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My Opinion
to divide this up into sections that take up a reasonable amount of screen space, neither too much nor too little. Let’s copy and paste about three instructions or so at a time and redo the preview (bottom left).
When you do the Preview now, you can use the small arrows at the bottom to see each page individually and to go from screen to screen. The three screens I divided it into are satisfactory to me, so let’s save. You can also add a picture to the recipe by taking a photo or finding one on the internet, then clicking the camera icon on the upper left, but I don’t have one handy right now, so I’ll add one later.
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When you save, it will ask if you want to share your personal information, which is obviously a personal choice. You can select Start Cooking at the top to see the slideshow version of the directions, one page at a time. Click the back arrow at the upper left to return to the main interface:
FINDINGYOURNEWRECIPE
You can find the recipe again by clicking My Recipes at the bottom.
You can also look up Cuisine at the top of the main interface and select French, since we stipulated previously that this was a French cuisine recipe when we entered it:
I dig that the Cuisine page mentions Escoffier, the great chef who codified a lot of what is now considered to be classic French haute cuisine. Pretty neat!
CONCLUSION
While there are definitely some things I’d like to see added to GNOME Recipes (like the ability to import entire recipe collections, availability of such collections, and the ability to read MasterCook format files), it is a large step in the right direction compared to incomplete betas like Kookbook or KRecipes, and it does a nice job of allowing the user to enter and manage their own recipes. I believe it is a very satisfactory and functional application, so I give this one a thumbs-up.
Richard'Flash'Adams spent about 20 years in corporate IT. He lives in rural northwest Georgia, USA, with his adopted 'son' , a cockatiel named Baby who now has a little brother, a dusky-headed conure named Skittles.
