In your opinion, which bugs/features should be given the highest priority ?

Submitted by Armando on 2009/07/06 20:27
 
This is mostly to get a feel of what seems to be the most important to users... for the fun of it, and for its potential usefulness.
 
So, here's what I propose.
 
1-  Review the mantis list and old feature/bug posts in this forum (a good exercise...) and think about what you miss the most in your everyday IQ usage,
 
2- Then list 10 (max!) features OR bugs already discussed*, ordered by priority, "1" being the highest priority. If required, a brief justification could follow each proposition. Then we can try to see which top 3-5 bugs/features are most "wanted".
 
 
*New stuff should be discussed separately, as it has always been.

program closed prematurely

Submitted by jan_rifkinson on 2009/07/06 12:05
Situation:
 
+/- 5 tabs open, one of then being the calendar
focus to calendar
clicked on recurring item
clicked delete
dialog displayed 'delete single occurrence or series'
click series
IQ closed w/o warning
 
It was as tho entire program was in memory & just dropped out, closed, like in a memory conflict. I'm not suggesting this is the case, only trying to describe the event.
 
Edited 08:30 EDT 07/07/09 -- same conditioins, happened 2x more
 
bump 07/09/09
 
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield CT USA
 

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updated filtering section

Submitted by KeithB on 2009/07/03 19:12
I started organizing/updating section 5, searching/filtering 4. Searching and Filtering Items .  I didn't have time to move most of the text off the main page, but I will soon.
 
Any comments on how I've been redoing the manual, such as section 5?  I think it's a lot easier to find things. If I don't hear any "stop!", I'll keep going in this fashion.

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A thread to help getting a feel of which features / bugs should be given highest priority, from the users point of view.

Submitted by Armando on 2009/07/03 14:01
David_H's  "voting" at the end of  How Do I Keep Tabs (Grids) Open? made me think that a "poll"/thread to find out which "older" features/bugs users want most to be added or "cleared out" would help to get these out the way in a "prioritized" fashion...?
 
 
1- Users could review the mantis list and old feature/bug posts and think about what annoys them / slows them down the most in their everyday IQ usage,
 
2- Then list 10 (is that the right number ?) features OR bugs already discussed*, ordered by priority, "1" being the highest priority. If required, a brief justification could follow each item.
 
 
*New stuff, I believe, should be discussed separately, as it has always been.