Hi guys, thank you all for the new version of OpenLP! It's great! We use your work for many years. As we observed, many parts of the programme were rapidly improved. We tested the software and found some problems and thinked about what we still miss there, so here is our report.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- the integrated stage view (http://IP/stage) doesn't allow resizing, to be exact, when zooming the page the font size remains constant. while this may sometimes be desirable it can be more of a problem when the screen is too far or too small. (the fact that the integrated stage view CSS file is inaccessible, as far as I know, doesn't help)
- the new stage view doesn't render empty frames - slides with no characters, and instead replaces them with the song title. I realize that this is the inteded behaviour and it is easy enough to customize or bypass, however when it comes the .zip stage view I haven't found a way to modify this behaviour for the #nextslide which still instead of a blank space or nothing draws the song title.
- song library order/indexing issues. to give an example "002" finds itself inbetween "199" and "200" and every number lower than "100", from "000" up to "099", is placed after "286" nearly at the end of the list, obviously you understand why this would be inconvenient. my conclusion is that the code simply doesn't consider "0" to be less than "1".
NICE TO HAVES:
- possibility to add notes as a property of individual songs and song slides that would show up only in the stageview. mainly information such as: the key, the tempo, who's got a solo, who sings which part, etc. this being service specific is pretty limitng.
- proper and smooth crossfade transition inbetween songs and when changing themes. when transitioning to the next song the main view flashes/blinks.
- playing animation while clicking Show theme
- the ability to change playback speed of background videos and videos in general
- NDI input for theme backgrounds and as a video source
- NDI output for /main
- possibility to search the text in Bible in OpenLP Remote
Could you think about it, please?
