From: Don A. <dal...@us...> - 2002-02-09 06:02:11
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If you have a chance, please take the time to answer the following questions to help guide the direction of GRAMPS. 1) What desktop environment do you use (KDE, GNOME, xfce, enlightenment, etc). 2) What is your preferred word processor (KWord, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc.) 3) What genealogy reports are most important to you? 4) What features are missing by GRAMPS that would be the most useful to you? 5) Is the capability to extend GRAMPS via plugins important? 6) What other genealogy programs do you use? 7) Would support for a peer-to-peer genealogy system be of value to you? 8) What is the biggest drawback of GRAMPS as you see it? Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions. Don -- Don Allingham dal...@us... http://gramps.sourceforge.net |
From: Bernd S. <sc...@gm...> - 2002-02-09 17:17:41
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> 1) What desktop environment do you use (KDE, GNOME, xfce, enlightenment, > etc). GNOME & Sawmill > 2) What is your preferred word processor (KWord, OpenOffice, AbiWord, > etc.) Emacs & LaTeX > 3) What genealogy reports are most important to you? > > 4) What features are missing by GRAMPS that would be the most useful to > you? Name database: Names (person, places, events...) and their meaning > 5) Is the capability to extend GRAMPS via plugins important? Absolutely, yes! > 6) What other genealogy programs do you use? None > 7) Would support for a peer-to-peer genealogy system be of value to you? No > 8) What is the biggest drawback of GRAMPS as you see it? Fear of loosing data -- Bernd Schandl Tired of spam? Use spamcop.net to complain! |
From: Don A. <dal...@us...> - 2002-02-10 00:12:51
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On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 09:15, Bernd Schandl wrote: > > 8) What is the biggest drawback of GRAMPS as you see it? > > Fear of loosing data > What I can suggest here is to enable version control. If you enable version control, you can always roll back to a previous version. The system is pretty reliable, since it is built on RCS. Don -- Don Allingham dal...@us... http://gramps.sourceforge.net |
From: Lou S. <lr...@at...> - 2002-02-10 18:25:39
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Allingham" <dal...@us...> To: "Gramps Users List" <gra...@li...> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 1:01 AM Subject: [Gramps-users] Help guide the direction of GRAMPS > If you have a chance, please take the time to answer the following > questions to help guide the direction of GRAMPS. > > 1) What desktop environment do you use (KDE, GNOME, xfce, enlightenment, > etc). more KDE than GNOME only because the machine running KDE is faster > 2) What is your preferred word processor (KWord, OpenOffice, AbiWord, > etc.) I tend not to use any word processor, however, I have all three of the aforementioned WPs installed. KWord HTML, Tex, RTF, SGML, Plain Text, AbiWord, AbiWord: AbiWord, docbook, HTML, Latex, Palm Psion, RTF, txt, UTF8, etc Openoffice has the most limited output formats. I think the important issue is to allow the "backend" conversions (i.e. possible by using the plugin feature to call standard unix filters) between gramps output formats. I think having native XML report format and using XSLT to do some conversions might work well. > 3) What genealogy reports are most important to you? I like graphs, i.e. wall charts, summary reports, reports generated for missing data. Adding the Graphviz option to all ancestor, descendant, would be good. If you wish I can fiddle with this stuff and/or others. There are other products such as, aisee, vgc, and vgj stuff. Population reports, i.e. by country, province, state, etc. > 4) What features are missing by GRAMPS that would be the most useful to > you? A research module which would allow for coordination of research efforts. I can go into details at another time... > 5) Is the capability to extend GRAMPS via plugins important? Yes. But maybe begin defining "plugins" via some of the XML software definition standard, i.e. all plugins will be defined using XML and a plugin engine would operate on the XML definition and would drive the actions of the plugin object. > 6) What other genealogy programs do you use? FTM, PAF 5.0, GRAMPS > 7) Would support for a peer-to-peer genealogy system be of value to you? Both, the BYU, gntp work and the jxta. I remember mentioning these issues to you a while back. I haven't seen other genealogy programs incorporate these features, however, I believe that this is the way to go. The work at BYU is still in it's infancy compared to the work at JXTA. I would think that the work going on at sun is more extensive and well thrashed out. > 8) What is the biggest drawback of GRAMPS as you see it? I think the web site module can be inhanced in a number of ways with some of the following, canned web page templates Browse button for "include a link to the index page. option to generate more than one web site and the ability to save options for each site. Autosearching features the web and also online database which would returned properly parts info for inclusion into gramps.. Find/Replace option to selectively or globally edit (or standardize) place,source, individual names. Add a standard Country code abbrieviation database. Possibly begin using other XML constructs within the data.gramps file such as XPath, Xpointer, etc to maybe reduce the size of the database one must read into memory. Thank you Lou Spironello > Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions. > > Don > > -- > Don Allingham > dal...@us... > http://gramps.sourceforge.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > |
From: Andres <an...@cc...> - 2002-02-11 18:37:43
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> 1) What desktop environment do you use (KDE, GNOME, xfce, enlightenment, > etc). GNOME > 2) What is your preferred word processor (KWord, OpenOffice, AbiWord, > etc.) AbiWord, EMACS > 3) What genealogy reports are most important to you? Descendants Tree. I recently saw a very fancy one. It was like a semicircle where the main person was at the centre and his/her parents branching out and their parens branching out also. It was a prety goof way to find out what ancestors/surnames hadn't been researched yet. I'll find out the name of that kind of graph... > 4) What features are missing by GRAMPS that would be the most useful to > you? What about a geographical map with the statistics on the number of persons per country/city? Maybe with a way to zoom in/out to the desired resolution.... (just daydreaming) > 5) Is the capability to extend GRAMPS via plugins important? Yes. > 6) What other genealogy programs do you use? None, but friends use PAF > 7) Would support for a peer-to-peer genealogy system be of value to you? Seems interesting, yes. > 8) What is the biggest drawback of GRAMPS as you see it? Loading time with big databases. > > Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions. > > Don > > -- > Don Allingham > dal...@us... > http://gramps.sourceforge.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > |
From: Don W. <do...@wh...> - 2002-02-12 01:04:18
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> > >1) What desktop environment do you use (KDE, GNOME, xfce, enlightenment, >etc). > Normally KDE, infrequently GNOME > >2) What is your preferred word processor (KWord, OpenOffice, AbiWord, >etc.) > OpenOffice, WordPerfect 8 > >3) What genealogy reports are most important to you? > A Fan Chart would be interesting but not a high priority. > > >4) What features are missing by GRAMPS that would be the most useful to >you? > >5) Is the capability to extend GRAMPS via plugins important? > Definitely > >6) What other genealogy programs do you use? > Migrating from Family Origins (Windows) > >7) Would support for a peer-to-peer genealogy system be of value to you? > Seems interesting but will have to research. > >8) What is the biggest drawback of GRAMPS as you see it? > Memory-based data access. > |