Logos 6.0: What features do you want?

Denise said:

Just chatting with Logos a few days back, the workability of 'Basic Search' on George's computer is in Logos7, along with trees and bushes (and XJoshua's metadata).

Wrong.  It was in Windows 8.1

Hi, Lynden:

I have neither time nor energy to use all the features built into Logos5. As a retired software engineer, I can say from experience that new features inevitably make Logos slower. Only Notes and Searches interest me, so my wish list is simple:

Rewrite existing features, cleaning up the code to make everything run faster. I would pay for such an enhancement in a New York minute.

Reading a couple of newer threads made me want to come back and update this thread with a few other wishlist items I don't think I'd posted before although some have been mentioned in other threads or user voice by others first. Most of them are based on my desire for a simpler more focused interface on desktop and tablets, and improvements for touch based interfaces.

Transient side/bottom panels that attach to any border, can be assigned a resource or resource type, are normally auto hide, but can also be pinned. Activated by double clicking a word (lexicon/dictionary), having a small tab to grab or mouse-over (highlight palette). De-activated by clicking anywhere else. And/Or scrollable near-full screen tool tip that show entire articles.

Different themes for each resource type. I'd like to hide or minimize attention toward things like reference works or tool windows that I'm not focusing a lot of time on but only referencing for my study. Eg. Main text a high contrast near-white background with dark text while references are a lower contrast dark grey with black text. I realize this allows users to create highlight schemes that conflict with their layout themes, but I think it's worth the pain.

More control of user toolbar buttons. Assignable keyboard shortcuts, user icons, more access to Logos functions (Open Commentary New Tab), Show/Hide toggle buttons (Show/Hide BKC or Show/Hide BDAG). Make syncing tool bar between devices optional; different devices may suggest totally different toolbar organization. Maybe optional second row to toolbar; this seems esp useful on tablets but there may be better alternatives

Have the Next/Prev resource function automatically pre-load the N next/previous resources in background to make it faster and easier to use a single tab for a resource type, switching among parallel resources. Maybe use some type of prioritized circular list structure to organize those parallel resources according to most used as an alternative to using the Prioritized list.

Turn the homepage into a simple RSS feed reader. I love the nice layout, but it is too slow to use or be useful and I hate that all articles link out. I would love access to the logos blogs and other blogs I read through the home page with a simple click to expand the article in place or two pane design. Simple, fast, usable.

Lynden Williams said:

Download one engine, switch between Verbum and Logos, as well as any other new engines that they come out with.

Presently to install verbum, you have to download or copy all of your resources and then index.

Put all of the branded engines (Verbum, Noet, Logos 5 etc..) under one download, and use a switch to change among them.

OR have all libraries in one place.  One index. Maybe all resources will not work with all engines but each engine would recognize its resources. Common resources all together. Currently we can not use the Logos 5 engine, that becomes Verbum with switches, resources with the Verbum engine as we can not point Verbum at the Logos 5 resources and need to have duplicate libraries [mine is/are 17 Gig and growing] 

One engine with switches or One library.  [or both]

Here's my 2c worth:  I'd like to:

1. Second the request for a full featured touch friendly version.  I'd like to be able to use the fully functional version of Logos on any device within the Windows universe.  To be sure, I might only download a subset of my library onto a Windows Phone device, I would nonetheless like to be able do everything with that subset that I can do on a desktop.
2. Have a way to remove multiple resources quickly that aren't likely to be used.  For example, the Perseus collection is good but if I'm likely to only ever read the English translations, I'd like to be able to remove the Greek texts in one go.  That should reduce search times.

HTH

I second the touch-friendly version. I just got a laptop-tablet convertible, and I'm still trying to get comfortable with the Metro side. So part of the problem is me. I'm hoping to be able to use Logos 5 on the tablet side.

I want L6 to be L3...with updates.

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Philip Larson said:

I second the touch-friendly version. I just got a laptop-tablet convertible, and I'm still trying to get comfortable with the Metro side. So part of the problem is me. I'm hoping to be able to use Logos 5 on the tablet side.

Yes, I also second the need to have touch-friendly character of the next Logos.  [Y]

Better  linking/following. It's terribly annoying to move my Bible a verse or two (say Leviticus 15:23), and have my commentary jump back to the initial section because it's labeled Leviticus 15.)

One-way following maybe?

As many others have stated:

• No more use of WPF
• Touch friendly interface

One thing I would personally love would be the ability to see Bible texts without Chapter/Verse numbers and Periscope Headings, but still preserving the paragraph formatting.

Another would be optimizing the startup time for those of us not in the SSD lane. I've only seen seriously graphics intense games take the amount of time to load as L5 does. I don't have what one would consider an excessive amount of tabs to my standard layout, but the load time is crazy (I can load up almost all of the apps included in Adobe's CS6 Design Suite sequentially in less time than L5 loads on a standard HD). I know us Baptists like our coffee, but the Bible software we use shouldn't be coded to include the brewing time for a pot of coffee in the startup time! [:P]