Hello, I'm Freevo newbie but would liek to add 2cents...
I see that there are two different fucntionalities currently done in Freevo: one being TV GUI and other fetching data to display on TV. What do you think about solution that we separate those two functionalities further away and put some sort of buffer between them (like mySQL or any other lighter database). In this way we get some sort of backend (fetching all those data) and GUIs (in this case we can have more than 1) that are only in GUI function... In this way we could better take advantage also of some other work already done in the field of data fetching (like XMLTV, or Misterhouse, or similar). It would be certainly easier to connect them to database rather than to Freevo. At some point doing Freevo in backend/frontend would be necessary cause tommorow users will have more and more TVs, video outputs and PCs. So taking this step earlier could be advantage in future... I don't know much internals about Freevo but according to mailing list it seems like Freevo is getting quite complicated system (that's probably opposite of its mission) because more and more options are added that are probably more on data fetching than GUI part of it... Also looking at pyui is probably right thing. Sooner or later Freevo will contain lot of code in similar manner os more general GUIs. So adopting this kind of cooperation Freevo will IMHO get some more time to concentrate on more interesting things that are not part of pyui... Somewhere in the way is probably also need for mouse support. If Freevo will be adopted by users on TV, then they will probably want to use it also in normal PC... If we cooperate with more general GUI now, that (and any other problem) would not be a potential problem anymore. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Robert. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
