what about adding above the right pane a “search” combobox where the matching items would show up in a dropdown list as you type, and hitting enter would add the top/selected match to the selected citations
the search options could then be in a tabwidget (not sure i like dialogs that resize ;-) ? ed. > On 09 Sep 2016, at 10:33, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 09.09.2016, 09:23 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: >> What happens when options are expanded on a 800x600 screen? > > The dialog expands the screen. However, it can be collapsed again after > the options have been set, so this is IMHO bearable. > >> Could the >> options be put in a menu instead ? Since there is no text entry >> field, >> this seems doable. I do not know whether Qt has some special UI for >> menus-in-dialogs. > > I am not sure. Sounds like unusual UI to me. We could move it in a sub- > dialog, but that sounds rather clumsy as well. > > Jürgen > >> >> JMarc
