wm 0970 pre alpha ;-)

[josip]

Many of you will be glad to hear that there is only one feature on the
list for the next release of wm: The infamous info bar or status bar
or whatever it should be called.

For quick inside see:

http://groups.google.com/group/writemonkey/browse_thread/thread/56f70884cc0a8e41/b59a8a7e87b985b4?lnk=gst&q=info+bar#b59a8a7e87b985b4

and:

http://groups.google.com/group/writemonkey/browse_thread/thread/92d0b0ea5436978a/21f626952a2132bb?lnk=gst&q=info+bar#21f626952a2132bb

A lot of code needs to be redone for this one. Mainly because of
legacy code; current progress bar was implemented at the very
beginning of wm development. The progress dialog should change
completely or be replaced with smth new (maybe a new tab in
preferences) ... Quite a big one if I want to be done as it should
be. That is as perfect as possible :)

With your help of course. The most important thing is the user
interface. Functional, minimal, user friendly, zenish ... I'll
probably start with some illustrator sketches and posted them there
for discussion.You are all welcomed to participate.

I should also mention that wm is approaching a point of some kind of
maturity. It should be called at least ver 1.0. That said, there are
some necessary things to do: proper documentation, multi language
support and licensing (free is to vague, it should be formalized).

When I work on wm, I do my best and I do it with pleasure. Alas, I
have also other less funish things to do, so I don't know how long it
will take. A year ago I released 1 version each month, now it is more
like one in couple of months. But it will happen ;-)
i.

[Zappa]

First, thanks for all your work... and the release of 0.9.6.

And now another feature suggestion for 0.9.7:

The context menu now has more than 30 items in all, that comes a
little 'unhandy' especially when working on a netbook with 1024x600
(or less) resolution.
So I'd suggest to organize the items in cascading sub menus, optional
of course.

Example:
- the 'Toggle' section in a sub menu,
- the 'File' section in a sub,
- the 'Print' section,
- the 'Markup'...,
- the 'Copy & Pasta'... and so on ...

That could reduce it's height to less than the half and all netbook
users would love you for that :)

ZAP

On 19 Nov., 20:14, josip <broj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Many of you will be glad to hear that there is only one feature on the
> list for the next release of wm: The infamous info bar or status bar
> or whatever it should be called.
>
> For quick inside see:
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/writemonkey/browse_thread/thread/56f70...
>
> and:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/writemonkey/browse_thread/thread/92d0b...

[Paolo Tramannoni]

Iztok,

No need to hurry up development. WM is already a "mature" tool, in the
sense that it does what was meant to do in the most elegant way. When
1.0 is out, please don't be tempted to add more that polishing and
refinement features - not new features that will make it something
different, too similar to other, overcrowded text editors.

Paolo

[Kensai]

So, I'm guessing the revamp of the progress system involved with the
tool bar will fix the issue of not keeping partial counts and word
count goals when moving from machine to machine. I'm using the
portable profile and a thumb drive and these counts revert to whatever
it had been last time I was on a particular machine. I would think
these sort of data are prime candidates for being stored in file
metadata so they're maintained no matter what hardware is being used
to edit them.

Kensai

[Jan]

I agree with Kensai. In fact, this behaviour (WM prefers the local
settings rather than the thumb drive's ones) deals with *all* the
settings, and right now, the only way to avoid this is to
systematically re-import the portable profile at first WM launch from
the thumb drive.

It would be nice if I can tell WM to always re-import - by itself -
the "portable" profile at start-up.

JB

[spectr...@gmail.com]

Looking forward to this. The infobar is probably the reason i keep
firing up Q10. Simple and elegant.

On Nov 19, 12:14 pm, josip <broj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Many of you will be glad to hear that there is only one feature on the
> list for the next release of wm: The infamous info bar or status bar
> or whatever it should be called.
>
> For quick inside see:
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/writemonkey/browse_thread/thread/56f70...
>
> and:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/writemonkey/browse_thread/thread/92d0b...