[sword-devel] Any modern web ui available?

[Greg Hellings]

On Aug 14, 2012 10:28 PM, "DM Smith" <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
> Not quite native. Like BibleDesktop, it doesn't quite look like a Mac
application. Much of the look and feel problems that BD has so does BT.
>
> I'm glad I have a fast mac. For whatever reason, it is slower than I
would have expected for a C++ application.
>

I find it to be spontaneously slow at random times on Linux, too. Was there
one place where you found it consistently slow?

> Criticism aside, it seems quite stable and it does the job.
>
> I think Joachim knows of BT on Mac. :) If any of you on the BT team can
help Xiphos get on the Mac, that'd be great! (We're all in this together!)
>

I and Martin did most of the work. I no longer have a Mac, and Martin is no
longer active. I also have next to no free time until I resolve my current
employment back to a single job (hopefully only another few weeks). After
that I would happily work on Xiphos-Mac if I could. But most of the heavy
lifting of the packaging was done by CMake and came for free when bibletime
made that move. Xiphos uses wash, and I don't know if there is an
equivalent to CPack.

> I could provide some detailed criticism if it'd be helpful. Much of it
would be based upon the log in my own eye as a BD dev.
>

Maybe in bugs or the wiki. We have received such criticism before, but
since no active BibleTime developer uses Mac there is little likelihood
they will ever be addressed.

--Greg

> In His Service,
> DM
>
> On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Mike Hart <just_mike_y at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> It's a native mac client, not a web GUI, so probably slightly
off-topic,  but.... Don't forget the *beta* version of Bibletime-Mac that
has performed flawlessly(*) for me for the last 8 months.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibletime/files/BibleTime%202/
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org>
>> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Any modern web ui available?
>>
>> There's one under development: STEP by Tyndale House. See:
http://www.crosswire.org/~chrisburrell/
>> Don't know how current it is. Certainly has a ways to go.
>>
>> The other choices for Mac are Bible Desktop, AlKitab,  and FireBible (a
plugin for FireFox).
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by filter keys in large dictionaries, but BD
handles large dictionaries with ease. I'm working on getting av11n in the
next release (which should have been by now, but, you know, life
happens....). So development is active, but way too slow for anyone's
liking.
>>
>> With a bit of effort, Xiphos probably can be compiled for Mac. The
Xiphos team would love someone to pickup packaging for the Mac.
>>
>> In Him,
>>     DM
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Joachim Ansorg <
nospam+sword-devel at joachim-ansorg.de> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > is there any modern web ui available to work with Sword modules?
>> >
>> > I'm on mac now and all Eloquent has shortcomings (can't filter the
keys in large dictionaries, for example) and does not seem to be under
active development any more.
>> >
>> > A web fronted would be ideal for me as I could use it on Mac, tablet
and anywhere else.
>> > The current web frontend on crosswire.org can't handle dictionaries,
for example. (and needs a face lift ;)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Joachim
>> > --
>> > <>< Re: deemed!
>> >
>> >
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