I should also add: we’ll be making a full documented list of new features so folks can definitively see what we’ve been working on. Though: I’d suggest the weekly podcasts are a good way to follow development 
—N
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For all the carping about price, these features are compelling enough to make the upgrade worthwhile.
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First I have heard of a complaint of the Styles UI, what is it that you wish improved?
Brad
Styles UI in RW5 was more compact, easier to navigate. Styles UI in RW6 is akin to an endless list. This difference probably makes little difference to themes which offer very few style options, but it major-league impacts (for the negative) themes which offer lots of style options.
Since the built-in RW themes offer very few styling options perhaps RMS did not notice the negative impact this has on themes that offer lots of styling options.
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Since the built-in RW themes offer very few styling options perhaps RMS did not notice the negative impact this has on themes that offer lots of styling options.[/quote]
So, does this mean you want them automatically collapsed on open of the Styles Properties or made more compact like in RW 5.4.1 (Smaller text/select boxes, etc)?
To be honest, it is likely that this sort of thing probably won’t make it into the release since it is so far into development, but I would certainly send this to Nik (included here) as a future feature request… This would be akin to reduction of Chrome imho correct?
Brad
The main advantages version 5 offers is one can collapse sections in Styles. For example one of my themes has a large section for colors (of main body) and another for sidebar colors and another for title bar colors and so on. Each of these sections offers about 10+ options. Having all these sections open all the time means a lot of scrolling (sometimes a ton of scrolling).
The text size per se is just fine. It would be great, however, to once again be able to collapse sections within the Styles. That would solve the problem.
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The text size per se is just fine. It would be great, however, to once again be able to collapse sections within the Styles. That would solve the problem.[/quote]
Ahhh… gotcha… no, RW6 does not allow it but maybe RW7 will… fingers crossed as I see this as being a very useful addition myself.
Side note, if using Foundations, Joe put all the styes in the Inspector -> Page area where they are collapsable as per your request, but Themes do not, they rely on the Inspector -> Styles area…
Brad
Matthew’s answered for me! it is an endless list, should be collapsible, and in some cases the larger font size can’t actually accommodate the text fully. Also, style colours don’t highlight when selected. Finally there is a bug which leaves the last style colour selected ‘active’. Go change a font colour and you’ll find the last selected style colour is changed also. RM are aware of this bug but apparently it’s a tough one to fix - and to be fair it may have existed in previous versions although at least then it was easier to see what colour was selected. I never understood why a very good styles UI was replaced with a poor one. I would also suggest that the style headers are not differentiated enough - simply being bold doesn’t make them stand out as headers when you have colour boxes and other options. A colour shaded background to headers would be much clearer.
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Awesome, thanks for being so clear and also for letting us know that RMS is aware of the issue. Hopefully will be fixed in V7.
Brad
_joeworkman Addon Develope _
Everyone,
I have been using RW7 full time for about a month now. Its a great update! Dare I say the best update yet…
How ‘dare’ you Joe Workman? 
I will. Carefully, but I will.
Probably I will wait for the first horror stories from others to move the projects, and once they calm, I’ll upgrade the project as well.
I’m using RW it since version 3.5, on 2 computers, with 2 licenses…
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wow - what a great endorsement of RW6!
Haven’t move to 6 from 5 yet because I don’t have the time to manually reconstruct 45 photo album pages that are linked to iPhoto.
If any of you guys have a question about RapidWeaver 7, just post it on this thread: 💖 Got a question about RapidWeaver 7?
We’ll do our best to answer it on this weeks RapidWeaver podcast 
Happy Weaving!
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I love Rapidweaver almost more than I love my husband. Is that SO wrong?
So yes. I’ll be upgrading :-).
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Your husband or rapidweaver?
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I always liked RapidWeaver a lot, as a one-shop-stopping solution for building nice websites. Initiatives like plugins and Stacks kicked in and enriched the possibilities. Now we see a strong development in additions to RapidWeaver that deliver the same or better quality functionality than the core RapidWeaver product, like great stacks for Stacks 3.0, Foundation as a whole new paradigm for building sites, and there are probably more coming. With these initiatives, RapidWeaver run the risk to be degraded to be the vehicle only, and to be honest the presented functionality for 7.0 does not justify a new investment for me. There is just too little in it I value, especially the blog-functionality seems to be from the dark ages with no social integration in the product. So I will not upgrade, sorry.
I’m going to consider both options carefully and get back to you on that one.
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What about posting a blog entry (or something else) with some information about the product before asking about upgrading? I don’t listen the podcast (hearing issues) and there’s absolutely no other info, screenshot or a Beta available to check what this is all about…
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Sounds really interesting. Count me in as an upgrade purchaser. Now if I could only fully understand RW 6 
David
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