[bt-devel] PLEASE GIVE MORE FEEDBACK

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi!

>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. ;-)

Hmm, why not RMB on a link and select the new module (in a popup menu)
which should be used (it will be opened in a new presenter) ?

>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.

Please write them! I think if really much people ask them about their modules they finally will 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?

Yes, KDE2 is frozen yet altough bugs will be fixed. Update once a month (If some fixes are required for BibleTime i'll post it on this list.).
qt-copy is the same as QT 2.1final, you won't have to updte it anymore.

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

Hehe, it's because I'm a bad programmer. But if somebody else want to take this part, DO IT!
The QT guys are working on such a thing, it will be included i QT 3 ;-(

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>
>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
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