Hi Peter,
Been playing with Mnemosyne 2 Beta on my Windows 7 machine. I like it,
congratulations! I had some thoughts about the beta. I'm not a programmer,
so a lot of these are cosmetic, user-experience type suggestions.
-The add card, edit card, browse card dialog boxes need maximize buttons. If
you use large fonts for your cards, the default size of the dialog box is
not large enough to fit the information on the card.
-The "Browse cards" table has tons of sortable columns. You should be able
to select which columns appear. Say you're interested in only the "Question"
and "Modified" fields--now you have to scroll left-to-right, as there are
more columns than can fit the screen.
-"Browse cards" dialog box. Fields who entries are too long to be fit their
table cell should be displayed on mouseover.
-The Chinese language sort is worthless on my machine. As I've mentioned
before, Chinese characters should be sorted alphabetically by pinyin, not
character radical. Right now it's actually worse than Mnemosyne 1.x, since
the "Browse cards" dialog box no longer sorts this way (it did before).
Ditto for the "deactivate cards" window. Can anyone else learning Chinese
with Mnemosyne verify this?
-The quick icons are great, but there should be an option to hide them.
-Support should be added for Up/Down/Page Up/Page Down keys for scrolling
Questions and Answers too large for the screen while reviewing. Right now
we're forced to use the mouse to scroll.
-"Add cards" dialog box. When text font color is set to white and background
set to black, I'm losing my text cursor.
-"Browse Cards" dialog box. "Preview card" option should have a keyboard
shortcut.
-I know the help files aren't written yet. Just noting that "Clone card
types" isn't intuitive--ie, I don't know what this means. Also,
tech-illiterate users (like me!) will need the sync and server stuff
explained to them.
-"Show statistics" window is sluggish. I created a new database, added 2
cards and reviewed them. Opening the statistics window, moving between tabs
and changing graphs was slow, even with just two cards.
-The "Configure Mnemosyne" window opens very slowly for me. Over a second
and a half.
-Card appearance. Should you be able to display different languages in
different sizes within the same card? My cards have both Chinese and English
on them. However I set the various "writing system" font sizes, they all
show up the same size.
-Card appearance dialog box >> Preview Cards popup window. Pressing Enter
does not close this window.
-Plugins window. Opens in a small size, so you have to scroll to read the
plugin descriptions.
-Plugins window. It should be clearer exactly what descriptions belong to
which names. Eg., the sentence "A card type blanking out certain
fragments..." looks like it goes along with the Map plug-in, not the Cloze
Deletion plug-in.
-"(De)activate cards" and "Browse cards" windows. A very minor issue. In the
left column are small triangles that can clicked to expand or hide the
entries to their right. Mnemosyne should remember your settings on these,
rather than resetting them to open each time.
-Do all the old plugins have to be rewritten for Mnemosyne 2? I use Timothy
Bourke's fast-format plugin. All my cards use ##, _, '', etc., which don't
display properly in Beta 2.
-Is it possible, currently, to do Mnemosyne 2 reviews on a cell phone?
Hope some of these suggestions are helpful! Thank you Peter and the other
programmers for your hard work!
Cheers,
-murrayjames
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Tel. 780-791-4651 (Canada)
+86-18608001531 (China)
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Website: http://www.murrayjames.net
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