On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Ralf Engels <ralf-eng...@gmx.de> wrote: > And then we have the automatic playlist generator which in principle has > the same functionality and a little bit different UI but still a similar > amount of filters. > > So, dumb it down?
>From a pure UI and usability perspective, having two different system (APG and Dynamic) that do somewhat different things, but then again not really, is not ideal. It's already hard to understand what "Advanced Playlist Generator" and "Dynamic Playlists" are supposed to mean. I tried to explain this to a work mate lately, she is an experienced software engineer. It sounded like Spanish to her at first. Now imagine, trying to explain these features to really new users, or maybe to your mom. Bottom line: If we don't want Amarok to be a complete nerd tool, it might make sense to go back to our original goal with Amarok 2, which was "making powerful features easy to use". We used to say: "Amarok 2 should be able to pass the Mom-Test: If our Mom's can't use it, we did not do it well enough." -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer, Senior Software Engineer at Nokia Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org - http://nokia.com _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
