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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > Stuff that should be removed:
> > Spell menu (remove everything except for the 'held' menu)
>
>
> When I started to work with Source Mage I used this menu for installing
> spells.
> I had no idea about cast and dispel and almost all I did with only
> "sorcery".
> Seems new users still use it, at least new users I know.
> It is fine for them they can browse sections, they can see only not
> installed spells, they can see short and long description of spells.
> Personally I would not remove it. Of course it can be extra application
> with searching, checking and so on.
>
> > Log menu (remove everything)
>
> It could be also part of that new extra application. :-)

The above two could be moved into more of a 'GUI' application (e.g.
xsorcery (Xdialog-based GUI) tim (GNOME-based GUI which hasn't been
updated in a long time), ksorcery (KDE-based GUI), or ensorcel (etk-based 
GUI),
all of which would need updating for the new layout ;)). Someone could also 
write
an ncurses GUI for those wanted a non-X GUI. Perhaps just 'move' the
GUI code in question (log menu and spell menu currently) into another
'script' ('nsorcery' for nCurses-based GUI?).

> > sound schemes (does anyone use this or think we need them?)
>
> Sometime I use it and it really attracts my colleagues and my students. :-)
> I certainly would not remove it (of course it can be removed and
> reincarnate as a new spell) contrariwise I am for improving it.
> It would be great if the name of spells were pronounced (festival,
> speech_tools, ...).
> I would acclaim some sounds on install ISO too. :-)

I believe those (festival, flite, etc.) just need to have the text
piped into them, so the sorcery-sound-* spells could have optional
dependencies on those and then setup the information (libmedia may
need modification to support this, I have not looked).

- -sandalle

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