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Of course I've totally missed annoucement for this really helpful program (thank you, Jolla spam!). Thankfuly, it is uploaded to extras-* - not stuck as link in the forum thread - so I was able to discover it via browsing repos.

Now, here first suggestion comes, and a little story. I've "discovered" qnotted for the first time accidentaly, while browsing repos for packages that I wanted to reinstall, following a list of files that got damaged during filesystem collapse (log of fsck). Obviously, I wasn't in position to check new things then, working to bring my system into undamaged state. I just remembered keyword "knot", to check later.

Now, the next day, I tried to find the application, using "knot(s)", searching *both* in the application names *and* in the description (short description, to be precise). No luck. I tried it few times during span of a month, with different "knot"-related keywords, without any joy - actually, I become sure that seeing this in repos didn't happen and I dreamed it ( really, no joke ).

Now, I've re-found this "bugger", thanks to update, placing it near the top of "last packages imported". Of course, I've checked why the hell "knot" wasn't giving me any results. "Blah, Qnotted as a name" - well, I took the bullet, Qnotted is really good idea for a name, and it was my fault for not remembering it. "But, wait, I've searched descriptions too! What the hell, short description is a repeated "qnotted" again, damnit?"

So, concluding the story and into my suggestion - it might be worthwile to update the short description section of package to be a little more informative, as it is used by all repos searching methods. Someone who just got idea to look for a knotting helper application, will likely search for "knot" or "knots", and get nothing, if using HAM or FAM (or base apt-cache search - looking through long description require specifing it manually, is rarely used and prone to spamming with misleading results). Heck, you even have a real life example of one old fart user *actively* searching for *this* program, and failing through a month's time.
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Now, as for program itself - huge thank you - nifty and very useful.

Bug: If you cycle quickly switch between different knot types and knots, application will "clone" itself:


I can't find a direct step-by-step way to reproduce this, but if you spend a solid 5 seconds "jumping" between knot types *and* knots, you're guaranteed to hit it.

Suggestion: As handaxe said, animated gifs would be wonderful. But, if they're not possible, a static photographs of knots forming a step-by-step illustration to written instructions could be as much useful, if not more. Currently, there are 2 "steps" at most, likely showing final form before and after dressing. Or views of final knot from 2 sides.

While most knots can be "reverse-engineered" by looking at currently provided pictures (then, one can try to learn knoting them properly via written instructions - opposite order will fail, most likely), there are some of them, that cause my brain to... knot itself Photographs with more intermediate steps would surely help a lot.

Cheers,
/Estel

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