[mythtv-users] Feature request: Decluttering known programs

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/24/2009 11:48 AM, John Veness wrote:
> Please see the page I created 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Known_program_feature and let me know what 
> you think. This is a request to add a feature where the user can 
> indicate that certain programs are 'known' to them. This can then be 
> used to alter the user-interface, to allow the user to toggle a view 
> to only show 'unknown' programs in the schedules.
>
> Every week as I trawl through my listings magazine, I've thought that 
> there should be a better way to hide all the programs that I already 
> know about, and the above link gives my suggestion on how to achieve 
> this in Myth.
>
> Note that I've deliberately tried to avoid calling this an 'ignore' or 
> 'hide' feature, as I don't want this to affect the scheduler ('known' 
> programs can still be recorded) or to hide programs from Watch 
> Recordings. This is just about creating a list of programs that the 
> user 'knows' about and having that gently and optionally affect the UI 
> in certain ways. 

Have you tried the Manage Recordings|Schedule Recordings|* Search 
functions in mythfrontend?  There's even one there that shows only new 
titles--those that haven't been seen in the listings for the last 11 months.

Pretty sure that does pretty much what you want--with the exception that 
it throws away titles after 11 months so that each holiday season you 
can see all the holiday specials listed again.

Mike