XBMC "BACK" verses the "ESCAPE" button?

Yes please! I only want one "back" button (like esc). It's all just a series of screens linked together.
When you push "back" you want to go back one screen. I think most non-geek users can relate to this as well.


Let's start a vote shall we?

-Eicar

Perhaps we can try and implement this via an edited keymap.xml.

Are there any circumstances where applying a single key to back / escape would cause a conflict? Is there a way of defining which one take precedence?

If one could have it so that escape was the dominant action, but back was implemented when escape was inactive, it ought to have the "universal back" behaviour people are looking for.

Yes, it's all keymappable.

Take a look how the BACKSPACE key works on the keyboard. There's probably only a few other sections you need to add map it to close.

I will investigate... :-D

Sukebe7 Wrote:Is there anyway to get the back button to actually go back to the previous video selection menu instead of rewinding the video?

i simply use the stopbutton on my remote instead of back when playing video.

Interesting I stumbled on this thread.. my girlfriend asked me the same thing yesterday
"Can't we make it go back like in the old one? (mediaportal)"

Will have to tinker with the keymap later and see whats what.

Maybe we could have an option could be enabled to enable a ceiling to how far you go up in parent dirs before the command changes to previous window?

Ie.
TV Shows Root <--- Back causes previous window (or home)
Seasons <--- Back goes up one dir
Episodes <--- Back goes up one dir

It would be cool if you could define your own root somewhere for each view maybe?
This could be like the universal back command but would also work in stuff like file view as when you got to the root and pressed back it would take you home..
Hope that makes sense to someone other than me

Again, that's how backspace works.

This may be off topic but why do none of the settings dialogs support "back" to go back up the dialog chain? They support ACTION_PREVIOUS_MENU to go up one level (as opposed to back to Home), and no ACTION_PARENT_DIR to go up one level. Intentional?

EDIT: Settings dialogs being Settings -> Videos, Music, Pictures, Profiles, Weather, Network, System, Appearance

Basically as they don't have directories, so that ACTION_PARENT_DIR doesn't really make much sense. Admittedly, this is due to the name of the #define more than anything else.

It's solvable via keymap.xml ofcourse (just map Backspace to PreviousMenu or whatever it is) though perhaps isn't as elegant as it could be.

Perhaps we should investigating calling it ACTION_PREVIOUS_LEVEL and do the changes on the code side instead. I think this has already been hacked in to some places using PARENT_DIR while some of us weren't paying too much attention

Cheers,
Jonathan

jmarshall Wrote:Again, that's how backspace works.

Thanks Jonathan,
Apologies if that's already been pointed out.. I was only skimming the thread as I was at work.
I didn't realise that backspace would make it work like that - will have to check it out when I get home.

Cheers!