Alfa ebook manager

[slm]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

MacOS is not user friendly.

Not anymore.
Originally, that was the whole point.

[codrut_popescu]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

The notion that at UI should be instantaneously intuitive (no research or learning curve) to a new user is ludicrous to me. Every added capability will be something a user will need to familiarize themselves with. We've become tricked (mainly by non-programmer UI "experts") into believing that there's some magic UI practice which will render a user guide unnecessary -- regardless of the complexity of an application's functions/features. If you want to know how to truly use an application: RTFM and/or experiment with it.

A good tool is transparent to the user and the user should only focus on what he is doing not on how to use the tool.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by codrut_popescu

A good tool is transparent to the user and the user should only focus on what he is doing not on how to use the tool.

Sounds nice, but is utterly impossible with a tool as powerful and multi-functional as Calibre is. Such a tool simply needs a bit of figuring out, much like the aforementioned word processors or spreadsheets.

That doesn't mean internal consistency doesn't help with that. I can't count the times I have been asked 'I want to do <X>, but I don't know how' in a program I hadn't seen before, I clicked around for a few seconds, and said 'See? There it is.'

And the reaction always is 'But you said you didn't know that program!'. Yeah, I didn't, but I know user interfaces after playing around with them for 40+ years. That helps. Knowing the system, not the program.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by codrut_popescu

A good tool is transparent to the user and the user should only focus on what he is doing not on how to use the tool.

Nonsense. Complicated, multi-use tools require a learning phase. Always.