@Lingwisyer wrote:
The expansion of the Opening Tool functionality that came in AC29 is apparently seen as a move towards this wish...
@Bricklyne Clarence, quite a few of the On Hold wishes that I have noticed are ones that require reworking of old tools, or have similarly been marked as require a lot of work to accomplish... Even if we did not see an improvements for a few versions in relation to them, it would be nice if they were on the Roadmap and slowly ticking away in the background. Instead, they are put "on hold" and shelved away even after been marked as important...
Ling.
I've heard this explanation before, and without necessarily being dismissive of it, it is a bit problematic in several ways.
(...even putting aside for a moment the fact that in some of them, GS folks themselves said that the reason they were put on hold was definitively NOT because they were too hard to accomplish or to do).
The problem with it is that some of those wishes being put on hold for the reason you stated are wishes that have existed in the Wishlist section (firstly, in the old section, and then migrated over to the revamped one when they were upvoted as most popularly requested wishes by majority of users), for the better part of the last 10-15 years or more.
They can't possibly be finding out only now that these are complicated changes or fixes to enact?
Because that would imply they've been ignoring the Wishlist section for the better part of this century, even while giving poor unsuspecting users the misguided impression that their efforts to suggest wishes were not wasted or pointless gestures.
So giving them the benefit of a doubt, and instead taking the position that they've known about them for this long, the implication is therefore that upon discovering that some of these things are too complicated to do on the current (legacy?) code, they never developed a plan in the background to deal with them, or perhaps to start a revamp of the program code that could potentially have seen a new version of Archicad in about 15 or so years (or a few years from now) that could handle the changes necessary to enact those wish requests.
Some of the things being requested are standard features now, not just in current design programs, but in programs writ large across the board.
How is it possible that their rivals and peers could have foreseen the necessity for their programs to handle some of these functions and worked towards making them available for their users, but Graphisoft somehow missed the boat or just plainly lacked a plan?
To me that's just irresponsible, if that's the case of what happened here.
Because in the meantime, we've seen them spend resources on questionable features that were never requested and on others that were left on the wayside once users didn't take to them, or worse yet, on others that seem to exist only for the purpose of helping them sell more licenses and to market the program more than to help people work better - all while the things that people are requesting to be improved seemingly either get ignored or put on the backburner.
Because of this irresponsible strategy and decision making (...In my humble opinion),.... by the time they do get around to fixing some of these issues, some of us will literally be retiring from the profession.
I'm not even being hyperbolic or exaggerrating.
I wish I were.
Try to think of that in terms of the trust, faith and loyalty that some have invested in them over the years and how all that now gets repaid.
