On Aug 8, 2011, at 17:12, Christian Pleul wrote:

> 
> 
> On 08.08.2011, at 16:35, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 8, 2011, at 02:16 , Christian Pleul wrote:
>> 
>>>>> On 08.08.2011, at 01:47, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> Thinking out loud here, perhaps there is some tweak to the UI that could 
>>>>>> make this more obvious? Although I don't normally think of it as a 
>>>>>> paragon of UI, the Finder does this through having a "search box" and a 
>>>>>> limited number of "search what" buttons below it just as BibDesk does... 
>>>>>> but then it has additional limits you can set below that and a "save" 
>>>>>> button, which saves it as a Smart Search... perhaps in BibDesk, it could 
>>>>>> save the search as a Smart Group.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That sounds not bad, may the developers could think about such a way to 
>>>>> include that feature.
>> 
>> It's a nice idea, but Finder uses Spotlight for all of its searching, so it 
>> has a single search language to deal with.  BibDesk uses Search Kit indexes 
>> for the toolbar search field, and something completely different for smart 
>> groups.  There's no possibility of translation between the two.
>> 
>>> But grouping some of the smart groups at the sidebar would be imho a great 
>>> feature!
>> 
>> There are many sound reasons for not doing this, and if you are interested 
>> in them, search the archives.  There has been lots of discussion of nested 
>> groups on this list and the developers list, and it's annoying to repeat it 
>> every time someone thinks this is a great new idea.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Adam
> 
> How do you suggest to search the archive? I went to
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bibdesk-users
> 
> but did not find a way to search it.
> 
> 
> --
>       Christian
> 


Mailing Lists > Search Mail Lists perhaps?

Christiaan


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