[bt-devel] New Windows users and user experience

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Eeli,

Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2009 14:29:29 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen:
> I'm a bit worried about the user experience of new users especially on
> Windows. The first impression is very important. There are lots of free
> Bible applications for Windows out there and if people don't find
> BibleTime easy and friendly to use they'll abandon it immediately. Also
> the negative reviews will be visible for a long time even if they come
> obsolete. Therefore the basic usability and workflow is even more
> important than bug-freeness.

Well, stability and usability are equally important. And I guess there is no 
bug-free software. I agree that usability is very important.

> Even better, though not excluding the other helpers, is to add a text
> box into the empty main window area telling what to do next. I think I
> will experiment with this idea for 2.5 or 2.6. This would work on all
> platforms. We have had a feature of opening the installer window when
> starting BT if there are no modules installed, but I don't know if it's
> user friendly.

Please implement your suggestion.

> Another small thing which have bugged me for a long time is the window
> arrangement mode. Manually arranging subwindows is old-fashioned and
> tidy. Who wants to do it? I would rather select automatic tiling as a
> default. This could also be mentioned in the empty main area text box.

Please make vertical tiling the default mode.

Regards, mg

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