Re: [Banshee-List] the road to 2.0

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Benjamín Valero Espinosa
<benjavalero gmail com> wrote:
> 2010/11/2 Alex Launi
>>
>> I highly encourage everyone to read Charline Poirier's research[0] into
>> the user experience of Rhythmbox, and to evaluate Banshee for the same, or
>> other problems. In addition to that blog post, there is a full pdf with the
>> entirety of the research findings[1]. It's a very interesting read.
>> I think our one major goal should be an entire revamp of the video source.
>> As is now, video is Banshee's redheaded step child, and there is no really
>> great alternative for video management under Gnome. Once again, we're in a
>> good position to do it 1) first 2) best. We're the tops for music, let's
>> have our video experience be as great as our music experience.
>>
>> [0] http://design.canonical.com/2010/08/how-are-your-users-feeling/
>>
>> [1] http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Rythmbox_usability_report.pdf
>
> Wow, I agree with this kind of research, I would love Banshee to be so
> friendly for newbies (as my dad, for example).

If you can boil the advice/research down to specific steps we can take
to improve Banshee, that would be very valuable and should be filed on
bugzilla.  Thanks!

Gabriel