There are many very good comments here! I have some things of my own laundry list to add. In a quick re-read before posting the list rings more of complaint than helpful feedback. Please understand that's not the tone I mean to impart. I really like Leo, but I do have a hard time getting completely comfortable with it. ;-)
> 1. The goal is to increase the number of Leo's users. As others have said, one click install would be very very nice. I'd like to extend that thinking to include "one click use". I'm not being literal, I talking about the feeling of a one click install carried over to smoothly and easily using Leo. For example: Why do I have to edit a file, or multiple files, and read a whole bunch of stuff which only vaguely makes sense because a lot of it is new, to explore plugins? It would be so much easier if there were a menu/page/something which presented the list of available plugins with enable/disable checkboxes, a short description of what they do and clickable link for more information. http://lifehacker.com/5789781/step-up-your-notepad%252B%252B-game-with-powerful-plugins how many steps (clicks, types, etc.) does it take to build a myLeoSettings.leo on a new machine? What if personal preferences were automatically built from an dialog like the plugins manager floated above? (e.g. if user enables a plugin, the setting for that is copied from LeoSettings.leo to myLeoSettings.leo and saved. or something). Make "edit node in external editor" work out of the box seamlessly so people who are just testing the water don't feel like they're being asked to give up what they're familiar with. The search and replace experience is broken. My #1 use of external editor is in order to do simple s+r like a global rename "fooBar" to "foobar" in one step. Rich text (html) renderding enabled by default so that when looking at things like "About plugin" the [html] [text] buttons actually do something and the first thing one sees is not <pre> and > < etc. People like toolbars. Make it easy to add frequently used commands to a toolbar, maybe by dragging and dropping from the menus? (or nodes?) Helper text, defaults. For a while I thought the [Nav] pane was broken because the initial view is a completely blank area and I didn't realize it was search function. A simple phrase would help "type and press enter to locate occurences of...". The confusion was minor and short lived, but it needn't have occurred at all. This is a good example of how a one-click install feeling could be carried over. Make the leo website a first class citizen: - acquire www.leo-editor.org (or variant) - fix the broken search - apply server side redirects so old links can find the new home page (for example the Flattr link is broken), or use a custom 404 that suggests alternatives (http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/beautiful-and-useful-404-error-pages-for-inspiration/; I like #14 because it includes a search box) - fix the wiki or find a new one where user contributed recipes and documentation can be worked on (make sure it's hosted on leo-editor.org) Video's, screencasts, recipes, demos! Leo is unlike anything else. Reading the docs, asking questions on the forum, and the like is a great way to learn things but there is so much of what makes Leo useful that just can't be conveyed easily in words. Setup a ShowMeDo channel (http://showmedo.com/). Stories. It's things like this that first caught my attention http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html (the long ones). There were one or two by Edward that were inspirational but I can't find right now; perhaps they're buried in the mailing list. A faster fancier glitzier way of doing X is interesting but only for a moment or three. Far more intriguing is seeing how Leo enables things which just weren't possible before, or changes how one works or looks at data forever (regardless of whether Leo is actually used in X). cheers, -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
