[mythtv] New UI control

[Andrei Tanas]

> Yes it can but where I work, they tried to create an interface for a
> device based on it and they had a lot of problems like the flash plugin
> consuming lots of CPU (something related to timers IIRC), difficult to
> receive feedback from the running processes, etc
> 
> >
> > http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
> >
> 
> The gnash plugin worked much better but lacked a few necessary things
> (I
> can't tell which ones exactly as I wasn't involved). In the end they
> choose to use clutter. http://www.clutter-project.org/

Sure it doesn't have to be Flash (although, there's probably a lot more
designers who know it than everything else combined), it can be Clutter or
MS Silverlight for all I know, I just think that it's not a very good idea
to implement "UI control" from scratch when these things already exist.