[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4353: Customize MythMusic Miniplayer settings

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Sun Dec 23 20:44:42 UTC 2007


Stuart Morgan wrote:
> In my experience, only the smallest minority of users actually a setup which 
> differs from the defaults and the number of possible configuration 
> combinations causes immense confusion for  the rest. Far better to balance 
> differing ideas on how things should work and to come up with clever ways to 
> satisfy everyone, than to just throw in another setting. It's harder work and 
> not nearly as simple to do in practise though.
>
>   
A couple of programs I use have 'expert mode' settings, so by default 
they only display the bare minimum of settings needed to do the most 
common things, with the hidden options using sane defaults. Once the 
'expert' switch is on, then all available options are presented. Making 
the expert mode hard to enable (via a manual db update perhaps) with 
appropriate warnings, the chance that the average joe reaching them 
becomes much slimmer.

I don't know if it's workable, just a thought, and probably one that's 
been discussed here already...

Tom



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