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

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:38 -0500, David Bolton wrote:
> 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.
Jeremiah/Nils can you comment/action?
> 
> 
> 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).
Can you check this - the one's that fail (for me) are the ones in the
view->articulation pallette
Perhaps I should move this message to the pop-up of that palette (I'm
not absolutely sure where else they might be used).


>  After multiple launches the pop up also 
> becomes tedious.
can you hit return to dismiss it? Yeh, but your right, it would be
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.)
That sounds like a very good point - this dialog is not a general
purpose one as I recall, so that could be fixed easily.
> 
> * 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".
Hmm, that's me. I don't know how to find the user's file association
for .pdf I would be glad if someone could tell me...
I'll look into the other one.

> 
> * 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.
I am afraid I think it is probably completely broken at present, and
should be temporarily removed.
Thank you very much for these comments - I'll try and get the fixes in
to this release.
Richard