Plugin: Diamond Theme

[jorton]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

In the grouped image you posted, there's a folder to the left of the 0/106 count, plus there's another folder icon on the right of the group selection. I got another ball.

Left folder is the grouping folder and right (white) is the archived icon. Unless you have a better idea, it's the one I struggled with coming up with to replace the default "A" in a blue circle, so throw out any ideas you have. I was going for an icon look with the recording details area.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Edit: How about this? A pile with an arrow... maybe a VHS tape ;o)

[Skirge01]

Ahh... ok, that makes sense now. I always like the picture of a lock that some themes had in V6. I actually carried them over with me to V7, since I got so used to them.

[PLUCKYHD]

So a Optional Season DrillDown?

Check

[PLUCKYHD]

Oh yeah and you can now include imported TV (non tv recordings)

[vividweb]

I like where Diamond is going Plucky. Seems like you have found something you enjoy again.

[Skirge01]

I'm not sure I see the purpose for the season drilldown. Think about a show like Law & Order with 20 seasons. Why would someone want to scroll through all of the seasons and then scroll through the episodes? I think someone said this could be useful for multiple people watching a series at different times. How would you know which season you left off on with this method, though?

I'm trying to understand how someone would use this, since I can't think of one for my situation.

[pjpjpjpj]

I like the season drilldown method. I can't say why... just the way my brain works, organizationally. I'd rather it be organized in a "tree" like that, than hundreds of episodes in one big list.

But I do see Skirge's point, about being able to see "where you were" if you were working your way through every episode, in order. I guess I'd rather just have to remember on my own.

[gplasky]

I guess it would work differently for different people. In your example of Law and Order knowing which pair of detectives or the DA you're looking for would lead you to looking in earlier or later seasons. Let's face it-if you had all 20 seasons that alot of scrolling no matter what. To be honest I can't think of a time when in Sage that I was looking for a particular season, episode or episode title. We do it the simple way-watched vs. not watched. When they get all watched they get deleted. Our house isn't into long term recording storage.

Gerry

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

I'm trying to understand how someone would use this, since I can't think of one for my situation.

That is why there are options to turn that part off

I think you would use these features

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

I like the season drilldown method. I can't say why... just the way my brain works, organizationally. I'd rather it be organized in a "tree" like that, than hundreds of episodes in one big list.

But I do see Skirge's point, about being able to see "where you were" if you were working your way through every episode, in order. I guess I'd rather just have to remember on my own.

It's probably the whole "Windows filesystem" mentality we've all grown accustomed to, where everything had to be organized in folders. We want things to be in an order we feel is logical. But, I think we can all agree that, in many ways, Windows is anything but. That's something they're trying to fix with the "favorites", "libraries", and "virtual store" areas. They don't want us to care where the files are actually located in the file system, which is a good move, but takes a lot of time to retrain ourselves.

I definitely would have an issue with it (to Gerry's point) if I had to scroll through 20 seasons as I got through season 20. But, that's where the watched flag comes in and having it jump to the last watched or first unwatched episode in the entire listing would come in. And, when I was on about season 15 is when I asked razr how to do such a thing in TVE. I grew tired of holding the page down button for 5 seconds every time.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by gplasky

We do it the simple way-watched vs. not watched. When they get all watched they get deleted. Our house isn't into long term recording storage.

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one.

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

That is why there are options to turn that part off
I think you would use these features

Plucky, I have to say, just looking at the various screenshots throughout this thread, you have a LOT of recorded TV. A. LOT.
(not that there's anything wrong with that)

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

Plucky, I have to say, just looking at the various screenshots throughout this thread, you have a LOT of recorded TV. A. LOT.
(not that there's anything wrong with that)

Yeah, really. I thought I had a lot, but Plucky probably has me beat, hands down. Kinda makes me feel good that I'm not the worst hoarder of TV.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Yeah, really. I thought I had a lot, but Plucky probably has me beat, hands down. Kinda makes me feel good that I'm not the worst hoarder of TV.

These are dummy files on my dev system thanks to EvilPenguin

but I do have over 1200 shows

[PLUCKYHD]

So this is a list of what is done and ready hopefully I covered the basics

• Add option to remove Title from Episode screen (now at top)
• Added option to show banners instead of text
• Added optional season drilldown
• Changed headers to better fit new options
• Add filter for playon
• Add filter for imported tv
• added option to include playon or imported in the "all" option
• Add option to show season/episode number in episode list (if drilling down by season just shows episode # and season on header)
• Add option to remove movies and show them under the videos tab
  

All the added filters should work with all the other tv filters (ie watched etc etc) and should be able to do custom views (although I don't know how you do this.)

Nice feature set hopefully people will enjoy

[toricred]

That's awesome. Any ideas when it will be ready for the masses?

[PLUCKYHD]

Shooting for tomorrow hopefully if it test well tonight.

here is a zip if anyone is bored and wants to see how it all flows and all the options.

Images

[PLUCKYHD]

Is anyone using Diamond yet?

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Shooting for tomorrow hopefully if it test well tonight.

here is a zip if anyone is bored and wants to see how it all flows and all the options.

Images

How do you have time for all of this? Not complaining at all of course

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

How do you have time for all of this? Not complaining at all of course

I go on tangents...

The movie view isn't done just yet and will be very basic (ie no grouping or anything) just show your videos/movies and allow pathfilterexpression and sort order and watched filters.

Wow that didn't sound very basic but it is

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Wow that didn't sound very basic but it is

Basic to you maybe. I've seen what you "little" projects turn into. Again, not complaining.