Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

An important difference between the popular Leitner System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashcard) is that under the latter an incorrectly answered/not known fact is demoted all the way back to the _lowest_ grade. No matter what its grade was when presented.

Previously KVocTrain worked this way (either by default, or by toggeling an option, I don't recall which, KVocTrain's inner workings were never that clear and seemed fairly inconsistent to me! :) ). However Parley seems to have done away with this system and only demoted by _one_ grade at a time (though I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so I'm going off what I could gleen from use ;) ).

Is the Leitner system still supported at all (i.e. did I miss something)? If not can an option _please_ be (re)added? I can understand that some people might like the current implementation, and am certainly not asking for a wholesale change on approach, but in my experience demoting an incorrectly word to the lowest grade leads to the most efficient learning (i.e. you don't have to forget it multiple times over a long period before you get to practice it often).

I also have some additional suggestions regarding the written test dialog (as it's the only dialog that supports blocking ATM):

1) Currently clicking "Show Solution" (or "Show More" until the whole word is shown)  hides the "I know it" and "Do not know" buttons. This is also different to the the old KVocTrain pattern. It would be good if one could "check" that one knew a word by clicking "Show Solution" and then click either "I know it" (overriding any "incorrect" response and promoting its grade) or "Do not it" (demoting its grade). I, a native English speaker, am learning German. When practicing English -> German I find it helpful to force myself to type German words (i.e. learning spelling etc...), that's not so useful to me for English words, and I can do a test much faster by just muttering the answer to myself when practicing German -> English. I like that KVocTrain would let me do this.

2) It would be good if the "Hints" section at the bottom remembered what kind of hints one had turned on for test. E.g. some words I learn have a "Comment" entry and some don't. Generally I always want a "Comment" to be shown for a word if it exists. Currently I have to click it's checkbox every time a word with a "Comment" is presented.

3) Instead of having a single "Edit entry" button that takes one to the "to" or "translation" language have two buttons "Edit <original-language>" and "Edit <translation-language>". Returning from the "Edit original" dialog should return to the same entry; returning to the "Edit translation" can postpone the entry as seems to be the current behaviour.

Finally, thanks for all your hard work on Parley to date, it is already a vast imporovement over KVocTrain which promised a lot, but was a little... murky/buggy ;)

Mike.