Hint: Yep or Leap GUIs.

F451, I appreciate you, but I appreciate FatalError's remarks too.  He said that he's not trying to diss, and I take those words at face value.  His post is mostly, well, good advice.

Engineers tend to want to get things working under the hood first, and make it pretty later.  But we also speak plainly to one another, and after a few years we develop pretty thick skins.

That being said, we should probably hold off on UI criticisms of 0.9.6 for now, because 0.9.7, which will be released "soon" (as always!) is looking much better, at least to those of us that have seen it.

Well I welcome moving on from BookDog. I never liked the UI. BookMacster brings some improvements but sorry to say, it still looks ugly.


Look at Agile Web Solutions for example: they are always improving the optical side of their software too.

I don't know anything about your motivations and why you are in this business, BUT

if you are in the business

1) only to have a software that you use yourself and see this as a hobby -> then why do you charge people money? Make it freeware, consider it a hobby.

2) to make a living -> then improve your UI! This could be a real mass-product if it

a) was reliable + easy to use/setup
b) if it was under 10$ (because it doesn't have extrem complex funcionality
c) if it would be proper looking.

Believe me: like that you could make much more money...


Don't get me wrong. I'm not investing my time because I want to diss you. I'm writing this because I'd love to see this software grow and become successful.

Have a nice week and regards from germany,
FatalError

Well, it is nice to see fast progress of the applications.

But, what happened to UI? Unnecessarily fancy "Help" and "Info" icons, ugly yellow on "Content", "Settings" and "Reports"... Was it really necessary?