Newcomer's Perspective: Installer Tooltips, Default Template, Launch after Install

[TurekBot]

Hi,

I just saw that Jose Pereda's tweet and downloaded the application.

I was stoked to see a JavaFX application in the wild. Below, I share what are hopefully helpful insights into my experience as a newcomer.

• In the installer, when given all the various options, I was left to wonder what all of the icons meant. I hovered over them hoping for a tooltip, but there was none. My suggestion would be to add tooltips to the icons so that people who are unfamiliar like me understand what the various options are.
• I got the thing installed, and expected the application to launch... Nothing. Okay, maybe there's an icon on the desktop, nope. How about something in the start menu? What? Maybe, I'm totally missing something but I had to go all the way to the AppData folder to launch the application. My suggestion would be to make it easier for the user to launch the application once it's installed.
• Okay, I've got it launched, now let's create a new slide show. Okay, it's asking me for a template, but I don't have one or know how to make/get one. My suggestion would be to have at least one default template (like how Scenebuilder does).

Hopefully my remarks are more helpful than discouraging. I can tell you've put a lot of effort into this—that's the main reason I thought I'd drop by here and let you know about my experience.

[twasyl]

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in SlideshowFX and thanks for sharing your perspective. I’ll try to give you some explanations about the points you raised.

Regarding the tooltips: they are already present but are a bit slow to be displayed. But if you point a plug-in to install and don’t move your cursor, they will appear. Could you please confirm ?

Concerning the shortcuts : I totally agree. One reason it’s currently unavailable is that I develop the application on a Mac and doesn’t always start a VM for testing it on Windows. But I’ll create a separate issue I will address in a future release.

Finally regarding the availability of templates you’re absolutely right. The version 2.0 introduces what I’ve called the template library. This is the first step for providing templates. Currently there are some in the GitHub repository under the examples folder. More will be created and maintained. In order to create some, you can read the developer documentation and within the application you have the template builder feature allowing/helping you in creating some, especially the configuration file.

I hope this answer your interrogations and thanks again for sharing your perspectives!

Cheers

[TurekBot]

Thanks for the quick response.

I reinstalled to check the tooltips and here's what I found.

The Markup section has one tooltip across everything:

The Content Extension Section's tooltips don't show:

The Snippet Executors Section's tooltips DO work!

But the Hosting Connectors' Tooltips don't...

[TurekBot]

OOH! Here's some really weird behavior I found on accident!

It looks like the tooltip will show once you've selected, and un-selected the button. Very peculiar!

I'd say, whatever you're doing with the Snippet executors, do that everywhere else.

[twasyl]

Indeed, that's very weird. I'll check that in order to fix it ! Thanks