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== Parley Practice NG 23rd attempt ==
== Parley Practice Rewrite for KDE 4.5 ==
Work on the parley practice happens in a branch here:
[http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/parley-practice/ Browse WebSVN online]
 
Check it out:
<code>
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/parley-practice/
</code>


=== General ===
=== General ===
* <strike>DONE:  remove old practice code</strike> F
* TODO: does Paraphrase make any sense at all? yes, we got a bug and it should return!
** there is still a practiceold folder: leave it until merge is done! Frederik
* TODO: does Paraphrase make any sense at all? no - remove paraphrase - it is not used in any single document we could find
* TODO: remove Antonym completely
* TODO: remove Antonym completely
* TODO: find an icon for stop practice (toolbar)
 
** idea: use the start practice with media-stop instead of media-play
* TODO: add grammar grade visualisation in the practice setup
* <strike>TODO: filter out empty entries for practice - F</strike>
 
* DISCUSS: timeouts during practice ???
* TODO: show comments during practice
 
==== Keyboard focus issues ====
* URGENT: make sure keyboard focus is set to the central widget in written mode after starting the practice
*URGENT: make sure keyboard focus is set to the continue button in flash card mode after starting the practice
*URGENT: mixed letter, example sentence: make sure it also works after fixing written mode
*URGENT: multiple choice: set focus to the first radio button everytime
*URGENT: gender of nouns: make sure it also works after fixing multiple choice


==== Synonyms ====
==== Synonyms ====
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==== LaTeX support ====
==== LaTeX support ====


* TODO: write a class to convert latex code to images, with error handling etc
* TODO: create LatexLabel which behaves like a label and detects and renders latex automatically
* TODO: integrate LaTeX in written and flash card practice modes
* TODO: polish and test
* TODO: write a dock widget to support the user editing latex (line edit, preview, checkbox to toggle math mode?)
* TODO add documentation to manual
* check cantor, there is some rendering code
 
==== Fullscreen mode ====
* TODO: implement fullscreen mode (and add to toolbar?)
* TODO: implement auto-hiding of toolbar (like gwenview, firefox etc)


=== Configure Practice ===
=== Configure Practice ===


Main page:
* TODO: Reimplement Time limits: only let the user select if the time limit is active, use show solution after answering
 
* <strike>DONE: Currently check boxes and radio buttons are shown ->remove radios</strike> F
 
* <strike>DONE: move multiple choice options to advanced</strike> - Kolia
* <strike>DONE: move checkboxes in Practice->Options to Advanced page in config dialog</strike> - Kolia
* DISCUSS: Tenses - where should they be selected? only needed for conjugation practice
 
* <strike>DONE: language selection: instead of having two lists, just have one list containing "French → German" and "German → French" '''(Kolia)'''</strike> I'm sorry, I just did it - Frederik
** check if with 2 languages are always in the right order now!
 
The layout could be like this:
 
[[File:parley_practice_settings.png]]
 
* TODO: it would be nice to replace the checkboxes by listviews with multi selection  and icons (and optionally drag and drop to change the order)
 
Other pages:
 
* TODO: threshold: word types are broken here?
 
[[File:parley_practice_settings_advanced.png]]
 
Notes Advanced page:
* DONE: <strike>Remove direction switching checkbox until implemented</strike> - Kolia
* TODO: Time limits: only let the user select if the time limit is active, use show solution after answering
* TODO: enable button xyz: not applicable any more, only the hint button, so remove them from the ui file
* TODO: rearrange the widgets in the advanced page
 
* TODO: comparison forms: make no distinction between adjectives and adverbs
 
* IDEA/TODO: maybe it would make sense to put the most common options into the statistics page that is shown before practice is started
** maybe replace the checkboxes again with radio buttons -> it's so easy to change now
** only show one bar of grades - the one that corresponds to the current language selection
[[File:parley_start_statistics_with_options.png]]


=== Completely Missing ===
=== Completely Missing ===
Still missing are:
Still missing are:
* TODO: Conjugations
* TODO: Vocabulary test (school like) with good summary and "grade"
* TODO: Vocabulary test (school like) with good summary and "grade"
** no button for hints
** no button for hints
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** DISCUSS: do we want to have some type of "grade" and if yes, how should it be calculated?
** DISCUSS: do we want to have some type of "grade" and if yes, how should it be calculated?


