Games are often fun and addictive.
Launchpad translation gui captures some elements of a game and makes it fun to
take part. The colours are well chosen and their position within the progress
bars intuitively suggests that green is completed and red is unstarted while
blue and purple are 'works in progress', not quite completed but well on the
way.
In a game people would get a surprising amount of satisfaction from watching
the green areas grow and the red shrink. The statistics of the three columns
of figures showing 'Untranslated, Needs Review & Changed' also help promote
competition, co-operation and personal satisfaction - encouraging more effort
from more people.
However, the graphics and statistics don't get updated automatically so it
seems a bit of a waste of time bothering with the nice graphic and stats which
are clearly inaccurate - requiring more unrewarded human effort which only gets
grumbles. Its a shame that something so pretty and so close to being a
motivating force is used only to create extra (pointless) work. Clearly there
is a lot of hard work going into all of this. Lets show that.
Happy christmas everyone and have fun :)
Regards from
Tom
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