On Tuesday 17 Jan 2006 16:58, D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > The reason is because users have too damn many choices, and it's > impossible to write something that covers every eventuality while it > maintains a tight "code path" for the readers to follow through > working out the particulars of their specific situation.
Right. But don't forget it is also because some of the right choices are really hard to do, depending on your system. For example, running JACK without a suitable kernel or trying to use the ALSA sequencer system timer on a kernel with a 250Hz timer configuration. Kernel stuff, basically, where you can't just drop the user out to tweak some parameters and start again. I have briefly considered the idea of a startup wizard before (along with the new-document wizard for doing score-type documents) but I've never got as far as working out exactly what it could do that was genuinely helpful, beyond the couple of obvious warnings we can do already in individual message dialogs. I do agree that in principle it's an excellent idea, it's just a question of working out what the questions and answers are. To that end, we probably need to start trying to write down (purely in text I mean) what things we know of already that can be wrong, and what we can suggest is done about them. If it turns out that some of the suggestions might actually be helpful, then we have something to go on. I'll reply to a couple of the things Marcos mentioned in his email, as I think they're both obvious candidates for appearance in a dialog like this, and problematic things to actually do correctly. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