<strike>
Easy ones reusing the written front end should be:
* TODO: Example sentences (easy indeed) </strike> Frederik
==== Article/Gender of Nouns ====
Two cases: we have the articles in the grammar section or we don't
Example: German die Flasche is female == bottle
* a) We know the articles, this is presented:
** bottle
*** der Flasche
*** die Flasche
*** das Flasche
* b) We don't know the articles
** bottle
*** Flasche is masculine
*** Flasche is feminine
*** Flasche is neuter


Notes:
* definite articles by default, fall back to indefinite
For the implementation: just use the Multiple choice front end and subclass (if possible, otherwise make it possible!) the multiple choice backend


==== Comparison Forms ====
==== Comparison Forms ====
You know? Adjectives and adverbs - words that describe other words.
You know? Adjectives and adverbs - words that describe other words.
 
* green/red for right answers make right answers disabled so they can't be screwed up again
 
* URGENT show solution if wrong
Example:
* URGENT do not randomly skip words when answer was wrong
* unordentlich
* URGENT: the summary table at the end is completely broken
* Absolute: chaotic (the base form)
* URGENT: are the grades displayed correctly?
* Comparative: [more chaotic] (user inputs more chaotic in line edit)
* Superlative: [the most chaotic] (user inputs most chaotic in line edit)
 
 
Implementation:
* caption (the word in the other language)
* 3 labels and line edits


=== Flash Card ===
=== Flash Card ===


* <strike>DONE dani_l: replace [Continue] with [I didn't know the answer][I knew the answer] in flash card mode</strike>
* URGENT: add sound and pronunciation, same as in written mode, only needs code in flashcardmodewidget.cpp to be changed


=== Multiple Choice ===
=== Multiple Choice ===
* <strike>DONE Kolia: Unset the selected choice after an answer (radio button)</strike>
* DISCUSS: Showing the "I knew it"/"Did not know it" below the other radios looks bad
** <strike>DONE dani_l: implement a toggle under the ✓/✗ image</strike>
*** DISCUSS: do we like it?
* <strike>DONE Kolia: Make number of multiple choice answers configurable in the config practice dialog</strike>


* keyboard focus?!?! if I press enter and no choice is selected, it will always be wrong
* <strike>DONE dani_l: hotkeys (maybe in menu? even configurable??) for the choices: 1 for first, 2 for second...</strike>
** TODO - KDE 4.6: use kactions and make sure they are configurable


* hotkeys (maybe in menu? even configurable??) for the choices: 1 for first, 2 for second...
* <strike>DONE: it would be nice to get rid of the radio buttons in favor of having something else maybe - a list? something that looks nicer</strike>
** use kactions


* TODO: continue when a radio button is selected
* Adding sound pronunciation and comment would be nice here too
 
* TODO: check that only entries from the right languages are taken - I just had the choices taken from different languages (Frederik)


=== Written  ===
=== Written  ===


*<strike>DONE: Hint needs to be implemented in a sane way (now it shows the solution directly)</strike> - done (Frederik)
* There is a class like this, "answervalidator.cpp" but it's ugly old and eats kittens. Cleaning it up would be ok. Things like word similarity are in there.
*<strike>DONE: Feedback - when a new word is shown, it still says "Your answer was wrong"</strike> - done (Frederik)
** Moved some of the code to the new WrittenPracticeValidator class maybe move more funtionality there ?  
* <strike>DONE: Ignore capitalization mistakes (BEN_SCHL)</strike>
* TODO: Ignore accent mistakes  (BEN_SCHL)
* TODO: Create a class that does voodoo on strings to correct answers: (BEN_SCHL)
** Takes into account the options above (accent/capitalisation)
** There is a class like this, "answervalidator.cpp" but it's ugly old and eats kittens. Cleaning it up would be ok. Things like word similarity are in there.
** how far do we want to go when comparing answers? what feedback should the user get?
*** you made a spelling mistake (this can be done by running spellcheckers and comparing what they suggest for a word with the solution)
*** you wrote nonsense
*** you have the accents all wrong
* TODO: make sure that "I did (not) know it" actually does the right thing
* TODO: I think I just had an empty word shown - make sure they are filtered away
** how do we get this kind of feedback from the class to the ui?
* TODO when pressing enter and the input is empty, directly continue to solution. don't ask for another try.
* TODO dani_l: only show right/wrong when the solution is shown


