[kde-edu]: Importing KWordQuiz

[Peter Hedlund]

Hi,

Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:07, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> 
>>As this week I have a bit more time, I am going to ask a sysadmin to move 
>>KWordQuiz in kdeedu and to move flashkard out.
>>Any objections?
> 
> 
> I still have a couple of issues with the interface.  (Though I'm not opposed 
> to the move this week -- this just reminded me.)

Good. I've been waiting for your comments.

> *) It's not possible to "combine sets" by opening multiple files at once.  
> This should be pretty easy and is something that FlashKard could always do.

This is a request I've had before. I'll look into how FlashKard does it. 
   For now copy and paste works fine. KWordQuiz will insert rows as 
needed if you paste a large block of entries.

> *) The default GUI layout looks pretty cluttered.  I think something like this 
> would probably help: http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/images/kwordquiz.png 

You are basically hiding the main toolbar during a quiz. Aren't most GUI 
guidlines arguing against hiding things. Instead unavailable functions 
should be disabled.

> don't think it makes sense to have the special characters toolbar enabled 
> before the user has configured special characters (or at least they should 
> default to stuff that isn't on pretty much every keyboard in the world).

I'll provide more sensible defaults. I think the user should be 
presented with the toolbar to know that it's there.

> *) The mode descriptions don't really make any sense.  "Column 2 <-> 1 
> Randomly" doesn't really say much.

The columns used to be entitled Language 1 and Language 2. Based on our 
previous discussions I have removed/changed all references to "language" 
to better reflect that the program is not only for language learning.

> *) A progress bar would be nice.

Showing the progress of what?

> *) In multiple choice mode it's strange interactively for there to not at 
> least be a small delay between clicking on a radio button and continuing.  
> Either those should be switched to buttons (where the user expects an 
> immediate responce) or a small delay should be used (maybe one second with a 
> QTimer::singleShot()).

I don't like timers. Should the default be that you have to click the 
Check button? This behavior can be changed in Settings->Configure 
KWordQuiz...

Thanks,
Peter