On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 14 Jan 2009, at 12:41 AM, James Harrison wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Robert Sloan wrote: >> >>> Wow! I had no idea. I always looked in the "Search" menu, because I >>> figured that was what could be searched. I figured the Bookmark menu >>> must be some extra feature for ME to add bookmarks that I never >>> looked >>> into. >> >> You know, I wonder whether it might be less confusing to work >> toward a >> design with one search menu that contained both the "client"-style >> searches and the Web pages. They could be separated on the menu. I >> understand the usage mechanism of these resources is a bit different, >> but the intent of the user is similar. And the Search menu has >> "search >> bookmarks" whereas the Bookmarks menu has "bookmarks." What if all >> these became just types of searches? >> >> Jim Harrison >> UVa > > The UI and the procedure is VERY different. I really don't see how > this can be neat;y integrated. It would rather be MORE confusing. For > example, in one case you're typing a search term, in the other a URL. > If you think you're in a similar context, that would be confusing. > > Christiaan
You might be right about that. In my setting, I don't normally save specific terms and search them over and over (as you can do with the search bookmarks). I'll typically call up PubMed or Google Scholar or the ACM Portal within BibDesk and enter search terms directly. Thus in each case I'm typing words into a box and getting reference lists back. The boxes are embedded in somewhat different surroundings but not so different as to mask the essential similarity of the activity. I know others probably have different usage patterns and I understand that communicating with a search interface is very different from screen scraping Bibtex links from a Web page (I'm still amazed you can make that work so well). Cheers, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
