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

[Martin Gruner]

I agree.

> 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.
>
> 	-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