[mythtv-users] XBMC questions

[Bill Williamson]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:40 AM, david <david at functionalchaos.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> There's also the external MythBox script for XBMC
>> (http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/) but that's still not really a
> finished
>> product. As I said a few days ago I'm holding out for the work going on
> to
>> make XBMC a universal frontend:
>> http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28918&goto=newpost
>>
>> I too use XBMC for everything except recordings (and when I want to keep
> a
>> recording long term, I cut out the adverts and move the file to XBMC).
>> Again, like others I would prefer a solution with only one GUI but for
> me
>> the sticking point is music. So long as MythMusic retains it's current
>> interface, Myth will not be that GUI. It seems to me that MythMusic is
> "vi"
>> where I want 'gedit'.
>
> That's funny, I would always prefer vi to gedit.  Probably why I prefer
> mythtv over XBMC.  I understand peoples comments about UI differences, but
> I saw the improvements coming with myth 0.22 and beyond and was not
> concerned.  The functionality of myth for me is so much better.  It is
> great though, how we call can get things the way we want with open source
> software.


Not just UI, but usability.  Everything in mythtv is quite usable
except for mythmusic.  I haven't tried it in .22, but if's a reskin
and not a rethink then it will likely still be the case.