[Lazarus] Tracking software useage

Richard Mace richard.mace at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 09:47:17 CEST 2015


Thanks for everyone's reply.
Really valuable.

Richard
On 23 Jul 2015 18:28, "Graeme Geldenhuys" <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 2015-07-23 17:40, waldo kitty wrote:
> > if you really desire this information, make it configurable so that
> those who
> > don't care can enable it if they like... it should be disabled by
> default, though...
>
> +1
> I don't like "call home" software either.
>
>
> On a side note:
> We did once, for internal franchise testing only, added Google Analytics
> [yes, what you normally use for websites ;-) ] into our desktop
> application. Different areas of our desktop application was tracked like
> different web pages in a website. :)  Our product was a total rewrite of
> a previous version with lots of redesigned areas. We wanted to collect
> data to see what areas in the new program is used a lot, what isn't etc.
> That way we could tweak the user interface based on where our
> franchisees get "stuck" or missing out on useful features.  We did give
> them training, but you know how it goes.... in by the one ear, out by
> the other. :)
>
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
>
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