Some of the URLs to the documentation, e.g. http://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/pdf/ub/LearningCenter/palma-kurzanleitung.pdf changed after our new web launch. Therefore, we should search all of these here and replace them.

Sometimes the image zoom controls do nothing while the arrows control the zoom. In Chromium on Win7 sometimes the zoombuttons control arrow up and down. Coincidence?

Implement a way to see and download all uploaded files even if already removed from the display. Maybe one could somehow access the palma upload directory.

Original note:
When changing control interface to control interface with tables (share, upload, url) Perhaps use a forth tab (files) to display the originally uploaded files (xls, odt, ...)

If VNC download and PIN gets removed in help & faq section, the contents of this section have to be customized according to the new content.

The screen sharing function should/could be more prominent.

On samsung android smartphone in internet app social media icons are missing. Logut bar floats around. Also there is a small questionmark below the file upload. Dropzone went to fallback mode.

The new release requires us to update the documentation (github wiki) and the user help (help section within palma as well as pdf files on the webpage).
Related to #45

Original note:
Customize documentation when changing interfaces

Shared pictures are opened with eog and displayed with a lot of additional information, so they don't fill up their window completely. feh has been mentioned as a replacement, which is to be tested

See current results of Codacy for PalMA.

In order to improve palma we could collect some data about its usage. We would have to define key values and find a tool to evaluate the most used functions and time periods.

A Docker image of PalMA could be used for demos and test, but also to add PalMA functionality to simple presentation PCs.

See https://travis-ci.org/UB-Mannheim/PalMA for a list of current warnings.

On large screens there is much space between the elements. These could be a bit bigger. Also the control buttons are hard to press an small devices.

In IE the tab buttons' background color is grey instead of red. (Same grey as the text, so you cannot read anything...)
Also the windowcontrolbuttons are mostly not rounded and have a background color that shouldn't be there.

Currently there is only random feedback from

• institiutions which use PalMA
• PalMA users at Mannheim University Library

The list of institutions using PalMA (https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/PalMA/wiki) is also very incomplete.
I invite members of those institutions to add their institution to that list.

Do we need more dedicated communications channels like mailing lists, twitter, ...? Which ones?

Advanced functionalities should be tested by updating the integrated Dropzone Javascript framework, e.g. for alert messages when uploading big files.

Should we add a button to change the language or do we want to keep it conditional to the browser language?

https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/PalMA/blob/master/TRANSLATIONS.md

Desktop sharing requires a VNC server with support for reverse connections.

For macOS, the RealVNC server was the only solution available when we started with PalMA, but recent versions of RealVNC (version 6 and later) obviously no longer support reverse connections ("Connect to Listening VNC Viewer").

Users can still install older versions of the RealVNC server (which is difficult), or they must find a way how to get a reverse connection with the latest version.

If we had a signed installer / binary for OSXvnc, it could replace the RealVNC server.

One button for downloading the desktop sharing client should be sufficient. The selection of the chosen client shall fit the user's operating system.
Perhaps it is a good idea to show the download button on the main screen, not only in help & faq section.

Images shot in landscape mode are displayed in portrait mode (or vice versa). So a handler to rotate contents by 90 degree would be helpful.

It might be a good idea to use one of the mainstream browsers like Firefox or Chromium as the browser component instead of dwb.

Dwb development is very sporadic, Debian updates even less frequent. That means that the WebKit engine embedded is not up-to-date anymore, which can lead to rendering problems and problems with security.

If the browser is required to be lightweight, single-window, keyboard-centric, then there are more actively maintained tools like uzbl or xombrero.

Screen icon for toggling visibility is confusing. Maybe the old eye would be a better choice, whereas this is already used for the vnc section. Maybe there is a better icon for that.
Also an icon indicating a loading process would be nice for file uploads that take a few seconds.

PSR-2 is a standard (Coding Style Guide) recommended for PHP code.

See also the German article in Wikipedia.

I guess that HTML presentation, e.g. with reveal.js, will just work as every website can be displayed. Can we test that the navigation with the arrow keys somehow works?

