Ben Ford wrote:
Is it possible to define an arbitrary menu of external applications
that can be executed from a menu with Freevo in it's current state?
Yes, you could use the command plugin.
Thanks, this is almost there. The problem with it is that I have no mouse when running client applications (starting with -fs or running under a window manager). It would also be nice if it was in icon view rather than list view so that you could drop images with the same basename as your scripts. That way the kid could pick out what she wanted to do.*
I am thinking something like an entry in the toplevel menu (the one that you see when Freevo first starts) that would take you to a menu where you could select applications to run. This way you could run an entire "media convergence center" with Freevo. You could run Opera or Mozilla to browse, AbiWord to type letters, Gnomemeeting for video phone on the TV and Tuxpaint for the kid. Or lots of other things.
If it isn't possible now, is that something that is planned in the
future? I don't know the first thing about Python or I'd start work
on it myself. I can't imagine that this would be too difficult.
You can use it, but does it makes sense? I can't read any of the programs on my tv.
Sure it makes sense. I have a tablet and my kid loves drawing on the TV with Tuxpaint. There are also several games that would run very well, like Tuxracer. As soon as I can get Gnomemeeting set up (I'll export the display and configure it on another machine) the TV will have a videophone on it. As far as the more text based applications, no, I can't read them either, but I am hopeful that with the HDTVs coming down in price that someday I'll be able to afford one ;)
-b
* She's 4, and yes she does work Freevo by herself. That is saying that you guys are doing a *great* job making it easy to use.
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