Re: Coaster-lib



On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 01:46, iain wrote:
> 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).

I'd rather not have a feature than a broken one was rather more like
what I meant, wrt. bootable CDs. If it doesn't work properly for
everything, it'd better not be there.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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