[Denemo-devel] First-time user (Windows build)

[David Bolton]

I just downloaded Denemo. The interface is pretty straight forward and 
it will be very useful the next time I want to create a Lilypond file. 
However, I have some suggestions so I listed them below.

Web site:

* Link to bug tracker is blocked by Firefox 3 ("savannah.gnu.org uses an 
invalid security certificate") The regular http version (rather than the 
"secure" https version) loads fine. Maybe it would be a good idea to 
link to the regular http version for now.


Program

* Before each launch the following alert pops up: "some icons will not 
display properly, but program will run ok." Although the message is well 
intentioned I'm not sure it is necessary since all icons displayed 
properly (albeit non-native). After multiple launches the pop up also 
becomes tedious.

* When closing an unsaved document Denemo pops up with a Yes/No dialog. 
Meaningful buttons (ie. "Don't save", "Save", and "Cancel") are 
preferable over Yes/No dialogs especially for dialogs with significant 
consequences. (A user that isn't reading the dialog carefully might 
click "Yes" thinking that means "Save" when in fact the opposite is true.)

* The default path locations in the preference dialog do not use system 
defaults. For example the path for "Pdf Viewer" links to a 4.0 version 
of Adobe Acrobat (latest version is 8.0), and the "Default Save Path" 
links to a user called "rich".

* I have tried opening some Lilypond files with Denemo but it "wasn't 
able to cope". It would be nice if it could try its best to load a file 
even if it didn't understand everything.

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David Bolton
http://davidbolton.info