[mythtv] MythMail - early thoughts / ideas

Alex Wilbur alex at neuon.com
Thu Mar 13 18:24:32 EST 2003


Hi,

Yes, I would probably do something like this. Mythmail would operate in
exactly the same way as the other existing myth modules (selectable from
the menu, lets you view emails that have been detected whilst myth is
running). However, there would need to be a plugin system to myth
(central) to allow the UI stuff to take place whilst watching live TV.

I think...

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Ziarek [mailto:nathan at ziarek.com] 
Sent: 13 March 2003 15:42
To: alex at neuon.com; 'Development of mythtv'
Subject: [spam] RE: [mythtv] MythMail - early thoughts / ideas


First off, I am not a developer chap, so you may just want to discount
everything I say :)

I like the idea of not having to suspend Live TV to view some of the
functions. I think it would be great for things like MythWeather,
MythSports, and MythCallerID (which will be out in early May, 2034).

So, if you were going to spend the time to creating a "watcher" module,
maybe you could think about ways to make it portable to the other
apps...perhaps you'd be writing two apps instead of one: the watcher app
(which I've been calling MythTicker) and then your MythMail app. I don't
know how they would interface or how it should be displayed (just a CNN
Headline news style scroller?) but I think it would be neat if we could
have
all of that information without exiting liveTV...

Just my couple of cents.

Nate






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