It's kind of interesting to me actually. If you put this discussion into the socio-political genre. Lance, you are a Democrat and Druzyne you are a Republican.
Seriously though, you guys both raise great points. Seeing that Kevin does not like preferences very much in his programs. I am guessing that you won't see that wish anytime soon. How about something maybe not so obtuse and intrusive. Perhaps a flag that shows up at the bottom or it changes color or something. Great discussion. This is what the forums are all about. : ] Dave On Apr 17, 4:30 pm, Lance <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 17, 12:31 pm, Druzyne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not too lazy to uncheck a box, I just think new users should have > > the freedom to think buckets represent something besides exact account > > balances, and first impressions are important. I think most trial > > users of MoneyWell seem to intuitively know that this is something > > that can work for them, and are willing to give it time to figure it > > out. It does require some time and effort, but everyone seems to > > eventually make sense of the bucket system, and love how it works to > > their advantage! > > I will agree that having flexibility is a good thing and the more > strictly MoneyWell imposes any particular usage model, the more likely > it is to frustrate some people. > > However, I think one of the weaknesses of MoneyWell is giving new > users too many choices. There are several key decisions you need to > make when using MoneyWell and these are not clearly enumerated and > most users don't realize the pitfalls in some of the choices they end > up making. > > Perhaps the solution is simply to have a "Getting Started" guide that > walks you through this process or some kind of wizard-type interface > when you open MoneyWell for the first time. Sure, most people can > eventually figure things out by trial & error or reading through these > posts, but that's an incredibly inefficient way to learn how to use a > program. How many users have simply given up without ever posting to > this email list? > > And in the end, whether or not MoneyWell enforces any kind of checking > by default is totally up to Kevin based on his view of what most users > want. For me, I'd just like to see the checking capability built in > somewhere, and I honestly don't care if it's on by default or not. I'm > fine checking a box in Preferences or hell, even using Terminal to > hack some file to enable it. While I still have not heard a compelling > reason why someone would really need to disable this checking, I have > no problem if that's what some people want to do because they find the > checking annoying. > > -Lance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
