[mythtv-users] MythWeb - Deletion Suggestion

Trey Thompson treythompson at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 02:05:05 UTC 2007


On 6/13/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/13/2007 02:43 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> > On 12/06/07, Trey Thompson <treythompson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Chris et all,
> >>   What do you think about an option in the config, so that when you
> delete
> >> the last recording of a title (For example, "MythBusters"), instead of
> going
> >> back to "All Recordings", it would go to the previous/next selection in
> the
> >> "Show Recordings" dropdown?
> >>
> > Do you watch all your recordings in title-alphabetical order? That's
> > the only scenario I can see for this option - surely you'd want to be
> > able to choose from all still-available titles?
>
> I'm guessing he's looking for a way to minimize the amount of data
> retrieved (especially over slow 'net connections).  When you have 300+
> recordings and enable the thumbnail preview in the Recorded Programs
> page, that page gets to be rather large.  For example, I currently have
> 378 recordings and the Recorded Programs page showing "All groups" and
> "All recordings" requires more than 5.5MiB downloaded from the MythWeb
> server (not to mention the time/backend effort required for "catching
> up" on preview creation now that MythWeb no longer shares the frontend's
> previews).
>
> While I agree that just picking an arbitrary program title is not a good
> approach, I have considered making patches to allow me to get to the
> Recorded Programs page without the hit involved in downloading
> everything, but I haven't yet decided on an approach that I would
> classify as a "good UI."
>
> The approach I've been leaning toward is to create another link on the
> MythWeb home page in the "TV" section allowing the user to choose
> whether to go direct to all recordings or to choose.  I.e.:
>
> - Recorded Programs
>   -- All recordings (link)
>   -- Choose group/recordings (link)
>
> Where the "Choose group/recordings" option would take you to the
> Recorded Programs page, but without the table of program--i.e. showing
> only the "Show group" and "Show recordings" select boxes.  Once the user
> chooses a group and/or recordings, they would see only those.  Or, if
> the user were only interested in the number of episodes of some show
> available, she could get that info from the "Show recordings" list.
>
> With this approach, deleting the last item from a group could simply
> show the "choose" page.  The "Recorded Programs" link in the nav bar
> would still go to the "everything" page, so it would only affect users
> who explicitly ask for a choice.
>
> Anyone have any better ideas?  If not, I may eventually get around to
> coding up a patch that implements this idea.
>
> Mike
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I like that Mike!  That's exactly the problem.
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