[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 14.04 and unwanted pop-ups

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:48 +0000, Leo Butler wrote: 
> 
> There is no need to wait for the mythbuntu team to implement your
> idea. Create your .deb package, sign it, put it up on a ppa and
> announce it to this list.

Which means doing whatever I have to get a PPA, and since I have no idea
what that is, it means figuring that out, etc.  And then people have to
discover my PPA instead of everyone who gets Mythbuntu just getting it.
It's just not the right solution, IMHO.

> Of course, if you just want to complain about other people not
> implementing your own brilliant idea, then...

I think I already mentioned that I owed them (at least) a contribution
if they were willing to accept it through into their distribution
packaging, so you can get off of your high horse.

> I don't understand some folks. If one decides to venture off the
> beaten path, best carry a machete to blaze one's own trail...

And what's your point?  I have my machete in my hand.

> and stop
> wasting energy criticizing others for not blazing the trail chosen.

Offering help and opinion is not criticizing.  If nobody offered
opinions and ideas then there would only be one way to do anything and
everything and that way would most likely not be the best way most of
the time.

> I run 12.04 ubuntu with the myth packages as a frontend (not
> mythbuntu) on an old thinkpad t43, and 99.9% of the time I don't need
> a windowmanager, but for that 0.1% of the time I am glad I do.

What is a specific example of that 0.1%?  I keep seeing the hand-waving
about needing a window manager but nobody ever produces a specific
use-case when they have needed it.

On the other hand I can produce a number of specific use-cases of never
needing it, which is the many/several frontends that I have been running
throughout both mine and family members homes for over 10 years now.
None of them have ever had window managers and none have ever had window
focus/selection/etc. problems.

Cheers,
b.

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