[mythtv-users] Suggestion: Move to trash option

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 15 July 2004 16:29, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Mark Crutch wrote:
> >Last night I was discussing a TV programme with a friend. It turned
> > out that he'd missed it, but I'd watched it the previous night off
> > my Myth (0.14) box, and had already deleted it (from the menu that
> > appears when you finish watching a programme). Obviously if I'd
> > recorded it on a VCR the tape might have still been lying around
> > and available for him to watch.
> >
> >In order to replicate this functionality in Myth, I got to wondering
> > about an alternative to deleting files. How about having another
> > option which marks the file as watched, and therefore takes it out
> > of the list of recordings to watch, and preferably out of the
> > calculations for free disk space. The file would still exist (until
> > it gets auto-expired) and could be forcibly deleted on the "Delete
> > Recordings" screen, or could be reinstated to the main list from
> > the same screen.
> >
> >I'm not sure what I would label this option as, but as an analogy to
> > computer systems it's like "Move to trash" as opposed to "Delete".
> > Perhaps "Finished watching" or "Hide" would be more user-friendly
> > terms.
> >
> >This way it would be possible to recover a watched file for some
> > time after it has been "removed", provided it has not yet been
> > auto-expired.
>
> You could probably accomplish this now with Recording Groups by
> having two: Watched and Unwatched and set your view in Watch
> Recordings to Unwatched.


That would only be half of it though... with the 'Trash' paradigm, 
anything in the Trash would be automatically autoexpired before 
anything else.  You don't get that with recording groups.  Also it's a 
more familiar model for users.

-JAC