[bt-devel] New passage selector proposal

[Kevin Shenk]

Patrick, as a BibleTime user, I can say I love your ideas and would be
excited to see BibleTime 2.0 totally revamped in this direction.

Here's my two cents:  Building on familiarity is a huge asset to usability
(IMHO).  You're already borrowing several concepts from the web & web
browsers, but I say keep going!  Realistically, most of us use the web more
then any other computer activity now-a-days, so unless we have a
fundamentally better design them them, it simply makes sense to mimic their
functionality.

For example, I would place the back/forward buttons to the left of the
location bar, with tabs above, just like Google Chrome.  I would also
display search results with a Google feel to it.  Maybe I'm just too much
of a Google fan =)

I would also combine all of the passage selection modules into one unified
layout, where the book, chapter, and verse could all be
changed simultaneously from one screen; computer screens have plenty of
room after all.  (Am I making sense?  Just combine the top two mockups into
one.)

God Bless!
--
Kevin

P.S.  Maybe the new programmer (rrieba1 at gmail.com) would be interested in
joining this effort?  He seems to have lots of experience and
qualifications...

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Patrick Zimmermann <patrick at zakweb.de>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> since IRC doesn't seem to be a good place for feature proposal and
> feedback, I
> repost this as an email. This should give everyone more time to respond.
>
> I made up a new GUI for selecting passages and doing searches in BT. I
> would
> like your opinion on this before starting with the implementation to
> prevent
> extra work.
>
> The basic idea behind all this is to provide a quicker workflow for
> accessing
> bible passages. Passages of which I may or may not know the exact verse,
> i.e.
> I have to search.
>
> http://devel.bibletime.info/images/0/09/SelectorProposal.png
>
> Any feedback is very welcome.
>
> Greetings,
> Patrick
>
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