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

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> _______________________________________________

The Mythbuntu team is happy to accept contributions, provided you want
to maintain it. We're not too keen on code dumped on us for us to
maintain (there is only 2-3 of us). If someone wants to create this
feature, maintain it, and it works*, I see no reason why we wouldn't
allow it as an installation type. superm1 would have the final say on
that though.

* Works as in, it does what it was designed to do without stomping on
other packages when installed. We'd probably put an *Advanced* warning
on it since networking and such would need to be configured manually.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos