9 Jan 2009 19:48
Some thoughts about user-friendliness and the core.
Hello, i have tried it in the forum and the bug tracker more than one time, but no answer (or no good answer), therefore here again, some ideas about user-friendliness. (With "Core" I mean all protocols, plugins and the miranda32.exe on the SVN) A) "What's new?" The popup, fingerprint and some other plugins have a nice feature. When an user install a new version, he see a window with important changes when he start this new version the first time. It would be nice to have this feature in the core too. There are sites like: http://www.miranda-im.org/download/ , http://www.miranda-im.org/2008/11/19/miranda-im-v0713-released/ , http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=641595 or http://forums.miranda-im.org/showthread.php?t=20606 , sure, but 1)Who read it? 2) There are 100th other sites, like https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=94142&package_id=100076 , http://fileforum.betanews.com/ , http://www.filehippo.com/download_miranda/changelog/ without infos about important changes (or without any info). I mean not changelogs like "0.7.13 includes stability fixes for Jabber" that's very important, yes, but it's more or less unimportant for the users. But for e.g. the account managem the search box in the options, uPnP, ..., this should be display somewhere if a new version start the first time. Either a dialog with a translatable text or a dialog with a HTML control (the url can be in the language pack or the English language(Continue reading)

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