[mythtv-users] A different perspective on the "user experience issue"

[Ben Firshman]

On 26 Feb 2008, at 15:29, Doug Meredith wrote:

> We’ve seen dozens of messages fly by about how good the MythTV user  
> experience is in the last few days, expressing many different  
> opinions.  I think it is important to split MythTV into components  
> when considering this:
>
> 	• Setup and configuration
> 	• Recording scheduling.
> 	• Navigation and recorded TV playback.
> 	• Plugins
>
> This is obviously an arbitrary breakdown, but I think it is a  
> reasonable one.
>
> 1.  Setup and configuration isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible.  I  
> followed some guide (Jarod Wilson I think) and had no trouble with  
> the initial setup.  I think I would have had difficulty without a  
> guide to follow, and that’s clearly a shortcoming.  Another pet  
> peeve of mine about the setup is the mixing of backend and frontend  
> configuration.  I think these should be clearly separated.  But  
> realistically, I don’t do this often, and I can live with it.  Does  
> it hold back MythTV adoption?  Hard to say, but I doubt there are  
> many non-techies running MythTV.
>

The frontend setup pages are for the frontend, mythtv-setup is for the  
backend. I don't understand where the confusion is?

Ben