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Developers / Really bad programmer volunteering

« on: September 21, 2008, 01:05:52 pm »

Firstly, excellent work to everyone involved in the project, I really mean that.

After playing around with linuxmce for a while, I think I am going to volunteer to do some work on the UI.

My time is pretty limited for the "indefinite" future, perhaps a cpl of hours a week, but should be enough to get some progress done.
I'm not going to offer up any suggestions until I've had a chance to review the code a bit more thoroughly, but am hoping to be able to develop some sort of framework that allows others to put together there own skins.
If any developers have any suggestions, or has any prior work done please let me know.
As for user suggestions, I'll crawl through the Feature Requests forum when I get a chance.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: GUI Improvements

« on: September 21, 2008, 12:44:38 pm »

This is my first post on the forums.
I've been following the development of MythTV for years, and linuxmce since the beginning.

I mostly agree with los93sol, but don't share his attitude.
I believe that the UI does _really_ need improvement, (a bit of an understatement)
However, I am not going to complain about it, or DEMAND it be fixed RIGHT NOW.

WYSIWYG - This is open source software, and until someone finds the time to do something about it, nothing is going to happen. It sounds like the core developers have a fair few things higher on their TODO list atm.

If the UI bothers you that much, start a bounty for a new one, just don't be surprised by the amount you will need to raise to get a developer interested.

If you believe that the underlying API is fundamentally broken, either write a new one, or pay someone to do it for you.
When I get time, I may look at this (highly unlikely it will be anytime soon)

For the moment I will start a new thread with a bit of a more positive note, could someone pm me with the contact info for the XBMC developer so I can chase him down.