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== beta2 testing ==
=Call for Feedback=
Please give us feedback on Kiwix! There are multiple ways to contribute feedback, depending on your preferences:
# Right here on the talk page below (set up a [[Special:UserLogin| user account]], go to the section of this page with your operating system, click "edit", and add your comments!)
# Go to [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=175508&atid=873515 Kiwix bug page on Sourceforge] and file a bug
# Email feedback@kiwix.org with notes (positive or negative!)


=== Windows ===
Thanks for your help in improving this product!


* <s>Some openZim files display no title, creator, language  .. etc</s>
= beta2 =
: <s>Lots of ZIM files do not have all the necessary metadata. What we should do:</s>
: * <s>Define if these metadata should be mandatory in a ZIM files (discussion started at dev-l@openzim.org). If yes made the necessary modification in the software to forbid ZIM files without these metadata.</s>
: *<s> Move on to update the sw which build ZIM files, this is already done for my perl scripts... but they are still issues for the online generated books: They have no description and favicon can not be specified (generic one).</s>


: <s>For the old files, nothing can be done [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 13:29, 17 June 2011 (CEST)</s>
==General==
* <s>It would be great if users who wanted to give feedback could either edit it here OR send a mail. Perhaps kiwix-feedback@ ? [[User:Tomasz|Tomasz]] 04:06, 18 August 2011 (CEST)</s>


::<s>I have updated kiwix-manage, only files with "title", "language" and "date" can now be added to a library.xml. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]]</s>
: <s>I have created feedback@kiwix.org pointing to ML kiwix-feedback@lists.sourceforge.net (private) where you, Jessie and me are there as reader. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 21:24, 18 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
::<s>Metadata are now mandatory, extension:collection mainly patch, still need to fix a few points, Feature request done. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 13:21, 12 August 2011 (CEST)</s>


* <s>Pause/Resume buttons have no text to describe what they do. I had to click on them to figure it out.
* <s>Highlight the content manager on first load. Have a giant arrow similar to drop box install that shows where it is. [[User:Tomasz|Tomasz]] 21:47, 23 August 2011 (CEST)</s>


:I will add a tooltip. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 13:29, 17 June 2011 (CEST)
:<s> Fully agree, at least if the user is online... but do you have a screenshot of dropbox install? I do not use such things... [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 21:53, 23 August 2011 (CEST)</s>


:: Done [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 09:35, 22 June 2011 (CEST)</s>
::: <s>Implemented, if no local content detected, load the content manager instead of the help page (first start use case). [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 08:43, 25 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
== Windows ==


* <s>I'd love an easy way to remove openZim files from the manager
== Linux ==
* When I select "Report a Bug" from the "Help" menu, it opens a "Launch Application" box and tells me to "Choose an Application." However, when I try to "Chose," it won't allow me to search for any sort of application! This may be a problem with Linux, but I think it might be a bug in reporting a bug!... (note: same is true for "Request Feature") [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 20:54, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
: This is not a bug, but the current solution is really not handful. You need to go to /usr/bin/ to find the firefox binary (for example). This problem occurs also by opening an external link in an article. This seems to be a GNU/Linux specific problem and is already tracked with this [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3376639&group_id=175508&atid=873518 feature request]. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 20:58, 1 September 2011 (CEST)


:I will add a "delete" button over the "load" one. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 13:29, 17 June 2011 (CEST)
* In the Content Library, is the reported article count correct? For example, one collection I made myself with 16 articles, says "(17 articles)" in the file's description in "My Library." More drastically (and actually, why I first noticed it), The Wikipedia 0.8 collection proclaims itself to have "45.000 best articles...", yet it says "(139.462 articles)"! Is there a way to check that?  [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 20:34, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
: This is wrong and right! Redirects are included (and I think it shouldn't. See [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3396763&group_id=175508&atid=873515 this bug report] [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 20:50, 1 September 2011 (CEST)


:: Done [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 20:53, 28 June 2011 (CEST)</s>
*<s> In Library in the library sections "My Library" and "Get New Files", neither the down or up arrow keyboard strokes work to navigate. This would certainly make it more user-friendly! [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 20:34, 1 September 2011 (CEST)</s>
: <s>100% agree, see [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3389511&group_id=175508&atid=873518 this feature request] [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 20:50, 1 September 2011 (CEST)</s>
:: <s>Implemented [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 22:16, 3 September 2011 (CEST) </s>