=== All Practice Modes ===
* how far do we want to go when comparing answers? what feedback should the user get?
** you made a spelling mistake (this can be done by running spellcheckers and comparing what they suggest for a word with the solution)
** you wrote nonsense


* TODO: every word that was answered correctly is shown as "right on first attempt" in summary - no way to get anything wrong :D maybe change that...
=== Conjugation ===
* (optionally?) disable questioning of conjug forms that are blocked (individual forms)
* also ask the infinitive
* URGENT: result table after summary is completely broken
* URGENT: are the grades displayed correctly?


* TODO: remove statistics that don't make sense any more from the TestEntryManager (like "skip known")
=== Comparison Forms ===
* implement blocking
=== Articles/Gender of Noun ===
* implement blocking
=== Declensions ===
* research what froms make sense...
** plurals
** cases
** gender
** ???
* there is a dock widget started for this somewhere
* write the entire practice mode from scratch


* TODO: feedback text: not "wrong idiot", not "I fear this was wrong.." but good sentences
=== All Practice Modes ===
 
* TODO: set grade to 1 when a word was answered incorrectly


* DISCUSS: define our terminology, e.g. is it grade or box, answer or solution, correct or right, incorrect or wrong etc.
* DISCUSS: define our terminology, e.g. is it grade or box, answer or solution, correct or right, incorrect or wrong etc.
* TODO: fix spacing and layouting issues in the ui


* TODO: implement support for showing pronunciation for every practice frontend
* TODO: implement support for showing pronunciation for every practice frontend
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* TODO: implement support for sound for every practice frontend
* TODO: implement support for sound for every practice frontend


* TODO: add a "Auto-play sound" option to the practice settings and implement it
* URGENT: implement the "enable hints" option
 
* URGENT: implement the "enable sound" option to make the sound autoplay
 
* TODO KDE 4.6: sound - rename "enable sound" to "autoplay sound" and implement it


=== Grades ===
=== Grades ===
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** words that were incorrectly answered will come up again until they are answered correctly (or the practice is stopped)
** words that were incorrectly answered will come up again until they are answered correctly (or the practice is stopped)
** DISCUSS: when a word is answered after being answered wrong before, it ends up on level 2, if the practice is stopped before, it stays in level 1 (Leitner says it stays in 1 ?)
** DISCUSS: when a word is answered after being answered wrong before, it ends up on level 2, if the practice is stopped before, it stays in level 1 (Leitner says it stays in 1 ?)
 
* URGENT: make sure that grading is implemented correctly in every practice mode and respects the "3 correct answers" setting
 
* TODO: implement grading as described above and make sure it works in all modes
* TODO: Respect Leitner option to ask for the correct answer three times in a row.
* DISCUSS: If you answer an unknown word wrong or right doesn't matter as by definition above wrong words get set to level 1 (from 0) and right words get increased to 1 (from 0). I changed that correct new words end up in level 2 ? (BEN_SCHL)
* DISCUSS: If you answer an unknown word wrong or right doesn't matter as by definition above wrong words get set to level 1 (from 0) and right words get increased to 1 (from 0). I changed that correct new words end up in level 2 ? (BEN_SCHL)
* DISCUSS: what happens when practicing with multiple modes? does only the last mode affect the grading? make in configurable? (DOES THIS STILL APPLY?)
* DISCUSS: what happens when practicing with multiple modes? does only the last mode affect the grading? make in configurable? (DOES THIS STILL APPLY?)
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* TODO: pass in 3 int from backend to frontend: current, good, bad (so that the selection of right/wrong can be previewed correctly)
* TODO: pass in 3 int from backend to frontend: current, good, bad (so that the selection of right/wrong can be previewed correctly)
 
** note: basically it is already implemented, but in a quick and in some (most?) cases wrong way. we probably need some TestEntry::gradeIfWrong() etc or something like that
=== Result States ===
 
