses the default files in those
menus.

In my case, I wanted the main menu to only have the
functions we'll use the most, so I modified
mainmenu.xml to say:

Live TV
Recorded TV
Videos
Music
Pictures
Weather
Other Options

I then copied the default mainmenu.xml to
other_options.xml and edited out the features we won't
use (like the phone). I edited one other
file...library.xml I think...to remove the game
emulator for now. Now, I just select my theme from the
front end setup and away we go.

As easy as that was, there is one "Tivo" feature I
wish we had. Our Tivo remote has a button labeled
"Live TV" and another labeled "List". Those buttons,
take you to live TV or to the list of recorded
programs no matter where you are in the Tivo system.
I'd love to be able to configure MythTV to do that.

Rob

--- Mark H <mrhegstrom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well all you need to do is edit those xml files.
> They are pretty easy to 
> figure out. Knock yourself out and if you find
> something you like share it 
> with us. 
> 
> 
> On 8/9/05, hydrateordie at earthlink.net
> <hydrateordie at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I would agree that Mythtv's menus are a bit
> unorganized. Perhaps
> > adding multiple ways to get to the same
> setup/config pages would be
> > helpful, allowing jumps between sections rather
> than going all the
> > way back to the top of the hierarchy, but I don't
> know.
> > 
> > - KG
> > 
> > On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:31 AM, roger wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it just me, or is Mythtv's menu organization
> confusing?
> > >
> > > Maybe the items are organized well, however, the
> end user just
> > > needs to
> > > learn how & when Mythtv spawns it's processes?
> > >
> > > (It took less time for me to learn how my
> dishnetwork pvr menu system
> > > worked. On the lighter side, there's less
> features with the
> > > dishnetwork
> > > pvr.)
> > >
> > > (Still learning, but now have a more sane handle
> of mythtv.)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Roger
> > > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html
> > > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261
> 640F C963 1005 1D61
> > >
> > > Tue Aug 9 12:31:29 PDT 2005
> > >
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