[mythtv-users] RANT: MythTV has a *horrible* end user experience.

[David Brodbeck]

On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:16 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>> I know the next response will be "write a patch" but UI programming  
>> in
>> X windows is a bit of a black art, and one that I don't really know.
>
> So write up a bug report and let it sit there until someone else has
> time to fix it.

It's not really a "bug," though.  Presumably it works exactly how the  
developer who wrote it wanted it to work.  I disagree with their user  
interface philosophy but that's just my opinion.

> Not to sound like a jerk, but no one is born knowing how to do UI
> programming in X Windows. It's really not as scary as you might think.

A while back I looked at the example code (complete with Monty Python- 
related comments) in the Unix Hater's Handbook and decided I wasn't  
going down that road. ;)  I've also never been much good with C++.  My  
college class in it spent as much time talking about how to work  
around g++ 2.x compiler bugs as it did talking about actual code and  
I've avoided it ever since.