On Oct 29, 2011, at 21:51, Themis Matsoukas wrote: > On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> 2) the easiest way to get rid of the editor window is to hit cmd-z until it >> goes away > > After so many years of using bibdesk and I never thought of doing a cmd-z…! > Wouldn't a cancel/save button be more intuitive? >
One problem is: what do you really mean by "Cancel"? This is something we've had long discussions about in the past, both on the developer list and the user list (you can read them all in the archives), and there are very (very, very) good reasons why we offer the choices that you get in the various situations. You cannot "simply" cancel at this state, because all the edits already have been registered in the data model and the undo manager. So all we can reasonably do is the choices we offer you, for instance when you made no more edits you are offered to Discard the item. Somehow initiating an undo at this stage by us would be dangerous and wrong, because we cannot know whether there may have been some other change registered in between (perhaps an edit to another open item?), so we don't know what we would be undoing. As you have made this edits, you are the only one who can make that decision. > Talking about intuitive, cmd-z is not a standard way for getting rid of > windows. In mail, for example, typing cmd-z after cmd-n does not get rid of > the new message window. > The idea is not about getting rid of the window, that is just a corollary of what happens. The idea is to Undo the Adding of the empty item. And that's also exactly the reason why in Mail you don't get rid of the window, because adding an item is not an undoable change to some data model. > Of course, now that I know that the trick works in bibdesk, it *is* intuitive > :-) > > Themis Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