* <s>If i open two openZim files with tabs then every search will just be for the latest open file. If i search from an old tab then I get the newest tabs search results but upon click them i get a blank page.
* Files that have been deleted on disk still show up in content manager. Perhaps we can grey these out or remove them all together?
: Yes... interesting. Have to think about that. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 14:27, 19 August 2011 (CEST)


: I confirmed the bug, I think, after our discussion with Eloquence about the multifles support that I should in a first time avoid to have tabs belonging to different ZIM files displayed at the same time. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 13:29, 17 June 2011 (CEST)
* remove them all together would be great!! [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
: Hmm... not really enthusiastic about that feature request. Sounds dangerous, I do not really see the use case and do not know how to integrate it correctly in the user interface. Have to think more... [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 14:27, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
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*<s> for pages with italicized titles, the tab titles render strangely (for example, ''The Lion King'' = "<i> The Lion King</i>") [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
:<s>I can not reproduce the problem, here is the issue. What is the file you use exactly? Here is was I get : http://tmp.kiwix.org/tmp/screenshot_italic_title_issue.png [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 21:52, 18 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
::<s>I added a note to the [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3392172&group_id=175508&atid=873515 sourceforge bug] that I filed awhile ago which contains the picture and the information. I am using Kiwix 0.9 beta 2 with th en wikipedia 0.8. [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 03:03, 19 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
:::<s>I understand now. The problem is that you use a dev. version of the WP1 0.8 ZIM. This bug was already fixed many months ago and is in the ZIM builder script, not in Kiwix. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 08:00, 19 August 2011 (CEST)</s>


:: Tracked here https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=175508&atid=873515 [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 11:06, 20 July 2011 (CEST)</s>
* <s>Is it possible to add the keyboard shortcuts to close tabs (CTRL+W) and navigate between tabs (CTRL+Page Up or CTRL+Page Down)? [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
:<s>I can also not reproduce that problem, CTRL+w (close current tab) and CTRL+W (close all tabs) were implemented in beta2 and work for me. Il will implement the other shortcuts. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 21:57, 18 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
::<s>ok, I went through and tested and re-tested...it closes sometimes but not consistently (nor often). For example, if I have 3 tabs open and press CTRL+W (close all tabs), it asks if I want to do that. If I press "No", then I cannot use "CTRL+W" again if those same 3 tabs are open (if I open a 4th, then it will register that request again). For the CTRL+w: if I open three tabs in a row, then move back to one of the previous tabs (1st or 2nd), I cannot use the shortcut on any tab.[[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 03:03, 19 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
:::<s>Thx for the explanation. Problem understood. Will be fixed. 14:22, 19 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
::::<s>Everyting fixed and implemented :) [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 21:21, 19 August 2011 (CEST)</s>


::: Fixed [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 13:22, 12 August 2011 (CEST)
* <s>Start a content manager download. Then go to "My library" and delete a file. You'll notice that your download has stopped. We should keep downloading it in the background regardless of what i'm doing. [[User:Tomasz|Tomasz]] 19:22, 18 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
:<s>Visual artefact. Will fix the bug [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 14:22, 19 August 2011 (CEST)</s>
::<s> Fixed [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 16:14, 18 September 2011 (CEST) </s>


* It would be reasonable to allow one to copy the download link of an available zim file incase one wants to download using a download manager. This can be done by displaying a drop down menu - with a copy link option - upon left clicking an available zim file. [[User:Xelawafs|Xelawafs]] 15:45, 27 June 2011 (CEST)
===praise===
* Great that I have the option of closing any of the tabs that I have open (was not the case in Beta1)! [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
* Love the new images showing up in the "Get New Files" library [[User:Jwild|Jwild]] 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)


* kiwixchp.exe detected as a harmful or potentially unwanted software by Windows Defender [[User:Xelawafs|Xelawafs]] 15:45, 27 June 2011 (CEST)
== OSX ==


