[mythtv-users] [mythtv] BrowserBased setup

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 11/24/2010 05:02 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> I'd think that the devs would have more problems with having to "plow
> through" tons of settings to change a single one than the users, since
> developers are more likely to be making changes to a system.

The devs (at least some of them) are concentrating on moving useful 
settings out of the maze of buried settings pages and putting them in 
the contexts in which they're used--automatically saved when changed 
during use.  Now big-picture configuration stuff will still require a 
dedicated setup, but (in my plan) many of the settings users have to 
change will disappear from these setup screens/pages.  And since much of 
the excess garbage will be removed, setup will be much more manageable.

Basically, we'll give you a good setup to start with, and remember when 
you make changes as you're using it.  But, since we start you off with a 
reasonable configuration for these settings, you'll be able to configure 
MythTV very quickly, then start using it right away.

After all, why should we force the user to decide--before ever having 
started using TV playback--whether to enable captions by default, and if 
so, whether to use EIA-608 captions or EIA-708 captions.  Just give them 
a reasonable default (captions disabled) and remember changes (when 
captions are enabled, store which ones are in use, and use them until 
captions are disabled).

Mike