[mythtv-users] Planned MythTV 0.22 user interface.

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Nov 17 17:17:29 UTC 2008


Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org
> <mailto:beww at beww.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Colin McGregor wrote:
>     > Story about the user interface planned for MythTV 0.22 can be seen
>     here:
>     >
>     > http://www.gunaxin.com/new-mythtv-interface-preview/2424
>     >
>     > Looks great, my only question being how CPU hungry will the new
>     interface be?
> 
>     Good question. I hope there will be options for people who prefer not to
>     spend money on eye candy.
> 
>     I'd rather burn my CPU cycles playing back H264 HD program material, not
>     making things look pretty, though I suspect I may be in the minority on
>     that.
> 
> 
> I didn't realize you looked the theme very much while watching TV. 
> Seems like alot to do about nothing, much like people who gripe that
> something on their PVR takes on a few extra megabytes on a system
> designed for gigabytes of storage...

It's not the disk storage, it's the CPU cycles, though most relatively
modern machines certainly have them to spare.

Themes have never been too important to me, but I realize they are to
others, especially if they have non-geeks in the household.

> 
>     I'd like to see HDPVR-1212 support before flashy graphics, but that's
>     just me.
> 
> 
> It's available in the developer versions, just needs additional fine tuning.

I know, I've been following it.

beww


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