[Parley-devel] Some ideas after a 1st test of parley on OSX

[Inge Wallin]

Hey Marko,

This is super good feedback.  As I already told Marko, many of these are 
already in the roadmap. Most or all of the issues that are not have been 
added to the TODO file now.  But here are some comments on a few 
individual ones:


On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:57:21 AM Marko Käning wrote:
>  1) There is no information in its main dialog if the file has been changed
> (dirty flag, somewhere easily visible).

This is shown in the window title bar showing "[modified]" after the 
filename.
 
>  4) Practicing written words: lists of correct answers are hard to 
remember,
> as the order has to be recalled exactly with the correct punctuation.
> Instead Parley should somehow understand that multiple answers are 
possible
> and should also weight the answers correspondingly.

This one is impossible to fix right now because there is no well defined way 
to separate different alternatives. But there is a big task called "new file 
format" where this will be handled properly.

In the mean time we could possibly introduce a hack by letting the user 
add a separator character to the files which will only be recognized by 
newer versions of parley.

>  8) "Request Correction”-button as well as “Submit Correction”-button
> allowing the user to contact and support the collection data maintainer
> actively in order to improve the data quality.

This is impossible to implement right now because there is no way to send 
feedback like this to the opendesktop services, where is where these files 
are currently stored.  We have an idea of starting to use a more modern 
approach for Get Hot New Stuff (probably a Bodega store), which will make 
it easier.

> 13) Accessing Parley’s “Preferences” menu item in OSX’s main menu via
> “parley/Preferences…” crashes the application. Choosing 
“Settings/Configure
> Parley…”, however, works just fine!

This is difficult for me to find since I don't have OSX (yet?).  Could 
somebody who works a lot on the Mac help me here (hint, hint)?


Thanks again for the time you took to test parley and write this down.  

	-Inge