[Kwintv] Usability: keypress timer

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Tue Jan 13 05:05:02 CET 2004


On Monday 12 January 2004 18:21, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 19:19, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> > On Monday 12 January 2004 15:30, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On the usability front, I propose this change. In mid term,
> > > it possibly qualifies as a gui config option:
> >
> > I keep it in mind, I'll make it configurable. I don't want to
> > change it to 1 second, because if you are using a remote control
> > (kdelirc), 1 sec is too short.
>
> How about the attached patch?
>
> Note, that it also contains one questionable hunk:
>
> +++ qtvision/cfgdata.cpp        2004-01-12 21:52:51.000000000 +0100
> -    channelNumberingStart = 2;
> +    channelNumberingStart = 1;
>
> I cannot find the rationale behind this default setting. Humans
> tend to start counting with "1", don't they? ;-)

  Do not apply this patch.  We need to come up with a better solution.  In 
most places in North America at least, channels start at 2.  Since I wrote 
this code, I started it where it suits me best. ;-)


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