> > How many times and for how many years have people been asking about / requesting UI
> > features to make MAME more approachable to the average user?
>
> Except we actually took those steps, at a great cost in technical debt (and to Vas's
> sanity), by merging MEWUI.
>
> And now users have no useful, actionable feedback that I've seen beyond "I don't like
> it".
Also I've often argued in favour of more 'one step' solutions in MAME when it comes to operation of some of the more complex systems, be it preconfigured / preinstalled machines (as you'd get off the shelf) or some scripting ability to handle to more annoying cases (installs, games requiring frequent disk swaps etc.
I'm not anti-usability, or anti-feature, and if anything MAME will one day benefit from ClrMAME like features such as profiles etc. especially when it comes to emulated PC type machines.
An 'easy mode' is a feature, as long as there is also a version of the application that offers full functionality, or a switch to put it back in 'full' mode. MAME and ClrMAME are very different programs too, a lot of the 'requests' for MAME are ones that would be actively harmful to the emulation or preservation and so I'm more likely to be against (fudging refresh rates by default and the like)
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