Thanks for your reply Thomas. I should have read more into the mailing list archives.
I can see why you chose hashes and can also see I'm a bit naive. Things always look simple until you have to do them yourself. From your description I can see that gpodder needs guaranteed unique directory and file names. I presume (but correct me if I'm wrong) that cases when the title is missing, contains characters unsuitable for file or directory names, is longer than a desired maximum length or is a duplicate are outlying cases. That is, the title is only unsuitable quite rarely. If this is the case then I would advocate using hashes as a fallback system. So if it's possible to use the title according to some set rules then the title is used and if not then use a hash. If the set rules are always used then the program can always tell if it should use the title or a hash. That's my idea. I can see some other people are interested too. Can you see a bad test case for this idea? Jay Thomas Perl wrote: > Hello, Pieter! > > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 15:11 +0100, Pieter De Decker wrote: > >> How about adding an option to the right-click menu of each channel >> saying "Open channel folder"? >> > > I've tried to do that, but my solution is a bit dirty (I'm using > "gnome-open" and "os.system()", which is not a good solution), the patch > is attached, tell me what you think :) > > I've also attached a small script I just shuffled together that > "describes" the download folder structure using the "gpodder" Python > module, it's "describe_gpodder_downloads.py" and you can run it using > Python. If you have not installed gPodder onto your system, you have to > set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to "src/" in your local gpodder > working copy. > > HTH. > Thomas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gpodder-devel mailing list > gpodder-devel@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list gpodder-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
