[mythtv-users] Why Free Software has poor usability ?

Marc Randolph mrand at pobox.com
Mon Aug 4 17:47:47 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:41 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I fully believe that MythTV suffers from none of the above problems.

I believe that MythTV suffers from a few minor usability issues.
Hmmm... well, thinking about it a bit more, I see a trend: everything
I can think of is plugins releated.  Are they considered part of Myth
proper?  And perhaps the reason(s) for the usability issues stems from
plugins understandably receiving less attention than other parts of
MythTV?

Anyway, the most common complaint is Mythmusic.  Configuring
Mythweather recently got added.  I'd personally add Mytharchive to the
list as well.

Again, I'm not saying that it is necessarily the fault of the
dedicated developers.  They do what they can with the time they have.
But maybe that hints at another common few software problem: having
too few developers (did the word "designers" mean developers in the
original list)?

Respectfully submitted,

   Marc


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