Beta 4 Quick Impressions
Not a comprehensive review, but things I have noticed:
The Good
- The program seems more responsive in general, but not ready for prime-time. If I click on an icon, there is a delay, but it seems to be not as bad.
- No crashes - ever. In fact, I have not crashed since Beta 1, and that was rare.
- No more log-in problems.
- The program seems to come up, log in, and be ready to go more quickly now. I would like to seem more improvement though. It opens almost as fast as V3. Getting there...
- Basic Search is almost Google-fast. Just about there!
The Bad
- My top annoyance has not been addressed: When changing layouts, there is a delay, the entire program re-sizes, then another delay, then I finally get my layout. My blood pressure goes up 3 points each time.
- Bible Search is still unusable. It may have gotten a little faster, but it still took over a minute to do a simple search. Back to v3 when I need to do that, and v3 and I broke up weeks ago. I feel like I am cheating on v4.
There are other things, but those are first on my mind. I think we are getting better with each release, which is the point of course. But be encouraged Logos; this thing is pretty darn awesome!!!
Jerry
Macbook Air (2024), Apple M2, 16gb Ram, Mac Sequoia, 1TB storage
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II agree with Jerry's assessment. The software is still slow in responding. I have never experienced a crash using the prom just during the install of the second beta. However the indexing is quite burdensome and it also eats a lot or resources. Things improve with each beta. But the indexing slows the rest of my computer as I do other things. I can live with the layout issue but the unresponsiveness and resource hogging needs addressed.
to be honest I am struggling with the whole look. I dont like the newspaper, and I dont like that I cant find my esv reverse interlinear, I find the windows seem cluttered, and most of all I think I dont like it because I am using it on a windows machine, and I dont like windows any more! The machine I am on does not seem to be "man" enough to run it, tho it reached the spec, The indexing is way way to slow, and in fact never finished on my slow machine. Perhaps as a result, everything I ask it to do simply fails. I think I need to check out till you have a mac version, and pray that the mac version looks a lot less like a PC program. I was so excited too, but I think nice clean smooth mac programs have spoilt me!
to be honest I am struggling with the whole look. I dont like the newspaper, and I dont like that I cant find my esv reverse interlinear, I find the windows seem cluttered, and most of all I think I dont like it because I am using it on a windows machine, and I dont like windows any more! The machine I am on does not seem to be "man" enough to run it, tho it reached the spec, The indexing is way way to slow, and in fact never finished on my slow machine. Perhaps as a result, everything I ask it to do simply fails. I think I need to check out till you have a mac version, and pray that the mac version looks a lot less like a PC program. I was so excited too, but I think nice clean smooth mac programs have spoilt me!
Hi Adrian,
Small world so you made it into Beta, i was beginning to wonder if you would show up. Speak to you later.
Kind Regards,
Ted.
Dell, studio XPS 7100, Ram 8GB, 64 - bit Operating System, AMD Phenom(mt) IIX6 1055T Processor 2.80 GHZ
Thanks for the feedback.
The layout changes are slow because they involve closing and then opening multiple panes, which is time consuming. We're looking into some optimizations, but when you move to a layout with multiple resources, it's just going to be a bit slow -- it has a lot to do.
I can understand what you are saying, and I could live with a delay in changing. What really bothers me is that the program shrinks and re-sizes. It comes back to normal, but it just seems weird and visually unapealing. Could just that part be fixed?
Thank you Bob, for responding and explaining things to us non-programmers. I am a complete fan of v4 and the direction you are taking us!
Jerry
Macbook Air (2024), Apple M2, 16gb Ram, Mac Sequoia, 1TB storage
As for the Bible search: searching one Bible on grace came back in 3 sec, top Bibles came back in 5 sec, but searching all Bibles did take 61 sec....
So for me since I rarely uses most of the versions not in top Bibles it is still very quick for me, but I can see the need to optimize for those who use all versions consistently, that one minute is pretty long.
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I agree with Jerry, it is a bit disorienting. Can you buffer the draw until everything is done and then draw it all at once?
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