Here is fisheye. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <c...@msbit.com> wrote:
> To the extent that "Title", "Author", etc. are simply labels for two tags > that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a > good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A lot of programs > (including the dreaded Windows) allow selection of which columns to display, > optimizing screen real estate for personal preferences. And some types of > displays work much better for small sets of items as opposed to large ones. > The fisheye view in my last post is not at all useful for a large > collection, but it works well for a search result with a few to about a > hundred items. > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM, James Simmons > <jim.simm...@walgreens.com>wrote: > >> All, >> >> The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are >> looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content just >> as much if not more than as a way to share said content. >> >> As far as organizing content goes, I like what Calibre does better than >> the tree view you seem to be proposing. What I would like is a tabular >> format where you can sort ascending or descending on any column, and filter >> on any column. Both Calibre and iTunes have a view like this and for me it >> works. I would have columns for Title, Author, Subject, and Type, where >> Author and Subject are optional. >> >> A tree structure is good for hiding stuff you don't want to look at. If >> you want to browse through everything (expand the entire tree) it wastes >> vertical space. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> >> Samuel Klein wrote: >> >>> The screenshots help the discussion a great deal. >>> >>> Thinking in terms of how you sort and change views is useful, since >>> there are a few very different use cases that could all rely on what >>> Aleksey is describing [local calibre, active filesharing, global >>> persistent file hosting and bundle creation/publishing among them] >>> >>> SJ >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:01AM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a >>>>> compacted >>>>> version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely >>>>> refused to >>>>> forward). My original post was: >>>>> >>>>> I have attached a screenshot of calibre. This is a very useful way to >>>>> look >>>>> at books, though I'm sure many improvements could be suggested. >>>>> (Clicking >>>>> column headings sorts the grid.) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Thanks for screens, >>>> Library could have fileformat-backends to parse all these books related >>>> properties from files to make calibre-like view more useful. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Aleksey >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >
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