[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2759: master_iconmap update for Australia

[Paul Andreassen]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 05:48 am, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:29, MythTV wrote:
> > #2759: master_iconmap update for Australia
> > -------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
> >-- - Reporter:  paulx at andreassen.com.au  |        Owner:  ijr
> >      Type:  patch                    |       Status:  closed
> >  Priority:  minor                    |    Milestone:  unknown
> > Component:  mythtv                   |      Version:  0.20
> >  Severity:  medium                   |   Resolution:  fixed
> > -------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
> >-- - Comment (by Simon Kenyon):
> >
> >  does this last comment not point to a small design problem
>
> Arguably a big design problem. I've made this same point, several times, in
> IRC when it was suggested that the UK icon grabber was unnecessary and the
> iconmap script used instead.
>
> The iconmap stuff needs to be made aware of locality - either by asking the
> user to pick from a list when it is run or by looking for location info (if
> it exists in some form) in the database.
>
> It would also be better in the UK and also in other European countries to
> use the channel name instead of the callsign. The callsign is often too
> long and many users edit it.

Stuart has a point.  When I was doing it, I wonder why I had to map though 
network names.  Before I started, I believed most of the channels would 
already be done for me because Australia just gets revamped US pay tv 
channels, but it wasn't so.  Most users are US and the small overlap is 
hardly worth worrying about.  The idea is to get channel icons setup quickly 
and easily.  If the user isn't happy with the result they can always improve 
on it.  It also has a mix of small gifs and large jpgs, depending on who 
added the entries.  I preferred the large jpgs and this was a few of the 
overlaps.  Why isn't it based on the xmlid?

Paul
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