2011/8/8 Cedric Roux <sed@xxxxxxx>: > ----- Original Message ----- >> You can do 2/ but still support a new user getting there, >> without too much hassle. > > are you sure? No, I'm just pretending my arbitrary, random believe would be valid truth - imitating Religion ;) > did you write some program? I've been writing (web-)scripts, forms, libraries, tools, but possibly nothing one would call an application - nothing with much user-interaction that would require a lot of GUI, so far. Thinking about my above statement again, maybe I have to qualify: Often implementing the main functionality seemed to happen faster than the work on details and final adjustments. Anyway: As I see it, I've always been a ' visual guy ' , interested in GUI stuff to a degree, that I started to even write my custom toolkit. > > You say it's easy to make vi "user friendly", > can you elaborate? > I try: What about starting with a simple message: "Welcome to vi, a text-editor , Press ESC : q to quit, Press ESC : h for help. " Do you notice, how much this changes the user experience ?? Almost effortlessly ! - the user feels welcome and recognized - s/he gets a hint, what the app is about (Ah, it's a text editor) - s/he gets a hint how to continue and where to get more help - s/he has enough information to do a fist command and see the app respond - what a success ! - s/he doesn't have to quit the text editor with a hardware-reset ;) > ...and I try to think on the > best approach is: > 1 - make the program useful > 2 - write it in such a way that it's easy to change > things if the design is bad/unusable/not well thought. > And, based on their popularity, I miserably fail > in 1 and when I need to change things in there I > very often fail at 2 (but that's something no one > but me can fix). > Likely that's if we hard-code the GUI, which is very common but a bad practice IYAM - although hard to change and impossible occasionally. I think it's ok to *first* write the tool for yourself (while you embody a power user ) But sooner or later, if you've made a cool, new, custom GUI, you have to think about how to make other users feel comfortable as well. (At least if you'd like your tool to be used more widely.) > I am sincerely curious, to learn and improve my skills. > Thank you for being interested. -- E.R. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
