I had to do a bit of research just now to figure out what things used to look like vs. how they look now.
By default, the first thing you see on a Mac now (this is 10.8 for sure but also 10.10, I think? can't remember my office Mac's OS version): [image: Inline image 1] The "Search Citation" field is hidden from view, where before it was open on first view. It still is on my not-yet-upgraded Linux machine. The "Formatting" options were hidden in the older view until a citation was selected. They are open by default now, but I think that's a little misleading since one should not want to or be able to format a citation when none are selected yet. The other misleading thing about the current GUI dialog is that the one field that's visible and looks like it could be typed in is the citation preview field. Maria On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2016, 23:56 -0600 schrieb Joel Kulesza: > > In the meantime, I'm interested in any thoughts you have on my other > > points. > > As I wrote, I think it is important that the dialogs work on all > current screens, and in general, I think 800x600 is still a good > maximum for dialogs. > > As to scrollbars, I don't think this is a good idea. This is not usable > without the mouse (and I doubt it can be elegantly done with Qt). > > When I did the redesign, I really tried several options. It was _not_ > possible to design a dialog of the proper size without using a > pane/tabbar or toolbox. I selected the latter, since it is the most > space-saving option and it does not introduce any extra-clicks. > > Of course any redesign is annoying since you have to get used to the > new UI, but we have to make the dialogs work for everybody. > > Any points I missed? > > Jürgen
