[PATCH] Re: [mythtv] Recorded Programs menu

[Jim Radford]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:00:38PM -0600, rob wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote:

> >UI clutter.

> >Also, I'm going to be adding a optional dialog at the end of playback that 
> >asks if you want to go ahead and delete the recording.

> Nah, I don't like it.  The "Watch a Recording" and "Delete Recording" 

I hate to "me too", but I don't like it either.  With the combined
dialog, you can hit "d" (or whatever) when you're done and if you
don't want to delete, then there's no extra keystroke.  *That* is a
lack if UI clutter.  Do you consider the extra key posibility clutter?

Isaac, would you mind reitterating your philosophy on the UI?  It
seems to me that you've got some vestigial Macintosh one-button-mouse
tendencies. :-)

> What clutter are you talking about?  On-screen clutter or feature 
> clutter per menu?  I wouldn't consider 3 options on a menu (play, 
> delete, re-encode) for a show to be too many, and the only other things 
> from those individual menus that you can do now are scroll up or down, 
> or go back to the main menu.  The main menu would have one fewer choice, 
> so it would be cleaner.

Again, I agree here too.  I've been thinking of alternatives the
size-bar and the size column (the visual clutter I think you're
refering to).  What do you think of replacing them with a "light
colored" progress like bar under each show title that would represent
the size of the program visually?  And possibly the percentage of the
disk space taken up as well?

-Jim