AW: [Mak-developer] Next Feature

[<wil...@gm...>]

OK, complaint by complaint :)
The next release, which isn't far from now (usability improvements, mostly),
will contain the concept, of the mak (14 pages of tex docu roadmap).
It is true, that the usability wasn't considered in the rc1, but was a great
topic the last
week.
btw: If you rest on the toolbar buttons for a while Tooltip texts will
popup, explaining, what the button means.

-- I will as well adjoin some documentation

-- The xml format will be locked, in the next, or the following version

-- For the homepage, this will take a while (this has the lowest priority,
sorry but the mindmap itself goes first)

	Greetings and thank you for the feedback
		Richard

PS: What feature would absolutely convert you to a mak user ?


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Jared Rhine [mailto:ja...@wo...]
Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Dezember 2000 22:08
An: wil...@gm...
Cc: mak...@li...
Betreff: [Mak-developer] Next Feature


[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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