Peter Juszack wrote: > Hi list, > > some time ago my girlfriend wanted to record a program via EPG. She > has never done that before but managed it easily to program the timer > out of the EPG-view. But when she saw the timer-data she did not press > OK button to save the timer because there was no hint to do so. > She pressed back the menu closed and the timer was lost :( - > > The question: Bad luck or bad user interface? > > On many Set Top Boxes I recognized that lots of hints and status > messages are displayed. This makes it possible that also unexperienced > users can use the device. > > As long as only 'root' has the remot control in his hands there is no > need for messages - but other users seem to have some problems. > > Since 1.3.40 a message 'Recording started' is displayed when the Record > button was pressed. This is the right way. > End-user devices give feedback to almost everything > > My proposal for the timer issue (and maybe in general): > > - color key to explicitly save and exit the timer editing menu > - warning when exiting the timer menu without having saved ( e.g. 'timer > not saved. Really exit?' ) > > that would be common behaviour of almost all end-user applications. Since version 1.3.38 the Red button in the Schedule menu immediately creates the timer and marks the event with 'T'. So it can't happen any more that a timer is not confirmed. > I would also wish a confirm message when stopping playback (also plugins > mp3 etc.). I often stopped playback accidently when browsing menus > during playback. Especially by pressing blue button. > > I know that the 'Don't ask and do what I say' lobby won't like it but > maybe a setup option verbose could be added to control the level of > verbosity. I'd hate if I'm asked every time I stop a replay - and I also don't think that this is woth YASO (Yet Another Setup Option). See also http://www.heise.de/ct/schlagseite/06/01/gross.jpg ;-) Klaus