* User hasn't entered anything
** Status image: ?
** Status image toggle: inactive
** Line edit: black
** Counted as: nothing yet
* User entered a wrong solution
** Status image: ✗
** Status image toggle: active (?)
** Line edit: black
** Counted as: nothing yet
* User entered a wrong solution, got feedback and pressed enter without changes
** Status image: ✗
** Status image toggle: active
** Line edit: red, disabled (Solution is shown)
** Counted as: wrong
* User entered wrong solution(s), got feedback and entered the correct solution
** Status image: ✓ '''(?)'''
** Status image toggle: active '''(doesn't make sense!)'''
** Line edit: green, disabled (Solution is shown)
** Counted as: '''wrong'''
* User entered correct solution on first try
** Status image: ✓
** Status image toggle: active
** Line edit: green, disabled (Solution is shown)
** Counted as: correct
* User revealed answer only using hints
** Status image: ✓ '''(?)'''
** Status image toggle: active '''(doesn't make sense!)'''
** Line edit: green, disabled (Solution is shown)
** Counted as: '''wrong'''


=== Summary Page (after practice is finished) ===
=== Summary Page (after practice is finished) ===
* <strike>DONE dani_l: One page only</strike>
* TODO for some practice modes the result is complete nonsense - eg conjugations show the normal words in the summary
* <strike>DONE dani_l: Bar on top with colors that indicate how good the practice was</strike>
** <strike>DONE dani_l: tooltips on the bar that indicate the meaning of the colors</strike>
** <strike>DONE dani_l: caption under the bar</strike>
* <strike> DONE dani_l: Table below (sorted, most mistakes on top)</strike>
* TODO fregl: add a button to print a list with $number words you should practice
* TODO fregl: add a button to print a list with $number words you should practice


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* TODO: table: add column for grades (including combo box for changing the grade)
* TODO: table: add column for grades (including combo box for changing the grade)
* TODO: summary dock widget: make word type work (or remove it)
* TODO: summary dock widget: make word type work
** setting works
** instead of the normal model use a flat list model (proxy would work)


* TODO: remove leitner box classes
* TODO: remove leitner box classes
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* TODO: creating a new document: title is not carried over for root lesson and window title
* TODO: creating a new document: title is not carried over for root lesson and window title


* big todo: configurable special chars per language - come with language definition - configurable hotkey ...
* big todo: configurable special chars per language - come with language definition - configurable hotkey ...
 
* I also found a bug, when deselecting the main lesson, it resets the title to "0". When clicking it again (to select all sublessons), it renames itself to "2".


=== Word types ===
=== Word types ===
* TODO: newly created sub word types should inherit their parent's grammar type -> Frederik?
 
* TODO do not show word types in the table when clicking them (maybe on right click menu?)


=== Profiles and config and zip ===
=== Profiles and config and zip ===
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* add images, sound and other media into the zip file
* add images, sound and other media into the zip file


== Missing Artwork ==
* TODO Icon for stop practice - idea: like start practice: flash cards with multimedia stop
* TODO Icon/image for states:
** User answered correct (✓)
** User answered wrong (✗)
** User has not answered yet (?)


TODO: screenshots that explain the above


== Regressions in trunk ==
== Regressions in trunk ==
* Title is broken (documents show up with 0 as title, chainging root lesson behaves weird, it doesn't get saved)
* TODO fregl: Auto-save in practice mode
* TODO fregl: Auto-save in practice mode


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* synonym/antonym: what to keep? what about semicolons?
* synonym/antonym: what to keep? what about semicolons?


