[mythtv] Ticket #11027: Unneccessary "All Programs - " text before title in Watch Recordings

[John Veness]

Re: http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11027#comment:1

On 22/08/2012 15:36, MythTV wrote:
> #11027: Unneccessary "All Programs - " text before title in Watch Recordings
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>   Reporter:  John Veness <John.Veness.mythtv@…>  |          Owner:
>       Type:  Bug Report - General                |         Status:  closed
>   Priority:  minor                               |      Milestone:  unknown
> Component:  MythTV - General                    |        Version:
>   Severity:  medium                              |  Unspecified
>   Keywords:                                      |     Resolution:  Invalid
>                                                  |  Ticket locked:  0
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> Changes (by gigem):
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>   * status:  new => closed
>   * resolution:   => Invalid
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> Comment:
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>   The "All Programs" is the group filter currently in effect.  You can
>   change the group filter by pressing MENU or MENU / MENU depending on which
>   column is currently active.

Hi, thanks for the reply. I wondered if that was the intention, and if 
that is the case, there still seems to be some problems with this feature.

Firstly, the setting 'Show filter name instead of "All Programs"' is 
unticked by default, meaning that for most people the "All Programs - " 
prefix text will appear no matter what group filter is selected, making 
it pretty useless.

Even if the user ticks that setting, as the prefix text only appears 
when the cursor is highlighting something in the "display group" column 
and not when highlighting an individual episode, it isn't on screen all 
the time anyway, so again is not as useful as it could be.

If there is an intention to show the currently active group filter 
on-screen (which is a good idea), then shouldn't it be exposed as an 
element that themes can place somewhere on the Watch Recordings screen 
that would stay there all the time no matter where the cursor was? E.g. 
on the screenshot I attached to the ticket, a good place to show the 
currently active group filter at the top above the list of recordings. 
Putting it somewhere up there rather than prefixing it to the title when 
the cursor is in the display group column would mean that more of the 
title could be displayed without truncation.

Does anyone else want to weigh in their opinion on this? If you visit 
the ticket and look at the screenshot, please take note that my issue is 
with the text "All Programs" (or "All Programmes" in my UK English 
setup), followed by a hyphen, followed by the title of the currently 
selected display group about two-thirds down the screen, not the text 
"All Programs" in the display group list near the top.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T