Flowblade

You read the instructions BEFORE you get it working?

That's weird!

Was it for a bet?

AB

If you have to read the instructions to get something working the chances are it was designed by a geek, without interference from a regular human.

A good spattering of plain logic and good workflow with some context sensitive / popup help should be all you need.

And most things should work for most people out of the box, or at least have the most sensible, least dangerous consequences if using it in the default settings.

Like, if you have an editing program and make some changes but want to abandon them, you should be able to just exit that item but with a 'Do you want to save changes' prompt.

Cheers, T i m

Zero hope of getting this going otherwise. It's as clear as milk.

NT

no doubt about it.

that would be great. But no, none of them so far work that way.

Stop being sensible. Linux people won't like it. I can understand an unfriendly interface for eg gimp, which is really too featured to present simply. But not this stuff.

NT

I had use of this for a while:

Blessum. It's good they have a hobby no? ;-)

Many apps of that complexity of have an 'easy / expert' menu option that reduces the feature set in easy mode so that it actually becomes useable.

As an aside, most of the Serif packages are pretty user friendly (to the point where our daughter even made her own basic website, from scratch, in one evening (and not just by using templates etc).

I hate the assumption that anyone wanting to use such a package, already knows what's required. Some of the programs / web sites don't actually tell you what the program does!

Cheers, T i m

blank pages for a website. Man.

NT

Eh?

Cheers, T i m

Or by a team of open source contributers arguing over every change.

I don't do video editing, but if I were going to give it a try I'd do a bit of checking beforehand. Perhaps this will be of use:

We are quite sure that you won?t be able to find a video editor as user-friendly as this one. If you are new to video editing, OpenShot would probably be the best option for you. Not only is it really easy-to-use, but it also comes with a handful of interesting features. </q>

Yes, T i m, I know.

Unfortunately it tends to be somebody familiar with using the program. It really should be run past a newbie before unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Its just the same as so called contextual help in Windows. Brian

Probly like other editing software, you have to go back to school (do a course)

I did. Most I tried didn't even work. At least flowblade appears to.

I already know what's available for this OS.

Ah, that's *that* usage of the word 'team'. ;-)

I've recently had dealings with a couple of informal groups and one member in each who doesn't really get the whole idea of 'us'.

One of the groups was previously killed by another such non team player.

Sometimes, it's *all* about the journey, for the majority.

Cheers, T i m

I can just imagine TNP on such a team. He would be that odd-ball member, wrecking all harmony and sabotaging the team's work on account of some pet peeve of his.

Most of them are left brainers ... the world revolves around them and 'everyone else' (who doesn't agree with them) is just a noise to be ignored.

They can be right of course, just often not the same version of 'right' that most other people want or need. ;-(

The other day I came to an agreement with one based on logic and principal. They then unilaterally decided that we would do something else for their own reasons that didn't include mine at all?

They conceded they had 'changed their mind' but couldn't see how it was unreasonable (to break our agreement, especially without any further discussion and re-negotiation etc). This is how they are.

Cheers, T i m

Have you stopped to consider that "they" may be thinking just the same of you?

I don't need to 'stop' to consider anything mate, I can and do do so on the move and do, all the time. In fact it's a built-in-feature of a right brainer and sometimes very frustrating that we can't turn it off.

But no, they don't think the same as me and I explained how they would see me above, so what part of that did you miss (ignore)? [1]

Highly simplified recap / overview for you to see if it helps (but doubt it will). ;-(

A left brainer would ignore all but those who support their goals.

A right brainer would consider the views and goals of everyone.

Cheers, T i m

Aren't the left and right sides of the brain to do with creativity versus logic rather than actual behaviour or character?

Well, Mr. Kneejerk, did you stop to consider that I was merely asking a simple rhetorical question? Thought not.