mherger, are you yelling at yourself? weird. in any case, my twenty two cents:
i am all for simplifying, but as a user who has championed the cause of the masses on these boards, i find the arguments in this thread not convincing... first of all, there is no problem whatsoever from a KISS pov, to add a button in the install wizard that says "optional advanced settings" or something like that. to me, its just nuts to say that somehow will melt a newbies mind. it won't. secondly, i think the setup wizard should explain that slim stuff doesn't use audio device drivers at all. a lot of new users imo are surprised at the TCP/IP paradigm, and it should be explained, or at least provide a wiki link of explanation. thirdly, i find that automatically triggered rescans are indeed confusing and disorienting to newbies, and even some more advanced users. i still don't know which ones will and won't do this. i find it very irritating. why not give users the global option to opt out of automatically triggered rescans? so u can have it by default but opt out if you want? you could add a status line to the settings page or player page saying "rescan required" if an option is changed that necessitates the rescan. certainly slim realizes tha if a user want to change 2 or more such auto triggers, its irritating to not be able to do them both before it starts. finally, i do think if advanced options were available during setup, it should be feasible to delay an inital clear and rescan, at least until you can set all options the way you want. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53406 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
