(I apologize if this is a double-post, I had problems sending my original message.)
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 On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>wrote: > http://users.ugent.be/~pbienst/pub/mnemosyne-beta-2-setup.exe > > -make import under Windows more robust (reported by Per Torhammer and > Uschi) > -log uncaught exceptions to UI (suggested by Dave Harding) > -save column width and sort order in card browser > > Per and Uschi, you might want to try this version, there is a big chance > your > import issues are fixed here. > > Enjoy! > > Peter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > > -- ================= Murray James Morrison Saxophonist, Composer, Music Educator Tel. 780-791-4651 (Canada) +86-18608001531 (China) Email. [email protected] Website: http://www.murrayjames.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
