[mythtv] [PATCH] Playlist feature UI tweaking

[Chris Pinkham]

> I believe I misunderstood the function of the alternate popup then.   
> What exactly does "Change the recording group" do when a playlist is 
> present?  The function without playlists present filters the view by the 

It changes the recording group for all items in the taglist/playlist.
So I can for instance, tag all my wife's Christmas shows that she
hasn't watched yet and throw them in a "Christmas" group all in one
shot without having to change each individually.  Several people in the
past have suggessted/asked-for the ability to move multiple recordings
at the same time to a different recording group.

> >Maybe a better layout would be something like this:
> >
> >MENU popup
> >  - Playlist Actions (calls sub-popup)
> >    - Play
> >    - Play Random
> >    - Delete All Items
> >    - Change Recording Group
> >    - Clear
> >    - Add title/category/recgroup/etc.
> >    (And eventually maybe)
> >    - Save
> >    - Load
> >    - Edit
> >
> >INFO popup
> >	- Add to Playlist
> >	- Remove from Playlist

> I like this layout with a single button on the MENU popup for Playlist 
> Actions and then the Add/Remove button as the only change to the INFO 
> menu.  This keeps the INFO button acting the same across the board and 
> the MENU button gets more functionality that applies to the entire 
> screen as it should.  This feels more intuitive to me than the original 
> or my patch.
> 
> Did you say you had this in you tree already or is it something you'd 
> like me to work up?

I don't have this, I was just saying that I had the existing playlist
code in tree for a while.   I've been putting some shows on VHS tape
recently for my wife's grandmother and it was annoying to have to keep
coming back to the TV every 45 minutes to start a new recording playing.
With the playlist, I can tag 8 shows and come back 6 hours later and the
tape is full of 8 shows without commercials. :)  Have to convert the
commercial skip list to a cutlist first, but that's easy enough.  I
figured others might want this functionality as well as the ability to
do something like tag 3-4 kids shows and just let it play for a while.

I can take a shot, or you can work something up if you want to since
you've been patching that code recently.  Not trying to push it off
on you though, I can work on the changes if you don't want to.  Inside
a bunch of functions like play/delete/etc. there is an if statement
that does one thing if there is a playlist and does another if there
is not.  We probably want to just split these out and make separate
play functions for playlist/non-playlist, etc..  Should make it easier
that way since we won't have to set a flag so we know where it was
called from (it, "Play" on the Menu/Playlist popup or "Play" on the INFO
popup).

Want to tackle it?
-- 

Chris