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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"><STRONG>Thank you for your
information</STRONG>. I went to the Wiki page and am now listening to a
shoutcast.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">I'll be writing this up in a newsletter I do
for a club.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">I'll keep you posted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>==========================<BR>Harold and/or Candace Brochmann<BR>SaltSpring
Island BC, Canada<BR>==========================<BR></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=funman@videolan.org href="mailto:funman@videolan.org">Rafaël
Carré</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 30, 2007
18:07</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [vlc] User - friendliness
and VLC</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<BR>Hash: SHA1<BR><BR>Harold
Brochmann a écrit :<BR>> I downloaded VLC and 4 pfd documents and have
played with this for the last day or two. With your permission I shall make
some comments which may easily be taken as criticisms - which I guess they
are.<BR>> <BR>> Perhaps I do not have what is perceived to be the
required qualifications to make these observations. Let me just state that I'm
now in my early 70's, retired after teaching Mathematics, Physics and Computer
Science for 30-odd years and at one time I wrote a lot of software for the
early Commodore machines, including a couple of word processors.<BR>>
<BR>> VLC seems to be pretty skookum when it comes to what I assume it is
(or will be) capable of doing. Most impressive. But... some common errors are
being made.<BR>> <BR>> If you want to write a successful piece of
software you need to write the manual first - and it needs to be edited over
and over by non-programmer potential users. Only after this is in the can do
you start coding.<BR>> <BR>> This is not what appears to have happened
here.<BR>> <BR>> Also - the 4 pdf documents were, in common with most
documentation "these days" (!) gives the distinct impression that the purpose
of the exercise is to use as much paper as possible - rather than actually
leading the unfamiliar potential user through the steps needed to make things
happen.<BR>> <BR>> Well there you have it. I'm not intentionally pissing
on your parade... just being "upfront" - and perhaps contributing? Well, I
hope, anyhow.<BR>> <BR>> Best wishes<BR><BR>Hello,<BR><BR>Actually we do
code first, and document (sometimes) after.<BR><BR>I think the pdf you are
talking about are the one from<BR><A
href="http://www.videolan.org/doc">www.videolan.org/doc</A> .<BR><BR>That
documentation may be not up to date, contributors are welcomed ;)<BR><BR>You
can find also some documentation on the wiki: <A
href="http://wiki.videolan.org">http://wiki.videolan.org</A><BR><BR>VLC has a
lot of features, and it's a huge task to document them all,<BR>and especially
to do so in a friendly way for "unfamiliar users".<BR><BR>If you want to help
by editing the wiki, or refreshing the pdf<BR>documentation (available also in
rtf, text, and html), you are welcome.<BR><BR>Best regards<BR><BR>-
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