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Font size appears a little large.
Home Page
EDIT: I forgot to add the screenshot. Here it is.
The "Rebuild index" command seems to be broken for me on MacOS.
Thanks for reporting this, I've filed a case.
The font size is too big for the "Faithlife Websites" section of the desktop. It makes that section much more pronounced than the other left pane sections. Is this by design, just affecting my system, affecting all PC system, or just my eyes seeing it this way (it's possible)?
See my previous reply for screenshot.
Is this by design
It is advertising, so I assume it is "by design."
I am disappointed in decisions that are being made to 'upgrade' the software, like this new advertising-oriented feature in the side pane, especially when some of the more egregious UI bugs that have been reported, that are "on the list", seem to continue to get ignored. Why can't these be fixed, they can't be that difficult and it would improve the user experience significantly?
Things like (from the Mac side):
- the use of the command box leaves 'left overs' that require additional keystrokes to use again, a behavior different from elsewhere in the program;
- big gaps show up regularly in Logos/Verbum's Home Page display, the first thing many users see - a behavior very shoddy compared to other programs' displays and acknowledged as a problem;
- populating dropdown delays have been improved but are still a major problem in some areas. For example, typing a new scripture reference in the AYBC on the fastest Mac laptop that exists right now takes EIGHTEEN seconds to populate the dropdown to go to another book!
I am sure there are others, I know there are a lot of issues asking for attention, I just wish it wouldn't seem like user problems that get reported get ignored for months, even years (check the threads to see that is the case). Delays this long sends the message to users "We really aren't going to fix these...", right?
A concerted effort to clean up the UI even more would make Logos/Verbum a prize for people used to working with other software, and would be more favorably received IMHO than some of the choices of 'new features' we have seen. Make what's there work even better!!
Thanks for listening.
Is this by design It is advertising, so I assume it is "by design."
I hope that is not the primary reason. Why advertise (in this way) on the primary product, when the primary product is advertising in itself? It was fine with me, the size of the previous font, but this size stands out too much. I pretty much know how to get to each of the websites by url, so for now I turned it off from the program settings until it is changed to a smaller size. Somehow I recall this issue in the past, and it was reduced..
Thanks
I turned it off from the program settings
to turn off: de-select "Faithlife Websites" [unclick box at bottom of selection list]
(Couldn't do a proper screen shot - first click on "sprocket" symbol at top right of screen)
Then go down to the very bottom of the left column to the check-off box for "Faithlife Websites"
I turned it off
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In fairness to FL, changing these product names in the sidebar was likely a very simplistic programing change that required very little research, coding, effort, etc. The other items you mention likely can't be resolved as simplistically as the products names in the sidebar.
I really did not mean for my reply concerning the left pane websites section to blow up this part of the forum post. I was just looking for acknowledgement that it had been seen/noted by Faithlife. My second, more vocal reply, with more specific questions, was due to the thoughts "Hmmm. Maybe my 1st reply wasn't seen. The reply after mine concerning indexing was acknowledged. I'll reply again with some specific questions and statements.".
Don, I always appreciate your feedback. As usual, deciding how to prioritize a given piece of work has to consider three dimensions:
The higher individual value, the more people using it, and the lower the effort, the more likely it is that we will do it sooner.
Mike's speculation above is correct: since this isn't a new feature, it was a trivial amount of work to swap in some new images, and it contributes to the brand strengthening we have been doing lately across all Faithlife products. It has almost zero impact on our capacity to work on other things.
Now, of course you are right that we have been prioritizing other, higher-effort things over the concerns you list above. Let me try to address each in turn.
The command box is old code that has gotten bloated over time. It really deserves a complete re-write. This is a major effort, but also has high value, especially for heavy users. I'm hoping we this is something we can address some time in the coming year.
I know this is an important one to you personally. Otherwise, we haven't had a lot of feedback about it; most people seem to be happy with the home page (or there are other things they don't like about it). Having said that, there is definitely some room for improvement, and we do have some ideas on how to make the home page more useful.
This is a known issue that's a medium priority on our backlog. It might be time to promote it, and get it done.
A concerted effort to clean up the UI. ... Make what's there work even better!!
I'd like to hear more about your thoughts on this. Would you start a new thread about what general UI clean up is most important to you?
The "Rebuild index" command seems to be broken for me on MacOS. Thanks for reporting this, I've filed a case.
My indexer does not start. This is the last part of my indexer.log file, always the same when I start up this beta:
dyld: Library not loaded: libSinaiBookBuilderAndIndexer.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Logos.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer Reason: image not founddyld: Library not loaded: libSinaiBookBuilderAndIndexer.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Logos.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer Reason: image not founddyld: Library not loaded: libSinaiBookBuilderAndIndexer.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Logos.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer Reason: image not founddyld: Library not loaded: libSinaiBookBuilderAndIndexer.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Logos.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer Reason: image not founddyld: Library not loaded: libSinaiBookBuilderAndIndexer.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Logos.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer Reason: image not founddyld: Library not loaded: libSinaiBookBuilderAndIndexer.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Logos.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer Reason: image not founddyld: Library not loaded: libSinaiBookBuilderAndIndexer.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Logos.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer.app/Contents/MacOS/LogosIndexer Reason: image not found
This has been fixed in 7.15 Beta 4.
