Comment 2 for bug 633159

Thanks for the personal reply Matt,

I've had a little look at XMBC, Boxee and MythTV - none of them immediately grabbed me. The interface I've liked the most so far has been Moovida 1.0, which like Entertainer was written in Python and OSS. However Fluendo have switched to a partly closed source plan for Moovida 2.0 and switched languages. There is a possible fork of the old code base, but it hasn't yet really taken off:
https://launchpad.net/~elisa-developers

So I thought I should checkout the competition. I'd taken a look at Entertainer a while back (maybe a year or so - the screenshots looked nice) and at the time you didn't have anything ready to install, so the 0.5 and 0.5.1 releases were a good sign I thought. Having installed it, tried it out, dug a little deeper, and filed a few bugs, I agree there is a lot of work to be done to make this really usable. What you have is promising though - maybe someone else will take it over? Given the circumstances, I won't be upset if my proposed little fixes don't get committed. It was still an educational exercise for me, fun in its way.

Regards,

Peter