> I disagree. I see it as very much a UI problem. I realize many of the > preferences interface issues are being addressed for SlimServer 7, so > it's obvious that SD is aware of many of them.
Hmm... I haven't seen big improvements in the settings' UI. But there are plans. > Number one, the nearly complete lack of help. Poor or lacking > descriptions for nearly all settings. I'd rather say some of the settings are too technical, thus even the description available won't help everybody understand it. > Maybe this is driven by the > insistence on translations for nearly every word in the web UI. Surely You'll understand that I have to answer back here :-). > someone is going to be reluctant to add or change a description for a > simple option when it needs to be retranslated into Hebrew and a dozen > other languages. As a long time maintainer of the German translation I can assure you that strings were changed as freely as needed. Policy is to remove the translation if there is a change. In the SD times all translation was done by volunteers - a change didn't cost the developer anything. Some of the translations therefore are incomplete. Logitech decided to have the main languages translated by professionals. That's been done only a few weeks ago (for the 6.5.2 release). Thus the claim about folks being reluctant to change descriptions is rather farfetched. I'd rather blame it to the lack of volunteers willing to improve them. And technicians usually aren't known for liking to document :-). > Hide some of the 'advanced' options where they won't confuse people, > but where they can be gotten to. That was the idea of the "Basic settings" page. But I do agree that we'd have to re-define what the basic settings are, probably re-grouping them. > Increase the sophistication and > usability of the web options forms. For example, selecting one setting > might enable another selection, changing another setting hides yet > another or even a group of settings. Group things a little more > logically. Agreed. I've been playing with that way of uncluttering the UI. But there aren't any results yet. > Oh, and choose some better default settings (Players set to REPEAT by > default. Huh?). You can't please everyone. Many would ask for it if it was removed. -- Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
