[mythtv-users] family acceptance test.

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:19 PM Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:02 PM Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Phil Bridges <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
>> --
>>
>>
>>
> Don't forget option #3 - they just stop using it without posting about it.
> ;)
>
> In either case, I don't understand the "if you don't like it, fix it"
> response to people that are just trying to figure out how it works.
>
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Please show me where people are asking how it works. This particular thread
was started looking for an alternative to mythmusic
-- 
Thomas Mashos
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