> mherger, are you yelling at yourself?
Yes.
> weird.
I'm training my ability to take and give criticism :-)
> 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.
You need to take a look at the big picture: If you go out and buy a Duet,
you'll have to go through 20 or 30 steps taking actions, decisions etc. to
get it up and running. Even if my numbers are wrong, there are way too
many steps. We have to cut them down. Some are hard to leave out (eg. WLAN
configuration), others are simple. Guess which ones we'll try to get rid
of first. The user wants to listen to music, not answer a 30 point
questionnaire, not even whether he wants advanced or simplified
configuration ("oh, I don't want to miss anything - let's go XXL with the
advanced options"). Sometimes less is more.
> secondly, i think the setup wizard should explain that slim stuff
> doesn't use audio device drivers at all.
Support never mentioned this being an issue.
> 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.
Not sure. Networking is involved, "Network music player" is written on the
box. But the user should not have to deal about a "TCP/IP paradigm"
(what's that anyway? I don't know neither). He should plug the device in,
set the WLAN password and be done.
> 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
I was wondering whether we should change default behaviour to cancel a
running scan if a new action is triggering a scan. This at least would
remove the need to cancel it manually.
> 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.
Sounds reasonable. Please file an enhancement request.
Michael
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