[bt-devel] Discussion: New features for 1.1 and release plan

[Brook Humphrey]

On Monday 25 June 2001 12:19 pm, you wrote:
> Hi!
> We need a little discussion about the features which should be
> implemented in 1.1.
>
> I'd suggest this:
>
> BibleTime 1.1
> ------------------
> BibleTime 1.1 should not take so long in development. That's why we
> only integrate one new feature. The other things are smaller
> improvments. 1.1 should be based on Unicode and not on module
> specific fonts. If more than one developer are working at the same
> time it should be finished fast. -New features:
> 	------------------
> 		o New module installation dialog: This was already discussed on
> this list. Should be very easy to use, powerful and fast. It should
> support automatic download, unpacking and installation. The manager
> should also check for common problems like access rights etc. This
> task is a little more difficult.

As a side not on the module instelation. It should be able to:

1) check for updated versions of the modules. Module revision is 
already kept in the conf file so this shouldn't be to hard. The reason 
for this is that chris updates and fixes modules often.

2) Maybe while checking for write permissions it could ask for root 
password or install into the users home directory. 

The rest sounds good to me.

>
> 	-Improvements:
> 	-------------------
> 		o Better printing: It should not only depend on verses and
> chapters. It should be possible to print selected text of display
> windows and preview widgets.
> 		o Better Drag&Drop system: The current Drag&Drop of only one item
> is not good enough. It should be possible to drag more than one
> module, reference and bookmark at the same time. It should be
> possible to drag different types together.
> 		o Undo&Redo in the main index: Undo&Redo should be possible for the
> actions in the CGroupManager class. Maybe we should use the KCommand*
> classes of the kdeui library, but this would require KDE 2.1 or later
> 		o Small changes to the chapter display: The current verse should
> not be highlighted, but it should jump to the verse (no new lookup) o
> Better optionsdialog: More options like selection of prefered strong
> dictionary, prefered bible etc. The last options should be similair
> to the windows frontend's optiondialog.
> 		o Save state of workspace: The status of the workspace should be
> saved on closing BibleTime. Different profiles etc. should be
> implemented after 1.1.
>
> After BibleTime 1.1
> ------------------------
> 	After 1.1 we should implement support for automatic module creation
> using SWModule::CreateModule, write support for Bibles and
> lexicons/dictionaries. We should also improve the editor for this new
> write support, we should add spell checking etc.
> We should also add support for different workspace profiles.
>
> BibleTime 2.0
> ----------------
> Major improvements like a new display widget, a new workspace,
> morphological analysis, interlinear support, right to left etc.
>
>
> Please post comments and changed to this plan. After the discussion I
> will publish a new plan which should be used by all developers.
> If you like you may volunteer for the different tasks now!
>
> Thank you and may God bless you all! I'm glad that so many new
> developers arrived in our tam!
>
> Joachim

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