> On 2008-02-15, at 3:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, February 15, 2008, at 02:43PM, "Alexander H. Montgomery"  
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2008-02-15, at 1:53 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>> I've been playing with some changes to BibDesk for my own use.  If
>>> anyone's interested, take a look at
>>>
>>> http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/.Public/BibDesk.app.zip
>>>
>>> (10.5 required).  This answers a few past suggestions to some  
>>> extent:
>>>
>>> 1) the file view on the right scales icons to fit a single column
>>
>> Superb. Looks like this is only for the publications table;  
>> individual
>> publication windows don't seem to do this yet.
>
> Yup.  I think it makes less sense in editor windows.  Editor windows  
> are small, so there it's mainly useful as a drop target or quick  
> look target.
>
>> (As you probably
>> already know, there's still a slider at the bottom of the side pane
>> that no longer operates.
>
> It does operate...it just resizes the icons in the preview pane, not  
> the side pane, so it's misplaced.  I have some ideas on improving  
> that in general so any fileview has a slider.
>
>>> 2) you can display files in the bottom pane
>>
>> Looks nice. I tend not to use the side pane, but that might be  
>> useful.
>> (This would be a good view option for the publication windows as  
>> well.)
>
> Interesting...how so for pub windows?

Well, in pub windows, mine generally have a lot of empty space at the  
bottom (with a couple lonely checkboxes below that). Having a bottom  
pane along with a side pane would use that space better.

>>> 3) you can quickly toggle the main preview pane
>>
>> I like the toggle between preview and files. Having a menu down there
>> for which preview view to use would make this even better.
>
> In this version, it's either textview or fileview, and I haven't  
> finished lobotomizing things yet :).  I just threw this out there  
> because it answers a couple of things people have asked about, and  
> sometimes it's helpful to see ideas in a functional demo.


And here we are asking for more surgery already... but I would find it  
useful (and new people would probably find it intuitive)

-AHM

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