[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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