erland;224500 Wrote: > IMO the problem isn't the open source model, the problem is that there > needs to be a single person/group that decides how all users wants it > to work. > > As you have already said, the current SlimServer tries to make everyone > happy, the result is that it makes some advanced users happy by allowing > a lot of different configuration options. The side effect of this is of > course that the simple users get confused of all the options. > > I think there are two user categories in this regard: > > 1. > The users that want to be led in the right direction. ... It's a lot > simpler to make a user friendly software in an environment like this > where the software can decide how the user should use it. > > 2. > The users that know how they like to use the software and wants the > software to adapt to their specific needs. The software should be able > to handle any structure of their music libraries and combination of > file formats and tags. ... > >
iTunes is one music player program that has a decent user interface. Its design decisions are not inevitable in a program with a good user interface design. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38090 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