* Text for zim files displayed under library aren't selectable. It would come in handy incase one wants to go online and search for more info on a specific zim file - copying selected text is relatively faster and easier than typing [[User:Xelawafs|Xelawafs]] 15:54, 27 June 2011 (CEST)
* <s>hen a download finishes a window pops up that says "Download finished" .. followed by a second line of text saying the exact same thing.</s>
: <s>Fixed [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 16:24, 18 September 2011 (CEST) </s>
* Opening an openZim file after Kiwix is already running causes a second window to load. The second window looks great and its content manager is correct. But the primary window does not have the newly opened collection leading to confusion.
: Yes, I think everything should run only in a Window... but I have had a look, this is not so trivial to implement. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 18:20, 16 September 2011 (CEST)
* Logoes or figures do not show up for some libraries in the library content manager.
: These are old content without the newly mandatory metadata... they will be slowly replaced with new content (with icon). [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 14:20, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
* Tab buttons can be made the same as in Firefox 5 or 6, which looks much better.
: Yes, we still have to improve the UI design. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 14:20, 19 August 2011 (CEST)


* Adding a search option for zim files under '''Get New Files''' would come in handy especially if/when more zim files come up [[User:Xelawafs|Xelawafs]] 16:06, 27 June 2011 (CEST)
= Archives =
 
* [[/01-02-2011_01-01-06-2011|Season 1: Feb. to Jun. 2011]]
=== OSX ===
 
* No large issues
 
== pre-beta1 testing ==
* <s>installing pre-beta1 over alpha8 seems to empeach further indexing process (reported by Tomasz)
: We need here a repro. case. I was not able to reproduce this behaviour at all. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 12:08, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
:: Still no reprocase, so for me this story is outdated. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 10:22, 20 July 2011 (CEST)</s>
* <s>bad rand 0-20 if less than 20 results available (reported by Tomasz)</s> Fixed [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 21:10, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
* <s>bold search keywords in the snippets (reported by Tomasz)
: This is a complicated topic. For my opinion, this is a feature request which has to be logged for a next release. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 12:08, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
:: Here is the feature request https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=175508&atid=873518 [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 10:22, 20 July 2011 (CEST)</s>
 
* <s>implementing crtl+g (command+ on OSX) for search next in search in place (reported by Tomasz)</s> Implemented [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 17:29, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
* <s>suggestions should be able to match to titles which differ only in case (reported by Kaldari)</s> See point 9 of Nikhil's report. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 11:41, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 
=== pre-beta1 testing by Nikhil Sheth on Windows 7 OS ===
 
Conditions: Windows 7, Was using Kiwix + Wikipedia For Schools portable till now, have previously opened and indexed wikipedia en,hi,gu,mr in this and moved the profile folder to another drive. (see http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.com/2011/02/changing-profileindex-location-for.html for details). Downloaded and unzipped http://tmp.kiwix.org/tmp/kiwix-0.9-pre-beta1-win.zip and ran /kiwix/kiwix.exe (autorunner working good, but I haven't checked the installer.)
 
Searching: on typing a word and pressing Enter, instead of sidebar we now have a web-search-like results page.
 
1. <s>Under each link I only get "0 KB (0 words)" instead of any useful data, maybe because this is still using the old index created by the last version, but I advise someone check it out.
 
: Fully true, I have fixed the code to avoid displaying something about the size and the word count if the information is not in the search index. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 17:51, 2 April 2011 (UTC)</s>
 
2. <s>There are 20 search results per page. I feel this may hinder seeing result 21 onwards. What basis is used to order the search results - is it first-hit-first-serve or is there a ranking method? I know it can't be as efficient as a google ranking, so wondering if we might be hindering searching through the articles by limiting results.
 
: You can navigate through the result pages, so if there more result as 20, you will be able to get more. In past version the limit was 28 and it was not possible to get other results. The ranking is like before and based on many parameters (too complicated to explain here). So I see no bug here. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 17:55, 2 April 2011 (UTC)</s>
 
3. <s>For some reason I miss the search sidebar. I would previously find an exact article and go to it, but also have a list at the side where I could see suggestions for something related. Eg: Physics. I could then browse from one to another with a click. Now I'm directly taken to an article if I click on the auto-suggest option, and directly taken to search if I press enter or press the search button. I have to go back to search if I want to go to another article instead of just clicking on the side. So I feel like we've gone from more options to less options.
 
