2ghisler(Author)
I would be interested in learning how you select from all these suggestions (and your own ideas of course) in order to get those which really make a difference in user's daily usage.
Congratulations to 10 Years TC Forum
Moderators: Hacker, petermad, Stefan2, white
-
ghisler(Author)
- Site Admin
- Posts: 50625
- Joined: 2003-02-04, 09:46 UTC
- Location: Switzerland
- Contact:
I have chosen suggestions which were either discussed extensively here in the forums, or for which I received multiple e-mail requests. I have also chosen ideas which would fit very well into the program, and which cannot be handled by external tools. Do you have a better idea? It wouldn't help to ask here about suggestions - I would probably get almost as many different suggestions as there are already in the suggestions forum...
Author of Total Commander
https://www.ghisler.com
https://www.ghisler.com
2ghisler(Author)
You could ask people who currently participate in an adult education center (VHS) computer course to try out your program and can send you daily feedback for some time. That really broadens one's horizont. The focus should be on feedback and problems not direct suggestions. Deriving the functions/improvements from the feedback is a better way. You could also try other user groups like administrators or programmers (difficult group), controllers or graphic designers.
I would not ask folks in the forum or do a direct function poll. That doesn't mean all suggestions here in the forum are suitable only for hardcore users (of course there is a bias). I think the main problem is that people judge from reading a feature name to the actual value the feature will have when it's implemented. At the end there no 100% way to find out if people like a new function before the have seen it. So there must be some kind of evaluation before the actual product is released.
Looking at other file managers on Windows and other platforms might also be a good (and cheap) idea but could of course lead to the same effect as functions suggested here in the forum. Just because it's implemented somewhere else doesn't mean it's useful.
It's actually not that easy. From my background I can say that observing daily program usage or even other file manager usage for relevant target groups would be the best way. But of course this is difficult to achieve as mainly larger companies conduct this kind of user research.Do you have a better idea?
You could ask people who currently participate in an adult education center (VHS) computer course to try out your program and can send you daily feedback for some time. That really broadens one's horizont. The focus should be on feedback and problems not direct suggestions. Deriving the functions/improvements from the feedback is a better way. You could also try other user groups like administrators or programmers (difficult group), controllers or graphic designers.
I would not ask folks in the forum or do a direct function poll. That doesn't mean all suggestions here in the forum are suitable only for hardcore users (of course there is a bias). I think the main problem is that people judge from reading a feature name to the actual value the feature will have when it's implemented. At the end there no 100% way to find out if people like a new function before the have seen it. So there must be some kind of evaluation before the actual product is released.
Looking at other file managers on Windows and other platforms might also be a good (and cheap) idea but could of course lead to the same effect as functions suggested here in the forum. Just because it's implemented somewhere else doesn't mean it's useful.
-
seb-
- Senior Member
- Posts: 276
- Joined: 2011-11-15, 06:14 UTC
- Location: DE\BN - only part time TC user after switching to Linux ;)
Do you have a list where you publish your "todo" items? I'd be very very interested in what we are waiting for in TC 8.2+ghisler(Author) wrote:I have chosen suggestions (...) I have also chosen ideas (...)
Furthermore: I know it would be very tedious work, but a list of rejected suggestions/ideas with a short reason why it was rejected ( too complicated, not useful enough, etc) might be helpful. Once its a comprehensive list it might motivate someone to write a tool or plugin for the purpose or at least save time answering the same suggestion again.
brs
-
ghisler(Author)
- Site Admin
- Posts: 50625
- Joined: 2003-02-04, 09:46 UTC
- Location: Switzerland
- Contact:
No, this would be a bad idea, because the competition could read it too.
No suggestions are completely rejected, there are just suggestions with higher priority.
No suggestions are completely rejected, there are just suggestions with higher priority.
Author of Total Commander
https://www.ghisler.com
https://www.ghisler.com
There is a service called userecho, here is an example for the Sublime Text editorSamuel wrote:Perhaps we should have some kind of voting system.
Unfortunately I do not know any good software for this.
http://sublimetext.userecho.com/ as you can see people can vote + comment on suggestions to be added. If you look at a few other software related Userecho sites the site manager can mark ideas as "under review" "rejected" "planned" etc. Not saying it is the way to go but might provide a nice overview of ideas.