On 15/12/2010 13:20, Adam Charrett wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, James Trietsch wrote: > >> Howdy! Like I haven't done enough damage already, I have another one... > :-) > >> I'd like to encourage some thought on how to keep this from happening. I was >> thinking a simple routine that creates a sorted list of favorites, then >> re-writes the list using their position as the priority number. This would >> close >> up any holes and resolve 'ties'. I'm just not sure where to do it. It could >> be >> done right before the favorites were saved off to the hard drive, or it >> could be >> done as part of the caching cleanup. Ideally it should be done often enough >> to >> keep holes from sticking around too long and confusing people. > I think the best option is to sort the favorites before they are save to > disk. > >> Also one long-standing issue I've had with the favorites GUI are the options >> regarding duplicate recording and recording all or only new. I think it's >> very >> clever to make it an item in the menu that changes based on the status, but I >> find it very confusing. When it says 'Prevent Duplicate Recording', does it >> mean >> it's set to prevent dupes? Or that if you click that option, it will turn on >> duplicate prevention? Somehow I always end up selecting the wrong option >> thinking I have it right. > I agree, in cases like this the menu option should really be a sentence, > ie 'Enable duplicate recording prevention'. Even then its not great. I've > had a quick think and I think the best approach may be to use the table > style menus used for directory configuration, where on the left is the > option and on the right the setting. So for you example > > Prevent Duplicate Records........_/ > > (that _/ is a tick by the way) The above would show the duplicate > recordings are prevented and selecting it would change the setting to a X. > I think this has a couple of advantages as your eyes don't have to travel > up the screen to find out the current setting. > > Any thoughts people? > > cheers > > Adam Seems like a more sensible way to approach it to me.
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