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List:       mythtv-users
Subject:    Re: [mythtv-users] Gloss Mythtv frontend replacement
From:       "Nick Rout" <nick () rout ! co ! nz>
Date:       2008-05-21 21:04:59
Message-ID: 52bd4a780805211404u26110b93gfb056186d9683c15 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Sarah Katherine Hayes
>> <sarah@sarahhayes.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>> > The Mythfrontend gets put down fairly regularly, this might be a good
>>> > replacement for those that aren't impressed.
>>> >
>>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkE3Z5P-6Ak
>>> >
>>> > Looks Very Promising
>>> >
>>> Bloody hell that looks... wow.  I'll install it and see what happens on
>>> the laptop.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Looks very similar to the xTV theme I've been using in XBMC for over a
>> year now - Is Gloss that big of a deal?
>>
>> xTV in action (not mine) at
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gZg3bh8_3o&feature=related
>
>
> I'm disappointed only in that the effort to code a UI in Clutter is being
> done outside of the existing mythfrontend framework.  Rather, it would have
> been helpful if the developer had instead worked on adding a Clutter
> renderer (like we have QT and OpenGL) for the existing frontend.  Now, as
> new features are adding, new protocol commands implemented, etc., this
> frontend will lag behind the official one until it can be updated rather
> than being pulled along with the existing codebase.  No disrespect to his
> efforts but it sure would have been nice to see this as a branch to the
> existing code to be merged back in rather than a separate project.
>
> Kevin
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Come on it looks like the developer has just been playing around for
his own benefit and has slowly developed something that might be
useful. One wonders whether he would have got it done at all if
working within the confines of a larger project. Perhaps you should
read the dev's latest blog and see the effect comments like yours have
had:

http://noisymime.org/blog/?p=54

So there is some very useful work there, but its hardly a finished
product (not even an 0.1 release, no EPG, not even playback of
recordings.)

I do appreciate what you are saying about features falling behind,
separated development effort, duplicated development effort etc, but
the guy is just having some fun for his own interest, so cut the guy
some slack and let him get on with having fun.
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