On Jan 8, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:
On 1/9/06, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Craig Tinson wrote:
well.. personally I think this is a good report.
You honestly think that a report on an old version of the software
posted to the developers list by someone who didn't read the existing
documentation is a "good report"?
You mean the current stable release. If you don't want people
reporting their impressions of the current release of the software,
just where are you going to get feedback from?
I've read through all the replies and to be frank I think they are
completely out of order.
Really? Maybe I should start posting usability reviews of rocket
design
software. After all I have no clue how it works and I'm sure they
should jump to implement my suggestions.
You are not the target user of whatever rocket design software you are
talking about. Jono, OTOH does seem to be the target user for MythTV,
i.e. anyone who can get it installed. Or am I mistaken - is MythTV
only intended for use by developers?
There's a huge difference between usability testing and Joe random
spouting off about crap he doesn't understand. Hell even Tivo comes
with a manual. If he had said something to the effect of "the
documentation" doesn't make this clear it might have carried more
weight but he didn't even read the documentation.
I don't buy it. A documented poor interface is still a poor interface.
And Tivo may come with a manual but it's still designed to be used by
someone who hasn't read that manual.
Steve
Again, I need to point out that my 8 year old daughter can work
nearly all of my mythTV system and never read a word of any manual.
My 14 year old can do it all and never read the manual. They're below
the grade-level of the average Mythtv user.
Also, it's pointless to complain about things that have been fixed in
SVN. Developers knew it was an issue and fixed it. What more can you
expect them to do??
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