Program Finder Changes [was Re: [mythtv] patch: progfind speedup]

[Leandro Dardini]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Danner" <johndanner at untzuntz.com>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:06 PM
Subject: Program Finder Changes [was Re: [mythtv] patch: progfind speedup]


> The 'The' category is now gone. The program finder now puts shows that
start
> w/ 'The ' and 'A ' under the letter which their second word starts with.
It
> will still have 'The'/'A' infront of it.

Maybe it was better, as suggested on the list, to use "Matrix, The" having a
more understandable alphabetical ordered listing.

>
> This also changes around the sorting a bit, the sorter is case sensitive -

Case sensitive... oh my gosh... please, no case sensitive... how many
average user know that A<a ?

> I'm looking into this still. Otherwise the code has been updated in CVS
(for
> those of you not on the commits list).
>
> I hope this works better for everyone...
>
> -John
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: DanM <dan at milkcarton.com>
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Sent: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:36:58 -0900
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] patch: progfind speedup
>
> > What about storing it both ways?  ie "The Red Green Show" and "Red
> > Green Show, The" :-)
> >
> > Chris Pinkham wrote:
> >
> > >How about changing it so it will strip words like 'A', 'The', etc. off
> > >the beginning and put them at the end after a comma.  So "The Red Green
> > >Show" would become "Red Green Show, The".
> > >
> > >Or the code could just ignore a leading 'A' or 'The' and put the
> > >items in their regular bucket based upon the 2nd word.
> > >
> > >Or it could put them in both places, under the 'The' bucket but also
under
> > >the 'R' bucket (for the Red Green example).
> > >
> > >Or I could shut up unless I'm going to submit a patch. :)
> > >
> > >Just wanted to toss out a few other possible alternatives.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>>While you're looking at this code, would you consider breaking
> > >>>out the 'A ...' titles as you have the 'The ...' titles?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>actually, I don't like the "The..." titles. When I want to watch "The
> > >>Red Green Show" I never remember whether to look under "R" or "T". I
> > >>think it should just ignore leading "A"s and "The"s . I don't feel too
> > >>strongly on this issue, so whatever floats your boat.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Chris
>
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