On Thursday 21 April 2005 11:49 pm, Neil Whelchel wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Isaac Richards wrote: > > A standalone media system doesn't need to reimplement every single app > > under the sun inside of it. And if it _were_ completely stanalone, you'd > > not need to run external applications from a keypress, hmm? > > Very good point, one I have dealt with myself, and yes, it is was > completely standalone, I agree (which is the goal in my case, a very good > argument to not include the patch), however the patch is an 'attempt' to > deal with some custom configurations such as Crestron. To be more > specific, the roms will be built always with Myth, and optionally with > one other application from a choice of many. And the real point here is > that I need the outside app to NOT run when viewing TV. > How about meeting this one in the middle, simply bind a couple of keys to > execute fixed named files (can be a link to what is needed).
No. That's rather hacky - why isn't the outside app integrated into at least the menu? Actually, I think you may be able to do most everything you want wrt the key binding thing with a separate plugin (your system config one, perhaps) + a couple generic jumppoints that could be configured to do whatever. That's something I could live with - simple, uses already present functionality, no changes to the core, etc. > > > If the answer is the latter, Mythtv needs to have everything within the > > > gui to configure a machine from zero, and I might point out that I have > > > patched it to do as much at the moment. (All it needed was a way to > > > configure where it mounts the shared media directory and the Ethernet > > > configuration, and I can do every bit of front end configuration that I > > > will ever need to do to make an embedded frontend.) > > > > Or within a separate UI that's part of the OS install. > > True, however if there is no OS install, in the case of an ebedded system, > you still need a way to set the IP configuration and the path the the > fileserver. Sure, you could do this with an external app, (bind a key to > it with any of our discussed methods), but it is not very clean, as it is > now not in the configuration menu. Maybe there should be an app that > watches for the availability of the fileserver, and open a configuration > app over the top of Myth if there is a failure, but there is not much that > has to be added to Myth to make it workable. I would think that you'd want that info (where to mount, ip address) to be always be obtained automatically, without the need to configure anything. > > This patch isn't going in to Myth. Neither is a shell, or gcc, or the > > kernel. Stuff that's better implemented elsewhere, is, well, better > > implemented elsewhere. > > I respect your opinion, however I think that you should consider a > configuration module for those of us that wish to do all of the > (embedded) system configuration from within Myth using a remote control. > If so, I will get busy on one... Sure, as long as it's a plugin. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
