[TASK] Please give us a feedback, comments

[NitSuA]

I’m very happy with this topic and would like to share my feedback as well.

First of all, I am very happy with Xbian, I believe it is technically superior to the other distro’s, ans I love the rolling releases. There was a time I ran the update checker every day, which almost every day made me kinda happy, since there were updates, eg improving my media center!

What I do think is that XBian should be more client focused. I’m convinced that the core devvers are one of the best in the field, and they should really focus on core fixes, but of the frond-end side, there are a few thinks which bother me. For instance, I really do not understand that there is an image on the download page of xbian, which is not working out-of-the-box. In fact, a newcomer first needs to go to the FAQ to find his mandatory fixes. (no intend to the guys who created the image and created the faq page), but these fixes should just be incorporated in a new image. Other things I noticed are for instance on the xbian config screen in xbmc. Still there are sub-labels like”xbian-config.common.clickonload” and an “extra” label without a capital. Sure, these issues on non-blocking for usage of the software, but the perception for the customer is killing! They should have the impression that xbian is written with care, that a lot of dedication and precision if put into the code (which of course there is!! But not visible for newcomers).

I’m no developer and have no programming skills, so unfortunately I cannot fix these issues. But I did report some of these cosmetical issues to the github. I even did all the Dutch translations on transiflex for xbian about a year ago, but it just never got implemented!

Maybe not all will agree on my statements, but these are just my 2 cents.