Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users)

2014-06-09 Thread Todd Mars
There is no reason why the settings cannot be made user friendly, other than the work involved. Simply enumerating the specific problems from the beginning, and designing a friendly user interface to perform the tasks. When that is done, a good programmer can do it. Todd. -- You received

Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users)

2014-06-09 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 06:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Todd Mars tamn...@gmail.com wrote: There is no reason why the settings cannot be made user friendly, other than the work involved. Simply enumerating the specific problems from the beginning, and designing a friendly user interface to perform the

Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users)

2014-06-09 Thread Kent Tenney
Along these lines, I recall discussion of a possible clean-up of key bindings, a number of out-of-the-box bindings being somewhat obscure, and limiting availability for user-defined ones. I don't, however, recall the conclusion of the discussion. Thanks, Kent On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:42 AM,

Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users)

2014-06-09 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 10:42:36 -0500 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor leo-editor@googlegroups.com wrote: But you're right, ultimately it's just a matter of finding time. Baby steps, I just added color and font selection tools to LeoSettings, with the intent they be automatically copied into

Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users)

2014-06-09 Thread dufriz
As an alternative to a restructuring of the settings, I propose a menu-based simplified access to the settings, which will let the user zoom-in to the relevant part of the settings file. The most commonly used settings (font color and size, background color, etc.) would have an entry in the

Leo settings revamp (was Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users))

2014-06-09 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 10:06:09 -0700 (PDT) duf...@gmail.com wrote: As an alternative to a restructuring of the settings, I propose a menu-based simplified access to the settings, which will let the user zoom-in to the relevant part of the settings file. The most commonly used settings (font

Re: Leo settings revamp (was Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users))

2014-06-09 Thread dufriz
I am so glad all this is happening, at last! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups leo-editor group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send

Re: Leo settings revamp (was Re: Why Leo is not yet ready for prime time (for most users))

2014-06-09 Thread Fidel N
Im also very grateful. This has been my main concern about newbies eversince I joined Leo. Everyone is used to edit the basic config from a menu-like structure, only programmers can directly do that from an outline :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

v5.x roadmap -- Ideas, priorities, etc.

2014-06-09 Thread dufriz
Although I am not one of the developers, I think it's not out of place if I suggest that it's about time we start focusing on planning the next release, which as I understand would be v5.0. In fact, it would be nice to start laying down a tentative roadmap for the 5.x series of releases, so

Re: v5.x roadmap -- Ideas, priorities, etc.

2014-06-09 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:36:06 -0700 (PDT) duf...@gmail.com wrote: Although I am not one of the developers, I think it's not out of place if I suggest that it's about time we start focusing on planning the next release, which as I understand would be v5.0. In fact, it would be nice to start