Comments | ijournal: iJournal - only allows one window at a time?

elusis in ijournal

iJournal - only allows one window at a time?

Dec 29, 2008 02:32

I've been looking for a new Mac LJ client because Phoenix has crashed on me one too many times, losing a huge entry in progress. I'm test-driving both XJournal and iJournal and neither has quite the feel I'm used to, but I'm adjusting ( Read more... )

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ivorjawa December 29 2008, 15:52:37 UTC

I think it's dead. The author won't respond to anyone here, and won't release the source code so we can fix it.

elusis December 29 2008, 23:02:49 UTC

Wow, total fucking FAIL. And this is the "official" LJ client? What does support say?

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elusis December 30 2008, 20:10:34 UTC

So that part over there at the left where it says "iJournal: Official LiveJournal Client for Mac OS X"?

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cryo December 31 2008, 12:52:04 UTC

part of the problem is that you don't know the history of iJournal, so I understand your anger.

iJournal was modal to begin with, and was supposed to be a simply immediate editor for quick entries. It grew features and more features, then no one wanted to work on it anymore because it was so unwieldy.

Feel free to fix it :). I've got a local 2.0 branch but I've never released anything on it yet.

elusis December 31 2008, 13:15:40 UTC

Uh, I'm not angry, just baffled why a program appears to be locked into having only one window open at a time. I don't know what "modal" means in this context, nor why that would mean having only one functioning window.

And, I'm not a programmer. So, update it or don't - like I say, I slightly prefer the interface, but the program has no utility to me in its current form, and my inquiry was intended to try and find out if this was really intended program behavior.

cryo December 31 2008, 13:45:32 UTC

Ignore my annoyed sarcasm. Basically, the code started out as just a little status bar icon, with a dropdown window that you would edit and entry and click ok, so it basically just grew up wrong, and no one has ever gotten around to fixing it. The intention was that we were (and by were I mean like 2+ years ago) refactoring it to be multi-windowed with history support, basically getting all of the features into the code before redoing the interface. Sadly, it hasn't gotten past that stage.

The popularity of Livejournal has gone down, and the demand for anything beyond what the current clients provide have dwindled, so there's no push to continue development. Plus, I think everyone went off to make money doing other things.

Sorry it doesn't do what you want it to. It's on the TODO list, and someday someone might actually do it. :(

elusis January 2 2009, 06:21:53 UTC

Good to know - I guess I'll uninstall it.