[mythtv-users] A different perspective on the "user experience issue"
Ben Firshman
ben at firshman.co.uk
Tue Feb 26 19:58:55 UTC 2008
On 26 Feb 2008, at 15:29, Doug Meredith wrote:
> We’ve seen dozens of messages fly by about how good the MythTV user
> experience is in the last few days, expressing many different
> opinions. I think it is important to split MythTV into components
> when considering this:
>
> • Setup and configuration
> • Recording scheduling.
> • Navigation and recorded TV playback.
> • Plugins
>
> This is obviously an arbitrary breakdown, but I think it is a
> reasonable one.
>
> 1. Setup and configuration isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible. I
> followed some guide (Jarod Wilson I think) and had no trouble with
> the initial setup. I think I would have had difficulty without a
> guide to follow, and that’s clearly a shortcoming. Another pet
> peeve of mine about the setup is the mixing of backend and frontend
> configuration. I think these should be clearly separated. But
> realistically, I don’t do this often, and I can live with it. Does
> it hold back MythTV adoption? Hard to say, but I doubt there are
> many non-techies running MythTV.
>
The frontend setup pages are for the frontend, mythtv-setup is for the
backend. I don't understand where the confusion is?
Ben
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