== Merging to trunk - timeline ==
== Usability session with Leinir ==
Release blocker:
Dan, Lydia, Daniel and Frederik sat down in Randa and these are some notes on usability.
* lib-grammar grades do not work yet
 
** Frederik - until April 15th do the freaking lib!
 
** Daniel: implement grammar modes
Comments from Lydia:
** April 22: Frederik: conjugation done wrong again before
=== Start Practice ===
* synonyms and accents have to work in practice again
* table is big and in your face, but maybe that is ok
* check boxes should be tri-state - parent lessons should be half-checked if only some of their children are selected
* only show the relevant column with grades instead of all of them
* do not offer to start practices that contain 0 words! it's borked!
** kind of fixed by daniel - now it shows a message box, but it's not the end of the world any more
 
=== Practice ===
* flash cards: change continue button to "show backside"
* pic placeholder is ugly in default theme
* progressbar should maybe start counting at 1
* label: "I did not know it" "I know it" -- or "Did you know the answer?": "yes" - "no"
* mixed letters are getting grey on grey -> generally font color is problematic
* Multiple choice needs shortcuts (key 1-5 for example) and continue button should be disabled until a choice is selected.
 
* conjugation mode: "Enter all conjugation forms" is a silly string and should be removed.
 
=== Document Properties ===
* categories: test preparation makes no sense as category
* tooltip for checkboxes
 
Comments from Dan:
* create video tutorials


=== Start Screen ===
* title could be "Parley - Vocabulary Trainer" use kqtitlewidget


=== schedule ===
=== Start Practice ===
* April 20: Decide if branch gets released: tentatively
*indent tenses below radio buttons
* Frederik: away April 22-30
* always show tenses (both Daniel and Frederik are against this)
* Frederik: probably away May 12-17
* remove status bar
* edu sprint: (work work work on Parley) May 20-26
* remove tree indicator from tense selection
* April 26th - soft feature freeze - most things should be there, stop doing big new features
*enable practice checkbox by default in file dialog (depending on current component)
** Frederik: create packages with build service, get user feedback
* remove "Editor" from toolbar, make sure it is in the menu though
* May 11th -> Freeze - no new features, stabilize!
*  May 19th: Soft Message Freeze
** NO NEW STRINGS, NO STRING CHANGES ANY MORE (ask Frederik if you need to change strings and let him take the flames)
* June 2nd: Documentation/Handbook Freeze
** Have an updated documentation, work with Burkhart to get it from userbase to docbook

Latest revision as of 18:02, 22 April 2016

Parley Practice Rewrite for KDE 4.5

General

  • TODO: does Paraphrase make any sense at all? yes, we got a bug and it should return!
  • TODO: remove Antonym completely
  • TODO: add grammar grade visualisation in the practice setup
  • TODO: show comments during practice

Keyboard focus issues

  • URGENT: make sure keyboard focus is set to the central widget in written mode after starting the practice
  • URGENT: make sure keyboard focus is set to the continue button in flash card mode after starting the practice
  • URGENT: mixed letter, example sentence: make sure it also works after fixing written mode
  • URGENT: multiple choice: set focus to the first radio button everytime
  • URGENT: gender of nouns: make sure it also works after fixing multiple choice

Synonyms

  • TODO: get rid of current way of handling them in the lib? BIC!!!???!!!
  • TODO: use a stringlist instead
  • TODO: make it possible to edit them in the table - how to separate two of them? semicolon?
  • TODO: change/rewrite dock widget
  • DISCUSS: practice options (is this really really needed?):
  • DONE: Check synonyms as part of written practice (BEN_SCHL)
    • DONE: accept any synonym as correct (BEN_SCHL)
    • DONE: ask to enter all synonyms (BEN_SCHL)
    • DONE: show already entered synonyms in list (BEN_SCHL)
    • DONE: ask until the exact word that is wanted is there, but don't count other synonyms as wrong on the way there (BEN_SCHL)
    • DONE: Check user options if he really wanted synonyms to be counted as correct by now we always accept them as correct (BEN_SCHL)
    • Let other modes benefit from synonyms. Maybe similar to the hint button show a synonym if it exist?
    • DONE: If in written mode a synonym was entered, check if that synonym is in this practice mode and increase its good count ? (BEN_SCHL)

LaTeX support

  • TODO: create LatexLabel which behaves like a label and detects and renders latex automatically
  • TODO: polish and test
  • TODO add documentation to manual

Configure Practice

  • TODO: Reimplement Time limits: only let the user select if the time limit is active, use show solution after answering

Completely Missing

Still missing are:

  • TODO: Vocabulary test (school like) with good summary and "grade"
    • no button for hints
    • add buttons to "go back and forth"
    • don't show if the answer was right
    • DISCUSS: do we want to have some type of "grade" and if yes, how should it be calculated?


