[Bibdesk-develop] Re: 1.0

[Michael M. <mic...@ma...>]

I'll try to respond to many of your recent emails at once :)

I just experienced a reality check on my end-of-quarter projects, so 
I'll have to let BibDesk sit for a week or two now. I didn't make all 
the nib changes, and haven't started on any documentation updates.
I had two other major changes planned that dealt with how authors were 
handled and making the edit window less like a whole separate document. 
Those will also have to wait.

About the cite modes idea you mentioned - I just looked at the note you 
sent about it, 10/18/02, right? I have to admit I don't really 
understand what is going on with it. Could you explain it in another 
email with the picture? Sorry if it's obvious, I just don't get what 
it's controlling and what the fields represent...

About the font pref GUI suggestions - The last suggestion (subject: 
more) looks fine, but I don't get the bottom one in the first email 
(subject: font pref suggestion) - how do we know what the font choice 
affects, and how do we know what adding a font choice will do? And I 
cringe a little to say it, but when will we need more than three font 
preferences?

Another thought I had about font preferences - why not avoid font prefs 
altogether and make it more of a direct manipulation thing - eg, just 
have a 'change font' menu item in the contextual menu of each thing 
that can be changed, and remember the change?

-mike

PS bruce, can you continue just emailing to the list if it's not really 
just for me? I just noticed that the list probably misses out on more 
than half of our conversations. Thanks.

On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 12:45  PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>
> On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 11:35 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:
>
>> By the way, you mentioned what was required for a 1.0 release - I 
>> agree that z39.50 searching makes a great feature, but I think I'll 
>> go 1.0 even before I get to that, if I can do these things:
>> 1 - build a reasonable test suite for everything that deals with 
>> data. (opening/saving, etc)
>> 2 - undo support throughout the edit and browser windows. (This 
>> shouldn't be as hard as it is, so either it'll be in soon or not for 
>> a while)
>> 3 - Documentation. A real manual, and some on-line help files. I've 
>> gotten a trivial start on this.
>
> I can help with feedback and editing on 3.  Best time for me to deal 
> with that would be over the holidays...
>
> I'd urge you to consider if you can fit in the cite modes thing I've 
> mentioned before 1.0 because a) it's useful now, and b) sets things in 
> place for later extension (which has obvious bearing on writing 
> manuals and so forth).  You just need a nice pref UI that groups cite 
> strings into categories, and to assign keyboard options to them.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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Michael McCracken
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