<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Gallatin <<a href="mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu">gallatin@cs.duke.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Michael T. Dean [<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>] wrote:<br></div><...><br><br>Indeed, it would be bad for people to rename things to their liking.<br>However, I think anybody with enough of a clue to try that would<br>
probably find the right (mythrename) way quickly enough.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Besides, who says that a name that's friendly to you is friendly to<br>> everyone else. Everyone would want their own filename formats--which is<br>> the /entire/ point of mythrename.pl --link... I can just imagine all<br>
> the people complaining that the format should be user-modifiable. (I<br>> don't want the start time, I want the original airdate, can't we just<br>> add a setting... Rinse and repeat a million times--each complaining<br>
> about something different.)<br>><br>> Is it really so hard to run mythrename.pl --link? I have my system run<br><br></div>There is no reason a power user couldn't still run mythrename to make<br>things exactly the way they want. All I'm saying is that the default<br>
cryptic names are a barrier to entry for naive users who just want to<br>play their files "out of the box" with a non-mythtv front end.</blockquote>
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<div>A naive user wouldn't bother. They would run mythfrontend because doing otherwise would involve setting up samba or NFS shares which a naive user wouldn't know about any more than they would know about cryptic filenames. It is the "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" user that will likely stumble upon this first</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>