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<blockquote data-quote="JulianBuss" data-source="post: 84866" data-attributes="member: 10499">@paloema: I disagree with the &quot;download latest stable patch&quot;! Do not ever confront the end user with the word &quot;patch&quot; or the neccessity to download anything just after he already downloaded the software. It's like installing Windows and having to spend hours with downloading all the latest patches... Perhaps the starting question could be:&quot;MediaPortal was installed successfully. Now:(button): just start MediaPortal and create a default config (you can change it later)(button): or are you a pro and want to configure everything by yourself? &quot;Second button would lead directly to the configuration. @all: I agree XMLTV is a problem. For a standard end user it's much effort to configure it. MP could have an automatism which- downloads XMLTV from a known download location- extracts it in a subdir under the MP directory- asks for the country the user lives in (or better: try to find the country yourself from the windows setting)- executes the neccessary command line operations automatically - then starts the innitial XMLTV listing download and wait for it to finish- import the XML file</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JulianBuss, post: 84866, member: 10499"] @paloema: I disagree with the "download latest stable patch"! Do not ever confront the end user with the word "patch" or the neccessity to download anything just after he already downloaded the software. It's like installing Windows and having to spend hours with downloading all the latest patches... Perhaps the starting question could be: "MediaPortal was installed successfully. Now: (button): just start MediaPortal and create a default config (you can change it later) (button): or are you a pro and want to configure everything by yourself? " Second button would lead directly to the configuration. @all: I agree XMLTV is a problem. For a standard end user it's much effort to configure it. MP could have an automatism which - downloads XMLTV from a known download location - extracts it in a subdir under the MP directory - asks for the country the user lives in (or better: try to find the country yourself from the windows setting) - executes the neccessary command line operations automatically - then starts the innitial XMLTV listing download and wait for it to finish - import the XML file [/QUOTE]

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