[mythtv-users] Feature request. MythVideo folder browser.

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Jason Lee wrote:

> Dan Morphis wrote:
>
>> Looks great, look forward to your patches.
>
>
> I'm sure if he could code it, he probably would, rather than ask 
> someone else to do it.  Not everyone that uses MythTV is a developer.  
> As a "multimedia" device, I would guess that end user input (and this 
> guy sounds like an end user) is pretty important.  Snide 
> if-you-can't-help- don't-speak responses like this help no one at all.


Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's never been a secret that 
MythTV is a project by developers for developers.  Things get added to 
this app by and large because a particular developer wants the feature 
bad enough to implement it.  While occasionally developers see a feature 
request and say "hey that's a great idea" more often than not, it's read 
as "here's another person wanting me to spend hours working on something 
I'll never use".  Apparently none of the folks writing code for MythTV 
has a large enough video collection for them to feel like modifying the 
interface to deal with large file sets.