[GUI] Managing categories

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At this moment we have categories movie/tv/other. To my opinion this is not 
sufficient. A documentary is NOT a "movie" with genre "documentary", a concert 
is not a "movie" with genre "music". They all appear in the same screen which I 
consider annoying.

I would propose: 
- allow the user to define his own categories (e.g. 
movie/tv/doc/music/learning/children/other)
- allow manual override of the scanned category (e.g .in the NFO file)

Keep up the good work!

Ad van Kessel

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ad.vanke...@ziggo.nl on 14 Aug 2010 at 3:42

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Thanks for your input... I understand the point you are making...

however some people would consider a documentary as a movie (or rather 'film') 
within the Genre 'documentary'..

Having more categories here would simply overlap with the Genre category and 
potentially become confusing.

What you are proposing is that some genres distinguish between 'Fictional 
Films' (eg Comedy etc) and Some genres indicate it is not a fictional film, so 
they should appear as Categories - eg Documentaries. 

Music is a hard one to do automatically, as you can have live concerts or 
musicals.

All in all, I'm more for a simple life, and take what IMDB tells me, and use 
the Gener option to filter.

The initial scraping code is heavily centred around the IMDB idea of Movie or 
Tv.
Adding custom categories at that level would be a lot of pain.

BUT adding custom genres or custom tags (issue 48) would be easier.

Custom Tags will be implemented at some point.

Then perhaps we can just have something GUI configuration to Promote certain 
Tags or Genres to the 'Category dropdown list'

So in summary I would say,
- Merge this issue with custom tags.
- Possibly Update Custom tags so that some tags are added to the main category 
list.
- Allow user to optionally flag some Genre's to be dislayed in the Category 
drop down (and this ommited from the main Movie list)
- Manual override of scanned category will rather be overide of Genre or Custom 
Tag and supported in XBMC nfo format (another issue).

Original comment by lordylo...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2010 at 6:40

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Your suggestion sounds good to me. My main concern is that I prefer the movie 
wall NOT to be cluttered with "other" items that I don't consider "movies", 
such as documentaries or concert registrations or whatever. Your solution would 
provide this so... great!

Original comment by ad.vanke...@ziggo.nl on 15 Aug 2010 at 7:50

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No worries here is the list http://www.imdb.com/genre

Action      Adventure   Animation   Biography
Comedy  Crime   Documentary     Drama
Family  Fantasy     Film-Noir   Game-Show
History     Horror  Music   Musical
Mystery     News    Reality-TV  Romance
Sci-Fi  Sport   Talk-Show   Thriller
War     Western

We could have genre promotion rules. Eg.

First identify definite non-fiction genres

'Documentary'

and posible non-fiction genres

'Music'
'Comedy'
'Crime'
'Biography'
'News'
'Sport'
'War'
'History'

If a 'movie' has at least one definite non-finction it is decoupled from the 
Movie category into its own genre based category.

OR if a 'movie' ONLY has possible non-fiction genres then it can also be 
decoupled,
eg (stand up will usually only have 'Comedy' and nothing else, Concerts will 
just have 'Music' ).

Otherwise it gets put under Movie or TV as normal.

Original comment by lordylo...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2010 at 12:20

• Changed title: [GUI] Managing categories
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect