MarK:
Hello! Great feedback, thanks. Some quick replies inline:
> When I started the application, I was also looking for:
> 1. some way to "sort"/categorise/filter the displayed items (as for
> example, at work, there is a vast number of PCs on the domain that I
> don't care about but a small set of printers and Unix systems I DO care
> about).
Right. Am working now, in fact, on a "Hidden List" capability,
where the user can choose which devices to "hide away" so you don't have
to see them in the main GUI all the time.
> 2. A text FIND capability to find a system-icon by a specific
> sub-string in its identity
OOoo. That's be useful.
> 3. a way to "page" or "row" down the diagram (e.g using page up/down
> and up/down arrow)
Good idea. That should be easy enough to sneak in...
> Icons
> 1.IMHO The currently selected icon could do with greater distinction
> e.g. change inside circle to yellow and/or change circle itself to
> maroon.
Am working on a new icon set as well. You're right that it's
not easy enough to distinguish what's selected and what's not. Version
0.80 should have this, as well as 6 or so more icon sets you can
assign to a device.
> 2. I found that 80% of my icons needed two text lines underneath (none
> needed 3). This meant that the "on top" icons became slightly
> misaligned whereas those "suspended" all looked in-line. I suggest
> using 2 lines for all (but maintaining assumed capability to handle 3
> or more lines).
Another good idea. I should add this to the "unique name"
fix that's on my list (ie, you can mistakingly give all of your
devices the same name right now. A bit too flexible IMO).
> 3. "highlight on hover" this was clearly designed to handle the over 1
> text line case. IMHO, it would be nice to have hover-display always
> enabled even when only 1 line required (or "all identity" already
> displayed).
So...rather than having to click to select a device, you'd
rather it become selected when the mouse "hovered" over it?
> The first test I tried was to remove a printer from my NT4 system
> printers folder and try refresh in Kaboodle: Kaboodle failed to refresh
> it but the change was, as expected, reflected when I restarted Kaboodle.
> No real problem there unless using display as a real-time monitor.
We're working on the real-time monitor thread right now as
well (different group from the icon developers). You may notice
that Kaboodle can double-count things: it can find a driver for a
network printer, and find the device on the network, and so give it
two icons.
Worse case, if you ever need to, you can open the registry
with regedit and delete the Kaboodle entry. That will completely
refresh the whole "Network Population List".
> I'll play some more next week and figure out how to view the "forum"
> (saw it earlier but can't get to your homepage right now).
Cool. I'll post the "VPN HOWTO" instructions to this list
in a few minutes...
Thanks for the feedback!
-Scott
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