: I think they are two different things. (1) did you try to open article in a new tab, with the middle-click? so you can keep both results and article open at the same time. (2) if an article title matchs exactly a search pattern it will be loaded per default... maybe that needs to be changed... [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 19:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)</s>
 
:: My laptop doesn't have middle click (most mouse touchpads don't). I tried pressing both right-left at once but that didn't work either. And even right-click is disabled, so there's no way I can open in another tab from my end. Even Ctrl+Click or Alt+Click or Shift+Click aren't working. I think I should make a new request of this. [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] 03:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 
::I second the maybe in (2). From Wikipedia for Schools perspective, most students can't be expected to know exactly what they're searching for.  Exploration needs search results more than direct jumping. With the sidebar both were happening previously, right? [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] 03:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 
4. In English version, the tooltip for the Search in Page button is still only "Search" and it can be misleading, users might press this button at the near left of the search bar instead of the one at the far right which they should if they're searching for an article.
 
: Fixed, I have replaced the tooltip by "find in text" which should be less ambiguous. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 12:02, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 
5. Top menu > Tools > integrity check : clicking on it froze my Kiwix and I had to terminate it!
 
: The problem is that the check process needs a lot of time... So if you wait you will get the result and be able to use Kiwix afterward like always. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 12:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 
6. Major bug : Search results are 20 per page and there are links to 10 pages. We cannot go beyond the 200th search result even when it states there are over 200 results! Plus, when it crosses 1000 results, a decimal point instead of the (in English) regular comma is used, as if the total is a decimal fraction.
example: Top line on page 10 of search:galaxy :
"Results 180-200 of 1.103 for galaxy
 
: These two bugs are fixed [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 11:36, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 
7. We have to calculate from the top line to guess which search page we're on. Eg: Results 120-140 .. means I'm on page7. There is no information of page number, no next page / previous page link so if I came back here after seeing an article, it's a bit harder to guess which was the last or the next page I want to go to.
 
: These is fixed, the current page is "selected" (another background color) in the result page list. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 11:36, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 
8. Zoom In shortcut key Ctrl+ '+' doesn't work here. Zoom Out Ctrl+ '-' and original zoom Ctrl+ 0 works.
 
: I can not reproduce this bug. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 18:22, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 
:: Cracked it - in Windows and US Keyboard, the + character is accessed by holding Shift and pressing =. So you have to hold Shift to tell Kiwix you're pressing + key. So to zoom in we need to press Ctrl, Shift and + (or =, they're both on the same key). I suggest mapping the "=" key as well for zooming in, this is probably what they've done in web browsers too. [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] 03:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 
::: OK, I understand now. I have consequently introduced (like you suggested) this new keyboard shortcut. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 18:52, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 
9. If we're searching using capital letters, then the auto-suggest doesn't function. Also if a character in the target article has an uppercase char somewhere after the first, then putting it in lowercase also removes the auto-suggest. But then the main search is completely case insensitive.
Eg: typing "taj mahal" shows Taj Mahal in the auto-suggest right till the space, but as soon as I type m it disappears.
 
: This is the same bug as before reported by Ryan. We have a similar issue with accents... in accented languages like a lot of latin one. I think I need around 10 hours to fix the problem with lower/upper cases and 10 additional for the accents. Want to make a feature request for that (so will be fixed later). [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 11:40, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 
10. On entering two words and searching, it returns results that will have one or both the words. Searching for 'angelina humanist' - either without or with the single quotes - returns results that have one word or the other or both. But use double quotes and you get AND results - only pages that have both the words. This is good so far. But what do you do if you want to search for a phrase with exact order of words?
Eg: A search for a line from the Ulysses poem "Of all the western stars, until I die" (using double quotes) Does not return the Ulysses (poem) article in the first page.
 
: Position of words are not stored in the search index to reduce the disk usage. For this reason this is not possible to make search with exact match (using double quotes). Per default if you type many words, the OR operand is between them... the ranking algorithm makes the rest. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 12:05, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 
11. It may be nice if the text typed in the search bar stayed there instead of being wiped out, if in case we want to go back up and tweak it. Like, in Firefox, what I've typed in search bar stays there.
 
: This is now implemented. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 19:11, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 
12. This is just an extreme test : for zero results, with sample search string 'rtgrtrt', should there be a message saying "no results found for rtgrtrt" , or should it just give a popup (no, too jarring!) or something and not browse away from the article we are currently reading? Right now it shows a blank search results page with the line "Results 0-20 of 0 for rtgrtrt".
 
: Fixed, a "no result were found" message is displayed. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 11:46, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 
13. Pressing Escape key when typing in search bar is currently the same as pressing Enter. Previously with Search bar being used this was harmless, but now it takes us away from our current page. We might want to cancel our search instead of going ahead with it.
 
