[mythtv] Ticket #7916: Automatically save cutlist during editing

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:47 AM, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> #7916: Automatically save cutlist during editing
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>  Reporter:  Jim Stichnoth <stichnot@…>          |           Owner:  janne
>     Type:  patch                               |          Status:  assigned
>  Priority:  minor                               |       Milestone:  unknown
> Component:  MythTV - General                    |         Version:  Trunk Head
>  Severity:  medium                              |      Resolution:
>  Keywords:                                      |   Ticket locked:  0
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> Comment:
>
>  Michael, can this be closed now?

I agree that with Mike's new code that offers an explicit save
operation during editing, there's far less of a need for my patch,
which by the way is out of date.

But I'm still committed to the idea of auto-saving cutlist changes as
they are made, since I still have the occasional system lockup during
editing and I'm too lazy to press a SAVE key once in a while.

Can anyone think of an acceptable way to pass an auto-save option into
the editing session?  Clearly, introducing a new setting is not
acceptable.  I can think of a few options:

1. A new menu item in the TV Playback context, "Edit with auto-save".
This clutters the menu, but currently the Jobs menu (which contains
the Edit item) has only 3 items.

2. A key binding in the TV Playback context that enters the editor
with auto-save enabled.  This might be a problem for me, as I think
all my remote control buttons are in use for the TV Playback context.

3. A new menu somewhere in the TV Editing context that
enables/disables auto-save.  This clutters the menus.

4. A key binding in the TV Editing context that toggles autosave.  My
remote control has lots of buttons available in this context.

Jim