Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Auto rating



On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:45, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:14, Michael Terry wrote:
> > You will find some new auto rating patches in my branch
> > (mterry@fastmail.fm--2004 at http://people.umass.edu/msterry/archive). 
> 
> Hm, I get:
> walters@nexus> tla archive-mirror mterry@fastmail.fm--2004
> webdav error: 403 Forbidden
> walters@nexus> tla whereis-archive mterry@fastmail.fm--2004-SOURCE
> http://people.umass.edu/msterry/archive

Hmm...  I think that is fixed now.  Let me know.



> > I'm not sure I did the merging-my-local-branch arch stuff right.  If
> > there is a bunch of junk in patch-4, can someone tell me how to get only
> > the changes I made to show up?
> 
> It's likely you just want to use star-merge.  Is patch-4 something that
> is just bad and you want to revert?  patch-4 in which archive and branch
> by the way?

I used star-merge, but when I went to commit patch-4 in my
archive/branch, it looked like a lot of other stuff was modified
(presumably from the merge).  Maybe it's fine.



> > With these changes, I believe auto rating Just Works.
> > 
> > There was some talk of maybe setting the default for auto-rating to off
> > and having some UI for toggling that gconf pref in the preference
> > dialog.  I argue that that would be unnecessary, merely because I think
> > it is a small use-case we would be going for there.
> > 
> > The only use-case in which we would want easy, in-your-face toggling of
> > global auto-rating is if the user has a pre-existing database of
> > hand-rated songs that they don't want being toyed with.  Because, if a
> > new user just wants hand-rated songs, auto-rating will be turned off for
> > each song individually.  So, is this segment large enough that we want
> > to expose UI for the gconf setting?
> 
> Well, one thing you could do (I'm not sure if you've already done this)
> is to allow the checkbox to work even when multiple songs are selected. 
> Most of the code infrastructure for that is already there from the tag
> editing work. That way, if the user didn't want their songs
> automatically rated at all, they could just Edit->Select All, then
> select Properties, and uncheck the autorating checkbox.  (The checkbox
> state when multiple songs were selected would default to the global
> autorating state).
> 
> This would actually give people even more power than the global checkbox
> - you could pretty easily decide to autorate some of your music, but not
> all of it.  We'd have to document this of course, since it would be
> slightly obscure.
> 
> Another (somewhat orthogonal) idea is to have a dialog that asks what
> you want, the first time you upgrade from 0.6.x.

I like your first suggestion.  It is not implemented right now, but I'll
try to do so.



-mt

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