Comparison Forms

You know? Adjectives and adverbs - words that describe other words.

  • green/red for right answers make right answers disabled so they can't be screwed up again
  • URGENT show solution if wrong
  • URGENT do not randomly skip words when answer was wrong
  • URGENT: the summary table at the end is completely broken
  • URGENT: are the grades displayed correctly?

Flash Card

  • URGENT: add sound and pronunciation, same as in written mode, only needs code in flashcardmodewidget.cpp to be changed

Multiple Choice

  • DONE dani_l: hotkeys (maybe in menu? even configurable??) for the choices: 1 for first, 2 for second...
    • TODO - KDE 4.6: use kactions and make sure they are configurable
  • DONE: it would be nice to get rid of the radio buttons in favor of having something else maybe - a list? something that looks nicer
  • Adding sound pronunciation and comment would be nice here too

Written

  • There is a class like this, "answervalidator.cpp" but it's ugly old and eats kittens. Cleaning it up would be ok. Things like word similarity are in there.
    • Moved some of the code to the new WrittenPracticeValidator class maybe move more funtionality there ?
  • how far do we want to go when comparing answers? what feedback should the user get?
    • you made a spelling mistake (this can be done by running spellcheckers and comparing what they suggest for a word with the solution)
    • you wrote nonsense

Conjugation

  • (optionally?) disable questioning of conjug forms that are blocked (individual forms)
  • also ask the infinitive
  • URGENT: result table after summary is completely broken
  • URGENT: are the grades displayed correctly?

Comparison Forms

  • implement blocking

Articles/Gender of Noun

  • implement blocking

Declensions

  • research what froms make sense...
    • plurals
    • cases
    • gender
    • ???
  • there is a dock widget started for this somewhere
  • write the entire practice mode from scratch

All Practice Modes

  • DISCUSS: define our terminology, e.g. is it grade or box, answer or solution, correct or right, incorrect or wrong etc.
  • TODO: implement support for showing pronunciation for every practice frontend
  • TODO: implement support for sound for every practice frontend
  • URGENT: implement the "enable hints" option
  • URGENT: implement the "enable sound" option to make the sound autoplay
  • TODO KDE 4.6: sound - rename "enable sound" to "autoplay sound" and implement it

Grades

Grades are equivalent to boxes (leitner), they are:

  • 0 not practiced
  • 1 lowest level
  • ...
  • 7 best level
  • Words are answered correctly:
    • a correct answer gives grade += 1
    • a word that has been answered correctly is not asked again
  • Words are answered wrong:
    • a wrong answer gives grade = 1 (reset to lowest level). Wrong anserws are:
      • If a hint message has been used (may change policy here later if it doesn't work out)
      • If an accent and/or capitalisation mistake was made (might be accepted as right if the option is chosen in the config)
    • If answer stays the same after enter is pressed a second time assume the user doesn't know the answer and continue.
    • Just print a different message if the user corrected himself and the answer was right
    • words that were incorrectly answered will come up again until they are answered correctly (or the practice is stopped)
    • DISCUSS: when a word is answered after being answered wrong before, it ends up on level 2, if the practice is stopped before, it stays in level 1 (Leitner says it stays in 1 ?)
  • URGENT: make sure that grading is implemented correctly in every practice mode and respects the "3 correct answers" setting
  • DISCUSS: If you answer an unknown word wrong or right doesn't matter as by definition above wrong words get set to level 1 (from 0) and right words get increased to 1 (from 0). I changed that correct new words end up in level 2 ? (BEN_SCHL)
  • DISCUSS: what happens when practicing with multiple modes? does only the last mode affect the grading? make in configurable? (DOES THIS STILL APPLY?)
  • DISCUSS: find out if restricting the grading for each mode makes sense (e.g. saying "if i practice in multiple choice, the word can only rise up to grade 3")
    • TODO: figure out a sane way to configure this or give different grades for each practice mode ?
  • TODO: pass in 3 int from backend to frontend: current, good, bad (so that the selection of right/wrong can be previewed correctly)
    • note: basically it is already implemented, but in a quick and in some (most?) cases wrong way. we probably need some TestEntry::gradeIfWrong() etc or something like that

