Hey, so I was taking a look at one of the older themes in an attempt to modernize it for 0.25 and it got me thinking about different ways I could do some cool stuff with MythTV. Part of me thinks I need some help from the development team to really do what I want. But before I go bugging them, I figured I'd ask here first to make certain I'm not missing anything. <div>
<br></div><div>I thought it might be fun and cool to expose more core functionality as widgets. I personally don't like how I have to navigate around to so many different menus and screens to get some basic information on what's currently happening on my mythtv. I usually just bring up mythweb since it's easier/faster to flip around that information </div>
<div><ul><li><b>Upcoming Recordings Widget</b> - Imagine you go to the main menu of your theme, and it shows you what the next couple of recordings are, and if there's any conflicts, you would see that immediately and be able to highlight the problem and bring up the recording editor to fix it. </li>
<li><b>Latest Recordings Widget</b> - This is inspired by XMBC, where they have a way to show the latest 5 shows that have been loaded/grabbed by the system.</li><li><b>News/Weather Widget</b> - This is inspired by XMBC, where they have an rss scroller and a weather widget that always shows you basic information on the home screen</li>
<li><b>What's playing now? </b>Expanding the guide grid so you can show a preview of your favorite channels and what's playing right now. This preview would automatically shift as time went by so it would always show what's playing right now +Z hours. This guide grid could be used to either mark a show to be recorded, or triggering the live tv to open up and immediately change to that channel. Like the current guide grid, it would show what shows were being recorded, or any conflicts</li>
</ul><div>Thoughts? Comments?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Jay</div>