On 04/14/2010 01:41 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
Anyhow, I fear the discussion is reaching far afield from my original
questions, which revolved around the question of consistent baseline
user experience and what we ought to require (in some fuzzy sense) of
Sword app teams' development.
What does Joe Average expect from any app labeled "The Sword Project"?
I guessed I missed this for all the talk of import/export between
applications.
There are two wiki pages regarding SWORD application features:
http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList
http://crosswire.org/wiki/Choosing_a_SWORD_program
(Both of these have been mentioned in the thread)
The FeatureList is a bit of a hybrid outlining what a full-featured
SWORD program should have (the minimal set of features) and what it
could have. This page is not meant for end users. I was wanting it to
remain a minimal set. In there it would have been appropriate to add
image resizing. Yes, Xiphos is the only that does it, still.
The page "Choosing a SWORD program" was intended to help an end user
pick an app based on what was important to them. I think has gotten a
bit too detailed and a bit too techie. To me it also served a couple of
other purposes: It serves as a way of encouraging other devs to improve
their apps. And allow end users to be aware of the breadth of
CrossWire's offering.
I think that baseline is constantly changing. As Xiphos gets image
resizing, it sets the bar higher for the other apps. As JSword and
BibleTime allow searching of cross-references, it sets the bar. Each
change conditions end users to expect more. Is there anything on the
Feature List page that should not be there? Anything missing?
I really don't know what end users want from a SWORD frontend, unless,
as you pointed out, they speak up. Otherwise they get the whim of the
developer.
BTW, if all the frontends had a consistent baseline of user experience,
what would distinguish them?
In Him,
DM
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