[linux-dvb] Re: @klaus: idea for a new simple menu feature in vdr:

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Emil Naepflein wrote:
> 
> On 06 Sep 2001 17:57:00 +0200, Usenet-372110@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer
> Zocholl) wrote:
> 
> > Or the "back" key pressed 5 times(or so did not count how
> > deep VDR's menu struture is)
> > leds always to the top "menu": The normal TV screen.
> 
> Today you can press the menu button twice to go into the top menu. I
> think this is ok. In principle the menu key itself is the escape key.
> IMHO there is no new functionality necessary here.
> 
> What I am missing most of the time is a fast way to display the channel
> menu to select a channel. The Humax 5400 displays it when pressing the
> OK button in TV mode. As VDR doesn't use the OK button in TV mode it
> would be no problem to bring the channels menu up.

Haven't you ever pressed the "Ok" button in normal viewing mode?
It brings up the current/next information.

> Another point is here
> that there should be more channels visible in this mode. As channel
> names are normally very short it should be possible to display at least
> 3 or 4 columns of names. Channel numbers are not necessary here. Moving
> around with the cursor keys doesn't switch the channels, pressing ok
> does the select. Or pressing P+ and P- keys goes down and up and selects
> the channel. Pressing exit goes back to TV mode. I find this very
> practical to select channels from a large list very fast.

The current implementation of this list has only one column.
Maybe later...

Klaus
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