[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:
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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:02 PM Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com
> <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org
> <mailto:eric at lisaneric.org>> wrote:
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> 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?
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> I think that's an overly harsh characterization of the situation.
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> 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.
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> Eric
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> 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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