Re: GUI (was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Results tracking)

[J Busser]

At 6:57 PM +0100 3/8/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  > >Fine by me. It only loads 23 modules if configured to load
> >  >them. No coding needed, just reconfiguration.
> >  Indeed, but the default is to load all 23, this needs to change in the
> >  released version,
> Full agreement !  I added a workplace "Release 0.1". The
> public database at salaam is updated, too.

Is it reasonable and desirable (if not already supported) to:

1) make "Release 0.1" the default configuration that is loaded when 
people first install and load gnumed (they can of course change it 
themselves once they have set it up, if they should wish to do so, 
but to have whatever is the intended "current" release as the default 
could make things much easier for newbies trying to install the 
program)

2) is there any agreement on whether the GUI would have any form of 
"status line" that would indicate which user is logged in (important 
for shared machines so that they respect each other's access, also if 
there should be some administrative entity that designated people 
need to sometimes log in as). If there is a "staus line" which might 
presumably also offer the local date and time (I am weak to defend 
this, people might have this already displayed by some other portion 
of their OS) might we also have an appearance in the status line of 
which configuration is active?

3) if there is no "status line" in the GUI display then is it 
important (where people might be changing configurations) for some 
type of notification to be provided during the loading of the 
modules, what is the "name" of the configuration that is controlling 
which modules are loading?