Let's face it, if this product is going to continue living under the Logitech brand it really needs to be adapted for mass market consumption.
This means that some options and customization possibilities have to go, I completely agree that the most important part is to avoid them in the setup wizard. This way you can still have more advanced options hidden away in configuration pages which advanced users can find and you can still satisfy mass market users which don't want to be bothered with extra options. This is how iTunes works, this is how Windows Media Player works. It's easy to say that one extra option isn't going to cause any trouble, but you have to realize that you are not going to want the exact same extra option as all other advanced users. So if we go down this route we will end up with a lot of extra options to satisfy everyone. The main difference between SqueezeCenter and other music library software is that SqueezeCenter still allows a lot of customization after the installation. Microsoft and Apple has also tried to avoid this by limiting the options available after the installation because they know that they are a support headache. I'm suspecting Logitech will eventually realize they need go down the same road, however they can't do it as long as a big part of their customer base are geeks and advanced users so it won't happen over the night. Personally I feel that if we really want extra options, two options in the first page of the wizard like this might work: 1. Help me configure my system (strongly recommended) 2. I don't want any help, let me configure everything manually. The first option would be default and would initiate the wizard, the second option would just quit the wizard and let you do everything yourself in the normal settings pages. A solution like this will make the wizard fairly simple both from a user and developer point of view and still allow special advanced users to do their manual choices. The naming of the second option needs to be really scary so newbies doesn't choose it by accident. Another solution might be to just have a "skip wizard" link somewhere on the first wizard page that does the same thing. By the way, I think I would choose the first option myself, because the wizard really makes it easier to setup an initial installation even though it doesn't make everything the way I want it. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53406 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
