[bt-devel] PLEASE GIVE MORE FEEDBACK

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Jeffrey Hoyt writes:

> 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. ;-)

I am hoping to get a feature like this installed.   My ideal program on
this point so far is The Online Bible.  Similar functionality would be
nice.

> 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.

I agree.  I still find it difficult to understand the copyrighting of God's
Word.  But since it does not interfere with my following God, I guss I have
to follow the law of the land.
 
> 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".

This is an idea worth exploring.
 
> 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?
> 

QT is released, KDELibs is in a soft freeze (feature freeze).

> 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
> 


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