[mythtv-users] family acceptance test.

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Thu Aug 13 04:07:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 8:56 PM John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/12/2015 01:08 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:02 PM Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com
> > <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org
> >     <mailto:eric at lisaneric.org>> wrote:
> >
> >         On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Phil Bridges
> >         <gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >         > Was there ever any discussion about the rationalization for
> why the
> >         > interface would change from something usable to something that
> isn't?
> >
> >         I think that's an overly harsh characterization of the situation.
> >
> >         I use it and find it perfectly usable.  Is it exactly laid out
> how I
> >         would have done it?  No.  Could it be improved?  Sure.  But I
> don't
> >         think it deserves this level of hate.
> >
> >         Eric
> >
> >
> >     Hate?  No.  Confusion?  Yes.  Intuitive (especially compared to the
> >     previous version)?  No.  I think the empirical evidence of the sheer
> >     number of "how does this work?" question shows that.
> >
> >
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> >
> > I'd argue vocal minority. People that like it don't bother to pipe up on
> > the mailing list about it. People that don't like it are more likely to
> > post about it. I had similiar threads when I changed the Mythbuntu
> > theme's recordings and videos screens. So much that I decided to release
> > the old version as a "classic" version of the theme (as it was easy
> > enough to do). Less than 1% of all mythtv users use that classic theme
> > (0.8%, 60 users), and the Mythbuntu theme (the one with the changes that
> > were "universally hated") is used by 50X more users
> > --
> > Thomas Mashos
> >
>
> How do you collect these stats on how many use which theme?
>
> John
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I use the smolt page at http://smolt.mythtv.org/static/stats/stats.html
-- 
Thomas Mashos
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