Suggestions for Tellico

[Olivier Grégoire]

Hello,

I just installed Tellico yesterday, and I took a big part of the night
populating it with my books, videos, ... I really find it more complete
than other programs I tried. I was so disgussed by other programs that I
went to the idea of developping a personnal collection manager ... but I
found Tellico just in time.

However, after having spent quite a time with it, I have some
suggestions to make.

I have first to precise that I use Tellico with Ubuntu under the GNOME
desktop manager and not with KDE. Some functionnalities don't work, and
I understand. And so, I don't know if all I report here is relative to
that or not. My current version is 1.2.2 (since it is freezed until
april 2007 for stable Ubuntu version) and I report for things I havent
read in the changelog since that version.

First of all, I am a French speaker person, and I read on your site that
100% of the application has been translated into my language. Based on
what I can see, I'd say only 50 or 60% of the application has been
translated. Event the menus are in English. And when I see the undo/redo
actions, they're in both English and French (for instance : "Undo:
Modifier le champ Scénariste".) If the application is really fully
translated into French, then there must be somme issue in the
internationalization process. I can give you screenshots, if you want
to.

Second, for French people (at least), Amazon (French) groups a great
part of comics as they do for books, but I cannot use it as data source
for my comics books ("Bande Dessinée" in French). If that is possible, I
didn't find out how to use it.

Third. Since I started using Tellico yeasterday, I used the excellent
option of downloading data giving a list of ISBNs in the Internet
Search. So, I entered my entire book list ... Around 550 books (I had no
file of it). Then I clicked on the Ok button and I received a message
telling me that I cannot load more than 100 ISBNs simultaneously. I
didn't know quickly which ISBNs were loaded and which weren't. I think
that if we could keep a trace of this, it would be excellent. I also
found out that if the ISBN number is not correctly entered (in the list,
not in the special field with auto-completion), it is just dropped out,
without telling me that that ISBN was wrong.

Well, this are juste some issues I found. But by seeing the whole job
done in comparison to other collection managers, I really am impressed. 

Thanks for Tellico, it's just the best free software Collection Manager
I tried, and God knows how much of them I tried.

Olivier Grégoire