[mythtv-users] Merge of OSD and Main themes causes WAF to Plummet

[Greg]

On 03/01/2011 12:01 PM, Dan Armbrust wrote:
>> Yes the user should have to learn to edit a theme in order to make
>> that change.  This is a specific one of a kind modification that
>> anybody can do in the text editor of their choice.  "Learning" how to
>> do this is not a major inconvenience.
>>
>> I say if font sizes were adjustable via the mythfrontend GUI it would
>> take the user longer to perform the modification.  GUI's with five+
>> layer deep sub-menus, slider bars, check boxes, ratio buttons, etc.
>> take a lot longer to adjust than a simple XML formated text file.
>
> And this attitude, in a nutshell, is why myth will never be user
> friendly enough for anyone but a technical geek to use.
>
> In windows 7, you choose "Small, Medium or Large".  In myth, folks
> think that the "easy" way is to go manually edit XML.
>
> Sigh.
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I have avoided this thread,but you must realise Microsoft has thousands 
of people working on their media center...Mythtv has a very small amount 
of core developer's and maybe 30 or 40 ( that's a guess it maybe 
more)people who contribute patches.... If something is bothering you 
that much perhaps you should roll up you sleeves and get to work on 
it...This is open source after all....

It won't be user friendly to anyone other than geek's,not for the reason 
you stated,but because it's an ever evolving piece of software and it 
take's  a certain skill set to keep it running..