Hi there - I’m pretty new to Delta but have been digging in on testing the past several days to get a feel for it. Saw that there were eyes requested on the new desktop release so here I am.
Am testing from the deltachat-desktop-1.45.0.tar.gz tarball.
Removed previous DC config data and started this fresh. Is there supposed to be a “Let’s Get Started” button somewhere? 1.45 just immediately pops up with the “Add Profile” dialog upon starting.
I don’t think I like the Instant Onboarding bit for a number of reasons:
- Isn’t one of the main drawing points to DC the fact that one doesn’t need to create a new account anywhere to be able to use it, because it should just work with one’s email provider?
- “Read The Privacy Policy” (and then being led to agreeing + creating a profile) is pretty confusing as to what in god’s name is going on - Who and what is nine.testrun.org? It is absolutely not clear what is happening at this stage and why I should be creating an account with nine.testrun.org.
- ACK! Even in the “Use Other Server” dialog, the top, and most important button according to the app, is to list chatmail servers? Holy cow! Why is using one’s email account so de-prioritized? This is not what I want to give to my friends and family. I want to give them the setup in 1.44 which was sane around using your own email account.
In the “Add Profile” dialog on the whole - I think there really should be some clarity as to what’s going on. If DC is new to me, “I Already Have a Profile” doesn’t mean “I’d like to login with my E-Mail account”, so I’d be on the wrong path right off the bat. Where’s the button that just says “Login with my E-Mail account”? (Or “Begin using DeltaChat with my current E-Mail account”)
I think this was mentioned elsewhere, but maps aren’t working due to not finding a maps.xdc file.
Using desktop to add second device to mobile worked a-ok. Using desktop to become second device kept the add-profile dialog up afterward, but otherwise it read a QR code fine from the camera. I didn’t give it much thought but grabbing a QR code from somewhere else to get it in to the clipboard seems like a lot of work, so haven’t tested.
Cropping profile pictures - if the image is small, it just appears in the top left corner of the “Crop Image” window and it doesn’t allow one to move it or resize to fit or anything. 1.44 worked fine with it. Size of image that I was using is 138x138.
I presume a couple of these should be filed as bugs?