I agree that none of these are show stoppers. They are all, as Dimitry pointed out, about making the program easier to use. However, I do believe they are all bugs that should be fixed, though I don't believe they are urgent enough that they have to be fixed this round. I'll be happy if they are fixed in the next release.
These all look minor, and individually, they are. I wrote them up because these are items that continually frustrate me. I suspect other users are frustrated as well, but decide the problem isn't worth the time and energy involved to file a bug report. The reasons these are bugs, and not feature requests, is that FreeMind has a GUI that conforms closely to the generally accepted standards of the most popular software packages in use. Where we depart from the expected behavior, the user sees it as a mistake on our part. To explain better. I'll use one of my favorite open source programs as an example. Blender, www.blender.org, is a great piece of software. It's a very powerful modeling and animation program, but it suffers from a significant problem. It's interface is so different from what most people expect, that they are daunted when they try to learn it. Many give up in frustration, and miss out on a wonderful tool. Ironically, once you do understand the Blender interface, you find it easy to do things that are often clumsy in other, similar, programs. It could be argued that Blender has a better interface than the standard interface for GUI programs. The problem is that everyone who wants to use Blender has to learn that new interface, and what they learn about running Blender, can't be applied to any other program. This is exactly what Windows, X-Windows, and Max OS/X, were supposed to eliminate, the need to learn a new interface for each program you buy. I think we do best by making our interface as consistent with other programs as possible. Ray Dimitry Polivaev wrote: > Hello Dan and the others, > > Ray has submitted some bug reports: > > 1856137 Formatting state not reflected in menu for line width > 1856134 New node uses line format from parent node not sibling > 1856069 Scrolling by using mouse on scroll bar ends > 1856066 Zoom factor not saved > 1854266 Save icon should be enabled/disabled as needed > > The first issue is about the check marks in menus where I still wait for > Chris to make his suggestions about how to solve it for the plug-in (as > he has claimed that he knows a good solution). > > I think that his further suggestions make sense, but for me they are > feature requests, not bug reports, because all of them are about lack of > functionality and not about unstable or inconsistent behavior. > > Could you please have a look at the last reports from Ray and say, which > ones should be implemented in the coming version and which ones should > be postponed. > > IMHO none of the points is a show stopper. > > Dimitry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Freemind-developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freemind-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer
