OS X Minor Bugs & Questions/Requests

[zombieslayer9099]

I haven't really been paying attention to this, but now it's begun to bug me. When I do something in Armory, such as sign a TX, the progress bar is just a plain progress bar. It doesn't really inform the user of exactly what it's doing. This only happens in OS X as far as I know.

Another thing that's started to bug me is that some actions on OS X have a short delay after they have been performed, such as changing wallet or address labels. The label change doesn't show until after about 3-5 seconds or until I perform the action again. I'm not sure if this happens on other systems.

Finally, A small bug with the TX comment when donating to Armory developers (thank you guys) it displays the usual comment, but with the amount in parentheses, followed by a semicolon. Ex: "Donation to Armory developers. Thank you for your generosity! (0.05);"

I have some questions too:

1. When will Armory support bitcoind management on OS X? I've got an idea on how to implement this, if you'd like to hear it.
2. Would a regular user be able to contribute to Armory development (like Bitcoin-Qt), or is this limited to the current developers?
3. Will Armory support multiple cryptocurrencies in the future?

Is it possible to implement the ability to manually edit addresses in the address book?

[doug_armory]

Hi. Thanks for the feedback. As I've said before, some of these bugs appear to be due to Qt, or perhaps older versions. I'll see what I can do moving forward.

As for your questions:

1)There was a reason why we disabled bitcoind on OS X. One problem is that bitcoind isn't distributed by default with OS X. You have to roll your own version. I think there are further technical reasons why we don't support it on OS X but no one can quite seem to remember why. (I might have an email buried somewhere that says why. I'll look.) If you have ideas, feel free to speak up.

2)Personally speaking, I'm happy whenever people submit patches. Unfortunately, I don't have any control over the repo, and I'm not notified whenever pull requests come in on Github. If anybody's happy to suggest an easy method for getting notified whenever pull requests come up, I'll look into getting it set up. I know there is something out there, as there's an IRC channel (#bitcoin-commits) where Bitcoin commits (Core and secp256k1) and maybe one or two other projects come up.

3)No idea. We don't mind if people want to fork and support other cryptocurrencies. There's at least one out there, for Namecoin.

4)I don't think so. I think the devs had a discussion about this awhile back. I might be wrong, though.

[zombieslayer9099]

The idea for bitcoind is when bitcoind cannot be found on OS X, notify the user to place it in /usr/bin if they can, and perhaps a checkbox to turn that dialog off if they want to manage it themselves. Perhaps the download could be hosted on the same site that Armory is downloaded from in the secure downloader.

[zombieslayer9099]

Question: If restoring a wallet that's used more addresses than in the pool, does Armory automatically generate these addresses during scanning and display them when finished or would the user need to do that themselves?