Re: [Jabref-users] Toggle Group Membership Mode

[Morten O. A. <mor...@gm...>]

On 22 August 2011 23:02, Olly <ol...@us...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I commited to trunk an updated version of patch 3313564
> ("GroupSelector patch") by Andreas Schlicker.
>
> GroupSelector is modified to ease adding/removing references to/from groups.
>
> A new toggle button "Invert Group Membership Mode" is added. If the
> button is "on", the functionality is activated. If it is "off", the
> Group Selector behaves as normal.
>
> The changed functionality is:
> In case of the click to a group the membership of the selected entries
> is toggled: All entries in the group are removed from the group and
> vice versa.
>
> Maybe a better label would be "Toggle Group Membership Mode", but
> since it's a toggle button, I opted for "Invert ..."
>
>
> What do you think about that functionality? Can we keep it in JabRef
> or should we try to make that button optional?

I think the feature is good, but it's a little non-obvious (it needs a
better tooltip description), and because of that I feel that this
button is too prominent in the interface - also the button has a
fairly significant effect, and it may not be obvious to a user what
consequences a couple of clicks can have when the button is activated.
Since this is (as far as I know) the only toggle button in the entire
application, it may not even be obvious to users that it is activated.

I think it would be better to change it into a check box menu item in
the Settings menu, perhaps along with a visual cue that this mode is
activated - something like a different background color in the group
tree?


Morten