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DMala
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Re: Sadness in the front end world....
09/02/16 08:03 AM


> I tried out FEEL and Attract-Mode, and was not up and running in minutes. FEEL
> doesn't have a set-up menu. Attract-Mode's was just incomprehensible - which
> surprised me given the author seems to be a native english speaker. A-M seems like
> it's made for touch screens. Really bizarre. In either case, I wasn't able to set the
> exe path.

Haven't tried FEEL, but I'm sort of using Attract Mode these days. Once you get your head around the way the UI is, it kind of makes sense. But yeah, it's not exactly user friendly.

Although, the same is true for most frontends. MAMEWAH was my go to for years, and that had some funky dependencies and took lots of config file editing to get it off the ground. I finally gave up there because it required more and more hacks to get it to work with new OSes, as it got increasingly out of date.

I think part of it is just that frontends are tricky. There's a lot of moving parts that all have to be set correctly before the the frontend can do anything. It also seems like a lot of frontend authors come from a Linux background, where funky UI and editing config files is the norm. I'd love to try my hand at a frontend that takes a more Apple-style "it just works" approach, but sadly my time for such projects is too limited to have any hope of producing anything.







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* Sadness in the front end world.... Traso 09/02/16 12:22 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... DMala  09/02/16 08:03 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Vaughan  09/02/16 10:58 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... B2K24  09/02/16 04:43 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Haze  09/02/16 11:22 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... uman  09/02/16 03:06 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Haze  09/02/16 06:07 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... uman  09/02/16 07:29 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Haze  09/02/16 07:55 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... uman  09/02/16 09:51 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Haze  09/03/16 04:14 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/03/16 07:28 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Haze  09/03/16 02:44 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/03/16 06:11 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Haze  09/05/16 01:18 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/05/16 07:42 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... B2K24  09/02/16 11:00 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... uman  09/03/16 10:20 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/03/16 12:03 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... B2K24  09/03/16 09:14 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/04/16 07:52 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... *DELETED* Traso  09/04/16 11:51 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Traso  09/04/16 01:25 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mr. DoAdministrator  09/04/16 02:15 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... uman  09/04/16 07:08 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/04/16 07:58 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Traso  09/04/16 12:04 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/04/16 08:34 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... CTOJAH  09/04/16 10:35 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/05/16 08:13 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... uman  09/04/16 12:17 AM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... B2K24  09/02/16 04:54 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... uman  09/02/16 06:01 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/02/16 12:19 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... MooglyGuy  09/02/16 12:32 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/02/16 01:57 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... SmitdoggAdministrator  09/02/16 02:21 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/02/16 02:42 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... R. Belmont  09/02/16 04:36 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... Mamesick  09/02/16 04:57 PM
. * Re: Sadness in the front end world.... MooglyGuy  09/02/16 02:11 PM

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