Re: [Bibdesk-users] Groups pane interface

[Michael M. <mi...@cs...>]

I like Jeffrey's suggestion for control-clicking to bring up the  
menu. I agree it's more consistent.
The count in blobs sounds good, too - why clutter it up with multiple  
columns when we can get the same information in a simpler design.

-mike

On Oct 27, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

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> On 27 Oct 2005, at 6:09 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
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>> I like the new # column in the groups pane of BibDesk 1.1.8a  
>> (v116).  (I notice that someone has already filed a bug report  
>> that the column is not resizable.)
>
> Thanks. I was just about to remove it though (it was a temporary  
> test anyway) ;-) We are thinking of replacing it with a single  
> column, with a Mail-like count on the right (in the blobs). That's  
> why we put the sorting choice in the menu, because there won't be  
> any longer 2 columns to click. That way would save some horizontal  
> space.
>
>> I'd like to make a suggestion about the interface.  Right now  
>> there is a double-arrow in the group column to bring up a list of  
>> options.  In the pop-up list, there are two separate check marks,  
>> one for the kind of group and one for the kind of sorting.  Plus,  
>> next to the checked sort criterion, there is another icon  
>> indicating the order of sorting.  My suggestion is that the  
>> interface of the groups pane be arranged to resemble the interface  
>> of the main publications list.  That is, remove the double-arrow  
>> and put the directional arrow in the header of the currently  
>> sorted column (which would be colored blue).  To change the  
>> sorting, you would just click on the column.  To change the kind  
>> of group, on the other hand, you would control-click on the group  
>> column header, just like you would to add or remove a column in  
>> the main publication list.  I think that this would make the  
>> groups pane easier to use, nicer to look at, and more consistent  
>> with the rest of BibDesk.
>
> This is definitely another option to do it (and probably easier to  
> implement). Another option we thought about is to put the popup for  
> changing the group field on the bottom.
>
> Christiaan
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