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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Obviously my posts were too long and poorly explained if that was the only conclusion you drew  . Yes author sorting is one issue, metadata plugboards are another. Both are far more easily resolved for the user by a simple question at startup than forcing them to spend hours of frustration and googling. They come up every week in the forums - and that is just from those who can be bothered to do so. |
What you seem to be missing from my response is that those are specific things, that are indeed difficult to change for someone who doesn't like the way calibre does things, but, for someone who does, adding config for those options to the welcome wizard adds friction to the first use experience. That is a tradeoff, less frustration for some users (the set that dont like calibre defaults and that care enough to want to change them) vs. more friction for every new user. I'm willing to bet as much money as you like that if I were to make these changes, sooner or later some UX expert would make a post about how the Welcome Wizard threw off his grandmother and that therefore it is too complicated for someone trying out calibre, and that this is hindering calibre adoption.
Now I agree with you that setting up plugboards and chaging the author sort system is too complex. A solution to that, that I would be willing to merge is a wizard that runs on demand, rather than at startup and presents a few simple options for the common cases. Rather like the wizard I created for the column coloring rules.