: Fixed [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 19:11, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 
14. Quite a large amount of screen real estate being wasted in search results. Could we render it in a table of 2 columns instead? Then maybe more search results per page can be accommodated.
 
: Ryan, is that a good idea? Should I simply show the 20 results in 2 columns? What think the other testers? [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 12:22, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
::I don't really think this is a big issue. Typically the user will find what they are looking for within the first 10 search results. I'm reluctant to do a multi-column layout since this may be confusing to some people. In my opinion, we should stick as closely as possible to the Google style of results since this is the most commonly used search interface that most people will be familiar with. [[User:Kaldari|Kaldari]] 21:35, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 
Not all of these are serious bugs and some are just quirks, but I thought I better be exhaustive in reporting. But I feel no.6 needs urgent attention. Regards, [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] 11:27, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 
====Follow-up, 28 April 2011====
Thanks for promptly fixing so many things! I'm sorry I couldn't get back sooner; here's a follow-up and some more requests. [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] 03:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 
1. <s>Opening in new Tab : Middle mouse button isn't there in many machines. Holding the Ctrl, Shift or Alt keys and clicking doesn't do it, so please map one of these (Ctrl will be best). Also, right-click should be enabled on links at least.</s>
 
: <s>ctrl+left click and right click opening mit contextual menu is now implemented. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 01:38, 22 June 2011 (CEST)</s>
 
:: <s>Drag&drop of the tabbar is also now implemented, so for me all the manner to open a link in a new tab are implemented. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 10:25, 20 July 2011 (CEST) </s>
 
2. <s>Request to have a right-click context menu. Windows users are so used to it that the absence of it makes us feel like something's wrong. What you can put in the context menu : </s>
 
* <s>Copy, for selected text. It's so much easier than going up to the top menu.
: Yes, tracked here https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3015761&group_id=175508&atid=873518 [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 10:57, 20 July 2011 (CEST) </s>
* <s>Open in new Tab, for link.
: <s>Done [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 10:57, 20 July 2011 (CEST) </s>
* <s>Search for selection : if a word or group of words is selected, user can start a search on that without having to copy and paste in search bar. Plus it would be better to open this search in a new tab.
: Very good idea, I will implement that. Here is the corresponding feature request https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=175508&atid=873518 [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 10:57, 20 July 2011 (CEST) </s>
 
3. <s>Please make Kiwix remember last visited page and tabs if multiple were open, and go there next time Kiwix is started. Or put that as an option somewhere the way we have in mozilla firefox (start at home page / remember tabs open from last time).
 
: Also a good idea I support. We have now a Preferences dialog box, so it should be inserted inside. Follow the story here https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=175508&atid=873518 [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 10:57, 20 July 2011 (CEST) </s>
 
Thanks! [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] 03:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 14:24, 18 September 2011

Call for Feedback

Please give us feedback on Kiwix! There are multiple ways to contribute feedback, depending on your preferences:

  1. Right here on the talk page below (set up a user account, go to the section of this page with your operating system, click "edit", and add your comments!)
  2. Go to Kiwix bug page on Sourceforge and file a bug
  3. Email feedback@kiwix.org with notes (positive or negative!)

Thanks for your help in improving this product!

beta2

General

  • It would be great if users who wanted to give feedback could either edit it here OR send a mail. Perhaps kiwix-feedback@ ? Tomasz 04:06, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
I have created feedback@kiwix.org pointing to ML kiwix-feedback@lists.sourceforge.net (private) where you, Jessie and me are there as reader. Kelson 21:24, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
  • Highlight the content manager on first load. Have a giant arrow similar to drop box install that shows where it is. Tomasz 21:47, 23 August 2011 (CEST)
Fully agree, at least if the user is online... but do you have a screenshot of dropbox install? I do not use such things... Kelson 21:53, 23 August 2011 (CEST)
Implemented, if no local content detected, load the content manager instead of the help page (first start use case). Kelson 08:43, 25 August 2011 (CEST)

