UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
I like that APP has improved my processing workflow immensely (I don't need a degree in astrophysics or imaging to use!) - but user interface design is an important aspect not to be overlooked in usability and think there could be improvements. In a future V2.0 release, I would like to see the interface improved:
- A huge help is the navigated approach: Step 1) Load, Step 2) Calibrate... Step 6) Integrate - but I think moving this to flow from Left to Right along the top and full width of the screen will enhance this feature.
- Along with the navigated panels along the top of the screen, each panel should be context sensitive.
- Currently most of the up front effort is done using a small portion of the screen - the loading of images, adjusting of calibration, etc. The rest of the screen estate is wasted. The result is that important information might be compromised to fit into a small window. By using a context sensitive panel, so that loading files will show feature related to loading files, presented in a more user-friendly way. Or Calibration may give a better workflow if the whole screen can be used instead of squashed over to the left.
- Image editing window that is always displayed on the right is painful! It has letters representing important sliders, and it takes a good few scans of the interface, or "trying sliders" to work out what they do. It's also unclear whether a label belongs to slider above or below because the spacing is equal. ST? BA? If you had more screen to work with, these would be so cryptic and much more user-friendly.
Kev
I  also agree with the second point. The shortcuts are often confusing and the scale of the sliders should be from 0-100.
CS Gernot
This is the RFC section of the forum, a request for change. We of course always read those, but we sometimes have to pick and choose with answering questions versus requests etc. Due to busy schedules, sometimes it happens all at once. Sorry for that. In many cases for the RFC section, I can't really help either, just respond with the fact these are (as per usual in this community) great requests and we're taking them along.
