tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post3442674110488961404..comments2023-10-10T16:58:53.404+01:00Comments on the dude abides: I'm not even supposed to be here todayNeil J. Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06101886145554030110noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-55042959788335965062007-12-14T21:21:00.000+00:002007-12-14T21:21:00.000+00:00when some code will be available?ps: elisa has hug...when some code will be available?<BR/><BR/>ps: elisa has huge performance issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-68034817816618084072007-11-16T11:14:00.000+00:002007-11-16T11:14:00.000+00:00Hi, looking awsome! Just want to give you a tip. T...Hi, looking awsome! Just want to give you a tip. There's an other media center project based on clutter that you maybe want to look into (http://www.taimila.com/). Maybe a merge of the projects could speed up the development? <BR/><BR/>Best RegardsErik Piehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03381592671165918297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-27552104452275942512007-08-02T11:21:00.000+01:002007-08-02T11:21:00.000+01:00WooW =)WooW =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-32318832630908065642007-06-25T22:25:00.000+01:002007-06-25T22:25:00.000+01:00Yes it is under development, I'm just a bit behind...Yes it is under development, I'm just a bit behind on things at the moment :-).Neil J. Patelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101886145554030110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-90833757881026555732007-06-24T19:43:00.000+01:002007-06-24T19:43:00.000+01:00hey, i was wondering is this still under active de...hey, i was wondering is this still under active development? It looks great BTWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-49840207985624804802007-05-06T21:32:00.000+01:002007-05-06T21:32:00.000+01:00Just stumbled across your page. Looks like this is...Just stumbled across your page. Looks like this is going to be an awesome project. Can't wait to take a look.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-41854370491078260512007-03-08T16:33:00.000+00:002007-03-08T16:33:00.000+00:00Hey, that would be *great*! I have 80+ Gb of music...Hey, that would be *great*! I have 80+ Gb of music on my hdd, it's a PAIN wait for the MS Media Center to show me all of the artists... :/ a bit better with stuff like the db relying below MythTV, but it's not so simply to configure. Having something tag-based would simply be great! :D<BR/>You ROCK, man!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248115108422414993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-89099130581404317452007-03-07T10:52:00.000+00:002007-03-07T10:52:00.000+00:00@Markus : I think François says it perfectly :).@M...@Markus : I think François says it perfectly :).<BR/><BR/>@Mickael : What gave it away ;). I will of course keep stubs for Beagle, and maybe try and implement it myself if I have time.<BR/><BR/>@Phillipe : Sounds good, I don't know where your channel is, however, but I'll try and find out (I'm guessing it's on the website).<BR/><BR/>@scooper86: Thanks, I hope to release some code very soon.<BR/><BR/>@Mike Jones: Sounds like a plan, my own little army ;). Thanks for adding it to the forum!<BR/><BR/>@gavin: Thanks! I know what you mean about configuration. I was actually thinking of a back-end wriiten in python, which would do the fecthing of metadata etc (liek getting covers for your films), and making sure Arena uses cover art everywhere.More on that later!<BR/><BR/>@Michael Croes: Lol,. you would choose the hardest thing to develop ;)<BR/><BR/>Thanks again to everyone for the support :).Neil J. Patelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101886145554030110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-12206556859286133302007-03-06T21:27:00.000+00:002007-03-06T21:27:00.000+00:00Awesome!This means I can finally get a linux compu...Awesome!<BR/>This means I can finally get a linux computer for my TV.<BR/><BR/>You said it will probably use internet tv... will you support joost? www.joost.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-74748246607955329832007-03-06T13:32:00.000+00:002007-03-06T13:32:00.000+00:00You rock dude! Love the looks, love the features, ...You rock dude! Love the looks, love the features, love to get started on tv playback/recording support already! See you in #awn ;)Michael Croeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01262545625826742218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-683734806208431682007-03-06T04:40:00.000+00:002007-03-06T04:40:00.000+00:00looks stunning!! can't wait to try it outlooks stunning!! can't wait to try it outaidanrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477558234706774611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-39814516879523145062007-03-06T02:58:00.000+00:002007-03-06T02:58:00.000+00:00Keep up the good work! AWN is really super! It's n...Keep up the good work! AWN is really super! It's not perfect, yet, of course...I would like to see better support for tray items in AWN, and cooler Beryl options (such as window previews)... but it looks really amazing. That's what I like about your projects: they all look really great. I've found that it's a little harder to find good-looking/user-friendly apps for linux, but I've found that what you've done is completely against that. Coming from using Mac computers for a long time, to using linux, I find it occasionally annoying to use apps because they aren't that intuitive sometimes.