hasanatkazmi/nopsa-ribbon-api

API for HIIT's NOPSA which is currently used by MS Office Ribbon / addin

nopsa-ribbon-api's Issues

These issues are mostly to the ribbon and not to the API part of the code

Is there an easy way to transfer the issues to the right place?

No user feedback on search progress

The spinner does not communicate enough to the user about the progress of the search. It should help the user understand which of the 3 alternatives will be the result:

1. search returns 0 images (sometimes this is communicated so that the spinner disappears, and a blank screen shows, but that is not enough)
2. search is still in progress and some results have already been found, and the user should wait
3. search is not going to terminate or there are unexpected delays, and no images will be returned

Addin not integrated with all color schemes on Office

Addin must adopt UI colors as per color schemes chosen by user for Office. Currently, it looks very unpleasant wien e.g. blue color is chosen.
(nIn power point, go to option -> General and choose different "color scheme" . you would feel what I mean)

The addition of images should be triggered with a single click

While the preview of the image is done with the mouse hover, the addition of images to slides requires double click. I don't see any reason why it could not be a single click.

Pressing next and prev buttons advances to next page unreliably

Often the same images appear also on the next page, after a press on a black prev or next button.

Attribution slide should have more information

The last slide with attributions should have:

1. a small thumbnail of the image placed next to the CC information. This way it is possible to know which image is related to which attribution.

2. there could be an URL to the page where the user can download or read more about the Ribbon.

The ribbon bar should have a way to control which sources are searched

The API service provides a way to search from several sources. The ribbon has plenty of space which could be used for source selection buttons. This way the user could select the source easily without using more of the vertical search area's space..

Vertical scrollbars are not visible

Often the plugin computes its horizontal space incorrectly, and the vertical scrollbar becomes unreachable because it is drawn outside the program's viewport. Resizing the window helps.

Support for multi-word searches

Currently the search does not handle the use of multiple keywords very well. A more flexible tag matching would be useful.

Insertion into PPT moves user to edit the last slide

Sometimes PowerPoint moves the user to the last slide in the slideset after an image has been included from the RIbbon in a slide.

Vertical window resize makes the plugin miscalculate the vertical location of black arrows

If the window is vertically resized, the black next+prev-buttons are drawn in an incorrect height in the screen.

Insertion into PPT slide creates tiny lowres images

When you insert an image, it often appears as a tiny square-shaped image in to top-left corner of the slide. Often the image has also very low resolution, but not always.

Attribution information also on the slide where image is

The sidebar could have an option to insert the attribution information also on the page where the user inserts the image.

Add licensing information

The project is an open source project. However, it is missing the licensing information on the project page.

Selection of an image with drag-and-drop

In addition to double-click, an image should be also draggable to its intended position

Add a licensing information

The project is an open source project. However, it is missing the licensing information on the project page.

Installer does not update all necessary DLLs

In many computers, the installer fails to install the Ribbon correctly, and this causes errors when an image is double-clicked. The reason is supposedly in the old DLLs and Windows Service Pack update. The installer should take this into account.