Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Sep 2009 22:31 UTC
While we at OSNews often talk about desktops, laptops, and netbooks, there is another "form factor" which is making inroads into various households: the home theatre PC, or HTPC. There are a lot of software packages out there that will aid in turning a computer into an HTPC, and since I've been testing three of them extensively over the past months, I figured we'd talk about what you use.
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RE: tips for lightweight htpc frontend?
by AdamW on Sat 12th Sep 2009 23:56
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Since this is the topic, I am requesting tips on a lightweight htpc-frontend for Linux...
sure nautilus works fine, but i little more nice gui wouldnt hurt 
otherwise that seems to be the kind of app for me...
I dont need the "bload" functions like TV-recording etc. that is freevo, XBMC etc...
What I need is a nice front-end to select files from, to play with a customized script that launces mplayer or vlc based on filetype... nothing more
I have tried eliza from debian repos, but no luck.. no fonts no nothing
any ideas?