[Mak-developer] Next Feature

[Jared R. <ja...@wo...>]

[Citation date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 21:49:13 +0100]

>>>>> wildatheartx == wildatheartx  <wil...@gm...>

    wildatheartx> it is time, to decide which features' development is
    wildatheartx> to stress, or to integrate as next...

Might I suggest:

  - Roadmap/vision (where is this thing going?  why another app in
    this area?  what's the key differentiation?  what is this
    booktranslation stuff?  what functions would jEdit integration
    perform?)

  - User documentation (very unclear how to add nodes, edit, move, or
    do anything else)

  - Documented and mostly-locked XML data structure, to allow for
    third-party apps?

  - Home page with something useful

Definitely some usability improvements would be nice, but I would
suggest it'd be helpful to know where you are going with such
changes.  What's the primary user interface model?  Are you going to
use menus?  Is left-click the primary "action"?  Will right-click be
used?  etc, etc

Just some suggestions from an absolute newbie.  I did run the program
and managed to add a node, but couldn't do anything else.  As such,
I'm still a FreeMind user, so there's no particular reason to follow
suggestions from someone who isn't even using the program (yet) :)

-- ja...@wo...

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