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| 1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Wishlist for Mac
Message 45403 Posted 22 Aug 2012 by Howard |
Hi all - I am parachuting in here - apols if I am in any way off topic. MacOS 10.6.8. BOINC 7.0.31. Set@home. I have had a thread going over at "Number crunching : Waiting for more tasks ..." for several weeks trying to solve my screensaver issues. However I am posting here to say how appalled I am at the whole design/development of the Mac App. The interface is something you might expect in a college engineering course project. The interface is completely submerged in unintelligible tech terms and unintelligible preferences and options that compete between those set in the app and those set on the web. It would appear as if the BOINC and Seti teams are doing their utmost to frighten off the global public, in order to leave the whole Seti etc projects to the nerds and techies. I do know that there is limited money available and it is a volunteer project. I do know that guys. But what is the goal here ? Surely the goal is to involve as many people as possible ? I am so so exasperated listening to people I discuss this project with telling me they have abandoned it after a few days of trying to wrestle with the app. I myself am totally tired of it. I abandoned it several years ago for the same reason and thought that in nearly TEN YEARS someone would have made an effort to make this easy to use ? Please !!! |
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