> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