<BR/><BR/>I hope that Affinity and Arena will really spruce up the look and feel of the linux desktop and get more people to realize that linux is maturing look-and-feel-wise.<BR/><BR/>I have experimented with Elisa in the last few days (at the suggestion of a commenter here) and I like the idea... However, it seems to be very clunky somehow and crashes frequently (esp. on GNOME with Beryl). The startup is also very messy (a window pops up, disappears, the screen goes black, then opens up, etc). <BR/><BR/>Also--and this is very important--you need to edit a configuration file to set it up. Please, when you release Arena, let us configure it through a menu, and make it nice and simple, while still having many great features.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.... keep on coding!Gavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282127628146603264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-67106101922787781302007-03-05T23:57:00.000+00:002007-03-05T23:57:00.000+00:00coool! You have soo many great ideas, maybe you sh...coool! You have soo many great ideas, maybe you shoudl make a team of peopel to help develop it?<BR/><BR/>also maybe add into this youtube access?<BR/><BR/>ps. will add a section for this in the forumMike Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14040919556782690459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-59478158202756836972007-03-05T21:56:00.000+00:002007-03-05T21:56:00.000+00:00i just thought id post to say how amazing those co...i just thought id post to say how amazing those concept shots of arena are if this were to support tv cards i would totally use it over mythtv even though it is an excellent piece of software it doesnt look nearly as good as your pictures.scooper86https://www.blogger.com/profile/17625204064614076784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-38672217379267025882007-03-05T18:17:00.000+00:002007-03-05T18:17:00.000+00:00@PhilippePlease implement a new user interface, fi...@Philippe<BR/><BR/>Please implement a new user interface, first. The zooming and scrolling looks really good but the horizontal layout is a pain and seeing only the currently selected filename isn't making it better.<BR/><BR/>Like I said, I use elisa every day because it looks better than oxine, my previous media player of choice. And using OpenGL is a cool workaround for a bug in the ATI XVideo implementation that makes it unuseable to me for over a year, now.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06692270377007023964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-36953635663878754492007-03-05T13:37:00.000+00:002007-03-05T13:37:00.000+00:00Yes the Elisa 0.1 branch is quite ugly, but at lea...Yes the Elisa 0.1 branch is quite ugly, but at least it allowed us to see how we can improve it :)<BR/><BR/>There's currently a rewrite going on, we are designing a nice architecture which will allow any use-case we have in mind<BR/><BR/>Neal, you have some really interesting ideas, we recently considered implementing a Tracker plugin for Elisa. I'm sure our designer would be happy to talk with you on IRC and see how we could maybe work togetherUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05550305352916297876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-66525461719754249882007-03-05T12:46:00.000+00:002007-03-05T12:46:00.000+00:00Can't wait to have a look at your code. Please pub...Can't wait to have a look at your code. Please publish it somewhere!<BR/><BR/>The Elisa crew writes quite ugly code by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-11515495303119269552007-03-05T10:24:00.000+00:002007-03-05T10:24:00.000+00:00Please let me know if it ever gets usable!I would ...Please let me know if it ever gets usable!<BR/><BR/>I would love this kind of app.I en annan del av verklighetenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07306328573276324334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-6326968500532654902007-03-05T10:14:00.000+00:002007-03-05T10:14:00.000+00:00It seems that you are a tracker fan. So you will j...It seems that you are a tracker fan. So you will just use tracker for affinity and your media center ? Or you will be desktop-search agnostic ? Personnaly i use beagle and I suppose i'm not the only one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-71720248154246020632007-03-05T09:54:00.000+00:002007-03-05T09:54:00.000+00:00Sorry about my english...<I>Sorry about my english...</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-83092456296136510772007-03-05T09:50:00.000+00:002007-03-05T09:50:00.000+00:00Marcus, I know the idea of "merging" the projects ...Marcus, I know the idea of "merging" the projects would sound more logical, But I don't think it would be that easy... The approach is not exactly the same, there is already someone working on the look 'n feel of Elisa, the languages used are different... I had the same idea a few years ago when developping my website. There were other projects doing more or less the same thing. But every webmaster wants to have its "baby", with his own ideas, and usually merging means plenty of compromises and the end of those visions the authors have. So even if it looks like a waste of time and skills, that's still understandable.