Apples and oranges. Programming new GUI functionality is a long-term solution, whereas a larger screen(s) would be a short-term workaround to better cope with the issue immediately.
On Oct 17, 2012, at 03:03 , Thomas Berezansky wrote: > While I will admit that I am not personally sure about the feature, I will > say that programming work submitted to the community may have a benefit to a > large number of people, rather than the benefit provided to the one person > you bought a couple of monitors and maybe an extra GPU. > > Programming thus may cost more, but if done right you get a lot more value > back out. > > Thomas Berezansky > Merrimack Valley Library Consortium > > Quoting Kivilahti Olli-Antti <[email protected]>: > >> What I would do is to buy a 24" widescreen full-hd monitor for the >> librarians needing this functionality and instruct them to use two >> staff_client windows. >> Under extreme pressure buy two monitors and a GPU. This way you get > a >> minimum of 4 records visible. >> Monitors are so cheap nowadays (its crazy), where programming work > is not. >> >> You can edit marc records in a text mode, so copying and pasting > large >> chunks is a breeze. >> >> OAK > > Alexey Lazar PALS Information System Developer and Integrator 507-389-2907 http://www.mnpals.org/
