[mythtv] [PATCH] Controlled autoexpire vs immediate deletion

[Kai Fritzowsky]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:50:51PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:46:39PM +0100, Kai Fritzowsky wrote:
> > Sometimes (or often), you want to delete a recording after watching it.
> > You delete it and the day after your wife tells you that you shouldn't...
> > 
> > This patch adds a menu entry to the delete box enabling the user to set the
> > autoexpire value to 999, so the given recording will be deleted before the
> > untouched ones but not immediately. So far, there is no indication of the
> > current autoexpire value in the frontend. If there's some interest, I will
> > be happy to add that.
> > 
> > A short time ago there was the thread "Proposed alternate behaviour for show
> > delete". Since there was no consensus about the necessity of an undelete
> > functionality, I don't think this patch will make it into the cvs.
> > Unfortunately I don't have enough time to implement one of the better ideas
> > mentioned there. Anyway, it works quite good for me, and I thought someone
> > might be interested.
> 
> Well, it seemed that while many people are in the "Delete shows when done,
> autoexpire is a backup" camp but Isaac isn't so he wasn't too keen as
> you indicate.
> 
> However, even with a partial implementation, I suggest the following:
> 
>     Add 1000 to the existing autoexpire number rather than setting it
>     to 999.  Thus if there was already an autoexpire ordering on the
>     files, it keeps it even for the deleted shows.   Right now the only
>     autoexpire ordering is done by tvwish, and the very basic binary
>     (0 or 1) setting.

Agreed. But I'd like to have some feedback in the ui. Maybe a list similar
to "Set Priorities"? For now I'm using the attached perl script to see which
recordings will be autoexpired next.

/Kai
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