[mythtv-users] A different perspective on the "user experience issue"

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:58:55PM +0000, Ben Firshman wrote:
> The frontend setup pages are for the frontend, mythtv-setup is for the  
> backend. I don't understand where the confusion is?

The confusion comes from a place that's common to geeks:

End-users don't know, nor do they care, nor should they be required to
care -- by and large -- what part of a system which is segmented
largely for the convenience of the developers (and power users)
supplies a specific piece of functionality.

Indeed, even people who do care don't always know whether a specific
piece of functionality is supplied by front-end or back-end --
especially if they only have one machine -- and it's therefore not
obvious where to go looking for a certain setup item.

For more on this, you can ask my sister, who is not a geek, but is
pretty sharp, and has been (mostly) managing her own Mythbox since I
built it at 0.18, 3 years ago.

Cheers,
-- jra
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