Well, I am a parent and I am a developer, well 2 out of 3 ain't bad.<br><br>Seriously though, it would be nice to start gathering some "kid friendly" requirements, I would love to see where it goes. <br><br>
I have used myth quite a bit, but I am not too up to date with their development process, is there a mechanism they have put in place for gathering ideas/requirments like this?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Mark J. Small wrote:<br><br>> On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:05, Jake Thompson wrote:<br>>> I have to second this. My children 5 and 3, have no concept of<br>>> commercials<br>
>> at all. We have had Tivo and ny MythTV since they were born.<br>>> They seldom<br>>> (once a month or less) watch commercials and get very frustrated<br>>> when they<br>>> are on. Add this to satelite radio in the car and they have zero
<br>>> concept<br>>> of commecials. While this may be a negative for the advertizing<br>>> companies,<br>>> it is a positive as a parent. My children only see what I feel is<br>>> appropriate and they do not see "super destructo man" in
<br>>> commercials. I<br>>> was raised on violent TV and targeted advertizing, I am not saying<br>>> it is<br>>> bad and it has not turned me into a bad person, but I do feel that<br>>> giving
<br>>> kids a chance to not grow up with this crap is a good thing.<br>>><br>>> Maybe in the future my contribution to MythTV will to expand on<br>>> the kid<br>>> friendlyness, perhaps a new theam, and maybe something along the
<br>>> lines of<br>>> what has been done with Tivo and KidsZone.<br>>><br>>> -Jake<br><br>I would love a new kid-friendly theme. My 9 year old can navigate the<br>system, but she would much rather just be presented with programs
<br>that she wants to watch in her recording group (her most common task)<br>with the option of viewing her videos in MythVideo and her music<br>playlists. She has no interest in archiving to DVD, scheduling<br>programs, getting System Info, etc.
<br><br>MythTV would do well with user logins. Since it already stores<br>multiple front-end preferences, it isn't a far stretch to store<br>multiple user preferences per front-end. MythWelcome could<br>authenticate you and launch the theme associated with the user
<br>complete with limited menus and all.<br><br>Unfortunately, I don't know many developers with young children AND<br>that much time for such an implementation. :)<br><br>-Brad<br>_______________________________________________
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