Hello Chris,

I have tested all the bugs that you have fixed, and confirm that they
are really fixed as far as my tests show. I am especially grateful for
your adding the pop up for the confirmation of conversion of a mind
map to the new format.

There are several bugs of which you say that you are going to fix them
later, meaning not in 0.9.0. I am not officially responsible for the
quality of FreeMind, and the ultimate authority to decide when
FreeMind is ready for final release is yours. I note, from the roles
of FreeMind tester and unofficial quality manager that I have had,
that some of these unfixed bugs are inacceptable from my quality
manager's point of view. I will add some more notes on these bugs in
the following.

2. Zoom: no zooming effect on node editors
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2800933&group_id=7118&atid=107118
This bug of rich text editing failing to zoom can be fixed with
acceptable effort. It does not appear in my private version of
FreeMind. Based on my private version of FreeMind, I have posted some
suggestions into the bug report on how to fix the bug. If these
suggestions did not work, something along the lines of them must work.
This is not a hard problem. Importantly, the problem concerns every
edit of a rich text node when the mind map is zoomed, which concerns
all people who prefer zoomed mind maps be it for their eyesight or for
their having high PPI display. It is not a minor usability problem
with a rarely used function, but rather it is there right in the
middle of the main function that FreeMind offers.

7. Crypted root's childnodes order error
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2912427&group_id=7118&atid=107118
This bug does not lose data, but it is annoying, its correction should
be easy, and it is a regression bug absent in FreeMind 0.8.1. There
should be no need for a user to manually correct the order of, say,
ten nodes after FreeMind breaks their order after decrypting an
encrypted node.

10. RC4 regression: incorrect viewing of UTF-8 map
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2810535&group_id=7118
You say "Can't be reproduced under Linux. I'll will check under
Windows later." I have reproduced the bug in Windows. It is a bug that
prevents loading of certain reasonably formatted mind maps not created
by FreeMind. FreeMind's format should be open, in that it should be
possible to create mind maps in this format outside of FreeMind. This
is not the kind of bug over which one should hurry up to get the final
release out. It is a regression bug, absent in 0.9.0 RC3.

I sincerely recommend that you consider the option of fixing these
bugs. I know that it will cause extra effort, and that it will delay
the final release a further bit. But there should be some time now
left for translators to provide the new translations anyway, so the
delay consideration should be insignificant. After so many years of
development, it would be pity to release final 0.9.0 with the kind of
bugs as are the three mentioned in this email.

Best regards,
Dan

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