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Other & Off-Topics => Bar & Grill [Public] => Topic started by: antares on October 18, 2020, 11:05:22 PM
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Yesterday in my email, got a survey from Scrivener. Who else got one?
I said I wanted to see Scrivener for Linux. Anyone else?
Any other survey items you want to discuss?
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If I got one, I deleted it without paying enough attention to remember it. Scrivener already does everything I need. Any additions are just so many features I'll never use, which has already happened with v. 3. For me version 3 on Mac only meant I spent a lot of time modifying the "modern" look to where it didn't annoy me.
I'd think asking for an updated Linux version is a waste of words. L&L is already getting enough hell over their late Windows version 3, and the Linux user base is much smaller.
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Didn't get it, but if they should change one thing it's to turn off the thousands of hot-key combinations almost no one will ever use. The amount of times I get fumbled fingered and accidentally activate one of the hot keys by pressing two keys at once when I'm typing too fast and leaving me to wonder how I get back to where I was is beyond counting.
:rant
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I got it; wow, is it thorough. Since I use Windows, I was excited to see that there was a beta version of 3.0 for Windows--from, it turns out, 2017. I did not snag a copy to try.
I know I don't use that many features: I like shoving around the little cards on the corkboard for building my plots, and I've got the notes for the world-building. And occasionally I've outlined a scene or written part of it. Maybe if I had a bigger screen or a more potent computer (I like netbooks, which are light to carry), I'd use it for the actual writing, but since I prefer to write in plain text (old habit) and make the ebooks by hand (another old habit), maybe not.
I pointed out on the survey how much I appreciate that files are saved in .txt or .rtf, which I can use in just about any program and which I'll be able to read 30 years from now.