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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdiffend" data-source="post: 9795" data-attributes="member: 10910">And somebody is being way too protective of their project.Look, it's not personal.  If you can't take criticism you are in the wrong business!This isn't about you being a bad programmer or MP being a terrible design.  MP is great... but it's designed to appeal to the people that built it.  I can't turn my 78 year old mother loose on it because she WILL click on the wrong thing because it's there and she won't even know she's selected the wrong thing and certainly won't know how to undo what she did.  I had to lock the PPV channels so she didn't accidently order one.A few examples of what I was talking about...The ability to look at the program guide in modifyable time increments is OVERKILL.  It's nice to have when you want it but you could see more of the guide anyway if those buttons weren't there.  My mom isn't even going to understand the feature let alone use it!  So why is the button always visible?  I like the feature but honestly... I won't use it very often.If I only use large icons to launch movies, why do those buttons need to be there to change the view, to scan IMDB, etc... I set the system up and only touch that stuff to do maintenance.  And my mom is sure to click on the wrong thing and not know what she did or how to undo it.  Her first instinct will be that she broke it and she won't want to use it again for fear of breaking it again!  I'm not kidding... that's how older people react to this stuff.The same thing for the left menus on almost every screen!  TOO MUCH.Being able to enable/disable them once things are set the way you want or moving them to a popup that appears when someone hits a menu button would be much easier for someone like my mom to deal with.And it's not just old people either.  I know people that just don't mix with computers and the less they can screw up the better.  Something else I'd like to see to simplify changing the appearance of a skin...The XML files need to follow the lead of cascading style sheets or Word documents.  The menu doesn't contain the actual font, it uses a Menufont1 and a TitleFont, Header1, etc...which are specified elsewhere.  Change the size of the Menufont1 in one place and everything that uses Menufont1 or TitleFont or whatever changes throughout the program without modifying a bunch of files.  It's more of an object and it makes it easier to build a more consistant GUI as well.  It also makes it possible to change the point size of these items within the configuration program.Why is that last thing an issue?  Some people have difficulty reading the standard size fonts in the skins and modifying them is too difficult for most people.</blockquote>

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