[bt-devel] PLEASE GIVE MORE FEEDBACK

[Jeffrey Hoyt]

Hi!  In regard to your call for more feedback, especially for features and improvements, I would have to say that BT 0.3 is at the point for
a "feature freeze", and we should now concentrate on bug-squashing.  There is already a feature set that is, IMHO, possibly better than any
other Bible program on any platform (given Sword's features and weaknesses).  For me as a full-time preacher, it is an eminently useful
program.  The only thing that could improve the program is a way to jump from any mentioned verse reference in a commentary or lexicon to
that verse directly.  I'm not so lazy, though, that I can't just look it up myself. ;-)

Troy and the Sword people have done a great job putting all the modules together.  It would be nice, however, if copyright holders of newer
literature and translations would work with us to release their stuff.

Regarding ease of module installation, I wonder if it would work to put a simple makefile in the [module].zip file so that simply "make
install" would install the module and its .conf file.  I think the Sword and BT installation procedures are pretty well documented, although
it wasn't that long ago that I migrated from Windows and didn't have the slightest idea what anything was.  In the words of a certain
American president, "I feel your pain".

BTW, are the kdelibs and qt-copy frozen yet?  I know KDE2 is coming out in beta 1 tomorrow.  Will I have to keep `cvsup'ing all the time?

Jeff

P.S.
Yeah, Joachim, why NOT a WYSIWYG editor, huh?  ;-D



Joachim Ansorg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This is a small status message a call for more feedback.
>
> STATUS:
> Improved the notes handling, the notes are now saves a HTML and displayed correctly in the editor.
> Pressing Enter inserts a <BR> (HTML tag for new line) and I added some key combinations:
> (Pressing the following keys will perform the action on selected text, if not text is selected the start or end tag is inserted
> depending on the context)
>
> -STRG+H : Heading (<H1></H1>)
> -STRG+H : Bold (<B></B>)
> -STRG+I :  Italic (<I></I>)
> -STRG+U :  Underlined (<U></U>)
>
> To enter text please type, it will be wrapped qutomatically, press onle Enter to create a new line. But test it and complain.
>
> To get the notes handling working correctly please remove the line beginning with "SourceType" of every config file of a writable module.
> (e.g. personal.conf)
> And I fixed some bugs.
>
> Now my call for more feedback: I need more feedback about current development and status of 0.3.
> Please post your own ideas (users and coders), improvements of currenbt fucntions and new features which could be reasonable in BibleTime.
>
> E.g. about the notes editor you could post:
> "Why not a WYSIWYG editor ??"
> or
> "Why don't you do it in the following way: ......"
>
> I need feedaback, otherwise it's _very_ hard to develop an application for end users.
>
> BTW, thank you for every comment posted on this list. It's really useful.
> Sorry for my bad english. I hope yoou can understand my.
>
> Thanks!
> -- Joachim
> BibleTime - the bible study program for KDE
> http://www.bibletime.de/
> info@bibletime.de