[jsword-devel] updates

[Don Parris]

Mark Goodwin wrote:
> Agreed, a wizard is the way forward...
> 
> It looks great.  Putting my 'managed to stay awake during at least one
> HCI lecture at uni' hat on, I can see a couple of things we might want
> to look at:
> 
> 1) Perhaps we should tell the new users where in the tools menu they
> can go to install books (see attachment).  Pedantic, perhaps, but a
> new program is a bewildering thing to lots of people.

The Wizard should suggest they use Tools --> Books to bring up the dialogue, 
  and then use the Crosswire tab to choose a new book to download.
> 
> 2)  The books dialogue appears a) on the wrong tab, and b) with no
> book metadata available.  This means that users have to realise not
> only that this 'crosswire' tab is where they go to get bibles that
> aren't already installed, but that they need to 'refresh' this list
> (that wasn't populated in the first place).
> 
> I didn't look at how to fix point 2, and I'm not sure I'll have time
> today,  Do you reckon it's worth looking at?

Are you saying that the Crosswire tab should come first in order?  You 
definitely should put a note somewhere for users to know that they need to 
click Refresh.  Better yet, Change "Refresh" to "Update Remote (List)".  At 
least call it "Update", then add a tooltip.

> 
> A final thought; do you think renaming the 'Crosswire' tab to
> 'Internet' (at least while we only ship with a single remote installer
> / location) would help new users?

If you decide to change it, change it to "Remote", as I could set up a LAN 
with the module depot stored on the file server.  My LAN users would be able 
to dl new modules from the LAN or the Sword site.

D.C.

> 
> HTH
> 
> MarkG
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:08:38 +0100, Joe Walker <joseph.walker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I realised that a "How to install Bibles" wizarad could be as simple
>>as a 10 liner to popup a warning dialog if no Bibles installed on
>>launch, so I added it.
>>
>>I think we're done with 0.9.8. I'm going to spend some time poking
>>around, and if I don't find anything, and if no-one points out any
>>issues then I'll label it and we're done.
>>
>>Joe.
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