Dear all, many of the new features of the coming release have required a lot of working hours for getting the next version work. Personally I have implemented the following tasks:
* Filters and Attributes, * SimplyHTML and its use as a rich text editor, * New implementation of Layout and Painting. (The last package have required intensive testing phase, which started with release of the beta10, and now the most bugs are removed.) Now I was able to concentrate on a smaller problems. This weekend I was investigating and fixing problems with undoing and redoing of actions with multiple line contents. After many hours of intensive work I could fix the items. If you want to see the bugs, just produce some plain text node with multiple lines and try to undo and redo the operation in say beta12. After that try to insert a structured plain text with miltiple lines having different amout of the leading spaces. Try it with the root node and a not root node as a paste target. Try to undo and redo the operations. All these things did not work until the improvements I have done now. In the last time my attention was pointed to the use of FreeMind as a tool for presentation and documentation. The first problem was that the selected nodes were the worst readable nodes on the map because of their gray background. I have addressed this problem adding different options for the colors. This working package was very small compared to the all previous tasks, and it is solved now. The solution opens many new possibilities for using of FreeMind for performing presentations and moderating discussion - always when the map is intended to be shown to many people using a beamer. I was impressed by the return which can be achieved by relatively small amount of work. That's why I have declared this feature the most important feature of the whole release. And now I would like to address some other issues which can be done relatively quick and safe. This issues are important if the map should be given to other people. I see following issues here: 1. In order to insure that the map have the same look on all computers, there is a need of the option to save its default map background color, node background color, node text color, node font family and font size with the map itself. I started with the map background color and have seen the lack of the other features. 2. I missed a way to add some nodes not visible connected to the other nodes. So I would like to introduce the invisible edges, which would make a kind of headings or remarks inside of the maps possible. I see that developing of such new options would lead to the new delay of the final release. Such delay would be minimal, because implementing of all those things do not require any significant amount of work compared to all the tasks mentioned above. One there are introduced, these options are able to open completely new ways of using the FreeMind to many people. And if they were not introduced in 0.9.0 the most of the people would have to wait until the next major release, although I could implement all them in one weekend. Let me sum up. All of us have done a lot for the new release. All of us want that the release come soon. The new features I have proposed can not course any significant delay, because they require only small amount of work. Only some small steps more have to be done. Such steps can not course a significant delay of the coming release, but they can help many people to use FreeMind for the tasks it could not be used else. That's why I apply for making the improvements before the release candidate for 0.9.0 is published. Dear team, if you still have another opinion, you could just ignore my point. Should ignoring the others be our way to manage the project? I have spent so much time for FreeMind that I do not think anybody could say ma that there is no time for a discussion about a question so important to me before the decision is taken. Surely you can just ignore my opinion. Think about whether your time is worth doing it. I send a copy of this post to the open discussion forum too, because I would like to get the community feedback about the discussed issues. Best regards, Dimitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freemind-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer
