[mythtv] Feature: Multiple "mark as watched"

[Raymond Wagner]

On 9/13/2011 08:37, Tobias Kaminsky wrote:
> On 13/09/11 01:38, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:17:47 +0200, Tobias Kaminsky<tobias at kaminsky.me>
>> wrote:
>>> On 12/09/11 09:48, Elkin Fricke wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Tobias Kaminsky<tobias at kaminsky.me
>>>> <mailto:tobias at kaminsky.me>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      Hello,
>>>>
>>>>      I want to implement a feature, which allows all users to seperatly
>>>>      mark
>>>>      a recording as watched.
>>>>      There would be a new popup after one chose "mark as watched" where
>>>>      one
>>>>      could pick the users that have watched the show.
>>>>      If all users have watched a recording it will be auto-expire (if
>>>>      one has
>>>>      checked this option).
>>>>
>>>>      My question is, if there is another approach which will do this? I
>>>>      want
>>>>      to avoid that my patch/suggestion is not used by any other but
>> me...
>>>>      Thank you for this great software!
>>>>
>>>>      Tobi
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>>>>
>>>> Hi Tobi,
>>>>
>>>> you can search the Dev and User lists for "multi user" and you will
>>>> find many ideas but no implementations. I would love this feature.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Hello Elkin,
>>>
>>> I have started with this feature.
>>> Currently I try to "hardcode" two users without database support.
>>> I want to use some kind of toggle Button to select/deselect a watched
>>> recording for a user.
>>> I have found MythUICheckBox. But all references use a XML file via
>>> checkBox = dynamic_cast<MythUICheckBox*>(GetChild("foo"));
>>> So it is not possible to create a popup for a dynamic count of users?
>> The general idea is that the use of users is pervasive throughout the
>> frontend.  When someone sits down at the tv, they specify who they are.
>> Their specific settings get loaded in.  Watch Recordings filters for only
>> that content they wanted to record.  If they watch a recording, it gets
>> marked as watched by their user.  There would be no need to create a popup
>> dynamically sized for the users on the system, because you would only ever
>> be affecting that information which corresponds to the current user.
>>
> Sometimes a recording is watched by all users at the same time. So then
> this recording could be marked as watched for all users with one button.
> (How could this be done with "your" idea?)

It couldn't.  Each user marked against that show would either have to 
watch it individually, or take care of marking it as watched on their 
own.  From the opposite direction, each user would have their own 
independent and overlapping set of recording rules.  Only those users 
that specifically marked that they wanted it recorded would have to mark 
they had watched it.

>> No one has really wanted to implement anything less than that, as it would
>> appear rather "kludgy", and half hearted.  On the other hand, doing it
>> properly is a fairly extensive overhaul of a lot of the MythTV codebase, so
>> you can understand why no one has successfully done it yet.  There was a
>> GSoC project back in 2006 to write such a system, but it never went
>> anywhere.  I don't believe any further attempts ever made it past planning.
> I know that my way is not a complete solution, but do you see a
> possibility that this patch would be accepted?

I don't have any dealings in that area of the code, so it's not really 
mine to say one way or another.  I don't know.