On 26 Jan 2009, at 3:00 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> If you put it in a row, what's the real advantage over using a >> rating field? > > Ratings are more limited in meaning. Static groups are what I'd use > in BibDesk where I'd use color in another app, so I'm not sure > there's a compelling reason to add a color field. You could even > name your groups after colors if it helps :). > >> And coloring rows is not an option, because it >> interferes with selection marking and makes the text less (if not >> un-) >> readable, if not just because it's against general MacOSX UI design. > > How is it against Mac OS X UI design? I use color labels in Finder > and row colors in Mail pretty frequently, and find them both > useful. Colors in Mail work great to mark the last commit message > that's been added to release notes, for instance. > > -- > Adam
I was thinking of coloring the whole row background with an arbitrary color. Even more compelling because nobody knows what the selection color is. The examples you mention are more exceptions (indeed, Apple often doesn't follow it's own design rules) and moreover it's very limited. In Mail I only can find a custom background color for threads. I never use Finder labels, so I wasn't even aware that they color rows like this. What I'm also weary about is when this would be added, the next request will be to customize these colors. And then we lose control over UI design and get added feature bloat. I hate these chained request, and I know they will come. Somewhere a line should be drawn of course. My personally opinion is (and was) that it's here, but you may differ. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
