mercluke said:
kermitfrog said:
The one thing I really hate is Programmers/Developers THINK they know what the public wants
but you have to take into account that the project may be tailored to the dev's tastes and is released to the public because he was kind enough to share ;p
OK when you say it like that - then Yes I have to agree, let the developer design the program how he what's it THEN modify it for other's suggestions
I just thought that if people can try it out & suggest what they would like to see, then the dev. can use this info to develop the program with the foresight of the additional features.
Take my idea of 'plugins' - If the dev. made the program how he liked it, as an all-in-one long piece of coding - then when people say 'I don't want this', 'there's a problem with....' or 'I would like...' then dev. has to work through the listing, rewrite parts of the program to add/remove/fix 'features' - & may even create new problems
By using plugins
- If a person don't want a function - don't install the plugin (they may only want a ROM launcher or TXT reader)
- If there's a fault with 'PDF' reading - Dev. (or someone else) only has to work on a smaller piece of code to fix it
- If someone want a feature that isn't there, perhaps THEY can create a suitable addon (take Moonshell2 & nds.YSlaunch.nds as an example)
Of course without trying the program the 'public' won't know what it can or cannot do - so no suggestions can be given
(also the fact that I am desperate for this program to come out - & hate to think this may only turn out to be 'Ghostware'
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