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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 29. nov. 2011 02:38, skrev Thomas Mashos:
> While I agree that having all those features would be pretty neat, we 
> need to make sure we don't over-complicate things for the end-user. 

Great, then we agree. My point is based on the fact that we have to 
provide the desktop in any case. I mean, the system will be Ubuntu. That 
means having GNU/Linux at the bottom, with apt and all that. Then we'll 
have Wayland, most likely. We'll need to use Network Manager, because we 
obviously want Ubuntu TV to have networking capabilities, for a long 
list of reasons. Can't have a TV without audio, so we'll have PulseAudio 
as well. We'll want to have notifications. After all, the notification 
bubbles are very much inspired by those in use on TV. So not providing 
them for Ubuntu TV would be silly. We'll probably want some kind of 
indicators, for things like "Recording of the show x has finished" or 
somthing like that.

So, I've pretty much described Ubuntu Desktop without any apps. I don't 
see any reason why we shouldn't allow the user to install any software 
he wants to. It's Ubuntu, after all. I see very good reasons why someone 
would want to run the music player, for instance. If you agree with all 
this, then you have to agree that the normal desktop Unity should be 
provided. In addition to that, of course, we'll need something that is 
specific to TV which will be the default view when you log in. The 
question, then, is how to switch between the two views. As you say, this 
has to be dead easy.

I'm off for the night.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad