So, neither being someone who has remotely recently written any bit of software involving a desktop GUI and really not being much of a Python hacker, the obvious solution to being annoyed by having to reach for the remote for MythTV when hacking in front of the TV was to grab Quickly, Python, Gtk and go for it.

So, here it is:

• Project on launchpad: mythremote
• My PPA (if you just want to apt-get install – for when the builders get around to building it :)
• bzr branch lp:mythremote

Maybe useful to (edit: the word “you” should go here, which I amazingly forgot to write before hitting publish).