Many people seem to be unaware of BibDesk's file management capabilities, which bothers me. I also think the user interface can be improved, so I've been casually working on a revised file interface (shown in attached screenshot, poor quality due to the 40 K message limit). The goals:
1) Avoid presenting paths to the user 2) Clear drag-and-drop interface 3) Allow an arbitrary number and type of files (we generate the field names) 4) Store links as aliases /and/ relative paths (base64 encoded in BibTeX) 5) Autofile multiple files 6) Allow a viewing any (supported) file in a dedicated window The attached screenshot shows an editor window. The toolbar isn't gone, but it's hidden, and the author table is no longer in the toolbar. Current functionality: drag (multiple) files to the file view, drag (single) files from the file view to Finder. Note: I think current Local-Url functionality would remain for backwards compatibility. Various users would likely want to avoid what I'm proposing. So no whining (yet). The main window also would have a thumbnail view like this, but you wouldn't be able to drop files on it. The file view is similar to iPhoto's view, in that it automatically creates a grid based on a desired thumbnail size. Any image file (incl. PDF/PS), QuickTime, and TextEdit-supported file can be displayed. Personally, I don't think this is terribly useful, but many users want linked files displayed in the main window; we presently do this only for Local-Url, but my suggestion here is a compromise, with 6) above. We'd likely use Quick Look for 6) on Leopard, which would give us even more viewable file types. Any suggestions from the user community? Should remote URLs be displayed in this view as well (as icons...previewing would be heinous)? It would also be cool if you could open up an @proceedings and see all of its child items' files immediately... -- Adam
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