<BR/><BR/>About Elise, there is no TV support yet. They plan to add it, but not in a near future. I like Elisa, but I have a problem with how it looks currently. Plus the directory based browsing... MythTV has other advantages and disadvantages. That's too simple to think "let's merge them all into the killer Media Center". That's just my opinion, but I think there are plenty of technical and human reasons to explain why they should not merge. <BR/><BR/>And choice is important, even if currently none of those are as polished as FrontRow and Windows Media Center. Let's just hope plenty of developpers will help those projects and give us the pleasure to choose :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-47900608292134768722007-03-05T08:58:00.000+00:002007-03-05T08:58:00.000+00:00Why don't you just participate in the elisa projec...Why don't you just participate in the elisa project? I know it's python but it already has a lot of useable code. Basicly, choice is good but there are so many media-center-lookalikes out there and most of them are in a very early stage of development. Rather than adding another half-ready project, why not help to make one of them a killer application?<BR/><BR/>You could write a new skin with your prefered look (By the way: I love it!). From what I've seen, you can not only change the look but also the feel of the user interface completely.<BR/><BR/>Adding a Tracker-Plugin should also be possible.<BR/><BR/>I am in no way associated with elisa, I just use it every day.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06692270377007023964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-48722257707004908292007-03-05T08:06:00.000+00:002007-03-05T08:06:00.000+00:00@piotr: I understand what you mean :). However, th...@piotr: I understand what you mean :). However, things haven't worked out as I'd like over the last week, and thats just slwoed down my progress. Affinity is nearly ready for public consumption, and Awn is fast reaching a releasable status, I've stopped adding features (just one more), and I have started cleaning up and prefs, and freezing strings. The thing about the mockups is that I will always post new ideas, even if I don't code them myself, in the hope that someone wants to take them up and make a killer app out of them. This has already happened, and I hope to link to a few when the authors allow me to :).<BR/><BR/>@john : One of my favourite movies :). I agree that GNOME needs a media center app. I have been making mockups about this for agaes, however, after spending more time in #tracker, I've figured out that it is possible _now_ rather than later, so I am on it! I hope to take up coding again on the weekend.<BR/><BR/>@adamw : I'm coding as fast as is physically possible :).<BR/><BR/>@anon : nope, no time, but its always on my laptop with my Kevin Smith collection!<BR/><BR/>@thantos: I'd love to hear them! You can email me at : njpatel_AT_gmail_DOT_com. Regarding navigation, I was thinking just 5 basic keys: Esc (up the menu), Enter (select), up, down, left and right. <BR/><BR/>@anon: I hadn't until you pointed it out, it looks _really_ cool. I'll read up on it more when I get a chance.<BR/><BR/>@anon: Apart form being Tracker-based, nd not file-based, ATM I know you cannot see many differences, but I can assure you that there are :). I will try and do a write up later this week.<BR/><BR/>@anon: Thanks! I hope to make the distictionn clear soon, Elisa is a much more complicated project (according to me), as it has TV viewing/recording as well (unless I am mistaken). The guys are doing a fantastic job!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745164979821641804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-73179094777798145922007-03-05T06:54:00.000+00:002007-03-05T06:54:00.000+00:00it REALLY looks nice, and Linux desperately needs ...it REALLY looks nice, and Linux desperately needs a good media center. There are good media center, but they need to look better. It's easy to see that you like FrontRow, and honestly, who would not? It just looks so nice. So don't copy it too much, but if you can keep this kind of clean design, it's perfect!<BR/><BR/>Then I don't know if it's the best approach to start another project, but the "metadata based" idea is just great also. No need for painful import, no endless browsing in directories... I'm currently following the Elisa project, now there is another one :) I hope you will be able to find some help on your projects and that they will develop into "big names" for the linux world. <BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777643573072664808.post-57417643158582147292007-03-05T06:38:00.000+00:002007-03-05T06:38:00.000+00:00how is this arena project different from the elisa...how is this arena project different from the elisa project (http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/)? <BR/>I'm just curious...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com