[mythtv-users] Gloss Mythtv frontend replacement

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Wed May 21 19:10:36 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>  On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Sarah Katherine Hayes <
> sarah at sarahhayes.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
>
>> Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> > The Mythfrontend gets put down fairly regularly, this might be a good
>> > replacement for those that aren't impressed.
>> >
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkE3Z5P-6Ak
>> >
>> > Looks Very Promising
>> >
>> Bloody hell that looks... wow.  I'll install it and see what happens on
>> the laptop.
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>
> Looks very similar to the xTV theme I've been using in XBMC for over a year
> now - Is Gloss that big of a deal?
>
> xTV in action (not mine) at
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gZg3bh8_3o&feature=related
>

I'm disappointed only in that the effort to code a UI in Clutter is being
done outside of the existing mythfrontend framework.  Rather, it would have
been helpful if the developer had instead worked on adding a Clutter
renderer (like we have QT and OpenGL) for the existing frontend.  Now, as
new features are adding, new protocol commands implemented, etc., this
frontend will lag behind the official one until it can be updated rather
than being pulled along with the existing codebase.  No disrespect to his
efforts but it sure would have been nice to see this as a branch to the
existing code to be merged back in rather than a separate project.

Kevin
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