Hi friends,
I'm trying to incorporate a simple 'user satisfaction survey' filter in the G'MIC plug-in for GIMP, and I'd like to ask for help :

1. Because I'd like this filter to stay for a while, and possibly collect interesting information from users. So, I'd like to make it good enough when it will be available.
2. Because English is not my native language, so any corrections would be appreciated
3. Because I'm sure you guys have a lot of ideas to propose pertinent questions for the survey.

So, for now, I've done a first draft, with the filter located in Testing / Ronounours / User satisfaction survey, available after a filter refresh.
Here is a screenshot on how the last version looks like :



So, please, if you have any suggestions (even minor ones) to improve this survey, let me know!
If you feel important questions are missing, I'm particularly interested by what you could propose ! Please help

Cheers,

David.

The survey questions are good.
One thing you might consider, changing the word 'judge' to 'rate'.
Rate: 1. a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit.

The only other thing I noticed was the change in layout of the last two questions. I'm guessing the intention is to have a wider text area for more detailed comments? It's not really an issue but for consistency could the 'Update' buttons be aligned right or will that interfere with the multi-line textbox?

I like this one!


Perhaps that's how poor, beleaguered dinasset felt when he kicked off
that documentation deluge from me last October.
But he did get a nice script out of it at the end of the week.

Do keep that one in though. That one is for me. It is a good one.

Just a small language technicality: it is said and written as 'information'
it is never written in a plural form. Two or more items of knowledge, news,
intelligence remains just one aggregation: a (singular) body of 'information',
even though that aggregate may consist of many individual pieces of intelligence.

Now if you have some information on a particular matter, and I follow along
with additional facts, figures, pictures, videos, and what have you on that
matter, 'information' does not have the opportunity to go plural: for our two
aggregates at once and the same time may be regarded as one larger aggregate
so 'information' remains stuck in the singular form. It never gets to be in
a plural form with an 's' on the end.

Now is that too dense or what?

Another line of inquiry could be where they first heard of, or got G'MIC.
It first came to me in a Fedora distribution; they were installing into Gimp
for awhile. Someone else here noted just today that they learned of it
from Pat David's blog. Interesting to know from where people first learn
of G'MIC.

Garry

not sure what different gmic interfaces are, referring to the question...what is your favorite gmic interface. Do you mean favorite gmic filter?

I get an error when I try to send my answers to you David.

I get the same error

Thanks for your suggestions and testing.
The sending error was actually a bug that I've fixed yesterday. Plug-in binaries have been updated yesterday, so it should work with the latest version available on the webpage. I'll follow your suggestions Garry!

downloaded the latest version (binary) and updated the filters
still "sending error"

Same error here (tried several times with the latest G'MIC installer):


BTW, on my Window 7, I run Kaspersky Internet suite (just in case this Internet error is related to some Firewall issue on my side...)

Sorry David. Did your survey and it didn't send.
I only just refreshed mine too so it should have had the latest code for the survey?

Another idea would be to put polls in different places that you know people frequent who use G'MIC. If it would be too much work you could ask others to do it for you. Just provide the questions for the poll.

Spoke he, 2-ton:

Thanks be to 2-ton, because he has just given us a nice dope slap !
This question manifests the "Two Cultures" remark I made on the Gimp+G'MIC : no new member ???. When seeing the character glyphs 'G'MIC' the thoughts and associations which arise in 2-ton's head concern the Gimp-G'MIC plug-in, just the Gimp-G'MIC plug-in, because that is all that 2-ton has ever had reason to know. 2-ton inhabits the world of GimpChat, that's all, and the other manifestations of G'MIC are simply below the horizon. For that reason, 2-ton will not read these questions in the same context that Ronounours writes them; his dope-slap reminds us that this different context exists and questions have to be designed with that in mind.
This may not be the question to ask here. It would make perfect sense on the G'MIC developers mail list; more technically oriented developers there. But here - ?
Here, it might be worthwhile to ask if a person is even aware that G'MIC exists in forms other than a paint program plug-in ('Are you aware that there is a G'MIC powered web site?' Do you know that you can use G'MIC outside a paint program? If you write programs, do you know that you can link the G'MIC program into your application?') I'd be interested to know how many would check off 'no' across the board. It may be that my 'Two Cultures' notion is overly pessimistic, that many would check off 'yes' to one or more of such questions. That would be worth knowing.
Garry

I suggest to split the question on documentation:
IMO it's not only the AMOUNT of documentation which is relevant, but also -and even more- its EFFECTIVENESS.
Apart from the (more or less) completeness, it's important to ask also the users/readers whether they get from it a (great, average, little) support in understanding; hopefully the contributors to the survey will be mainly part of a "general audience" of image processing lovers (the Gimp audience, because the survey is under Gimp-GMIC).

Thanks for all your suggestions. I'll try to push a version 2 of this survey soon

I like the survey and i had no problems or errors sending.

Hi Ronounours.

I broke the survey. Sorry. Just this Friday I broke the Filter Tree, now I broke the Survey. Jeeez. You just can't leave me alone with anything.

See (#105) at Request beta-testers for upcoming G'MIC 1.6.1.0.

Garry

@Garry: this should be fixed in the next beta release. Thanks for reporting!

@2ton: I've added a possible answer for the interface-related question : "I don't understand the issue". Would it be somehow adapted to what you was thinking about ?

Hello David,

I have just tried to send you my survey: no luck again :-(
I suppose it is too long (more than 3000 characters...)?

Here you can find my survey (I give up trying the G'MIC Survey GUI...):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/309 ... SURVEY.txt

Hello Silvio, yes your answers are too long, sorry
I'm using the GET procedure to submit the answers of the survey to the G'MIC server, which means there is a limit of 2048 char for the url (so basically around 1000 chars for the whole survey!).
Thanks for the link.

I just did the survey and when I got to the end this popped-up:

very strange.

Kevin