[mythtv] MythNews 0.1

[Philippe C. Cattin]

Dane,

> Has anyone thought about developing a MythBrowser kinda thing.... with
> similiar functionality to browsing on a webtv?  It seems like it would be
> fairly easy for someone to do by modifying mozilla to use a "bigger" UI?

I'm currently working on this, however it is not a mythplugin but a 
small KDE application (i.e you have to start it with EXEC instead of 
PLUGIN). The sole reason for this beeing that I couldn't get all the Qt 
slots of khtmlpart matched.

As I already mentioned, it is a tiny KDE/Qt application that displays 
webpages in full-screen mode (no boarders, no menus). Some keys are 
remapped so that you can jump from link to link (curser left/right), 
select a link (return) and scroll through a document 
(up/down/pageup/pagedown) by using the remote control only. And last but 
not least, ESC quits the application. I thought of adding an additional 
key to quickly jump from one frame to the other in multi-framed pages.

Currently I have the following open issues with the program:

- When I exit a multiframe page I normaly get signal 11 (I guess  it is 
because I exit the application from within an eventFilter... However, 
mythfrontend is not affected by this.

- flash plugins displayed on the webpage are not always killed when exiting.

- postdata dosn't work yet.

- screen dimensions still hard coded.

Always keep in mind, that this is my first KDE/Qt programm (which is 
actualy just a spiced up kdetutorial sample). In fact I have no idea 
what I was actualy doing nor why it partially works; but if people are 
interrested I can post my alpha version on the list in a day or two.

regards, Philippe