Re: [Weekly report] Week 2: DVB Daemon

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 19:24 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
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> Sebastian Reichel schrieb:
> > It would be cool to have an OSD in Totem giving information about
> > the current program. I guess best would be 4 modes:
> > 
> > 1. a small box at the bottom showing the title, program start/end
> >    and a percentage bar.
> > 2. a box overlaying the whole video giving adding the description
> >    of the program.
> > 3. another box overlaying the whole video with a list of broadcasts
> >    starting with the current one.
> > 4. something to switch channels :)
> > 
> > IMHO this would improve the fullscreen mode of Totem.
> > 
> I talked to Bastien about the way to present this information to the
> user. We agreed that using the kind of overlays you described would be
> great for a settop box, but Totem is desktop application. So we decided
> adding a menu and dialogs.

I'm not against adding OSD to Totem, but rather adding OSD to show EPG
information.