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
