Hi and welcome,
A new frontend, oh my..., the competition is getting hard on me. 😉
A few pointers I learned along the way developing D.O.G.
- Translations, people like to have their own language in front of them.
- Don't do it with tabs or huge cluttered windows, I did it once and threw it completely in the trash. It was not even manageable from a programmers point of view or for the user for that matter. If I had kept D.O.G. with tabs, then it would currently hold about 32 tabs 😵 .
- Looking at it I see that you can only mount real drives and not directories or whatever that a user floats his boat. I would recommend adding a "Select Directory" to the list of drives.
- Standerdize, keep it as simple and repetative as possible. If a sollution is already presented by Windows, like autocompletion or any other thing, then try to mimic it. Users tend to miss some neat features ,that would lessen their troubles, if they are non "Windows" standard.
- Make it able to use templates, so that people can quickly load and create a new profile.
- There are other DOSBox flavors out there that people tend to use, and these don't always have their names set to 'DOSBox.exe'.
While I was running the application everything worked, except the update feature. I downloaded the app, installed, pressed the update button and it crashed after downloading a package.
The Assistent is a good addition, clean and simple. I like it.
Thanks for the addition to the frontend experiance.
Erik.