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Xiphos is a Bible study tool written for Linux, UNIX, and Windows using GTK, offering a rich and featureful environment for reading, study, and research using modules from The SWORD Project and elsewhere.
http://xiphos.org
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Enhancement: Add information about the different sources of bible #984

Open LAfricain opened 4 years ago

LAfricain commented 4 years ago

I would be great to have more information in module manager about the different repositories available, by instance, a popup window, or only a sentence which says:

If you don't find a bible in your language, you can try to use an other repository as ebible.org...

DavidHaslam commented 4 years ago

See https://wiki.crosswire.org/Official_and_Affiliated_Module_Repositories

LAfricain commented 4 years ago

My idea is related to the problem with the duplicated modules in Crosswire and ebible. More information could help the user who can't find his language, to search on another repository.

karlkleinpaste commented 4 years ago

i tend to think the problem of duplicated modules is best handled by removing duplicates. that is, the WEB modules really shouldn't be carried by Crosswire any more. i usually return to the analogy of sword repos as publishers or bookstores. if you don't find what you want at one store, you go looking at another.

adding a line saying "look elsewhere" seems very kludgy. i don't know what else would suffice for what you seek, but that's really not it.

LAfricain commented 4 years ago

I agree with you about the duplicated modules. It's not only the web modules, but almost all chinese and Hindi. Maybe we need to speak about this on the mailing list. I spoke with the module team. For now they prefer to keep the module in the two repo. For now we have no information about the different repo, I'm not sure a beginner will find easily. Do you think it's possible to update all the repo at once, as Bibletime, andbible and Bishop do? If not, only a sentence saying: "you can find bible in different repositories in "Remote repositories"..." Something like that very easy.

DavidHaslam commented 4 years ago

A tool-tip over the legend for the MM Add Standard button might do the trick for new users (if such be feasible).

To explain that it loads the connections for all the remote sources in the Master Repositories List.

It’s not really a difficult concept.