[mythtv-users] FW: Help understand the interface of Myth Media & Video Gallery

[Rob Smith]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Anthony Rooney <rooneyo at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> What an enormous oversight!  Who proof reads the doco?  Is it tested on COLD
> users?  If not why not?  It is a basic requirement of good design  to be
> able to be used intuitively - BY COLD USERS.  Are they concerned with good
> design?

You forget. This project is done by volunteers and the only stuff that
gets worked on is the stuff people volunteer to do. There is no
company backing the project nor any money at all. We are concerned
with good design but, as you pointed out, users and developers see
things differently and given this is just a hobby for everyone
involved, things sometimes slip though the cracks.

You are the cold user it's being tested on. Welcome to the testing.

And welcome to a free, open source program. We give you the thousands
and thousands of hours of our work for free and you have to understand
that while we try our hardest to make the best product we can, at
times it's not perfect. Remember, you get what you pay for and in this
case, you're getting it for free.

Mythtv-setup should have actually informed you that the path was
unreadable when you tried to exit the setup, are you sure it didn't?
By chance did you just skip that dialog without reading it?

~Rob