Windows

Linux

  • When I select "Report a Bug" from the "Help" menu, it opens a "Launch Application" box and tells me to "Choose an Application." However, when I try to "Chose," it won't allow me to search for any sort of application! This may be a problem with Linux, but I think it might be a bug in reporting a bug!... (note: same is true for "Request Feature") Jwild 20:54, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
This is not a bug, but the current solution is really not handful. You need to go to /usr/bin/ to find the firefox binary (for example). This problem occurs also by opening an external link in an article. This seems to be a GNU/Linux specific problem and is already tracked with this feature request. Kelson 20:58, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
  • In the Content Library, is the reported article count correct? For example, one collection I made myself with 16 articles, says "(17 articles)" in the file's description in "My Library." More drastically (and actually, why I first noticed it), The Wikipedia 0.8 collection proclaims itself to have "45.000 best articles...", yet it says "(139.462 articles)"! Is there a way to check that? Jwild 20:34, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
This is wrong and right! Redirects are included (and I think it shouldn't. See this bug report Kelson 20:50, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
  • In Library in the library sections "My Library" and "Get New Files", neither the down or up arrow keyboard strokes work to navigate. This would certainly make it more user-friendly! Jwild 20:34, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
100% agree, see this feature request Kelson 20:50, 1 September 2011 (CEST)
Implemented Kelson 22:16, 3 September 2011 (CEST)
  • Files that have been deleted on disk still show up in content manager. Perhaps we can grey these out or remove them all together?
Yes... interesting. Have to think about that. Kelson 14:27, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
  • remove them all together would be great!! Jwild 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
Hmm... not really enthusiastic about that feature request. Sounds dangerous, I do not really see the use case and do not know how to integrate it correctly in the user interface. Have to think more... Kelson 14:27, 19 August 2011 (CEST)

t)

  • for pages with italicized titles, the tab titles render strangely (for example, The Lion King = " The Lion King") Jwild 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
I can not reproduce the problem, here is the issue. What is the file you use exactly? Here is was I get : http://tmp.kiwix.org/tmp/screenshot_italic_title_issue.png Kelson 21:52, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
I added a note to the sourceforge bug that I filed awhile ago which contains the picture and the information. I am using Kiwix 0.9 beta 2 with th en wikipedia 0.8. Jwild 03:03, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
I understand now. The problem is that you use a dev. version of the WP1 0.8 ZIM. This bug was already fixed many months ago and is in the ZIM builder script, not in Kiwix. Kelson 08:00, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
  • Is it possible to add the keyboard shortcuts to close tabs (CTRL+W) and navigate between tabs (CTRL+Page Up or CTRL+Page Down)? Jwild 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
I can also not reproduce that problem, CTRL+w (close current tab) and CTRL+W (close all tabs) were implemented in beta2 and work for me. Il will implement the other shortcuts. Kelson 21:57, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
ok, I went through and tested and re-tested...it closes sometimes but not consistently (nor often). For example, if I have 3 tabs open and press CTRL+W (close all tabs), it asks if I want to do that. If I press "No", then I cannot use "CTRL+W" again if those same 3 tabs are open (if I open a 4th, then it will register that request again). For the CTRL+w: if I open three tabs in a row, then move back to one of the previous tabs (1st or 2nd), I cannot use the shortcut on any tab.Jwild 03:03, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
Thx for the explanation. Problem understood. Will be fixed. 14:22, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
Everyting fixed and implemented :) Kelson 21:21, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
  • Start a content manager download. Then go to "My library" and delete a file. You'll notice that your download has stopped. We should keep downloading it in the background regardless of what i'm doing. Tomasz 19:22, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
Visual artefact. Will fix the bug Kelson 14:22, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
Fixed Kelson 16:14, 18 September 2011 (CEST)

praise

  • Great that I have the option of closing any of the tabs that I have open (was not the case in Beta1)! Jwild 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
  • Love the new images showing up in the "Get New Files" library Jwild 03:54, 18 August 2011 (CEST)

OSX

  • hen a download finishes a window pops up that says "Download finished" .. followed by a second line of text saying the exact same thing.
Fixed Kelson 16:24, 18 September 2011 (CEST)
  • Opening an openZim file after Kiwix is already running causes a second window to load. The second window looks great and its content manager is correct. But the primary window does not have the newly opened collection leading to confusion.
Yes, I think everything should run only in a Window... but I have had a look, this is not so trivial to implement. Kelson 18:20, 16 September 2011 (CEST)
  • Logoes or figures do not show up for some libraries in the library content manager.
These are old content without the newly mandatory metadata... they will be slowly replaced with new content (with icon). Kelson 14:20, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
  • Tab buttons can be made the same as in Firefox 5 or 6, which looks much better.
Yes, we still have to improve the UI design. Kelson 14:20, 19 August 2011 (CEST)

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