[mythtv-users] family acceptance test.

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Thu Aug 13 03:56:19 UTC 2015



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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