Lady Acceptance Factor (2 Viewers)

[pmbsa]

Hi, I am not sure if this is something that has been raised before (wouldnt know what to search for actually) but I have a point that has been raised by various women who now use MP within my family. (there are many and they all slap me around when MP gives them trouble! ;0)

The thing that seems to cause the most frustration for them is the lack of indication that MP is acting on a request from the remote. If for example MP is loading up an ISO DVD from the network (which can take 5+ seconds) there is nothing to indicate that its executing your request so you dont need to hit the ok button 100 more times!... basically the suggestion is that please could there be a spinning ball or egg timer type thing to indicate that MP is busy with the latest request so that they dont feel the need to randomly (and indeed repeatedly) hit buttons on the remote because they think MP has not responsed... It appears that that is the cause of most of there frustration at this point so I thought it was worth raising (i hope I have made some sense)

thanks
Paul

 

[revs]

the term to search for is "WAF" ;-)

I agree that there should be a spinner at any point when you have to wait - and that's for the benefit of everyone, not just the ladies

 

[ThaClown]

Actually 'Lady' is a very nice term! The LAF would fit better in my situation too! (since im not married)

 

[jmbillings]

I concur on this one

Sometimes my SO will start a record attempt on clicks-per-second when nothing seems to happen...

There is a "wait" thing in places - for instance when the weather screen updates. So perhaps it wouldn't be too hard to implement elsewhere such as when changing tv channel and so on...

 

[mmg3k]

Something nice would be to have two modes, the mode we have now and a "WAF mode". For example, if the TV server is not reachable, instead of having a message saying: the server [Server Name or IP] is not accessible, to have: TV service is not available at this moment, press back to go back to the previous menu.

I was thinking of that when I installed RC3 and find out that TV server RC and MP RC3 are not compatible, I would have loved to see a screen like this on the screen: http://www.thebeautyandthegeek.fr/public/mire.jpg...

Martin

 

[mzemina]

Something nice would be to have two modes, the mode we have now and a "WAF mode". For example, if the TV server is not reachable, instead of having a message saying: the server [Server Name or IP] is not accessible, to have: TV service is not available at this moment, press back to go back to the previous menu.

I was thinking of that when I installed RC3 and find out that TV server RC and MP RC3 are not compatible, I would have loved to see a screen like this on the screen: http://www.thebeautyandthegeek.fr/public/mire.jpg...

Martin

This is an excellent suggestion! I would ask that the developers think of utilizing a use case where the WAF mode is first displayed, then the current mode of displaying the error could be displayed.

 

[SpudR]

It's a simple fix - don't give them the remote

You'll be asking for a nice pink skin next...

lol

And it's Woman Acceptance Factor - WAF

 

[mmg3k]

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This is an excellent suggestion! I would ask that the developers think of utilizing a use case where the WAF mode is first displayed, then the current mode of displaying the error could be displayed.[/QUOTE]

Maybe this could be linked to the logging level...

Martin

 

[revs]

Surely we could implement new messages by just making a new "translation". The language in this case is "English-WAF" Would that work??

 

[mmg3k]

Nice idea, I was more thinking like an image being diplayed like when they have a problem on TV showing a fish bowl and a goldfish in and a clock and a message saying: We appologize for this disruption in our programs... and some music like in elevators....

Martin