[mythtv] New UI control

[Andrei Tanas]

> > Have developers considered implementing something like MacroMedia
> > Flash-based UI? If this could be done, all the UI 3d effects,
> transitions
> > and whatnot could be scripted in themes that a lot of designers are
> > proficient with, allowing a lot more flexibility. Is that possible at
> all?
> 
> Maybe it is but having flash demands something (usually a browser) to
> render it and it has limited interfacing capabilities with other
> languages and it's closed-source, therefore, evil :)

Flash can be integrated directly into application (the browser is also just
an application after all), and there are GPL implementations of it:

http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/