A lot of work is going on for the Ubuntu TV project. This weekly update aims to be a place to receive information on what has changed in the different areas of the project. It also hopes to engage the community and show in what areas anyone can get involved. Check back each week for an update on the project’s status.
New
- Nux – a widget/graphics library created by Canonical
- Unity 3D transition status
- Since Unity 2D was depreciated for Ubuntu 12.10, much work is being done to port Ubuntu TV to Unity 3D
- Standalone mode is working which is necessary for the TV form factor. Force into standalone mode by specifying –force-tv on the command line when starting Unity
- For TV’s Unity, launchers no longer track the status of applications, nor will the associated lenses be loaded
- Continued progress removing Qt and replacing with Nux
- Lenses/scopes
- Undecided, but probably: Video, Music, DVR, Pictures
- Accepting recommendations on scopes
- Metadata
- Will use Grilo framework to get metadata into Ubuntu TV as well as provide a consistent API to query and retrieve metadata
- Transitioning away from .nfo files (and the XBMC dependency) to keeping metadata in an indexed database
Changed since last week
- None – as this is the first weekly update
Help wanted
- Accepting any Grilo plugins to retrieve online metadata (see Writing plugins for Grilo)
- Advanced: accepting a C++ binding for Grilo
Get involved
- On irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-tv
- Our mailing list at ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net
I don’t see these changes merged into Unity or NUX? are they private as of yet? A few WIP screenshots would make it attractive
It is based off of a private branch. It should be landing in the Unity trunk some time in the near future (I don’t know these details quite yet).
Perhaps this has been answered in another area, but what is this “Nux” thing? A widget library like GTK and QT?
If it is, why is Canonical reinventing the wheel instead of using and improving the widget libraries already in existence?
Also, why spend all that work on writing Unity 2D, which many people including me liked as it was much easier on low power systems. But only to later completely throw all that away?
The rewrite for Unity 3D from Unity 2D is because the Unity team has dropped Unity 2D support (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/05/uds-q-summary-bye-bye-unity-2d-hello-gnome-shell-spin). This caught the Ubuntu TV team by surprise and thus required the rewrite.
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Ubuntu TV will be integrated into a traditional Ubuntu installation? Just like Windows Media Center? If yes, it will be capable to connect with a DVB-T device and look for TV programs? Hope i gave you a good idea.
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Quite a work to do, huh?!? I’m guessing that it took the production a lot of intellectual and industrial grease to produce an improved and more useful Ubuntu software. I think this is a great breakthrough to Ubuntu’s latest update, I’m really looking forward to it.