Today I got a complaint email, so I thought no problem, answer it friendly and things will somehow be solved. The email contained the following text:
I was told to go to Source Forge to download the WinDirStat program. Fortunately I found this website by myself via Google because when I went to SourceForge.net I was never able to find the program even after I paid my son (who is 32 years old) to find it. After about 3 hours he gave up also. But he did find some interesting programs and games NONE OF WHICH we were able to download or purchase.
In conclusion, your source forge website is to darn difficult to find anything on. And when you go to download, he takes you to multiple screens — but none do the download. I wanted to emial you at Source Forge, but can’t complain there either. Does anything work at that website. You could not pay me to go back.
Continue reading ‘Anonymous letter … download problems?!’
Hi,
the WDS feedback mailing list is going to be moderated from now on. This decision was made since we finally get more spam than useful messages on this mailing list. Not moderating it means positive, rather than negative, feedback to the spammers which will send increasingly more messages …
I’ll of course attempt to approve legit messages as prompt as possible to me. I live in time zone GMT/UTC, just for everyone to know when to expect a moderation and when not.
Sorry,
// Oliver
I have a request to the developers among our users. If you would write a plugin for WDS, which functionality would you like to provide to the users? …this question aims to find out which hooks to provide. Also if you have special requests what functionality of WDS should be publicly available to a plugin, your feedback is needed.
Planned are the following callbacks/hooks: in the report system (on every item by its full name), cleanup menu items (e.g. a plugin could come with some extra application and instead of actually deleting files it could output some kind of script), retrieval of command line options, colors of the treemap items according to whatever property of the item (which the plugin has to manage! - ownership, file extension or file category such as multimedia file have been suggested!). The following functionality is planned to be public: menu items in a new main menu item “Plugins” (mainly to allow the plugins to have a GUI for config purposes), retrieval of some context data inside the above hooks. Maybe some kind of re-branding (probably adding a new tab in the about box) will be allowed. Continue reading ‘@Developers: Your feedback needed’
Hi,
some people may have noticed that I moved to Iceland. This means big changes in my personal life, so that the beta test can not commence in November. I aim for end of January but I am not sure whether this will work. Continue reading ‘Betatest postponed’
Today WinDirStat was featured on the Japanese website “Windows Forest” today. Although I don’t know any Japanese it looks as if they like it 
In case one of you is Japanese and you want a Japanese translation in long-term, please talk to me. I cannot support you with it right now, though - and also Finnish and Estonian are still in the queue.
// Oliver