[vdr] Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.96

[Usenet-372111@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

matthias@pentax.boerde.de(Matthias Weingart)  01.10.01 21:57

Once upon a time Matthias Weingart shaped the electrons to say...

>On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:53:44PM +0000, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:

>> We could keep a clean setup menu only with options which
>> need to be changed at runtime and we could introduce more config
>> options (like the speed settings) so that the user can adjust VDR
>> to his needs.
>>
>> What do you think?

>Autsch, then you have the problem to decide, what option is important
>and what not. 

No, just let the user define the options which to be OSD editable 
in the config file too... ;-)

Option1=255
Option2=Yes
Option3=OSD,1.3 (*)
Option4=2

(*) Main menu item 1, Submenu item 3.




>Well there are some people that play often with discseq
>others not. 

I found it very annoying that my old analog tuner allows those
settings only in a special power up menu...

But i would be <zensored> if i would have to connect a V.24 Terminal
or I2C emulator just to turn Diseq off, or to define 
Oszilator offsets or volumes correction per channel etc.


>No good idea to have 2 places (3 if you count the #define)
>for the config. 

You know "sendmail"?
"sendmail" was written with the intention to have all
in one config file.
Did you ever try to modify a sendmail.cf? :-)

The clear advantage:
There is exactly one place to "configure".



>Maybe we can group them with headings 
>as in the "2 channels" menu.


It maybe nice to have all the data in a dbm database...
Think how complicate the channels.conf may become, if all
possible features/parameters are implemented.


The advantage to have all as OSD:
One do not need a keyboard+VGAscreen or net work connection
in the livingroom.


The disadvantage?
Submenus?
Long Menus?
Non-auhorized persons may "play" with the setting, leaving
the device unusable.


I would prefer sub menu's to avoid endless scrolling
and to be able to do everything in "OSD".
Maybe it could be userfull, if the menu structure is user configurable 
in a data file (once and never again).
(That is what the cheapest "Alcatel OneTouch easy" mobile phone can do:
A user editable Menu structure. Most often used items
can be brought to the Top menu level. (Of cause i would prefer a Nokia...;-))