Summary Page (after practice is finished)

  • TODO for some practice modes the result is complete nonsense - eg conjugations show the normal words in the summary
  • TODO fregl: add a button to print a list with $number words you should practice

General (not practice related)

  • STILL VALID?: New rows are appended when pressing enter in the row above the last one, not in the last one - Qt 4.6 regression?
  • TODO: changes in dock widgets are not reflected in table -> model needs to emit dataChanged for the view to update (not working since the editing happens without models knowledge)
  • TODO: table: add column for grades (including combo box for changing the grade)
  • TODO: summary dock widget: make word type work
    • setting works
    • instead of the normal model use a flat list model (proxy would work)
  • TODO: remove leitner box classes
  • TODO: get rid of old kDebug() messages that don't make sense out of context
  • TODO: check if the column visibility is saved correctly in all cases
  • TODO fregl: there is a broken version of the 5 language document in the files on edu.kde.org (and there should be a *version with and without* images which you can clearly separate from each other, right?)
  • Settings
    • TODO: the languages that will be practiced should be per document, not global
    • TODO: other practice options should probably be per document as well
  • TODO: implement undo support
  • TODO: frederik be ashamed! Danish document -> 4000 words to sublessons a 20 doesn't work
  • TODO: creating a new document: title is not carried over for root lesson and window title
  • big todo: configurable special chars per language - come with language definition - configurable hotkey ...
  • I also found a bug, when deselecting the main lesson, it resets the title to "0". When clicking it again (to select all sublessons), it renames itself to "2".

Word types

  • TODO do not show word types in the table when clicking them (maybe on right click menu?)

Profiles and config and zip

  • DISCUSS: Instead of using current kvtml files, use the same with compression
  • add images, sound and other media into the zip file


Regressions in trunk

  • TODO fregl: Auto-save in practice mode

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(Frederik does all of this unless someone else wants to punish himself)

  • Comparison forms: use keduvoctext for forms (make grades possible)
  • make grades for articles possible

Stuff to discuss today

  • artwork
    • what/how/format
    • who
    • write request with lots of screenshots?
  • correct/wrong states, it it ok how they are currently implemented (especially in written mode)
    • great, but: longer ? in written (see above)
  • what grammar modes do we need and how can they be implemented
    • can we reuse/extend our frontend/backend modes?
  • grading for grammar training
  • create example document(s) making use of all our advanced features for testing
    • grammar training
    • multiple choice options
    • two images per entry, pronunciation, sound
    • ...
  • blockers before merging the branch back to trunk
  • timeline for merging, release schedule
  • synonym/antonym: what to keep? what about semicolons?

Usability session with Leinir

Dan, Lydia, Daniel and Frederik sat down in Randa and these are some notes on usability.


Comments from Lydia:

Start Practice

  • table is big and in your face, but maybe that is ok
  • check boxes should be tri-state - parent lessons should be half-checked if only some of their children are selected
  • only show the relevant column with grades instead of all of them
  • do not offer to start practices that contain 0 words! it's borked!
    • kind of fixed by daniel - now it shows a message box, but it's not the end of the world any more

Practice

  • flash cards: change continue button to "show backside"
  • pic placeholder is ugly in default theme
  • progressbar should maybe start counting at 1
  • label: "I did not know it" "I know it" -- or "Did you know the answer?": "yes" - "no"
  • mixed letters are getting grey on grey -> generally font color is problematic
  • Multiple choice needs shortcuts (key 1-5 for example) and continue button should be disabled until a choice is selected.
  • conjugation mode: "Enter all conjugation forms" is a silly string and should be removed.

Document Properties

  • categories: test preparation makes no sense as category
  • tooltip for checkboxes

Comments from Dan:

  • create video tutorials

Start Screen

  • title could be "Parley - Vocabulary Trainer" use kqtitlewidget

Start Practice

  • indent tenses below radio buttons
  • always show tenses (both Daniel and Frederik are against this)
  • remove status bar
  • remove tree indicator from tense selection
  • enable practice checkbox by default in file dialog (depending on current component)
  • remove "Editor" from toolbar, make sure it is in the menu though