[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

ffrr ffrr at tpg.com.au
Fri Nov 4 04:34:24 EST 2005


f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

>
>In the current case, the installer defaults to behavior that will
>cause the machine to livelock and explode if the user has the bad
>luck to leave the UI on the wrong screen and go to bed.  Whoops.
>
>P.S.  The current installer's default of such a large ringbuffer and
>ext2 (ext3?) also has the problem that trying to switch away from live
>TV back into the UI can take a -very- long time---apparently the
>ringbuffer is deleted immediately 
>


Yes I noticed that delay as well.

>(hey! but what if I wanted to finish
>watching something after doing something in the UI! now it's -gone-!),
>but deleting 12GB in that filesystem takes something like a second per
>GB, at least, even on fast hardware, because of all the disk thrashing
>that's required.  The first time this happened to me (while testing
>the above behavior), I was wondering if the machine was -again- wedged,
>until the UI finally reappeared.  
>

Maybe a "Please wait..."  message would help?



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