<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 06/13/2007 02:43 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:<br>> On 12/06/07, Trey Thompson <<a href="mailto:treythompson@gmail.com">
treythompson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Chris et all,<br>>> What do you think about an option in the config, so that when you delete<br>>> the last recording of a title (For example, "MythBusters"), instead of going
<br>>> back to "All Recordings", it would go to the previous/next selection in the<br>>> "Show Recordings" dropdown?<br>>><br>> Do you watch all your recordings in title-alphabetical order? That's
<br>> the only scenario I can see for this option - surely you'd want to be<br>> able to choose from all still-available titles?<br><br>I'm guessing he's looking for a way to minimize the amount of data<br>
retrieved (especially over slow 'net connections). When you have 300+<br>recordings and enable the thumbnail preview in the Recorded Programs<br>page, that page gets to be rather large. For example, I currently have
<br>378 recordings and the Recorded Programs page showing "All groups" and<br>"All recordings" requires more than 5.5MiB downloaded from the MythWeb<br>server (not to mention the time/backend effort required for "catching
<br>up" on preview creation now that MythWeb no longer shares the frontend's<br>previews).<br><br>While I agree that just picking an arbitrary program title is not a good<br>approach, I have considered making patches to allow me to get to the
<br>Recorded Programs page without the hit involved in downloading<br>everything, but I haven't yet decided on an approach that I would<br>classify as a "good UI."<br><br>The approach I've been leaning toward is to create another link on the
<br>MythWeb home page in the "TV" section allowing the user to choose<br>whether to go direct to all recordings or to choose. I.e.:<br><br>- Recorded Programs<br> -- All recordings (link)<br> -- Choose group/recordings (link)
<br><br>Where the "Choose group/recordings" option would take you to the<br>Recorded Programs page, but without the table of program--i.e. showing<br>only the "Show group" and "Show recordings" select boxes. Once the user
<br>chooses a group and/or recordings, they would see only those. Or, if<br>the user were only interested in the number of episodes of some show<br>available, she could get that info from the "Show recordings" list.
<br><br>With this approach, deleting the last item from a group could simply<br>show the "choose" page. The "Recorded Programs" link in the nav bar<br>would still go to the "everything" page, so it would only affect users
<br>who explicitly ask for a choice.<br><br>Anyone have any better ideas? If not, I may eventually get around to<br>coding up a patch that implements this idea.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I like that Mike! That's exactly the problem.