Poll 1: I think it's fine to nuke the help browser. The manual is written in HTML, so a web browser seems to me like a natural tool to view it. It's hard to imagine many people using Solfege who don't have a web browser on their computer that they can use. I can't think of any other reasons why someone would be significantly inconvenienced by having to view the manual in a web browser. A few seconds for the browser to open, a few seconds to resize the windows to see both the manual and Solfege at once, and then using the keyboard or mouse to switch back and forth... none of that seems like a big deal to me.
Poll 2: I think it's okay to force the intermediate upgrade. People are used to that sort of thing from operating system upgrades, I think. And I doubt many people would actually have to do it. I imagine it will be a while before 3.18 is out, right? I would think most serious Solfege users would already have upgraded to 3.16 by that time. If someone hasn't upgraded by that time, then they probably aren't serious enough about Solfege to care much if their stats are lost, or they won't mind doing the intermediate upgrade. One exception might be users of Linux distros with badly outdated Solfege versions in their repositories, so it might be worth trying to get the major distros up to date before 3.18 comes out. --Allen On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > Poll 1 > ====== > Solfege has a help browser that can pop up a window with the user > manual. This uses a primitive html viewer that I wrote, and with the > --enable-gtkhtml command line option, it will use the gtkhtml2 module. > The problem is that gtkhtml2 is not easy to get to work on MS Windows, > and now it seems that the html viewer I wrote exposes bugs in gtk on > ubuntu karmic and some osx installs. It is not easy to fix this. I > also realise I have to be careful with the time I use on Solfege, so > make sure it brings the project forward. > > Do you think it is ok to nuke the help browser? Pressing F1 or > selecting Help=>User Manual will display the documentation in your web > browser. In 3.14 it is configurable if the help browser or a web > browser is used. > > Poll 2 > ====== > Is it ok to require that people that will upgrade from solfege 3.14 or > older to 3.18 or later _HAVE_ to install and run 3.16 once to convert > their statistics to the new file format that _will_ be introduced in > 3.16. 3.16 is the release I am preparing now. Doing this let me get > rid of old code and improves the code quality of the code that is > left. > > -- > Tom Cato Amundsen <[email protected]> http://www.solfege.org/ > GNU Solfege - free ear training http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Solfege-devel mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Solfege-devel mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel
