[mythtv] Re: Proposed alternate behaviour for show delete

Brad Templeton brad+mydev at templetons.com
Sat Mar 12 19:58:58 UTC 2005


I think this may be too roundabout a way to attain your real goal.

While myth has a variety of modes to give a show permanence (no autoexpire,
no episode limit) due to bugs, you have lost shows you hoped were permanent
which is very bad.

What might be a lot simpler is for you to code a "permanence" flag (possibly
simply setting autoexpire to -1), and, in all the relevant places, working
to make those recordings permanent.

As noted, UI design says that confirmation prompts are useless on frequent
activities.   Where they are useful is on rare activities.  So that's
where it makes sense to have a confirmation prompt on one of these recordings,
"You have asked to delete a permanent recording, enter y-e-s or 1-2-3 to
confirm."   You would also only offer delete of permanent recordings on the
delete-programs menu, not the regular play menu.

Permanent recordings, in fact, should have a link to their .nuv file put
in a second directory, so even rm can't get rid of them unless you know
what you are doing.


Of course, someday somebody will implement a "Move recording to videos"
command, though you would want the videos to have a better directory
structure for handling large numbers of videos with all their data.


The proposed plans for undo on delete would not have helped you in a bug
that was trying to purge your files.  Only a deliberate robustness could
help there.


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