Examples for such a presentation: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/ and http://www.slides.com/zuphilip/staff-week-2017

When sharing a link to a PDF file, dwb tries to download the file instead of displaying it. We should implement an automatism to download and open the file or enable dwb itself to display the file.
Since dwb is said to be "outdated and insecure", should we take this opportunity to discuss an alternative?

Links to PDF manuals are broken. Currently correct URLs are:
Windows: https://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/ub/pdf/Anleitungen/KurzanleitungfuerdieBildschirmfreigabe_Windows__.pdf
Windows English: https://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/ub/pdf/Anleitungen/QuickPalMAManual_Windows_englisch.pdf
MAC: https://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/ub/pdf/Anleitungen/KurzanleitungfuerdieBildschirmfreigabe_MAC_.pdf

The area below the monitor controls seems to claim to much space compared to the rest of the interface. It would be great if this area could be divided in a section with three (or more) tabs.

These tabs can contain the following elements, that already exist:

• share
• upload
• url

I think several enhancements for the zathura controls would be nice:

• a possibility to show two pages next to each other
• possibility to put in a page number to go to
• a hint that skipping to the next page doesn't work with the "right" button, but with "next"

On samsung tablet in internet app, the position controls do not reload after changing the screenlayout. (Except when they do, e.g. after adding further content...)
Also when deleting items, they do not disappear from the displaylist.

When users upload e.g. a PowerPoint file, they cannot navigate through the slides using the control buttons. The file is displayed with a sidebar showing the structure of the presentation - which is were the cursor is. Assumingly users expect the file to be launched in fullscreen presentation mode. Should we make this the default for this filetype?

Currently it is hard to see if a localization is complete or only partial.

On android devices you can download the linux screen sharing file, although this doesn't do anything on that platform.
Maybe one could display a default message, that screensharing is not available or not even display this section on the respective devices.

Redesign screensavers to emphasize wireless aspect of usage. Maybe add a sequence of pictures to illustrate how the login process works.
Also we will try out new backgrounds on the PalMA station and on the user interface.

On samsung tablet in Chrome and "Internet" app as well as in safari on ipad, vertical minilayout icons are not perfectly parallel to each other. (Perhabs the br elementcauses this ...)

When calling an URL, which leads to a PDF document PalMA only shows an empty window.
Possible reason is a missing extension the PalMA integrated browser neeeds.

URLs with capital letters are not displayed, because they don't match the regular expression that checks for valid urls.
On some mobile devices the autocorrection causes capital letters and it's quite a hassle for the user to get them to lowercase.

The UI seems to be unfunctional on mobile devices at times. Anyway the responsive design must be adapted to the changes made in #58 and its depending issues respectively.

Example file uploaded had about 400 MB. No response from the web interface.

On samsung tablet in landscape mode it is not possible to enter a url. The appearing keyboard changes the height of the screen so that the subtabs appear. Closing the keyboard leads back to the empty input field. This problem occurs on small screens of any kind of device.

The PIN could be hidden and although be reachable through main interface, not only by entering the help & faq section.

Psssst. Thinking 'bout some eastereggs. Funny lil' things happening while using PalMA.

Already ideas in mind, let us entertain and surprise you ;)

Uploaded files with spaces in the filenameFiles with uppercase file extensions, such as JPG or PNG are transferred correctly but do not appear in the "Display List".

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enter http://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de
2. Click URL
3. Select the screen with the Browser
4. Click 'Download this file'

=> New tab with http//www.bib.uni-mannheim.de (note the dropped :)

It would be nice to have the arrow buttons behave like arrow controls on a keyboard and enable a press & hold functionality to keep scrolling smoothly.

When PalMA starts screensaver.php gets called, but disappears immediately. This repeats a couple of times in a row before it finally stays up. This has happened on physical as well as virtual machines.
/tmp/Palma.log:

2017-05-30 10:00:34 start dwb with screensaver
palma: db file = /var/www/html/palma.db
palma: cmd=DISPLAY=:1 HOME=/var/www wmctrl -l, result=
Received SIGSEGV, trying to clean up.
Segmentation fault
2017-05-30 10:00:39 dwb was killed

In IE on Win7 sometimes you can only choose a screenlayout, when you have the web developer tools opened. Probably related to references to the console.
Checking out different branches shows, that this also happens in the master branch.