Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:22:27 +0100
From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] some feedbacks
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 08:19:29AM -0700, Roger Pack wrote:
> Since I seemingly could not find the "create new post" link on the
> forum, resorting to here...
> 
> a few feedbacks:
> 1) It would be helpful I think to, when the client first starts, to
> ask "do you want to set a password to encrypt your wallet'? (if yes
> take them to the encrypt wallet dialog).
> I had been confused, since I knew 0.5 had "wallet encryption" I
> assumed it would prompt on startup...
> Also nice might be a message "first we have to synchronize with the
> network, this will take several hours, then you'll be ready to go" or
> some odd.

This sounds like an easy improvement. Anyone interested in implementing
such a minimal "first-use wizard" ?

> 2) After synchronizing with the network, I believe the OS X client
> started *always* crashing on startup.  Lost the backtrace but will
> post it here if I can reproduce it.

Please do.

> 3) With the forum I can't seemingly reply or create new posts? (rogerdpack)

I believe posting to the forum is restricted to certain boards for newbies.

-- 
PIeter