Phillip Jones wrote:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Shouting won't help. Trying to help to get code into place does.
Scratching your own itch by actually working on it is the best way to
get things done in any open source project.
I thought you (some developer?) said it had to be accepted by Firefox
because it would be in the common code. In any case, motivation wanes
now that there is an add-in which is usable if not perfect.
It depends on what it does, and Firefox/platform people are just about
as appreciative of someone working to improve their code than we are.
And a number of the things requested of the form manager are probably
things that need to be implemented in SeaMonkey code in any case.
First, a specific thing the code should do needs to be identified, a bug
filed, then the code needs to be written, and depending on where the
code changes are located, it needs review from platform or SeaMonkey
people to get in.
We are friends with the Firefox and Mozilla platform teams, and we know
they are just as grateful of people helping to improve their code as we
are. There are even acknowledged bug reports and feature requests on
their side of forms and password management that just are lacking
someone to work on them, and which would help all of us.
Robert Kaiser
If I could get back into SM 1.1.18 without downloading any email or news
post I'd take screen shots of what went on in the Forms manager.
Obviously you can, use a new profile. Pull the network cable out out for two
minutes while you create it. But most of us understand where forms were,
hopefully if someone were going to create a new forms system it would be even
better. The perfect forms manager will be able to do both field fill in and
handle named form templates so people who have to fill out the same form with
6-8 sets of data don't have to click every field and choose the value.
I don't think the coding is the hardest part, the design, including the user
interface, is going to be the hardest (and no mater what it is some people won't
like it). That's assuming that all parties could agree what it should look like.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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