Re: Coaster-lib

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:34, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> No, I was saying that most (CD burning) programs have an awful lot of
> crap prefs because the developers can't be bothered making a choice, or
> writing proper detection code that would "do the right thing".

Yes.
Thats a problem with the program.
Not the concept.

> I hope you get my point. 

Yes, current CD burner writers are crap at UI.

> I don't want to dumb down/cut down on useful
> features, I want the software to be easy to use.

No, you quite clearly said that CD burner programs didn't need to be
able to make a bootable CD because people who want to do that know how
to use a command line.

That is dumbing down. I'm not against making good UIs. I'm against
dumbing down, which is what you were advocating (even if you didn't mean
to).

iain
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