On Monday 09 January 2006 00:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:04:16 -0500 > From: Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 23:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If MythTV had fewer usability issues, it would probably decrease mail > > volume on the -users list at least, and also lead to a lot less > > wasted time by newbies trying to set it up and/or use it, and less > > time by more-experienced users trying to help them. > > > > But improving MythTV usability is currently a giant Catch-22. Why? > > Because nobody's bothered to produce a _usable_ list of usability > issues. > > What, exactly, would such a list look like? > > (a) What form would it take? > (b) One big list, or lots of little lists?
Small bits, or one at a time. Making sure, of course, that the problem is myth, not, say, knoppmyth like the vast majority of your list was. > (c) In Trac? In mail? On a website? In beetles battling in bottles? Trac's for bugs and patches. mail or wiki would be preferable, I'd think. > (d) Based on what release? Latest-this-minute? Within the last > month? Stable? Reasonably recent SVN, or a stable release if one was released recently. I would expect anyone spending time on something like this to at least _check_ current SVN to see if the issues they're discussing still exist, as well. > (e) Would code be -required- when discussing usability? Would design > be sufficient? Would complaining "this confuses x users" be > sufficient? Would complaining "this confuses me, and I don't > know if it confuses others" be sufficient? No code required, but it sure helps. Suggested fixes at a bare minimum. GUI mockups would be good. A list of complaints by itself is useless. > (f) If someone -did- produce such a list, would any of it be -used-, > if the person who produced it wasn't also the person to implement > each and every piece of it? And if the person who produced it > -did- produce patches for each and every piece of it, would they be > accepted without lots of additional arguing and debate? Depends on the individual items, of course. Isaac
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