[Gnumed-devel] Post-bootstrap questions, including client feedback 0.4.6-1

[Jim Busser]

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1) If a user would be unable to log into GNUmed, is there any value  
to help them to distinguish whether their Postgres server was not yet  
configured to accept gm* connections, or whether that has been done  
and instead it must be some issue with their personal account?

2) I noticed with Kirk's caveat of peniciilin allergy, the database  
(post-bootstrap and test-data-loading) displays that the allergy  
state was last confirmed on the date of import (though I did not  
confirm it) and the peniciilin allergy item was given a "date noted"  
date of import. In fact,  they were one day apart but I think that  
was a problem of ntpdate having a bug which adversely affected my  
system date / time.

I guess my question 2) is whether it is the fact that some test data  
is missing information that causes the database to fill in values  
based on the date-time when the test data was loaded, or will the  
process of copying data forward into upgraded databases write new  
date-time stamps into the data?

3) In the "EMR tree" plugin, right half of the split screen, can we  
incorporate the "Date Noted" into any display of the list of  
"Allergies and intolerances" as:
   Penicillin: developed... (noted <date>)
and also can we make more prominent the "does" when the state is  
"does have allergies"
   ... perhaps *does* have allergies

4) When one logs into GNUmed, the GUI opens to "no patient" however  
once a patient has been set into focus there seems no way to "flush"  
the current patient to return to a "no patient" state. One would have  
to launch a new client. This awareness came to mind because I was  
thinking to do a screenshot with no patient in focus, which is no big  
deal. However, thinking ahead, some new person may come into my  
office or exam room when I am not ready to lookup a new patient...  
maybe I am hesitating on the new person's name (and embarrassing  
myself) but in the meantime may like to clear out the last patient's  
details so that these do not remain in view on the screen. Presently  
if one deletes all text from the patient name / search combo box and  
presses "return" or "enter", nothing happens, and immediately as you  
click anywhere else in the screen, the in-focus patient's name  
returns. Would it be reasonable that if the cursor is in the combo  
search box, and the user presses return or enter with this box empty,  
any patient that was in-focus comes out of focus and the demographic  
data and any caveat gets "flushed"?

5) I *love* the fact that one can go directly via the menu GNUmed >  
Plugins... to a plugin of interest.

6) the plugin toolstrip at the bottom of the screen functions  
differently than I might expect. Clicking on the left ( < ) or right  
( > ) arrow does not bring unseen plugins into view... these icons  
instead shift the focus from whatever is the in-focus plugin to the  
one that is to the left or right. Therefore if I wished to access a  
plugin that was out of view it would be faster to first click to the  
plugin that *is* in view at the right or left edge. But even then, if  
the plugin I wanted was two or three away from being in view, I would  
be IMHO needlessly clicking "through" the plugins that were "in the  
way" and in some cases evoking (as with xDT) a modal file browser  
that I must dismiss.  Also if this xDT-evoked window is cancelled,  
the client cancels the requested shift in plug-ins. What alternative  
actions are programmable from clicking these "arrows"?

7) how is the format of the GNUmed client display of dates  
controlled? While Canada uses day / month / year I am dissatisfied  
with the resulting
  12 / 06 / 09
and wonder despite that I would remain living in Canada I could have
  12 / Jun / 2009 or
  12 Jun 2009 or
   2009-06-12?

8) when I click "Appointments" and despite that I am accessing a  
local GNUmed database (unless Korganizer is being pulled across the  
internet? what is the default) this plugin requires 45 seconds to  
respond. Part of this would be due to running in debuggin mode and  
part from the fact I am running in a VM but is still slow. Now I am  
realizing (when I click the KOrganizer button) that KOrganizer is not  
installed, which may be part of the delay, also however maybe the  
label atop the appointments list should not say "Today's KOrganizer  
appointments ... ". I am wondering the difference between clicking  
the "Appointment" plugin tab versus clicking (after that tab has  
loaded) inside this plugin on the button KOrganizer. Maybe given that  
the status info at bottom left of the screen can say "KOrganizer is  
not installed" it is a nice idea to use this same message atop the  
(empty) appointment list?

9) In the inbox, the text "Welcome..." is positioned nearly 2cm to  
the right of the text of the line that is below it. Can the "Welcome"  
text be shfted left to be put vertically inline with "Below..." ?