[mythtv] Proposed alternate behaviour for show delete

Geoffrey Kruse gkruse at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 08:14:08 UTC 2005


Along the same lines, a "mark as watched" item could be useful for 
situations where there is more than one user on the machine.  Say user 
A has watched the recording but user B also wants to watch it.  It 
would be useful if myth could remember who has watched what.  This 
could be achieved by letting each person mark a recording as watched 
and not deleting it until both users have done so.


Geoff

On Mar 8, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:

>
> This proposed alternate behaviour requires minor changes to a number of
> different segments, so I thought I would propose it here before 
> attempting
> any coding on it.
>
> As you may not know, autoexpire is not just a boolean, it is a number.
> Programs with a higher autoexpire number expire before anything with a
> lower number.  Programs with 0 never autoexpire.   AFAIK, tvwish is
> the only program making use of this, to allow imported suggestions to
> effectively only take spare space (a value of 2 is sufficient as the 
> default
> is 1.)
>
> Anyway, the proposed change is as follows:
>
> If autoexpire is enabled:
>
>     Have Delete, instead of deleting the program, simply add 1000 or 
> similar
>     large number to autoexpire.
>
>     Modify the query for current recordings to not present any entry 
> with
>     autoexpire >= 1000.  Clients including mythweb will not see them.
>     Alternately train clients to ignore them or show them optionally.
>     (harder)
>
>     Modify the "deleted programs" to show them, but to put a special
>     highlight on these entries, and possibly display them at the end of
>     the list.   Also, it should now show 3 disk space totals -- space 
> used
>     by visible programs, space "Ready for deletion" and actual free 
> disk
>     space from DF.    Total "free" (actual plus ready for deletion) 
> might
>     be shown.   Mythweb would need to be modified to show this.
>     (This might, unfortunately need a protocol modification to show all
>     the different numbers)
>
>     In deleted programs, Delete on an "already deleted" show really 
> deletes
>     it, no undo possible.
>
>     In deleted programs, undelete is offered for already deleted 
> programs.
>
>     Above two items also available in mythweb.
>
> Alternate suggestion (with more UI)
>     Put both "Delete" and "Recycle" on the delete menu, with Recycle 
> grayed
>     out if autoexpire is not enabled.   Frankly I think this is 
> needless
>     complication, and besides, it means a frontend change while 
> changing
>     the meaning of delete is just a backend change.
>
>
> Result: Delete can be undone, at least until the space is actually
> needed.
>
> Thoughts?
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